0.82e released

[Fistalis]

Requires SRCW Version 7.3.1

Changelog.

• Updated Myanamars flag
  
• Updated Serbias flag
  
• China Is now the Red Sphere Leader
  
• Redid Governement types based on the Stats on Totalitarianists and Freedom Under democracy index
  
• Database update- Starting GDP for countries should be much closer to reality. Most should be spot on for 2011 IMF PPP but a few are slightly off due to relying on regional stats.
  
• Oceanic Complexes now function as ports. This enables units to Embark from them preventing Units from Getting stuck on them (May no longer be needed but I haven't tested update 3 much)
  
• Reduced the Amount of Military Personnel used by Military Fabrication facilities
  
• Military Fabrication facilities can now be built on any Complex type
  
• Merchant marines are almost undetectable. This is to help the AI since it has a bad habit of sending waves of them to their death. (Also.. lets be honest here in most cases you can't tell what a ship is carrying at a glance so how can someone single these ships out for attack?)
  
• DataBase update. Nations starting Available Military personnel should be nearer to current figures.
  
• Some leader Fixes
  
• Fixed Argentinas OOB
  
• Ghaddafi should no longer raise from the dead to lead some nations after they have leader changes
  
• Adjusted sphere leanings of some nations.
  
• major economic overhaul, still not complete. Note that BG reimplemented the effects of Unemployment and inflation so if you see prices/costs of goods going crazy check your inflation.
  
• Added new textures to differentiate Infantry units. Most nations will now have a Camo style that is in line with what they use in the real world.
  
  • if you notice an invisible infantry unit and you are sure you installed the files properly Then please note it and post it here on the forums.. i know there is one or 2 nations that may have been misassigned infantry textures.
    
  • This is only partially complete.. only infantry and marines are done, infantry II and marines II etc haven't been done yet. Will complete in a future version.
    
    
  
  
  
• Removed excluded volatility since its no longer needed
  
  
• Added Free syrian Army
  
• Fixed suez canal issue
  
• Relations Tweaks - Too many to name 1 by 1 but there is always more of these to do.(Korean war should be less likely is one example)
  
• Removed Old events that are no longer needed freeing Up the AI have more autonomy with battlezone/Theatre settings
  
• Added new AI events- These aren't stuff you'll see with news messages, primarily setting the Minister priorities for the AI, for example the U.S. should concentrate on paying off its debt for awhile. Not for sure if George ever fixed these events but only one way to find out.
  
• , Made some old events more random, Should be be random enough that you may or may not see them during each game.
  
• Split Palestine into Hamas controlled Gaza and Palestinian Authority controlled west bank
  
• Adjustments to Guerrilla stats, Reduced offensive power increased defense. Will do less damage but are harder to wipe out making for more protracted Insurgencies.
  
• OOB fixes
  
• Cleaned up data files, should improve performance.
  
• Added SPlash screen
  
• Added Baltagars Battle grouping mod
  
• Redid The Top importer/export and Producer/consumer screens
  
• Redid most Leader pics, some are still borked will continue to fix them in 0.83
  
• Changed intro music, I actually have most of the music redone for all the nations but haven't released it since I don't think most ppl play with the music on anyway.
  
• Added version number to the main menu so its easier for ppl to tell which version they have installed
  

0.82a
-added 8:35 am CST 1/15/13

• Minor fix to minister priorities.
  
  

0.82b
-added 11:45 am CST 1/15/13

• Minor fix to minister priorities.
  
  

0.82c
-added 11:45 am CST 1/15/13

• Major fix to minister priorities.
  
  

0.82d
-added 10:09 pm CST 1/15/13

• Removed all events for minister priorities due to the event still being bugged.
  
  

0.82d
-added 2:23 am CST 1/16/13

• Cleaned up map file further reducing cache.
  
  

Downloads
Self extracting Exe
Point the installer to your supreme ruler cold war install folder.

.Rar version
Unzip it to your supreme ruler cold war install folder.


NOTEs

• I suggest playing with diplomatic merchant marine OFF. I've seen some issues pop up where like peru will buy helicopters from some eastern european nation and they will be stuck going back and forth forever leading to additional slowdown.
  
• only dropbox hosted versions are available since The file now exceeds the size of my tiny web space.
  
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[cdiplayer]

Woooooo! I'm gonna play the crap out of this. Also, did you already change Syria's loyalty?

[Fistalis]

Jan 15, 2013 5:25:54 GMT -6 cdiplayer said:

Woooooo! I'm gonna play the crap out of this. Also, did you already change Syria's loyalty?

No, and I may not due to technical reasons.
Also Kurdistan will not be a colony of Iraq for technical reasons.(although it may declare independence during the game in later update)

Edit: also grats you're the first one who spammed enough posts to make it to 2 yellow stars and the title of cabinet member. Yes it means nothing but I took like 45 mins to do the title/rank system for the forums ;D

[Fistalis]

0.82a
-added 8:35 am CST 1/15/13

Minor fix to minister priorities. Requires a new game to see the difference.
Yes I'll be doing letter updates for quick fixes and adding events

You guys will have to bear with me on the AI minister priorities.. since it never worked before Update 3 I'm still new to it and it may take a few letters to get them set right.

[htbaafly]

Hey boss. Got a problem. Turns are taking ages to pass. This reminds me of the game pre update 3.... Is this mod fully compatible with the latest update because it's taking upwards of 25 seconds and only 1 year has passed... :S

[Fistalis]

Jan 15, 2013 10:35:38 GMT -6 htbaafly said:

Hey boss. Got a problem. Turns are taking ages to pass. This reminds me of the game pre update 3.... Is this mod fully compatible with the latest update because it's taking upwards of 25 seconds and only 1 year has passed... :S

Yes its fully compatible and compiled with update 3.Slower speed than in vanilla is expected when you consider there is something like 3x the number of countries and 10x the number of units. (and the more people bug me to add the slower it will get)

I'm about a year in and get around 14 second days. Slower CPU, more wars etc will make that vary.

Make sure you're running 0.82b as well there was a minister priority set that made some units more active than they needed to be. (note you'll have to restart to see any changes if that was the cause.. although even if it was still not likely to see a huge speed increase)

[Fistalis]

0.82b


Fixed more minister priorities.

[Fistalis]

0.82c

Majorly fixed some priorities.
Last hotfix of the day, and depending on how my test games go probably last one of this week.

[Fistalis]

There are more fixes to AI minister settings incoming in the next few hours.. I'm slowly figuring out some of these things.

Plus I was half asleep by the time I released 0.82c so I botched a few entries in the events file. So i'm gonna take a few hours to fully test it and make sure I dont have to release another version to fix what I break in this one.

[Fistalis]

0.82d
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Removed all events for minister priorities since that event is still bugged, thought maybe george had fixed it but after comprehensive testing its still broken. This leaves priorities fully up to the AI.. so its a crap shoot how each nation will perform overall. But its much better than sticking them on priorities they shouldn't be on which is what the bug does.

[Fistalis]

Still 0.82d but I went ahead and cleaned up some data files which slightly reduced the size of the cache.

added 1/16/2013- 12:15 am

[Fistalis]

0.82e

Cleaned up map file. Further reduced the cache. I missed 2 rogue oceanic complexes off the coast of india which will be removed in 0.83.

Barring any crazy unseen issues This completes 0.82 and any additional changes will be held back for 0.83

[cdiplayer]

Jan 15, 2013 5:30:15 GMT -6 Fistalis said:

Jan 15, 2013 5:25:54 GMT -6 cdiplayer said:

Woooooo! I'm gonna play the crap out of this. Also, did you already change Syria's loyalty?

No, and I may not due to technical reasons.
Also Kurdistan will not be a colony of Iraq for technical reasons.(although it may declare independence during the game in later update)

Edit: also grats you're the first one who spammed enough posts to make it to 2 yellow stars and the title of cabinet member. Yes it means nothing but I took like 45 mins to do the title/rank system for the forums ;D

Sorry if you think I'm spamming posts but I just really like your mod. Anyway out of curiosity what technical reasons are there for you not being able to change Syria's loyalty or add Kurdistan?

[Fistalis]

Jan 16, 2013 2:39:40 GMT -6 cdiplayer said:

Jan 15, 2013 5:30:15 GMT -6 Fistalis said:

No, and I may not due to technical reasons.
Also Kurdistan will not be a colony of Iraq for technical reasons.(although it may declare independence during the game in later update)

Edit: also grats you're the first one who spammed enough posts to make it to 2 yellow stars and the title of cabinet member. Yes it means nothing but I took like 45 mins to do the title/rank system for the forums ;D

Sorry if you think I'm spamming posts but I just really like your mod. Anyway out of curiosity what technical reasons are there for you not being able to change Syria's loyalty or add Kurdistan?

Kurdistan can't be a colony since its territory is part of 3 different regions by default. The engine won't allow it.

As to syrian loyalty.. there may be a way although it caused issues when I had done it with libya.

[cdiplayer]

Jan 16, 2013 4:04:48 GMT -6 Fistalis said:

Jan 16, 2013 2:39:40 GMT -6 cdiplayer said:

Sorry if you think I'm spamming posts but I just really like your mod. Anyway out of curiosity what technical reasons are there for you not being able to change Syria's loyalty or add Kurdistan?

Kurdistan can't be a colony since its territory is part of 3 different regions by default. The engine won't allow it.

As to syrian loyalty.. there may be a way although it caused issues when I had done it with libya.

Ah, is there any way to make Kurdistan just suddenly declare its independence though? I've never seen that happen in game before.