ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Сб Авг 31, 2019 1:51   Тeмa: Is there any way to prevent this

The closest thing to what you want is editing / modding shard_bonus.var
You remove the items which you do not want to get as a bonus in a shard there...

For instance if you remove the (188, 10) entries then the kobolds should no longer appear

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Авг 30, 2019 2:25   Тeмa: Smart AI: Should i set to "0" or "1"

I started the campaign with the standard settings (Smart AI 0). The first few shards were ok. Then the AI cheated on 2 shards.
Then I switched to Smart AI 1 but the AI seems to always cheat.

The problem has been described by others in several places. The AI levels up too fast. Its behaviour is out of sync with the appropriate difficulty level. Perhaps a workaround could be to adjust the difficulty settings. E.g. by putting the AI skill levels lower.
In CampDiff.Var we can make the AI gain skill levels slower while leaving the other difficulty settings in difficulty.var the same.

If the AI skill level is lower compared to the neutral units then the simulation should progress the AI more slowly (under the condition that the simulation compares the hit points etc)
Did anyone try out something like this?

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Авг 23, 2019 1:44   Тeмa: New Horizons v2.90 discussion thread

It seems there were some interesting changes.

Edit: The 2 paths for the Elfs for example. If you don't know that you could think that the Elves got nerfed.
When hiring an Elf, you should choose a path, which is a free upgrade..

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Чт Авг 22, 2019 3:15   Тeмa: Made Cheat Engine Table for 2.90

Thank you very much!

It is working! Nice work!

And it is very useful to counteract the problem when the AI comes with the cheated overpowered army.
So, now you can counter that cheat with your own cheat.

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пн Янв 21, 2019 20:02   Тeмa: New Horizons v2.90 discussion thread

Thank you a lot for the translation. Her is a simple google translate of the change log for reference:

Fix contains the full version of the mod. The version of the mod will be 18.0601.f01, the list of changes below is relevant for this version.

Attention!
Old saves on shards may not work correctly! It is recommended to start a new Shard.
To update the mod in the campaign, it is desirable to be in the Astral.

*** CHANGES ***

1. Magic
Summoning creatures with rituals now gives a more random level to a summoned creature (but it still depends on the skills of the Calling Force and the Calling Power of the Undead).
Flame of Chaos and Armageddon spells reduced resistance modifier (200-> 100).

2. Items
The devil's trident now gives +4 to the summoning power to all warriors near the hero.

3. Other
Turning on and off the AI's new logic is placed in the configuration file (Smart AI (0 - not use / 1 - use, default 1): 1).


*** FIXES ***

Fixed errors found and typos in the game.
Fixed AI algorithms.

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пн Янв 21, 2019 19:37   Тeмa: New Horizons v2.90 discussion thread


In the previous versions sometimes the AI levelled up extremely fast making it practically impossible to win the shard. This problem has been attributed to the smart AI. And this is why there is now a switch to turn it off.
Unfortunately I don't know the details (I am pretty new here). So, I cannot tell you more.

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Сб Янв 12, 2019 23:46   Тeмa: Eador281a siege bug

I think I found a bug:

In the campaign on a shard I am besieging Oinor's home castle. My hero has a total siege strength of 17. But the foritfication level only drops by 1 point. And the progonosis tells that the siege will last 99 turns (or 98 the next turn).
So after the first round of siege the walls dropped down to 99 only and in the next round to 98.

On other shards this problem never occurred so far. The walls dropped by a reasonable amount. So the bug does not seem to occur every time.

Edit: Moving off the castle and getting back there worked. So the siege duration for breaching the wall was then 6 turns.

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Янв 11, 2019 22:01   Тeмa: Which Version to play

Thanks for the reply. Yeah that sounds nice!

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Янв 11, 2019 20:46   Тeмa: campaing edit

Would be interested in this too. Perhaps the campaign save file could be edited somehow. Unfortunately it is a binary file which is hard to read.

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Янв 11, 2019 20:38   Тeмa: Which Version to play

I searched the threads and it seems that the problem did not happen in version v2.50d but happened in all later versions.
Can somebody more experienced please confirm?

So, I guess it would be best to go for that version?
Unfortunately we would miss out on a lot of nice features that way as well...

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Янв 11, 2019 18:40   Тeмa: Sandbox mode?

another workaround would be to play a multiplayer hotseat game. You could just keep the second player alive and thats it. I did not try it but it should work

ζ Фopум ζ:  The Guild of Craftsmen   Добавлено: Пт Янв 11, 2019 18:35   Тeмa: Which Version to play

Dear all,

I am new to Eador new horizons (but I know a lot of other similar games)

thanks the devs/modders a lot for a great game. I enjoyed playing the campaign a lot.

... until I ran into the AI fast levelling bug. It does not seem to happen on every shard but still the bug seems pretty game breaking to me. Especially in the combination that the loading is limited in this game.
The AI seems to cheat heavily.

Which version would you recommend to play? Is it known since which version the cheating AI bug was introduced? Would that version have other problems?