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Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 8:15 pm
by MandalorianGuard
Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 9:05 pm
by EmperorDonkey
Hehe, I got one.

I was screwin around with the XMLs one day and i thought about sertain ships spawning itself. I Had a MonCal sorta spawn a Correlian corvette, and then correlians spawning x-wings pretty boring and simple.

So i though what if i made Teis spawn Ties... Anyway i continued to set that all up and loaded the game. The second i got in the game it totally lagged up cause i had it to spawn all fighters at once with a reserve of 5. crashed and coulda swore somthin was burnin.

Well thats my story.

Oh and once the pirates attacked me.... Not suppose to be possible.

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:41 am
by MandalorianGuard
I once got so bored that I tried to place a bunch of Emp. ships like venators and SD's together like a puzzle. Trust me, I was either bored or didn't feel like fighting. When I said puzzle I meant as in putting the ships close enough until there wasn't any empty gaps between or around them. I have no clue how many credits I spended on the puzzle.

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Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 8:41 am
by Leviathan
Off-topic : Mandalorian', next time you attempt to reproduce such an "Exploit" through Star Wars : Empire At War, do not forget to join a few Screenshots taken from this LucasArts video-game in order to "illustrate" your Statements and especially to prove that it is not a "Scythe"... :wink:

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:00 pm
by MandalorianGuard
I would have posted some but, the screenshots I took were corrupted or deleted by mistake. And that was a real pain because the pics looked really good and I mean it :(

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:36 pm
by MandalorianGuard
How could that be possible, I couldn't even keep my base defended when my base was completely developed. The enemy almost had the same amount of reinforcements and I could even keep my fleet over yavin intact.

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 6:06 pm
by MandalorianGuard
Thanks for the reply. I should use that stradegy when enemy troops make it past one of my blockades(again). :wink:

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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:39 am
by Leviathan
Off-topic : MandalorianGuard, excuse for being so "suspicious", but would you mind explaining me in details how you were able to determine that all the Screen Captures you took from Star Wars : Empire At War "looked really good" whereas they seemed to have been either "corrupted" or even "deleted" ?

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:00 pm
by MandalorianGuard
Well, the reason why the screenshot got corrupted was because there was a virus got into the file when I went to a infected link on Google. The file was then lost when the virus was found in the file.

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:42 pm
by EmperorDonkey
:( I just HATe those "viruses" that go straight to your "Empire at War" game folder and corrupt your screen shots :(

Its a shame those sick people out there just have it out for EaW screenshots.

Sorry

:roll:

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:55 pm
by MandalorianGuard
Well, I'll try to take another screenshot and make the puzzle all over again but, how do you change the unit capacity because I forgot how to change the unit capacity. I've seen people do it by in pics from the largest fleet contest post. One of my friends actually changed the unit capacity for me. Can you give me some tips on how to change the unit capacity:?:

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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:07 pm
by Droid803
Space: Factions.xml
Ground: Markers.xml (Reinforcemnt Point markers)

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:09 pm
by MandalorianGuard
Can you explain with more detail? I don't know where or what to do. :?

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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:18 pm
by Droid803
In Factions.xml, there should be a perameter that says the max space population. :

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<Space_Tactical_Unit_Cap></Space_Tactical_Unit_Cap> 
As for land, check here:

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<Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus1_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_1.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>1</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
    <Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus2_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_2.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>2</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
    <Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus3_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_3.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>3</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
    <Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus4_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_4.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>4</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
    <Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus5_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_5.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>5</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
  
    <Marker Name="Reinforcement_Point_Plus10_Cap">
  <Variant_Of_Existing_Type>Reinforcement_Point</Variant_Of_Existing_Type>
  <Land_Model_Name>W_Pedistal_faction_10.alo</Land_Model_Name>
  <Additional_Population_Capacity>10</Additional_Population_Capacity>
  </Marker>
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Get back on topic :)

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:10 pm
by EmperorDonkey
OOOH! Thank god. Another EaW modder on GT.

I thought I was a lone wolf.

Ever wanna do a joint mod talk to me man. I'm lookin for somthin new that hasn't been done to death.

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:06 pm
by Droid803
lol...
k, and I didn't find the second one...someone of FileFront told me, seems to work though, but its isn't as straight forward as the space pop cap.
Maps have different drop points, and its nearly impossible to make all maps the same. You can't edit which marker is on a map...yet (unitl the map tools come out grr), one will have to change the marker itself, and the map will get the marker from the XML...

I don't mod much anymore because I play online more than off now, but I still like mods when something interesting shows up :)
It seems that most things you can add have already been done to death...Venator, SSDs...there was one with jedi and sith too...that one was fun.

Anyone have any good EaW stories or experiences?

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:35 pm
by MandalorianGuard
The worst experience I've ever had was, when I attempted to take Polus. The invasion was my most embarrassing defeat ever! As soon as my first small platoon arrived for recon I already wanted to retreat. One the transport landed I was pounded by endless waves of rebels, speeders, infiltrators, MPL-T's, and the list goes on and on. IT WAS COMPLETE HELL DOWN THERE. This is what it was like in icons
:troop: :atat: :vader: :blackja: :blackja: :blackja: :blackja:

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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 12:45 am
by Droid803
Nice funny expirince with a pic:
twas playing "Destroy Enemy" online, 4 vs 4.
So, we decided to do n acclamator rush, only that they got a nebulon-b rush on us first.
So, He devoted our acclamators to defence.
My teammate built this first acclamator, and we beat off the enemy, losing every other ship except for the FIRST acclamator, and its only hardpoint was its CCM, with 0% health.
So he hid the thing at the top.
Our base was then slaughtered by endless waves of marauders and MonCals.
Eventually, they found and destroyed every ship except for the acclamator. Then there was a synchronozation error. We didn't lose :) :)

anyhow, here's the pic (i'm Droid803, duh)

Image

Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:57 am
by yankeefan05
nice pic of the acclamator in flames.

Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 12:46 pm
by Leviathan
Off-topic : Droid803, have you ever considered designing and adding brand-new Tutorials on how to create specific Modifications intended to Star Wars : Empire At War inside the "EAW Modding" section ? :wink: