The Vainglory of Grogheads - Pride of Nations PBEM AAR

[undercovergeek]

got mine - weirdly down to 9mb again

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Good.  Looks like it was just a temporary issue.  I can attach files and send them with the main email account again.

AND

DAMN IT!  The economic crisis from the US hit Russia this turn.  Inflation jumped from 2% to 7% overnight.

[undercovergeek]

just sent it back up the channel it came down - do you want it on the normal account?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Nope.  Got it.  Tuna said the file I sent him from the backup account was corrupt so I sent out another copy to you.  As the first worked for you, don't load the other one up or it'll be Groundhog Day.

[Tuna]

Let's go back in time and prevent the American Economic Crisis!!!!

[JasonPratt]

I was thinking about getting my copy patched up someday soon (seeing as how it won't even boot on my Win8 machine for some obscure reason), and I think I saw talk over at the Ageod forums that the current version was actually released as recently as a couple of months ago, back in July. Someone was even talking in a thread about improvements he saw but still some bugs he was noticing as well as improvements that could be worked on.

Is that even right? What version are y'all using? (Mine is 1.01, which yes I know is worthlessly ancient. The current patch may not even work with the Paradox edition, which I bought years ago from Gamersgate.)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The latest official patch is 1.03E.  There was a beta patch released called 1.04RC2 that fixed some bugs and sped up the turn processing time a bit but it also introduced two major bugs.  One made garrison troops immortal so you could never win a siege.  The other caused some people's PCs to slow to a crawl whenever you opened the trade screen "B" or the economy tab "F4" and it would take upwards of 10 minutes before they'd close down.  There was a hotfix released on Aug 3 that fixed the garrison bug and the slowdown but it introduced some new bugs.  For a lot of users, the pop census screens and the unit data screens now no longer show much of the information they're meant to.  All the text is missing from the census screen and the unit art, the unit descriptions, and the range data is missing from the unit screens.

I'd stick with v 1.03E at this point. 

[Tuna]

Mine is the GamersGate 1.01 version.. I think I patched.. 1.03 1.04 then the rc2 hotfix..

[JasonPratt]

Okay, that's good info, thanks.

My fuzzy understanding is that the expansion packs don't add anything to the grand campaign per se, only set up new campaign start conditions (and maybe limit the focus of which nations can be played and where on the map). Is that right?

Also, I foresee some potential compatibility problems coming if different versions are being used in your MP game...

[Tuna]

I think all the expansions with the exception of Africa are just battle scenarios... lol.. have them all, but have never played any of them.. 'This' is the first time I'm getting into the game1

[JasonPratt]

Okay, sooooo... does Scramble add features to the late period of the grand campaign (starting from 1800 through 1920)?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I think the main thing it adds is a shorter Grand Campaign that starts in 1880 instead of 1850 and a bunch of new events and colony-centric crises.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Question:

I sometimes get prestige awarding missions such as "Be the world's leading producer of cereals for 10 years, at least 80% of the time."  Is there a tool-tip available somewhere that provides info on who is producing what amounts of each good per turn somewhere?

[undercovergeek]

all i know is if you click on the red line in the messages it takes you to the owner of that prestige message, i got the 'biggest army in europe notification' clicked on it and low and behold its Tuna

i also know if you click on T in the trade zones it will bring up whats been sold - if this is an indicator as to what they produce, i dunno

[Tuna]

The T is over what country or region you are hovering over.. I wish you could see all of your countries trade window in one window.. instead of having to click on different regions..