The Alternative Scenario Setup Mod - Discussion

[Veldmaarschalk]

Now, I really love the TESS mod (especially the 'before the conquest' scenario's) but there is one thing that ticked me off. When I play the Anglo-Saxons in England, the (local) random courtiers still have Norman names like Darcy and Butler. I understand why this is, but it irked me a little. So I modded the dynasty file to replace the Norman family names in England with Anglo Saxon names.

Basically, what this file does is to replace all Darcy's and Butlers and Bacons and Seagraves with Leofricsons and Aelfgarsons and Cearlsons. Yes, I essentially just took Saxon first names and added 'son', but it should at least give the random courtiers a more 'Saxon' touch. I also replaced most of the local names like 'of Somerset' and 'of York' with their Saxon names (of Sumorsaet and of Eoforwic). The file can be found in the link below. Maybe it's of interest to some people.

Saxon dynasties

Try this spin-off of the TASS-mod

It has f.e. Anglo-Saxon generic dynastie-names.

 

[Cecasander]

Damn Veldmaarschalk, your awesomeness knows no bounds The new cultures especially add a new dimension to England.

 

[denzil85]

Problems running TASS

I've been playing around with DVIP for a while and quite enjoyed it and fancied trying something different and decided on the TASS mod.

I've done a fresh install of CK to allow for any compatibility problems there may be between DVIP and TASS. What do I need to do in order to play TASS, as others don't seem to be having any problems?

For my fresh install I...

- Installed CK
- Installed CK-DV
- Installed the 2.1 Beta patch (15th Oct 2008) for DV
- Installed TASS

Is that the right way to do it?

On loading the game I got a couple of error messages

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48324137@N07/4427135704/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48324137@N07/4427135752/

Then when the game started, the graphics were all out of place

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48324137@N07/4427135852

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

- Installed CK
- Installed CK-DV
- Installed the 2.1 Beta patch (15th Oct 2008) for DV
- Installed TASS

Is that the right way to do it?

That is the correct way

But it looks like something went wrong with your installation of DV, you probably installed DV in a separate folder, instead of installing it on top of CK.

 

[denzil85]

Thanks for the quick response, I checked again and you were right. DV installed itself in a CK folder inside CK, not over CK and that was what caused the problems.

 

[Johan11]

When I try to download this, the following happens:

When I try to open it, windows can't find the program needed for the opening of the program. It says I could use the internet, or choose the program on a list. What shoulkd I do?

Also, why not add a kingdom of the netherlands, and Austria?

The areas around Krain and Görz, today's Slovenia, could be added to Austria, and Istria could be added to Croatia, as it belongs there today.

 

[Johan11]

I found the problem.

When I open it in WinZip, it only shows as one icon, whcih makes it impossible for me to extract the files. Hoiw do I work that out?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I found the problem.

When I open it in WinZip, it only shows as one icon, whcih makes it impossible for me to extract the files. Hoiw do I work that out?

Download WinRAR and use that to extract it

 

[Emphyrio]

I have downloaded the 'Before the Conquest' variant of this mod and installed it.

I started a new game and thought it was working fine - but looking at the map it doesn't have all the new refinements (e.g. Ynys Mon as a new province).

I must be doing something wrong but I can't work out what. I copied my vanilla CKDV directory and overwrote this first with the bigger 'Before the Conquest' download and then the smaller one.

Any ideas?

 

[Johan11]

I think it works now. Haven't tested it though. But the install works now.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I have downloaded the 'Before the Conquest' variant of this mod and installed it.

I started a new game and thought it was working fine - but looking at the map it doesn't have all the new refinements (e.g. Ynys Mon as a new province).

I must be doing something wrong but I can't work out what. I copied my vanilla CKDV directory and overwrote this first with the bigger 'Before the Conquest' download and then the smaller one.

Any ideas?

No idea really, since if you would have just installed the scenario-files and not the map then the game would crash on loading. And since it doesn't do that something else must be the problem.

Are you sure you overwrote the original files ? So have you checked to see if there isn't a new folder within you main games-folder which contains the patch ?

 

[Emphyrio]

Thanks for the reassurance that I've done nothing obviously wrong!

I'll try a reinstall and see how that goes.

Edit: Now working fine - I think it was a problem with the patch installed in the wrong place as you suggested. Thanks!

 

[I Killed Kenny]

I'm playing my second game with TASS (since the last time 6 months ago) and I'm seeing some serious bloobing.

I mean in less than 10 years all the Irish duchies pleaged to the king of Scotland and in my first game, besides this happening, when France had a civil war the duchies started joining Germany and Leon.

Is this normal?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I'm playing my second game with TASS (since the last time 6 months ago) and I'm seeing some serious bloobing.

I mean in less than 10 years all the Irish duchies pleaged to the king of Scotland and in my first game, besides this happening, when France had a civil war the duchies started joining Germany and Leon.

Is this normal?

Are you sure you have installed the latest beta-patch ? Since this sounds like the bug that was introduced in DV, but which has been fixed in the beta-patch.

 

[Jamie550]

Here's a few possible bugs in the files.

In character_names.csv, line 8761, "ugricbaltic;femalemale;Kuóin" - is that allowed?

In 1065_scenario_characters.inc, line 6296, "mother = ( type = 10 id = 20207 }" - the opening is a parentheses. Same in line 15349, 25526, 26361, 26866, 26892, 27077, 32489, 55188. These parentheses problems also happen in 1066 and 1066a character inc files.

Here are a number of traits that seem misspelled or wrong (brilliant_tactician doesn't exist, but brilliant_strategist does)

--- Error 1 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[34]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[67]\condition\value] (10463, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 2 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[31]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[55]\condition\value] (9606, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 3 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[30]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[67]\condition\value] (9248, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 4 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[27]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[51]\condition\value] (8345, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 5 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[26]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[62]\condition\value] (7999, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 6 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[23]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[48]\condition\value] (7076, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 7 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[18]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[42]\condition\condition\value] (5544, 35):
"naive_wirepullen" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 8 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[14]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[67]\condition\value] (4442, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 9 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[14]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[49]\condition\condition\value] (4353, 35):
"naive_wirepulle" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 10 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[11]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[55]\condition\value] (3516, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 11 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[10]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[67]\condition\value] (3141, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 12 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[7]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[54]\condition\value] (2220, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 13 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[6]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[62]\condition\value] (1824, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.
--- Error 14 of 14 ---
Type Mismatch Error
At D:\Games\CkTass\db\events\Character_Development_Events.txt [character_event[3]\mean_time_to_happen\modifier[48]\condition\value] (854, 38):
"brilliant_tactician" is not a valid Trait.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Thanks !

 

[Herr Doctor]

Any plans for adding new map Western Europe?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Any plans for adding new map Western Europe?

No, not yet.

I have started on it, but then noticed that it is a lot of work and currently I don't have the time or the will to work on it.

 

[Bobbins71]

Link for TASS is dead. Can you check it?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Link for TASS is dead. Can you check it?

It still works for me