The Conquest of a Dark Queen

[Turuk]

My thoughts on the campaign so far, take from it what you may, hopefully it will help.


Scenario 1
-Easy just to sit there and grab villages and build gold, I know that's the point but very little player interaction except clicking end turn.

Scenario 2
-Green Orc leader came down and camped next to me, intentional?
-Scenario still a bit hard as he would kill a recruit each turn, but a lot easier than running northeast to kill him.
-Might be too hard for some, the distance between the two leaders means you cut it close in the turns trying to kill both since there's the lack of manpower to split your forces.

Scenario 3
-Berid should be "be rid"
-Fairly easy scenario given the leveled up units from the last one, great army building scenario.

Scenario 4
-Maybe very dangerous instead of "high danger"
-Maybe "party of mages" instead of "group of mages"
-No objectives?
-Very well set up map
-Alyana changes from Footpad to Elvish Archer?

Scenario 5
-Why the keep in the north and the long narrow map if the enemy boss is right next to me? I understand this is still being developed, just noting.

Scenario 6
Boo? I love it.

Scenario 7
Given control of AI? Not sure if this was intended.

[Mica]

Published a new version of the campaign [both TCOADQ downloads are required to play], I made it so there's no custom terrain for now. Let me know if there are any problems.

[lastjuan]

Hi all:

This seems a fantastic campagain, but sadly in the third mission of this campgain (Magic Melbrina) it says:

There is no objectives available

and logically I cannot win. Any ideas?

I don't know if it helps but here you have the gz file. I hope to carry on playing this fantastic campgain.

Greetings lastjuan

[Turuk]

Here is the file you can insert that will give victory conditions now. The objectives were missing because the dialogue gives hints as to what you must do (save Melbrina), but Mica mentioned putting in actual objectives to make it clearer.

This is the updated scenario.

[lastjuan]

Thank you! The wieirdest thing of all is that this scenario doesn't declare your defeat even when you lose both Melbina and Alayna...

Greetings lastjuan

[Turuk]

Really? It has happened before in another scenario I believe, I mentioned it to Mica and he fixed it, so if you find any more, let us know.

Thanks for reporting that, I will check into it.

[Mica]

Turuk, you rock. How can I ever thank you for taking over a bit while I vanished?

I'll look into it right now, and feel free to continue bug fixing and such.


[EDIT]

Let me know if this fixes it, I think I forgot to put in a lose condition. lol

[Turuk]

Not a problem.

I've gotten so used to working with these files for dialogue and testing that it was easy enough to help out with a few fixes. Given a few bugs here and there, now that the dialogue and the scenarios are finished, do you think that it is time to publish?

[lastjuan]

Hi again:

Thanks for the fix up Mica and Turuk

I'm sorry if I'm a pest but I had found another strange thing in the scenario "The Nation of Darvinus". Again there is no objectives, so I suppose that I had to destroy both Troll leaders. The real trouble starts when I'm trying to load an autosaved game. Then appears a message that says:

load game failed: Attempt to create a unit on the recall list for side 2, which does not have a recall list

And the program returns to the start.

On an unrelated topic, it's a bit disconcerting the chages that Alanna suffer. IMHO, it could imply that some players doesn't giver her any experience since she seems to lost it when she changes... just a thought.

Greetings lastjuan

[Turuk]

I know what you are referring to Lastjuan, and thanks for not giving away any spoilers. I noticed this myself, and I had previously been feeding her exp just to lose it all.

It has to do primarily with her change as consistent with the story, from one group to the other, but the only viable solution I can see would be to give her her own class line. That way it would not hurt the players who tried to level her from the beginning.


For the objectives yes, that is all that you have to do, though I will let Mica insert what objectives he wants as it is as this point that the campaign turns a bit from the previous track. Still in a good way though.

As to your bug, I think it has to do with a certain line of code, and I will notify Mica as to what I think it is.

[LordHunter]

On Scenario 4, the scenario doesn't end if you lose your leader. It will continue until you defeat the last enemy boss and then will announce you have been defeated.

[Turuk]

Thank you, noted, Mica is looking into the code issue for that. Lastjuan mentioned it yesterday, and as of yet, there is no fix.

EDIT:
For Lastjuan and LordHunter-

I do believe I fixed the problem about her dying and there not being a defeated message. Note, it should only be an issue if Alayna dies, not Melbrina. Please let me know if this works.

[Orcish Shyde]

I know what you are referring to Lastjuan, and thanks for not giving away any spoilers. I noticed this myself, and I had previously been feeding her exp just to lose it all.

It has to do primarily with her change as consistent with the story, from one group to the other, but the only viable solution I can see would be to give her her own class line. That way it would not hurt the players who tried to level her from the beginning.

Can't be that hard. Most mainline campaigns did it.

[Turuk]

Thank you, I'm aware of that.

This is also not my campaign, I'm just helping out with fixes when Mica is not around, so I did not want to claim that it would or would not be done.

[lastjuan]

Thank you, noted, Mica is looking into the code issue for that. Lastjuan mentioned it yesterday, and as of yet, there is no fix.

EDIT:
For Lastjuan and LordHunter-

I do believe I fixed the problem about her dying and there not being a defeated message. Note, it should only be an issue if Alayna dies, not Melbrina. Please let me know if this works.

It works flawlessly. Thank you!