The Fall Of Trent - A Multiplayer RPG

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The Fall Of Trent - A Multiplayer RPG

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The Fall of Trent is a multiplayer quest in which five generals must flee their home city after it falls to Orcish invaders. There are various episodes to the story, and it is probably best played over two sessions as it is pretty damn long.

If you are wise in such matters please let me know if you spot anything going wrong.

Also, any feedback from players would be much appreciated.
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sweet

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it is an awsome quest are u gonna make any more in the future???
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Post by Rhuvaen »

Nice. I haven't played far into it, because the AI turns take sooo long (compared to each player moving a single unit). Have you considered splitting this up into a multiplayer campaign? Even if not, you could just unfold the map as the players progress, which would speed the turns up quite a bit (or the AI is significantly slower in 1.1.8?). As it is, it doesn't seem very playable to me.

I find the initial premise a bit surprising that there were no lookouts etc and the city is overrun immediately. And that the generals flee while their men fight :o. Maybe a bit more explanation what they try to achieve (maybe they carry some important plans with them, or try to warn some other authority, or get back to some other army's location...). Also, what is the empire the story is talking about? Wesnoth was never an empire as far as I know.

A lot of the things you write in the Readme.txt can be set with WML. You can specify side 6-9 to be AI only (this works only in the development version but doesn't break anything for stable), and you can replace the leaders of sides 8 and 9 to the types you want.

Finally, I think you could package the whole thing so that it's just extract and play. I unzipped it into data/campaigns, opened Wesnoth and wondered where your quest was... Here's a zip that works out of the box (and doesn't put the map into a folder where the multiplayer maps are).

EDIT: whoops, the zip didn't contain anything the first time around - fixed.
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In the sacred circle code, the range= should be melee and ranged instead of short and long (The_Fall_Of_Trent.cfg, line 2927--3312 in Rhuvaen's zip).
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Post by Bob_The_Mighty »

Is there any way to make the AI turns quicker? Or do I have to reduce the number of units the computer controls?

The slowness of 1.1.8 is its biggest drawback in my opinion.

Also, how do I put this scenario onto the campaign server?
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awesome map man, hope ull make more in d future
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Post by Bob_The_Mighty »

Okay, I finally got round to updating The Fall of Trent for Wesnoth 1.2

All the side settings are done automatically now and some other things are fixed. I've tested it a little bit and it seems to run okay.

Please report any bugs and stuff, thanks.
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Post by Erunion »

On 1.3.1, (in hotseat... With myself...) I trudged through, killed the spider, saved the farmer (but only the hero one), got the hermit (without leveling her) and fought my way to the castle. Then when I got thrown in jail, I couldn't get out. I got to the secret entrance, but the terrain was a canyon, and impassable! Argh!
Now, I had an Elvish Druid, Enchantress(level 3, whatever it's called), Champion, Marksman, Avenger, and the Hermit Shaman. What happened??? :?:
"Never put off for tommorow what you can do today."
Isn't that a wonderful proverb? I think I'll start listening to it. Tommorow.
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Post by Bob_The_Mighty »

Ah, well that'll be my fault. Sorry. :oops:

I forgot to incorporate the new terrain changes. I have fixed it now, get The Fall of Trent 2.3 and it'll all work.

If you downloaded Labyrinth of Champions for Wesnoth 1.3, then you should get that again too.

p.s. I never heard of anyone getting the spider before, impressive!
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Post by Tom of wesnoth »

Can you recruit in orc battle?
If i could i would turn into a world ruler!
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Tom of wesnoth wrote:Can you recruit in orc battle?
yes. that is the point of collecting gold along the way.
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Oh, hehehe, no wonder I could never beat it.
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Post by Aethaeryn »

Is there a trick to this? I can't get past the beginning (playing all characters) without losing half of my units.
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The trick is: RUN!
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