3989452

October 20th, 2007 10:11 AM

Dontai you are correct, best to just desctivate the special weapon entirely on that one, strange as it was working.

Firewarrior the mod was made on patch 1.1, the physics will be set for the fix patch, hoping for a next week release for that.

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Sugar Spice

October 28th, 2007 08:08 AM

How goes part 2 of the mod, Achilles?

4004043

October 28th, 2007 03:49 PM

I fixed most of the errors in this thread, I am working on quickly adding the Borg as I have almost all there stuff completed.

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Sugar Spice

October 29th, 2007 12:19 AM

Awesome, could we get an overview of what will be in Part 2?

4004876

October 29th, 2007 06:44 AM

sure

The Borg with these stats.

builtimes 180% (nearly twice as slow for ships only)
shields 220%
hull 250%
weapon power 150%
weapon speed 100%
weapon distance 130%
weapon accuracy 98%
**emphasis on crew and engines
**most power in cutting beams

(check New race/ship thread)

3 more maps

and the following fixes...

standardised physics (with the option to re-install the current ones)
fix for rcruise2a (removed special)

cardassian and romulan super facilities can be built

romulan shockwave turret is weakened and less shielded

cardassian 3rd yard increased in size

4555277

Re: Art of War error thread

September 3rd, 2008 12:01 PM

Well, I'm embarassed to say I'm probably the last person in the community to try Art of War. In fact I haven't played any armada game for ages. Today I had the urge, and now I'm regretting it.

My first thought was to get Flops 2 back, only to discover it doesn't work on my new Vista machine. So after unistalling that, and Armada2, emptying my Activision folder, I figured it was time I got playing AOW.

So I figured I'd try each instalment one at a time. I started with a clean armada instal, plus the 1.1 patch. Installed part one of AOW fine, only to get a crash to desktop when I select the multiplayer menu. Figuring I'd messed something up, I uninstalled everything again. Done a new clean install as normal, but I still got the crash.

Having experienced similar crashes when adding new races manually in the past (not that I was doing that this time), I decided to edit my races odf to remove all the non-working races, leaving just the dom and roms and ferengi, which solved the problem.

I can now access the menu and start a game no problem, however nothing is buildable. I've checked the techtrees, the ship and station odfs (which are all present and correct), and tried every tech level but nothing is available to build....which kinda threw me, as I cant see how that could happen.

So I decided to instal part 2 over the top to see what happened. Well again, the multiplayer menu crashes me to desktop again. (obviously due to the races odf being put back to normal.) I'm baffled.

Next I tried installing part 3 over the top, which fixes my crash, and I can now enter the multiplayer menu fine. I can start a game fine, but again nothing is buildable (in fact the first 2 times I tried this, I started a game as the feds, only to have half the stock stations available to build!!!???(which sounds similar to Dontai's mysterious ship appearing in the above posts)

I've now tried all of the stages 3 times (from clean instal, right through to part3), and each time I get the same errors.

Obviously this seems to be unique to me, as the mods have been out for some time, with no-one else having this trouble.

Would anyone have any ideas? Frankly I'm stumped, and after 6 years or so of modding this game, that dont happen often. Could Flops somehow have screwed around with my system somehow, before I started installing AOW?
(Although I've uninstalled everything several times over)

This was gonna be a nice relaxing day playing mods today.....think I'll go back to the playstation instead

Anyone with thoughts or suggestions, please chip in.

4555481

Re: Art of War error thread

September 3rd, 2008 12:49 PM

Just to clarify, when I mentioned the multiplayer menu, I meant instant action

4555744

Re: Art of War error thread

September 3rd, 2008 02:40 PM

super uninstall :P remove the game normally, delete all files and folders containing the game then remove all references to armada from the registry. I have only had to do that once

4556377

Re: Art of War error thread

September 3rd, 2008 09:45 PM

Well, after a few hours kip, I woke up with the same thoughts. When installing Flops, it made some unusual registry changes, as Spybot flagged up a warning that registry was being changed.

I'd assumed it was ok, as I got the same warning when I uninstalled it. Obviously not!

Looks like I gotta trawl through my registry, something I've not done in ages. And something I've not done in Vista. This could be....er...fun
That'll teach me for putting Flops first before AOW.

Anyway, cheers mate, sorry to take over your thread

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Re: Art of War error thread

September 4th, 2008 01:40 AM

Apologies for double posts.
Well I've searched (and manually trawled) through my registry, removed every reference to the game, and any mods I've used (found loads more Flops stuff, and some Tactical Assault stuff as well). Done a new clean install, but same problems.

Tried again with the registry. Removed everything I could possibly think of, that I knew wouldn't cause a system crash. Re-installed again, and same problem. I give up. Looks like Armada2 is going back in the cupboard, before I launch it out the top floor window (closely followed by my PC)