Lion9 -> RE: Three Questions (4/12/2011 5:02:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: GrumpyMel I've never minded anyone doing a varient of one of my scenerio's...so for the record...feel free to mess around with any of mine that you like. I think most designers are pretty welcoming of that...but as Grymme states..it's usualy nice to drop the author a note, just to be sure. Thanks for the generous offer. I would always ask each specific scenario-creator at first, so in this case you've saved me the trouble! [8D] quote:
I would suggest that for your first go with the editor that you start out with something small though... and usualy it's better to start fresh with a brand new one when learning the different features of the editor. It's very powerfull but there is a bit of a learning curve to it...and wading into some of the existing scenerio's with it would be pretty daunting for someone until they got the hang of using it. There are a couple of excellent tutorials on using the editor in the mods section here.... I imagine they'll be updated for the newer version of the editor sometime soon as well. Fine advice. No doubt I would start with a small scenario, maybe "Kasserine Pass" or "Guadalcanal" or something similar in scope. No doubt about it, this game will require some careful and steady -- climbing of the learning curve. Which is why I had mentioned that I wouldn't lilkely be up for a PBEM game for awhile. quote:
I'm betting that most of the existing AT Classic scenerio's will play reasonably well in ATG. They just won't use some of the new rules/features. I'm sure it won't be long before we start seeing ports of them to ATG as well. I know I'm definately planning on doing my next update for ETO using ATG...have been holding off doing any work on the scenerio until ATG is available actually. I'm sure there are plenty of other designers that are licking thier chops to get thier hands on the updated editor as well. I'll probably try some of the old scenarios with AT, but mostly probably will wait -- patient as a new novitiate in an old monastery -- until the prior scenarios are updated. Very good to hear that you are intending to update ETO using the improved ATG rules and features. I'd like to ask you a couple questions WRT to ETO, and respond if you care to: 1) What scale is your ETO? 2) How many weeks/months per turn? Your scenario will certainly be one that I will be looking forward to, even though there is no AI. Perhaps when you do update it, by that time I"ll be ATG-ready and at least, moderately competitive. Although, I will be hoping that at some point you WILL try to put an AI in there! If you do, I'll here and now volunteer (assuming all is going well on the home front) to help you test it. [;)] quote:
I know what you are saying about solo play. Unfortunately a decent AI is one of the hardest things to pull off...especialy with games that are so open ended in terms of strategy. I honestly don't even attempt to make my scenerio's work with the AI...simply because I don't have enough confidence in my ability to tweak it to be a good opponent.....but there are plenty of other folks here that do have good experience at tweaking the AI to play well...so I'm sure you'll see some scenerio's well designed for solo play. From what I've been able to tell thus far, a decent AI is hard to pull off no matter what game we are discussing. But I have great respect for those who deliberately stay with it -- standing hard by their own game or scenario, and either improve it by coding (the designer) or by Empire-empiric "trial and error" methodology. OTOH, some games, well, they just pitch 'em out there and let 'em die on the vine. CEAW, for one instance. Quite disappointing but I show my colors by refusing to buy any other game that they make, just on general principle. LOL, not that they care a jot! I understand that Vic's other release (Warsaw, Paris) is reputed to have a BETTER AI. I wonder if he might continue to improve ATG with futher patches down the road a piece, and especially having to do with AI improvements. That would be mighty welcome, it would be ideal, and would be happily and heavily applauded by me. Many others as well, I am sure. [:)]
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