You can't capture maskling camps in 2.2. Your Units walk up to them, and then stop and wait for orders. No matter how much you move them around they won't attack the Totem. Has anyone else experienced this?
The ability to abandon and reclaim structures is already done for the next update. Abandoned structures won't drain or produce resources or infrastructure, and will slowly decay.
Where ever you downloaded Bronze Age, if you installed it through the itch.io App there is a button in the bottom right (when looking at the Bronze Age page) called "Show local files" that will open the install directory.
I'm seeing some reported errors around trying to load a save file "Inhe The Island Of Hammering". They could be your errors, in that case you may be trying to load an old (pre-2.0) save file. You can check for it in the "saves" folder in the Bronze Age directory. If the file doesn't have an XML extension then it's an old format save file that sadly can't be opened in Bronze Age 2.0.
You could download Bronze Age Classic to play that save file, though.
There's a couple suggestions threads, and feel free to make your own as well. I've thought about making a discord group, but I'm not sure I have the time to manage that as well as the game.
As znuffy said you can build monuments. When fully upgraded they're a very efficient source of morale. If you have patches of fertile soil you can also build gardens.
Resources show up on the zoomed out map, but I like the idea of a "find a resource" window. Stellaris has an "expansion planner", and that sort of thing could work well in Bronze Age.
Towers are a good candidate for keeping vision throughout your territory. They can also slow down attackers that pass through.
I'll see what I can do. Probably cancelable upgrades, but also have the structure keep operating while being upgraded. That way the whole settlement doesn't shut down.
ok thanks for the heads up i will remove bridges also i need to reset all the trade routes as the boats are all suck now going back and forth in an area my next question is once a bridge is built does that permanently cut off that water way as even with the bridge gone ships wont travel over the shallows any more?
why not just let boats go under bridges that would be a clever thing to add to the game with all the broken things you added recently and give happiness back to monuments
Still doesn't work.
Now at the same place it says "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Adapter 'NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M ' does not support the Reach profile."
The full text output of the error file is here:
https://pastebin.com/ZMsZLwSa
It seems that indiegames like this have issues with my graphics card quite often, is there some setting I can change on my side, either with my system or with game configs, that will make it easier? For this game, specifically? Am I supposed to conclude that my graphics card is too outdated to run specifically games with pixellated 2D graphics? I mean idk
The problem was on my end.
Sorry about that.
For some complicated reason a program was masking my graphics card, using a bit of software that acts like a driver, which would confuse my system for some programs trying to use the graphics card. I uninstalled the program and I can now run the game.
I'm now having a lot of fun playing your game.
I think a decrease in tin needed in smelters back to 1 and a decrease in tin production in the mines would be good.
This way you can still distribute bronze in your kingdom by shipping tin and smelting it at the settlement where it arrives while at the same time tin is still more valuable than copper.
It looks like it's failing to generate a trade route, and crashing every frame. I'll look into it, thanks.
Edit: yep, it appears to be failing to calculate an impossible trade route. I'll have a fix to more gracefully handle it out tonight. Thanks again for reporting the issue.
Did you exit the game before trying again? There could some memory held on to by the previous world.
Yep that was the problem! was on a mediteranean map, i've just try on mesopotamia and everything was fine^^ thank for the help.
Realy like the happiness mod btw, i t give me more liberty for desining my city wich i realy like. What are you going to do with the happiness building if you implement it in the base game btw?
The performance are not the best in the game "Commodore Shawn" says that performance improvements need to be done with the game.
And map types are not, as much as i know, to change the size of the map. They only change the generation features. For example: Mesopotamia worlds generate with deserts and lakes instead of large oceans, Mediterranean generate ocean in the middle, a ring of land attach to the borders of the maps, and more rivers.
The trade window bug ?!
First of all I'd like to thank you for the great work.
Now, it seems that the trade window doesn't have any scroll bar or any way to shift to other commodities.
I'm not sure if it is a bug or something wrong with my settings, I'm a totally clueless when it comes to programming or any ''PC STUFF'' T.T
I toke a screen shot if it will help.
Thanks
Okay found it, and, hehe I will translate it, since it is write in spanish, It starts with:
========== 10/07/2018 07:17:14 p. m. ==========
Exception
No se puede cargar el archivo o ensamblado 'System.IO.FileSystem, Version=4.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' ni una de sus dependencias. La definición del manifiesto del ensamblado no coincide con la referencia al ensamblado. (Excepción de HRESULT: 0x80131040)
en Bronze.Common.Services.AiAnalyticsService.Initialize()
en Bronze.Monogame.BronzeAgeGameBase.Initialize()
"(Unable to load the file or assembly 'System.IO.FileSystem, Version=4.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' not one of its dependencies. The assembly manifest definition does not match the reference to the assembly. (Exception de HRESULT: 0x80131040)
in Bronze.Common.Services.AiAnalyticsService.Initialize()
in Bronze.Monogame.BronzeAgeGameBase.Initialize() )"
and then there is like 12974 lines repeating the same:
========== 10/07/2018 07:18:09 p. m. ==========
Exception Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto. en Bronze.Monogame.BronzeAgeGameBase.Update(GameTime gameTime)
"(Object reference not set to an instance of an object.)"
If the buildings are "not operational", you're probably missing input items. Are any of your item stockpiles 0 or negative? From the sounds of it, you might not have enough wood.
Unlike a typical RTS, in Bronze Age units don't just have an upfront cost. They are a constant drain on resources.
You should be able to attack towers if you declare war on the enemy tribe. By default Masklings are just "hostile", which allows you to kill units, but not structures.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHhhhh...ok let me have a look....yeah somehow im low in wood :D... and how exactly do lumbermills work? do you place them directly on a tree tile or next to? i know it says to place it on a tree tile but does another one have to be next to it for it to work? do they run out eventually?
I saw this a few times lately, as well the game is LAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGY. i can't play it, only 1/2 FPS, but i'm sure you going to improve the performance on the game.
The crashes happen mostly (as i remember) when deconstructing/upgrading a building(s) with negative amount of idlers.
heh...ok...the next day ( today ) i wanted to send you a screenshot of the error and the game is working again (dont know for how long)...the error was very similar to the one that eyalonsky had...maybe even the same one. I will send a screenshot if it does the error again but for now it works
uhh this tribe non stop spams me with this notification. They constantly keeps coming at a rate its hard to even save and quit the game. I have no idea what triggered this. This is my best world so far because i have bad problems with happiness and administration. So I don't want to lose it if it comes down to that.
alright I uploaded here: https://mega.nz/#!QGRFDSzY!xKed8eDun4kYsz_gseuZEkY7uCuSmSrqhzZsse_EIy8
Oh yeah I accidentally clicked on your profile and you have a space age version of this game? I gotta check this out!
Thanks for playing, and thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for developing this interesting game!
2. You are right, sorry for this one. To be honest I don't like the autosave system as it is, because it interrupts the play, but I don't see any workaround here - I guess it is not possible to make it in the background?
6. I was wondering about one of the annoying things mentioned - to order a construction I need free population. Maybe it would be possible to change this mechanics so that player could construct a queue of buildings to build when there is workforce present (e.g. for building longer roads or wall sections)? What do you think about it?
I can't find crash_log, is it in the starting folder when you click on the extracted file? Also it is in downloads, so no there should be no problem with permissions. Maybe it has something to do with my graphics card? I bought a refurbished dell optiplex 755 which has decent specs but an abismal graphics card and I am unable to play some games due to it, I have obtained a new graphics card that should work for my computer and will tell you if anything changes.
Sometimes the RNG puts settlements (and other starting constructions) in rather..... sub-optimal locations. I just conquered their neighbor, and now two-province Ashisor is about to lose the shortest war in the history of Bronze Age (EDIT: it took 17 seconds). In addition, one of their provinces has exactly two non-mountain tiles, so it's about as useful as a submarine screen door.
Bonus fact: five-province Bonechopper Tribe (just west of Ashisor) is completely split in two by mountains (quite possibly from another wonky start), so if when I attack the two eastern provinces, the three western provinces are completely unable to assist.
Speaking of bug reports, if the window is too small (in my case, windowed on a 1920x1080 monitor) the settlement list and army list can overlap the lower-left panel. More seriously, on 50x50 maps, zoomed-out tiles can glitch. Yes, I have a mod here (which simply adds a new map), but I've seen both of these in entirely vanilla gameplay .
EDIT: I should also add that a town view of a town in a desert still uses the same exact tileset as a grasslands settlement, even if there's no sign of grass being anywhere nearby.
The saves: https://download1072.mediafire.com/ytaok8pchqkg/lm4bohrrlh0ruc8/saves.zip
The map: https://download1072.mediafire.com/thew06r98umg/jr7ln87sdhwivyf/atma_maps.zip
Yes, there's only one map despite the filename; ideally I'll make and add more maps, but I'll have to study what we have now to make maps that work.
Bug report 1: The AI thinks building a trade yard is a high priority, even over removing ruins. Furthermore, building trade yards seems to be a higher priority in 3.1.0 than in 3.0.0. As a result, the AI can wind up being ruins collectors:
Bug report 2: The AI is poor at waging war. In the above screenshot's game, even as a ghoul unit was creating ruins, the white-outline force sent a single levy unit to try and defeat their northernmost province's lion nest. They're also more than willing to send a clearly insufficient force to attack a ghoul unit (levy only, equal or inferior numbers).
EDIT: Just after that image I took the empty land northeast of white-outline (carpe diem!) and exchanged maps with the blue-purple just northwest of white outline... who has four more ghoul units causing problems. Therefore...
Bug report 3: As of 3.1.0, the AI cannot handle ghouls.
LATE EDIT: I've seen that the AI obsessions vary. Sometimes they really want trade posts, sometimes they really want farms, but on multiple occasions I've seen an AI build the same building over and over in the same territory.
By the way, how exactly does attrition work? It seems attrition persists even if the units end up in a region where I have the surplus resources that ought to cover their supply. I think - not entirely sure - I get scenarios where some supply resource ended up negative because of city growth, but the army just keeps starving when that is fixed, leading to stuff like an army of nobles just starving to death on my capital tile that's pouring over with resources.
Well, as I mentioned in the other thread, I am unsure how warehouses actually work. I can see how they offer extra room for storage, but I'm not sure how they directly or indirectly are supposed to influence how things are run. Like, is it for some reason more plausible that resources will be distributed to demands if there's a warehouse? How does it work?
Also, I guess it's interesting that some worker actually has to move the goods physically to the map edge.
About that (I guess it's a different topic altogether): to what extent are good moved around physically in settlements like you see the wheelbarrow guys if you actually check in a city screen? Is this actually done that way in all settlements including computer ones? I also seem to run into performance issues (basically FPS death on quite a new computer) when I get to a later game with bigger cities and computer factions being very busy. Including when on overworld view. Is it actually actively rendering all the particular good transports moving over the settlement maps of all the settlements in the world or something? I can see how that would cause fps death.
Warehouses do two things: they store items, and they increase delivery range. Most structures can only deliver items to 10 tiles away or so. Warehouses have a practically unlimited delivery range.
The wheelbarrow people technically exist for each city (not villages) in the world. Their overhead is incredibly small, though, as it's essentially moving along a number line. I believe that the current performance drag is down to logic running on individual structures, but I'll look into that more after tactical combat.
So the guy you least want to hear from finally got out to testing out 3.2 and, well, the graphics are still not 100%; when fully zoomed out, the visible part is shifted up by four pixels. Sorry. :(
I fear I'm running out of graphics-issue-related flavor text (but hopefully we'll finally squash that last graphical issue!).
Speaking of bug reports, I found a rare one.
See the eight-province red-yellow maskling tribe? The correct answer is "no", as that's actually two tribes with the same culture, same primary color, and same secondary color. They even have similar names (three-province Bloodcrusher Clan in the east, five-province Bloodcutter Folk in the west).
Yes, the odds of a match like this are very low, but obviously it can happen! ;)
