War of the Triple Alliance has passed a modding milestone: defying the 14-AI limit!
It's not quite as perfect as it sounds -- we can't get 14 AI in the game at once -- but we have created a launcher program that switches out AI files, easily allowing for users of a mod to play against any number of different AIs from different civs.
Since you can't play with more than 7 AI in one game anyway, getting 14 AIs in simultaneously isn't really necessary; the goal is simply allowing for users to easily play against all civs in the mod.
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Let me introduce you to The Throne Room!
Each portrait can be occupied by a leader. Every time you launch the game, you can select which 14 leaders will appear in the game. You can leave the portraits unoccupied, and the Throne Room will pick a random leader for you.
Here's the Throne Room full of leaders:
The Throne Room also has another feature: soundtrack switching! It comes with two soundtracks to choose from: the WotTA: Default and the AoE3: Default. If you liked the original AoE3 soundtrack, or you just want to switch it up every once in a while, now you can! Hoop also created another WotTA-style soundtrack, which I will link a download to at the end here. You can make your own soundtracks to add, too.
So now, you can finally play against all twenty-five different civs! That doesn't mean they all are superb AI, though; Korea doesn't know how to use its age-up system, as of now. But that's only a flesh wound!
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Here's a link to the thread at the WotTA forums:
http://wotta.com.br/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1117&p=33741#p33741
It's not quite as perfect as it sounds -- we can't get 14 AI in the game at once -- but we have created a launcher program that switches out AI files, easily allowing for users of a mod to play against any number of different AIs from different civs.
Since you can't play with more than 7 AI in one game anyway, getting 14 AIs in simultaneously isn't really necessary; the goal is simply allowing for users to easily play against all civs in the mod.
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Let me introduce you to The Throne Room!
Each portrait can be occupied by a leader. Every time you launch the game, you can select which 14 leaders will appear in the game. You can leave the portraits unoccupied, and the Throne Room will pick a random leader for you.
Here's the Throne Room full of leaders:
The Throne Room also has another feature: soundtrack switching! It comes with two soundtracks to choose from: the WotTA: Default and the AoE3: Default. If you liked the original AoE3 soundtrack, or you just want to switch it up every once in a while, now you can! Hoop also created another WotTA-style soundtrack, which I will link a download to at the end here. You can make your own soundtracks to add, too.
So now, you can finally play against all twenty-five different civs! That doesn't mean they all are superb AI, though; Korea doesn't know how to use its age-up system, as of now. But that's only a flesh wound!
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Here's a link to the thread at the WotTA forums:
[This message has been edited by musketeer925 (edited 01-15-2012 @ 09:12 PM).]