Hey Settlers II Friends out there, we got some news for you!
At the moment we don't have much active Devs because they are busy, thats the main why there doesn't happen a lot since 0.8 has been released. But luckily we got still fans out there who use their time to do some for Settlers II and this project:

"Quixui" just joined our IRC channel and told me, that he was working on an addon which allows you to directly control the production of your tools which is totally great!
(Read more here: http://www.siedler25.org/index.php?com=forum&mod=forum&action=thread&id=1053&start=-1#last )

Enlarge: http://picload.org/image/arcldig/tools.png

But wait, there is more: He also started working on an very old idea we had, the boot camp, nobody ever thought, that somebody would add this feature until we got LUA scripting or the code is rewritten but he did it!
(Read more here: http://www.siedler25.org/index.php?com=forum&mod=forum&action=thread&id=843&start=-1#last )

Enlarge: http://picload.org/image/arcldpr/bootcamp.png

Hopefully he will be able to finish his work (he also fixes some bugs as far as I know) and we will have some new game experience!

Also "Spike" made a new tool for some mapeditors out there which gives you again the feature to convert .bmp to .swd but you can also add "special objects" easy, change all heights of your map or even set some random heights if you want to do so.
(Read more hre: http://www.siedler25.org/index.php?com=forum&mod=forum&action=thread&id=1069&start=-1#last )

Enlarge: http://img1.picload.org/image/dwwlwaa/unbenannt.png

This is everything so far which is new.

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Tools option? Ok
But boot camp? Sorry, no. This is mod to S2, and i have hope, if boot camp will be addon then we can turn off this building...

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Sure, these would only be enabled if the host wants to do so - like the char burner

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In addition, the training camp doesnt actually do anything that wasnt possible in the original game. While i read the discussion about introducing new types of soldiers or the like (which is a thought i too frown upon), my intention was the following:

The training camp is pretty much a convenience building, combining what you would usually use a Warehouse and an adjacent Fortress for, that is it just removes the need to constantly juggle with military settings.

That being said, like Spike already mentioned it is (or rather, will be) completly optional.

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So. OK :D Lets do it :)
But boot camp is like Fortress without grab space lands... Why duble it?

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Yes! Finally some info about new things :)

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Finally some more addons :)
Can't wait for the booting camp. Any idea when these addons are going to be implemented in the nightlies? I really want to try out the training camp.

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Nice news! Where are you on your project on creating maps from bmp to Settlers II and mirroring special parts?

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Well, converting bmp to swd works like it should work, but I may should add an order in which texture is placed. Mirroring works at the moment only for the y-Axis - but everything is mirrored (From texture over objects to resources). My next plan was to improve the random height generator and then add random objects, if you got then a random texture generator all 3 parts together would form a random map generator ;)

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Wow, that's pretty awesome!
I can't wait for the Boot Camp!
This game just keeps getting better,
great job, guys! :)

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Wow kinda nice!
Now i wanna know, is there any possibility of the Babylonians come as a new civilization instead of
changing the japanese's images?

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Pindú

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I think that is the plan but we need active devs :)

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Yep, that's the plan but maybe it would be done with LUA, maybe not, so thats the problem without active devs :p

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Are the addons still being made or are they abandoned? ;c

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The addons have been completed for quite some time, i just needed to figure out how to use bazaar to publish them. I am making progress here though, so it shouldnt be too long.

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Yay! :D

qUiXui are you considering maybe adding an option (slider) to set ships movement speed (like the speed of
game)?

Is it possible?

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Sorry for the double-post..

Also it would be awesome to have another game speeding option - "Very fast" is not fast enough. 15-20 GF will
be perfect. Rarely i finish games with friends/opponents due to too long games... especially while playing on
hard maps with very low resources [I love challenges, heh].

I mostly play RttR on weekends because of the time it consumes. I would play more often (i bet other players
aswell), if there was an option to make game even more faster.

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Using the 'v' key ingame you should be able to cycle through gf lengths ranging from 70ms to 10ms.

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Nope, I think it was changed to min 30ms - 10ms were only for testing before 0.8 was released I think (Or it
was only changed in 0.8). Also this wont work in MP games as far as I know.

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Still working as of revision 8713, speed changes are only supported for single player games though.

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I know, that is why this "addon" is needed :))

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I just uploaded an addon to allow increasing ship speed by +25%/+50%/+100%. Should be in one of the next nightly builds.

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Oh my god! This is awesome news with the ships. Finally Sea games won't take 10h to play :D

Thank you !


Edit: When can the next build be expected? :)

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I think there is an automated build everyday, but someone with trunk commit rights has to include the changes. If you know how to compile the source code yourself, you can get it at my launchpad upload branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~quixui-d/s25rttr/qxup

The code should be sync'd with the rttr trunk, and will sometimes be slightly ahead.

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Awesome. Just tested the tool ordering setting - It works like a charm :)

I hope the patch with the ship speed setting will be this weekend, heh.

Btw. How is the progress with military camps? :P

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Trainingcamp is still missing non-roman gfx :(

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And I'm still hoping that you add the add with placeholder(all roman like orig catapults) graphics. I will do them as soon as
possible but I also think I need to do some more work on the roman version too - take the right building away and adding
some training grounds that it really looks like a training scamp and not like an outpost :)

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On this training ground the working-animation of this building could be easily placed with the already existing attack-animations of the soldiers - against straw-dummies or something like this. :)
(if this wasnt the plan already :P)

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Is it possible to make metalworks automaticly disable itself when needed tools reach 0 in your addon?

I hate when he makes random tools.

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I'm thinking about either this or sending a postal message. In the meantime, you can set the sliders just like normal and the toolsmith(s) will start making those once he/they finish making the ordered amount of tools.

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Hm was Async Fixed? I played like 4 games (1 game 500000 GF) and i haven't experienced any Async lately. Is
it just luck? :)

Cool info on the tool message :)

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Yep, there was a fix but long time ago which seemed to fix the problem :D

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There was an update today :)
Still no ship speed setting :cc

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Every time I log Vesanus is already in a game xD
I'm trying to bring my brother to play either :P

Looks like It's back on active, loving your guys work!
I'm learning code, hope some day I can help you guys :P

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Pindú

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Yeah in this game i got crushed by my friend on my own sea map eh. :P

When is going to be next update? >.< (There is no chanelog for 22.05)

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