TripleA 1.6.1.4 stable is released for Christmas 2012!

@Panther

Thank you Panther! That worked. :)

@simon33 said in Triple-A 2.1 battle cycling:

But they break the post function. Doh! I’ll log an issue for post not working.

The last version I successfully tested turn posting with was 2.1.20613.
Now I have just retried with 2.1.20696 - no issues again.

Maybe just a temporary issue that occurred to you?

Thanks, I did install Europe and found v2 included.

Just to bring it to attention:

In AA50 - when using Heavy Bombers for SBR - TripleA adds +1 to the best result of the two rolls, when it should only be
“You roll two dice for each bomber and select the best result when you attack or make a strategic bombing raid.”

I will try to report that on tripleadev, too.

(In Global 1940 this extra +1 is not added, although in both games “LHTR Heavy Bombers” is marked in the Game Options.)

TripleA 1.6.1 has been released, download it here,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/TripleA_Unstable/1_6_1/

(You can install more than 1 version of TripleA at a time, and run them all at the same time.)

The Developers for TripleA 1.6.1: Veqryn
See dev forum post about the release for more details: http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/TripleA-1-6-1-Unstable-released-tp7580077.html

Major Bug Fixes since 1.6:

Fixing bug in Battle Calculator where damaged units got turned into healthy units before each battle was calculated. Fixed issue with null pointer resulting from mechanized inf tech. Many many more bug fixes

Major New Engine Features:

Greatly improved quality of Zoom. Added a menu option to have territory borders drawn a second time on top of the map. Make savegames for long games, games with many players, and games with many battles, much smaller, and improved memory efficiency in-game. Created an option in Play-By-Forum and Play-By-Email to send the move summary after the combat move phase, in addition to the summary at the end of the turn. This is to help with OOL and scrambling orders. Allowing additional nations to share the cost of technology, and creating a good user interface that dynamically adjusts to show how much is being paid by each nation. Created edit option to add technology to a player. Created edit option to remove technology from a player, except that shipyards and industrial technology can never be removed, and any technology that uses triggers is pointless to remove and removing will not undo their effect. Created edit option to change the amount of unit hitpoint damage on any and all units which can take more than 1 point of hit damage. Created edit option to change the amount of unit bombing damage on any and all units which can be damaged by bombing. Making scramble dialog non-modal so that the user can move the map around before choosing what to scramble. Note that saving the game while in the middle of scrambling can result in weird effects, so it is not recommended. Making kamikaze and interceptor dialogs non-modal so user can move around map while choosing. Again, saving during the dialog then reloading might have odd effects.

Major New Game XML Features:

Created new game option, “Remove All Tech Tokens At End Of Turn”, which will remove tech tokens after each tech roll. Adding methods to ensure that any power sharing technology (like British to UK Pacific) will still roll for war bonds even if its capital is taken, so long as the shared power is not able to have the warbonds technologies. Created new game option, “Kamikaze Suicide Attacks Only Where Battles Are”, and implemented it. Created new game option, “Submarines Prevent Unescorted Amphibious Assaults”, that prevent unescorted transports from conducting amphibious assaults.

Major Map/Game changes:
Fixing more bugs in Global 1940 and getting it closer to the real thing.
Adding a new 5 player FFA map for Napoleonic Empires.

Major Changes since 1.5.2.1:

Fixed problems with Edit mode. Fixed problems with Scrambling not working. Fixed several fatal errors, and many many more bug fixes. Disallowed Bombardment from any sea zone that had a kamikaze suicide attack. Allowed loading of transports in Sea Zones where all enemies just became hostile this turn due to politics. Allowed downloading of multiple maps/games in one go, by holding down CTRL while selecting maps in the “Download Games” dialog screen, and out of date maps will show up in bold, and maps up-to-date will show in italics. Created new game option, “Subs Can End NonCombat Move With Enemies”, which allows submarines to end their noncombat movement in a sea zone containing any enemy units. Created new game option, “Convoy Blockades Roll Dice For Cost”, which will now allow dice to be thrown for all blockade damage. Completely creating technologies for Global 1940, including Paratroopers and Improved Mechanized Infantry.

For a full changelog see here:
https://triplea.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/triplea/branches/1_6_1_unstable/changelog.txt

Please report any bugs encountered here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=44492&atid=439737

If you find bugs, I really can’t do much about them unless you upload an autosave.  It will save me tons of time if you give me an autosave / or save game made sometime before the bug occured.  Also mention what map the bug occurred on, and copy and paste the error if there is one.

Your save games are in a folder right next to where the maps are:

(Windows XP)  C:\Documents and Settings\userName\triplea
(Windows 7)  C:\Users\userName\triplea
(Mac)  /home/user/documents/triplea/
(Linux)  /home/user/triplea/

[They are NOT in program files.  They are in a folder in your user account.]

When you are making a post, click the “More Options” button.  From there click “Upload a file”.
Simply upload the autosave, or other save, to your post.

I really really appreciate savegames, it makes my life a lot easier.

Please also describe what happened before the bug occurred, and copy and paste the full error message, and of course say what map and what version of TripleA you were using!

thanks,
veqryn

I am looking for LSSAH
he is the guy who created a ton of the unit art for TripleA, as well as creating some very very beautiful maps (Empires, and Space / Galaxy Map).

I managed to find Empires in full form, and I found the relief image for the galaxy map, but have not found any other files for the galaxy map.

If anyone either has lssah’s contact info, or knows where i can find him or get to him, could you post it or pm me with it?

If anyone has the Galaxy Map (for the old triplea), anything for it, i would love to have it.

thank you,
Veqry

@redrum:

Yeah it would be good to update or remove this post now. It would be good to review all the stickied posts in the software subforum.

Unstickied today, I am about to create a new thread collecting the latest relevant links.

I may something crazy here, but playing and finishing a 12 hour game is something I actually only enjoy off-line… Nothing beats an all-nighter. Sure the wives don’t like it, but they’ll come to terms with it, you’ll see

Nevertheless I agree on all remarks that shutting tripleA down is poor costumer management, as well as unnecessary from a sales point of view. (I even think that most TripleA-players not only have avg 3,5 AA boards at home, they’ll probably also have the hasbro cd-rom, which was a perversion of AA in my humble opinion - enough reason to assume an implied license I say)

juh!
:-D

@SgtBlitz:

WHAT. THE. F*CK.  Can we still play networked games on this thing with the latest client?  Cause I don’t think they can shut down that.

Seriously?  HASBRO???  They made ONE super shtty AA CD-ROM game like 10 years ago and are shutting down ALL of TripleA because of it?  I cry bullsht.  AA50 is Avalon Games anyway, is the unstable AA50 client gonna be able to work???

There’s like maybe 50 people online on TripleA at any given time, anyways!  Holy sh*t!  Like these people would be playing a game at home!  The ONLY way you’re going to be playing (and finishing!) a 12 hour Axis and Allies game is ONLINE!

Where’s a link to a petition or something?  This is ridiculous, as there are MANY of the games available on the TripleA client that Hasbro has NO rights too!  I could see them trying to get Classic or Revised taken out but the whole client is just FOOLISH.

Hell, how am I gonna participate in the ladder now, wanted to play matches over TripleA…

Edit:  BTW, may I add I have CLASSIC, REVISED, AND AA50 SITTING IN MY CLOSET AT HOME.  GATHERING DUST.  TRIPLEA WAS THE EASIEST WAY TO FIND OPPONENTS AND GAMES.  THANKS A LOT HASBRO.  NEVER BUYING ONE OF YOUR PRODUCTS AGAIN.