creating an AI file for a scn.

[KEYSTONE0795]

Please pardon me. I'm retired and old.

So, I cannot just copy a scenario ai file to a new scenario with the same nations? I need a encryption thingamajing?

Please help,
Old & Confused

[carll11]

ORIGINAL: KEYSTONE0795

Please pardon me. I'm retired and old.

So, I cannot just copy a scenario ai file to a new scenario with the same nations? I need a encryption thingamajing?

Please help,
Old & Confused

the "thingamajing" is crucial;)

Unless it appears you can get your shortcut for NOENCRYPTION working..

[KEYSTONE0795]

I want my THINGAMAJING! [:)]

[berto]

@carl11: Maybe if you post some screenshots

[*]of Windows Explorer
[*]the shortcut Properties dialog

we can figure out why you can't get the thingamajig (is omission of the "n" a Midwesternism?) to work.

[berto]

We will be preparing a -X NoEncryption HOWTO, for inclusion in the Manual folder, to go with the ME 1.02 update. That should make the procedure perfectly clear, we hope.

[Jason Petho]

Just a reminder that you don't need specific ai files for your scenarios. If the program doesn't find one, it will use the default ai file for the scenario.

[carll11]

ORIGINAL: berto


@carl11: Maybe if you post some screenshots

[*]of Windows Explorer
[*]the shortcut Properties dialog

we can figure out why you can't get the thingamajig (is omission of the "n" a Midwesternism?) to work.

I personally learned to use 'thingamajig' myself, and I grew up in NYC , but, I'm a left coaster now, soooooooo

I'll post when I get..'home';)

[carll11]

when I select apply I get the message shown

[berto]

You have added the -W -X to the wrong field, the Start in field, not the Target field, as it should be:



It also looks like you ran together the -W and the -X. These are two separate program arguments, separated by at last one space (and at least one space should separate both from the preceding quoted "...\me.exe").

Please again look carefully at the example image:



Note where the -W -X was appended (outside the double quote marks) to the Target field only. You should make no changes to the Start in field whatsoever.

[berto]

Oh, also please note: You have installed the game into the folder "John Tiller Middle East". John Tiller has no connection at all with this game (other than having written the legacy JTCS code, off of which the Middle East code is based, but also substantially revised). It is, more properly: "Campaign Series Middle East". We have a new game series here!

[carll11]

understood and,Thx. I knew it was something obvious, or as they say 'inattention to detail'

[carll11]

interesting, because I didn't direct or address the folder upon installation.

....may be, the software is not totally inanimate, in that is has some RISCed SkyNet Loyalty code, that only became recently self aware......if you asked it; 'who's your daddy'? It'd say 'John Tiller'...

[carll11]

thx berto, its working