**EMPIRE TOTAL WAR**

DutchSchaeffer said:
I've started out as Sweden, enjoying it so far.

As I bought the game on steam, I don't have a manual.

Anyone in the know as to how to change government types?

Sweden starts out as an absolute Monarchy, I am about 30-35 turns in, and people are going nuts in the cities clamouring for reform, especially in India.

The little pop up woman in the top left of the screen suggests a change of government type, can't work out how to do it :confused:
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The manual doesn't say much anyway, very thin :/

I would really like to know this as well, and also what i do with those india-thingies, trading boats?
 
Talrinys said:
I would really like to know this as well, and also what i do with those india-thingies, trading boats?
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With regards to a change in the monarchy/republic, I believe you have to keep increasing the desire for reform (i.e colleges/universities cause the people to want a reform) then eventually when the populace become angered a revolution will occur and your forces will split, you then pick which side you want to fight on, so you choose the side of change then viva la revolution.

The indiasman ships are what you send to the trading regions. To do this, send them to the white areas of the map. It'll then ask you where you wish to send the ship via the world map. On the world map there are 4 small spheres 1 off the coast of south America, 1 off the west coast of Africa, 1 near Madagascar and 1 near Indonesia/east Indies. Click on there. After a turn or 2 you'll have a tool tip at the begining of the turn saying your ship has arrived. click on the magnifying glass to switch to it and move it to one of the anchor icons to begin trading

Hope that makes sense
 
Talrinys said:
Damn it, Steam won't update the game so i can't play :S
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maybe this can help you ;--

The reason for the download getting stuck at "Download starting..." is not Steam's servers' fault, aside from the common belief.

This happens because supposedly Empire: Total War has single files larger than 4GB. On any hard drive with the NTFS file format, this is not a problem. The problem occurs with hard drives that are formatted in the FAT32 format, an older format that does not allow single files larger than 4GB.

This is the reason for the seemingly "random" occasions of it working on some people's computers and not others, and this is the reason that the download will just flat out get stuck and not want to move any more. Your hard drive simply isn't allowing it.

The solution to this is kind of a complicated one, so if your really not a techie, pay close attention.

  • For Vista users, first open the command prompt (click Start and type in "cmd" and you will open it).
  • If the drive you want to convert is drive D:\, type in "convert d: /fs:ntfs".
  • It will then ask you for the Volume Name of the drive. To find this, simply open My Computer, right click the drive you are wanting to convert and click Properties, and the name in the top box is your Volume Name.
  • If the drive is in use (which it probably is), it will ask you if you want to force the conversion. Say No to this.
  • It will then proceed to ask you if you want to convert next time you restart your computer. Say Yes, and it will tell you that the conversion will be performed next time you restart.
  • Simply restart your computer, and Windows should take care of everything, not deleting any of your files. You never know, with file conversions, so if there is any absolutely critical data on that drive, back it up.
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if it IS ntfs give steam time, mine was showing as download starting but it was infact updating.. just took 10+ mins to finish and it works fine ..
 
mangobreeder said:
what are indiasman ships, can i build them as GB, i though trade was automtic?
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They are trade vessels, you build them at commercial ports (see my post above)

Trade you set up via diplomacy is automatic, and trades the goods you have in your owned regions. The Indiasman ships are sent to the 4 trade zones and send back more exotic goods (ivory etc) for your empire to then sell on to others
 
think I definitely need to play Road To Independence lol. Can't get my head around the grand campaign ye, but I'll blame that on tiredness :p. Excellent game so far though, just wish I wasn't off to work now :(.
 
eekfek said:
maybe this can help you ;--

if it IS ntfs give steam time, mine was showing as download starting but it was infact updating.. just took 10+ mins to finish and it works fine ..
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Yeah thanks mate, it's alright now :D Switched from Scandinavia to East Coast and that seemed to do the trick after waiting the 10 mins or so :)

Pretty happily gaming now, uninstalled my pirated copy for the one i ordered, really fantastic game but unfortunately it's in a beta-ish state, it crashes at the same movie constantly right now, meaning that either i can choose not to have my revolution or to wait for a patch, probably just gonna boot up a few short battles and see when the first patch will arrive.
ljt said:
With regards to a change in the monarchy/republic, I believe you have to keep increasing the desire for reform (i.e colleges/universities cause the people to want a reform) then eventually when the populace become angered a revolution will occur and your forces will split, you then pick which side you want to fight on, so you choose the side of change then viva la revolution.

The indiasman ships are what you send to the trading regions. To do this, send them to the white areas of the map. It'll then ask you where you wish to send the ship via the world map. On the world map there are 4 small spheres 1 off the coast of south America, 1 off the west coast of Africa, 1 near Madagascar and 1 near Indonesia/east Indies. Click on there. After a turn or 2 you'll have a tool tip at the begining of the turn saying your ship has arrived. click on the magnifying glass to switch to it and move it to one of the anchor icons to begin trading

Hope that makes sense
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Thanks a bunch, extremely useful :D I did what you said about the revolution and it works like a charm, got a really small rebel army but it captures the capital so the revolution is successful, unfortunately the game as i just wrote crashes at that point :/ Does the unhappiness from the clamour for reform now disappear?
 
Talrinys said:
Thanks a bunch, extremely useful :D I did what you said about the revolution and it works like a charm, got a really small rebel army but it captures the capital so the revolution is successful, unfortunately the game as i just wrote crashes at that point :/ Does the unhappiness from the clamour for reform now disappear?
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To that question I do not know the answer. I haven't even had a revolution yet lol, I just remember reading about them in the run up to release.:p - I had to get my fix somehow
 
ljt said:
To that question I do not know the answer. I haven't even had a revolution yet lol, I just remember reading about them in the run up to release.:p - I had to get my fix somehow
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That is very understandable, haven't been as hyped about a game like this for a long time and so far a lot of the annoying aspects of the other TW games aren't there, only thing annoying me is the damn bugs. I really need that revolution now so i can get my army where it matters instead of garrisoning them all over the place :/
 
Encountered my first game breaking bug too now :(

Merging two navies together, as soon as I accept the changes, it goes straight back to desktop

I've posted it on the official support forums, along with the none game breaking bugs i've encountered (dodgey sounds, jerky campaign map etc)
 
i was playing early attacking nigara or what ever? map stopped for a few seconds and carried on a few times :( pc seemed ok as there was only doing 50% usage
 
ljt said:
Encountered my first game breaking bug too now :(

Merging two navies together, as soon as I accept the changes, it goes straight back to desktop

I've posted it on the official support forums, along with the none game breaking bugs i've encountered (dodgey sounds, jerky campaign map etc)
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Same here, i looked for a solution and they suggest having a fiddle with the ticked box options for gfx
 
there's a patch coming out next week that's supposed to fixing performance/stability issues so that might help :)
 
I had my first CTD merging two cannon units.
I also have very a jerky map, it scrolls for a couple of seconds then pauses for half a second.

But the game stopper for me is the mouse at the edge of the screen when you want to move the map, it take a few seconds to register.
I found after just five minutes I couldn't continue it was driving me crazy.
 
Pro Tip: When you have your line infantry in double line formation (One behind the other as support) tell the second line to hold fire :(. Half my deaths from my last battle were caused by my own men in the second line.

But I didnt mind so bad as I had just starved Bavaria's only city, after a defeat they got on me earilier that year I got my own back. Its supprising what 5 units of Line Infantry will do to some starved militia, especialy when the Line Infantry are sat behind trenches and are using Rank Fire... the desperate milita charged my lines :D. It was a bloodbath.
 
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