Quick Questions/Quick Answers (Unofficial 'Ask Questions Here' Q&A Thread)

[GiggleGoose]

Never mind, I fixed it.  Hooray!

[Mattk50]

is there an easy way to change the flags back to native or to another flag pack? im not a fan of many of the new ones, some are even blurrier than the default and not very recognizable.

[Caba`drin]

is there an easy way to change the flags back to native or to another flag pack? im not a fan of many of the new ones, some are even blurrier than the default and not very recognizable.

I just started playing the new Floris release and I noticed that the banner that I usually pick is not around anymore.  I am curious as to whether or not I can get it somehow.  It was an original banner in vanilla Warband.  It is a sort of white flame over a white semi circle on a blue field. 

You'll need an image editor that can read .dds files (like The GIMP, or Photoshop). Then you'll find the banner files with obvious names in the \Textures\ folder. Similarly for Native. A little copy-paste over one you don't like and you can bring your preferred banner back.

I think the banner.dds files have the same number of banners in them. Double check before you do a full-file copy-replace, but it should be quite straight forward.

[galbraithe]

1.  Is there a purpose of the armoury accessible through the constable?  It fills up with high level "Red Diplomatic Coat of Plates" (no requirement) and "Mail Hose" (str req 9) and after taking out half never seems to do much else.

2.  If one does not want companions to pick up all the fodder and one does not wish to pick up rocks and snow balls is there a way to bypass the "Let your companions pick up....."  I recall a "done." button.

3.  I remember talk of flintlock pistols being included.  In the reference sheet there are a couple here and there.  ~900 days in and I have yet to see any.  Finally got my "Lordly Black Vaegir Lamellar" armour though.   

For those that love the heraldry being displayed on troops and armour (myself included) if you prefer the tower shields (for castle takes/defense or ground companions) you can find some from sea battles with other factions (not "Sea Raiders").  Though I have yet to find a heraldic tower shield with a "Reinforced" modifier.

[Caba`drin]

1.  Is there a purpose of the armoury accessible through the constable?  It fills up with high level "Red Diplomatic Coat of Plates" (no requirement) and "Mail Hose" (str req 9) and after taking out half never seems to do much else.

Ask the Diplomacy folks
It should function as yet another place to stash stuff, if you want, no more and no less. As for getting stuffed with the Constable's equipment, it's a bug inherited from the Diplo code...one that I thought I took care of but clearly failed to do so, but this failure was missed in our final open beta round.

3.  I remember talk of flintlock pistols being included.  In the reference sheet there are a couple here and there.  ~900 days in and I have yet to see any.

They are included as cheat-able items. They won't show up in any merchants.

[galbraithe]

They are included as cheat-able items. They won't show up in any merchants.

well ty.  I was wondering, wat with the time period and all.  Figured that was a good 400 years early or so...

[ruralvirginian]

I suppose this would be a good place to ask this.  It is just a general question on Version numbering.  Once upon a time you would come out with a software program called "Colonel Napalm Kicks Black Ninja Butt" and this would be Version 1.0.   A patch to fix where Colonel Napalm is suppose to sever a Black Ninja's head but only got his nose cut off instead would be Version 1 revision 1 or simply v1.1.  When several patches were installed and a general update on the program was made you would see "Colonel Napalm kicks Black Ninja Butt" version 2.0 which introduced all the patches plus new material as well.

My question would be - there seems to be some major changes to Floris going on so wouldn't these be more like Floris 3.0 or 4.0 versus 2.5 & 2.6? 

[Duh]

The simple answer is that we plan to continue Floris for a long while. If we moved the version number from 2 to 3 for a simple update (okay rather large update) like 2.4 to 2.5, then we would end up with Floris 10 within the next 2 years. That looks silly and isnt really needed. The current plan is to update every 2-4 months from now on and it will always be a .x change.

[krnja21]

Soooo, this thing about the barracks? Anyone?

[Ziame]

Why did you remove the most badass looking sword ever? The Kingslayer was vital to my RP D:

Seriously, I liked that thing. It looked original. In my opinion, you should remove most of the bland, same looking swords, while keeping all the cool stuff in.

Yes, I know it wasn't buyable. Still badass.


/rant

I love your mod.

[Skik]

Is recreating destroyed faction, by their lords, a mod feature or it was like this in native?

It's so annoying, just destoyed sarranids, released their captured lords (they'd run anyway someday) and few days later, bam, they recreated their faction with 13 lords at start...

[Zaffes]

What does the Fog of War enables?  I really couldnt find anything about this:(

[Caba`drin]

What does the Fog of War enables?  I really couldnt find anything about this:(

With "Fog of War" on, the location of towns/villages/castles...bridges...are hidden from your player party until you get in range of them, unlike Native when the full map is shown from the beginning.

[Duh]

Soooo, this thing about the barracks? Anyone?

Im not sure, but i think it adds to the experience stationed troops receive. Might be best to ask on the diplo board (i believe this is a diplo feature).

[krnja21]

Thanks