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    News Archive 1997

    October 31st News Index ] [ Main Page ]

    This Weeks Must Read File
    The Ensemble Studios Interview with: Mark “ComWeasel” Terrano
     (Communications Programming).

    The Compare (Real Time Strategies) Wars have started! 
    Age of Empires
     Heaven has teamed up with Vald’s
     Starcraft Tech-base to run a joint “Compare RTS Games Forum”. Links to this forum appear on both (Aoe Here – SC Here) of the sites (But all messages from both AoE & SC appear on either forum!) and is sure to stir up a little 🙂 excitement! Warning! – Go slow on those Starcraft Fans – I hear they get their feelings hurt pretty easily. 🙂

    Cheats
    ZEUS & ICBM – Were used to control cheats, but were not include in the final release of the game. – Master Of Spirits

    UNOFFICIAL STRATEGIES & SECRETS
    Sybex has just published 
    AGE OF EMPIRES UNOFFICIAL STRATEGIES & SECRETS ($14.99) by Jason R. Rich (www.jasonrich.com). This 228 page book contains tips and strategies for playing Age of Empires’ single player modes, beating scenarios, creating your own scenarios, and winning multiplayer games. This book is NOW available in bookstores, wherever game software is sold, or online from Barnes & Nobles online (www.barnesandnobles.com) or Amazon.com (www.amazon.com). The attached file contains a sample scenario described in this book…enjoy! – Jason R. Rich – Teen Talk Communications. The Scenario is Here. You can order his book here at Heaven (Amazon.com) Books.

    New scenario today
    Scenarios can be found in the Downloads Section of Heaven: Please note 
    Play test your scenarios! (Better yet have someone else play test it!). When sending scenarios to Heaven please zip them! and include your description of the scenario as a TxT file (map size, # of tribes, victory conditions, etc) and not in the body of your email. Unzipped files or no text description of the scenario.. these files will not be posted.- Thanks The Archangel.

    October 30th

    Well lookie lookie, those great guys? Over at Area-S have joined the Gamestats Stable! If this page isn’t on your morning tour of the interent – it should be! Loomer & Gab – they sure have a way with words! Just make sure you have had at least one cup of coffee before you starting reading all their personal insights on the gaming news 🙂

    Well that brazen editor of the gaming news – Imperious Rex (Gamestats), Cyrille Artho (Telcontar’s Empires of the Ages) and The Archangel finally have their names on something besides another credit card bill, Check out the “list.cr” file located in the Age of Empires Data Directory! Or better yet try CONTROL C in the game!…. I wish to thank all the people that made this possible.. The great Team at Ensemble Studios for putting up with me this last six months, my wife for giving me all the time in the world so I can bewilder Ensemble Studios all day long with intelligent questions :), the MS folks for being smart enough in picking Ensemble Studios to design their first “real” RTS game, my dog – for missing a few evening walks so I could update my pages, all the people at work for listening to me say how great AoE is…. etc….. etc… etc.. heheh.. On the more serious side of things – A heartfelt thanks to the Whole AoE Team for including us!

    Think its about time to change the Age of Empires Heaven name to Button Heaven! – Imperious Rex (Gamestats) has added another gaming page to his stable. The Jedi Link – Check out it below, look like a game I am going to ask Santa to bring me for Christmas :). I would stop bye GameStats and check on the IRex. Looks like he ‘s got some pretty cool things happening in the next week.

    Overview of .ai (artificial intelligence) file creation – trying to figure out how to use/edit the .ai file in scnearios? – Me too! – Well with the help of Dave “Bigdog” Pottinger, we now have the break down of the unit .ai lines atBreakdown of .ai – UnitsComing soon – the breakdown of .ai for the research & building parts of scenario file creation.

    My Favorite Dinosaur (Imperious Rex – Editor of Gamestats News & Gaming Network), has a post up that Game Center give Age of Empires a perfect score! – Thats no surprise to us 🙂

    Two more scenarios today. Scenarios can be found in the Downloads Section of Heaven: Please note Play test your scenarios! (Better yet have someone else play test it!). When sending scenarios to Heaven please zip them! and include your description of the scenario as a TxT file (map size, # of tribes, victory conditions, etc) and not in the body of your email. Unzipped files or no text description of the scenario.. these files will not be posted.- Thanks The Archangel.

    If you haven’t visited GameStats Age of Empires League Ladder & Player Ratings area – now is the time to do it! – There seems to be one or two REALLY HOT SHOT AoE players on the list. To find out more about theFirst and Best Age of Empires League Ladder – go Here – to see who’s on the present ratings list – visit Here.

    October 29th

    This Weeks Must Read File
    The Ensemble Studios Interview with:

    Mark “ComWeasel” Terrano (Communications Programming)

    Conducted by
    Imperious Rex (Editor of Gamestats News & Gaming Network) 
    Archangel Michael (Age of Empires Heaven)
    Mark (Mark’s Age of Empires)

    Well that brazen editor of the gaming news – Imperious Rex (Gamestats), Cyrille Artho (Telcontar’s Empires of the Ages) and The Archangel finally have their names on something besides another credit card bill, Check out the “list.cr” file located in the Age of Empires Data Directory! Or better yet try CONTROL C in the game!…. I wish to thank all the people that made this possible.. The great Team at Ensemble Studios for putting up with me this last six months, my wife for giving me all the time in the world so I can bewilder Ensemble Studios all day long with intelligent questions :), the MS folks for being smart enough in picking Ensemble Studios to design their first “real” RTS game, my dog – for missing a few evening walks so I could update my pages, all the people at work for listening to me say how great AoE is…. etc….. etc… etc.. heheh..

    Overview of .ai (artificial intelligence) file creation – trying to figure out who to use/edit the .ai file in scnearios? – Me too! – Well with the help of Dave “Bigdog” Pottinger, we now have the break down of the unit .ai lines atBreakdown of .ai – UnitsComing soon – the breakdown of .ai for the research & building parts of scenario file creation.

    My Favorite Dinosaur (Imperious Rex – Editor of Gamestats News & Gaming Network), has a post up that Game Center give Age of Empires a perfect score! – Thats no surprise to us 🙂

    Those people (Dino’s?) over at Gamezilla have a Age of Empires Review up giving it a 96 out 100! A Quote from their press release “AGE OF EMPIRES (96), If you’ve been waiting for the definitive real time strategy game of 1997, your wait is over. Microsoft’s Age of Empires advances the genre as no other title this year has done, and in the process provides proof that craftsmanship and attention to detail triumph over a host of rehashed futuristic shoot-em-ups”. Wow – those people have a way with words! – Great stuff, give it a read. Oh, by the way they only give DARK REIGN a (82) – I think DR is some kind of RTS game 😉

    From Mark Thomas (Microsoft): For those of you experiencing crashes while playing AoE. We would like to try and figure out what is causing this. If you could when posting (In the Help Line forum) your problem description,, attach the text file that is output from a program called DXINFO.EXE. This is located on the AoE CD-ROM in the DirectX directory. This will provide us with information about your system configuration and DirectX installation. Thanks in advance. – Mark Thomas From HeavenMark is helping all you AoE Fans in his limited share time, please thank him! You can find him from time to time in the Heaven Help Line Forum. The Official Microsoft Technical Support is listed in your Age of Empires Manual.

    Note from Heaven: All daily chats and Ensemble Studios Interviews can be freely posted on all AoE Fan Sites and Gaming News Sites.

    Got a great game playing tip to share? If you have a in-depth tip, go ahead can post it in out user submitted Tips area – Here.

    Another scenario added today. Scenarios can be found in the Downloads Section of Heaven: Please note Play test your scenarios! (Better yet have someone else play test it!). I have tired a couple of the scenarios sent to Heaven and some of these look to me they haven’t been given any playing testing all! –  When sending scenarios to Heaven please zip them! and include your description of the scenario as a TxT file (map size, # of tribes, victory conditions, etc – the more detailed the information the better chance you have of getting you file posted) and not in the body of your email. Unzipped files or no text description of the scenario.. these files will not be posted.- Thanks The Archangel.

    If you haven’t visited GameStats Age of Empires League Ladder & Player Ratings area – now is the time to do it! – There seems to be one or two REALLY HOT SHOT AoE players on the list. To find out more about theFirst and Best Age of Empires League Ladder – go Here – to see who’s on the present ratings list – visit Here.

    October 28th

    Those Stubborn Elephants” I’m curious to know if elephant troops are programmed to be stubbor at times when it comes to going where you tell them. Even using waypoints, they seem to resist–particularly when it comes to crossing through shallow water. I find I must often direct them with shorter moves. – Demesne

    Elephants were notoriously difficult to use. After the battles of Alexander the Great elephants were the rage for about 100 years. Every king had to have some in his army. They were just not particularly effective. The problems you are seeing are releated to their size as a game object and difficulties that come up trying to move them through restricted space. We can improve this at the cost of requiring more powerful hardware. We are working on possible solutions now.- ES_Bruce Shelley

    When is the Patch Coming Out” What will be in a patch and when it will be released is a Microsoft decision. I am guessing it will be available from the Internet Gaming Zone near the end of November. I am pretty sure it will address the pathing problem. I can’t speak about the freeze problem you are having because I don’t think we have been able to duplicate it in our many thousands of testing hours. Right now Microsoft is continuing testing and they are looking to isolate and identify problems like those you report. I wish I could be more specific, but I think goal is to make one patch if necessary. To make it effective we want a lot of feedback and testing first. – ES_Bruce Shelley

    Laszlo’s AofE Strategy Page From Laszlo himself “My page is just focused primarily on strategies only. I’ll be working on getting many strategies such as the uncounterable(so far anyways) Shang Archer Rush as we discover them.” – Well worth a visit – The Archangel

    Game Playing Tips: The Capitalist has sent in some interesting information on the Shang. We have included this information on the Counter Rush Tactics page. – Thanks Capitalist!

    The User submitted Playing Tips were getting quite large, so we include everything we have so far in another Game Playing Tips Page – Thanks for all the great tips – keep them coming in..

    Got a great game playing tip to share? If you have a in-depth tip like PTX or Capitalist and would like to share it – send it to me email, or if you have a quick dirty one, go ahead can post it in out user submitted Tips area – Here.

    E-Mail! – Heaven is getting a ton of it! – Maybe not a ton, but over 50 Age of Empires E-mails a day. Keep your cool, I will try to answer all AoE Mail within 24 hours (If at all possible). If I seem short in my replies, please forgive me 😉 – the more time I spend answering mail, the less time I have to update Heaven (and Some where in there, I also have to find time to have a life :)..

    From jd – Underent AoE Channel #AoE, We have been a registered Channel since Aug 29th and we also have our own ladder and are working on our webpage. Drop by and visit this new site.

    October 27th

    From jd – Underent AoE Channel #AoE, We have been a registered Channel since Aug 29th and we also have our own ladder and are working on our webpage. Drop by and visit this new site.

    Added some great playing tips by PTX to our Game Playing Tips Area – Counter Rush Tactics (The Shang/Hittite composite bowmen rush, the dreaded Shang or Yamato Cavalry rush, and The dreaded Shang Axeman rush). We hope to heard more from PTX!

    Got a great game playing tip to share, if your have a in-depth tips like PTX send it to me email, or if you have a quick dirty one, go ahead can post it in out user submitted Tips area – Here.

    If you haven’t visited GameStats Age of Empires League Ladder & Player Ratings area – now is the time to do it! – There seems to be one or two REALLY HOT SHOT AoE players on the list. To find out more about theFirst and Best Age of Empires League Ladder – go Here – to see who’s on the present ratings list – visit Here.

    Don’t forget that crazy IRex at Gamestats Loves to give away things, right now he’s got these things that might interest you:
    -Gold Copies of Age of Empires in random daily draws. 
    -Gold Copies of Total Annihilation in random daily draws. 
    -Total Annihlation T-Shirts in random daily draws. 
    -Total Annihilation Strategy Guides in random daily draws. 
    -$500 Cash in Age of Empires and Total Annihilation Tournaments. 
    So what are you waiting for? Jump in your 
    chariot and take a spin around GameStats and catch up on all the latest gaming news.
    I think we need to find some AoE T-Shirts and Guides! And what the heck is Total Annihilation? 🙂

    Added Three more Links to new Age of Empires Pages:

    Fuzz’s Age of Empires Kail’s Age of Empires Blood Bath’s Age of Empires

    Did a little changing of the menu system. If you don’t like it, let me know. If enough input is given on the old menu system compared to the new menu, I will make up my mind to switch back or not.

    Yes Another Heaven First! The First Age of Empires Utility Program! (I am surprised it took this long!) This File is located the the Download Section of Heaven. Here’s a bit from it’s Author Stoyan RatchevCPNBUILD UTILITY DOCUMENTATION

    CPNBUILD Version 0.1 – MS AoE Campaign Builder Utility (C) 1997 Stoyan Ratchev (sratchev@rocketmail.com) – all rights reserved. This software is FREE. Use at your own risk. Please e-mail me for bug-reports, suggestions, and comments.

    CPNBUILD is a command line utility for building MS Age Of Empires campaign files (.CPN) from scenario files (.SCN), AI files(.AI),  personality files (.PER) and all other types of files that can be included in a campaign. For now, however, it works only with scenario files.

    Two More Scenarios added today. Scenarios can be found in the Downloads Section of Heaven: Please note Play test your scenarios! (Better yet have someone else play test it!). I have tired a couple of the scenarios sent to Heaven and some of these look to me they haven’t been given any playing testing all! –  When sending scenarios to Heaven please zip them! and include your description of the scenario as a TxT file (map size, # of tribes, victory conditions, etc – the more detailed the information the better chance you have of getting you file posted) and not in the body of your email. Unzipped files or no text description of the scenario.. these files will not be posted.- Thanks The Archangel.

    October 26th

    Did a little changing of the menu system. If you don’t like it, let me know. If enough input is given on the old menu system compared to the new menu, I will make up my mind to switch back or not.

    Matt “The Optimizer” Pritchard (graphics optimizer) – 24th Oct. Chat Here

    From Slash-Scar; Welcome to the brand new Mission Yard we really hope you like it. So far only a portion of the site is up. Currently the Red Alert Site is done although it’s under some construction as I update files, the Dark Reign Site is up but only the files section and message board are up there. As for the rest of the sites, the Warcraft 2 page is almost complete and after that we will add sites for the games Starcraft, Total Annihilation, and Age of Empires. The home page, where you accessed this board from, will contain all of the latest news on RTS games in general. If you have any comments or suggestions please don’t be afraid to E-Mail us because you opinions are important.

    We changed the layout of the menu a little to speed up access times, most of the menu items can be accessed thru the “General Information Menu“.

    Another 3 Scenarios added today. Scenarios can be found in the Downloads Section of Heaven: Please note –  When sending scenarios to Heaven please zip them! and include your description of the scenario as a TxT file and not in the body of your email. Unzipped files or no text description of the scenario.. files will not be posted.- Thanks The Archangel.

     

     

     

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