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The Fate of Emrilia

@Woodchip

I hope you will manage something.

Having an massive map is a huge undertaking and finding a broken text in a script where it leads can be time consuming. Hopefully you have a system.

In general the mod editor behaves the same way. It shuts down on to many faulty messages like broken links and double resources IDs. But the thing is that bugs triggers in a level editor oddly enough making the level editor some of the best tool to debug a created mod. But it also creates a load on the memory.

@Gladen: Thank you for checking :) Your observations match that the last file I can open does not trigger any errors (‘script error in line 5’) when loading the map. I will check if I can restore a working version of the map. This will probably take some time.

@WoodChip

I have a view of why that map cannot be opened. After creating several campaigns and mods, I have bad news

Your map(s) have extreme visuals that test the game engine. For example, a chaos rift is constantly on the abyss layer, together with a giant eldritch horror floating in the air. Chaos Rift can crash games in tactical battle. Imagine that on a layer alone on XL maps

I presume there is also a mod, and just by firing up the debug editor, I can notice abilities are broken, along with script errors. The level editor is constantly loading errors, and it takes in mod errors as well. With more errors, more memory is used, and if there are too many, it will simply stop working. If no errors are present, there are no memory issues, which became apparent to me when making campaigns

It's unfortunate that it led up to this point that the editor broke, but remember. If you potentially fix the errors inside the mod editor, you might be able to open the map in the level editor

@xist: I was actually considering whether it would be possible to split the map into one subfile per leader. The problem is, however, that even if the memory problem could be avoided in this way (which is unfortunately not even guaranteed), maintaining of so many files would be extremely time-consuming and ineffective. So unfortunately, although not without hesitation, I decided against this attempt.

@xist: To be honest, I don't know exactly what the problem is. The error occurs when saving the map files; only part of the data is saved. This bug has occurred in both the Enhanced and Reforged versions since an early phase, but could always be avoided by restarting the editor. At some point, something seems to happen that causes the bug to occur even if the map files have not been changed at all and even retroactively affects earlier versions where the bug did not occur before. The latest file I can still open and save is half a year old, before I added the events. I therefore assume that the number of scripts is crucial.

Thanks for the information.
It's a shame that this ends here, but if you lost your files...
Thanks for the 2 incredible maps.
Something I know from other games.
Would it be possible to reduce the mod scope by seperating it in submods ?
So units in mod 1 and 1 submod per map ? - or is the problem for the engine the number of mapscripts ?

I've been following the progress on the Reforged Edition since its beginning. That's heartbreaking news💔. At least we still have the Enhanced Edition - the best Age of Wonders 3 map ever made!

Shame that this is the end of the mod, but perhaps as one door closes, another opens. Best of luck with your future endeavors!

Hello everyone - unfortunately I have bad news. While I was working on the files, another memory error has occurred. Like last time, the error corrupted not only the current version, but strangely also earlier mod files. All files can still be opened and the map can still be played, but it is no longer possible to save changes.
It seems that at this point the engine is no longer able to handle the addition of further features. I have considered various solutions, but have not found any convincing ones. As a consequence, this means - unfortunately - that I have to leave the project unfinished.
I'm sad that many of the quests and features that were already planned will no longer find their way into the mod, but on the other hand I'm glad that the mod is at least fully playable and experienceable in its current state. I've had a lot of fun forging the Fate of Emrilia over the last 6 years and exchanging ideas with you. Many thanks for all the advice, hints, feedback and inspiration!

By the way: The next update is expected to be released in May and will restore and expand Life's Maw, the pale witch, the Nereus and Nereide quests and the he-who-hungers mechanics :)