TripleA 1.6.1.4 - Turn-based strategy game.. (Free)

TripleA 1.6.1.4 - Turn-based strategy game.. (Free): "

TripleA is a turn based strategy game. TripleA comes with multiple games and over 100 more games can be downloaded from the user community. Supports single player vs AI, hot-seat, Play by Email, and a hosted online lobby.

Version 1.6.1.4 (Finder reports as 10.2):

• Adding dotted lines to the LOTR Middle Earth map, to show connections over rivers. (veqryn)
• Not showing tech in stats panel if game xml does not have any technologies. (veqryn)
• Created new stepProperty, 'turnSummaryPlayers', which holds a list of players for whom we will include their turn summary information in the forum/email post. (veqryn)
• Created new stepProperty, 'skipPosting', which when true will skip the forum posting for that EndTurn type step. (veqryn)
• Created new xml option type 'stepProperty' for a step (gamePlay - sequence), which can hold small options for modifying a delegate step. (veqryn)
• Adding some more sounds for ancient/classical era. (veqryn)
• Adding some more ww2 sounds and national anthems for main players. (hepster)
• Allowing air movement over neutrals and enemy territories so long as movement over neutrals is allowed, and no nonparatrooping units are present. (veqryn)
• Creating caching mechanism for sound clips, so that there are never more than 24 sound clips being held in memory. This should prevent errors in MacOS and Linux, which can not handle having large number of sound clips open at same time. This may however result in a delay before hearing clips, and still could result in errors if clips are really long. (veqryn)
• Fixed null pointer error for a trigger based game property change of a field that starts out as null. (veqryn)
• Fixed bug in strategic bombing that allowed strategic bombing of units that can be damaged, which were also being transported. (veqryn)
• Adding scroll bars to notification messages window. (veqryn)
• Increasing max memory from 640mb to 768mb, and up to 896mb for online games. (veqryn)
• Moved all sounds to a specific 'era' folder (ww2, preindustrial, classical, future) and changing how sounds are found again, so that there should no longer be any need for duplicate sound files. Now all sounds should come with TripleA, and you can use the 'sounds.properties' file to cherry pick which sounds you want. (veqryn)
• Created a 'sounds.properties' file which allows you to specify which era of sounds (ww2, preindustrial, classical, future) you are using, and also set up custom sound choices for each sound location path. (veqryn)
• Getting TripleA Map Panel to center on the capital of a player, whenever we switch to a new player's phase. (veqryn)
• Changing getBoundingRect and createTerritoryImage and getTiles so that any polygons on the right or bottom will be translated to be on the negative left or top, hopefully solving issue where the mini territory image was not being displayed properly for territories on both sides of a map divide. (frigoref)
• Abstracting the Stats panels into AbstractStatPanel so that extending Stats panel (and all of its overhead) is no longer necessary for the EconomyPanel, ObjectivePanel, TerritoryDetailPanel, and other panels. (veqryn)
• Changing Tech Stats Panel to use small flag images for column headers instead of the first letter of nation names. (veqryn)
• Fixing bugs with placing constructions in sea zones. Now constructions can only be 'produced' by the territory they are going into. (veqryn)
• Adding a lot more sounds to the engine (zim xero) and some sounds specific to napoleonic empires. (hepster & veqryn)
• Added tutorial on how to make a map and/or map skin. (veqryn)
• Allowing for Sea Factories, and Air Factories, to produce from owned sea zones. (veqryn)
• Added UPnP support to TripleA, so that TripleA will now attempt to Forward Ports for the user. This means users should no longer have to do port forwarding themselves to be able to host a game online. (veqryn)
• Created framework for using UPnP library, and UI component for user. (veqryn)
• Added java library for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to TripleA. (veqryn)
• Created new HotKey, 'N', which when pressed during a movement phase, will cycle through all units with available movement left, focusing the map on the unit. (veqryn)
• Created new HotKey, 'I', which when pressed will create a popup for 5 seconds showing all the info about the unit and/or territory your mouse is currently over. (veqryn)
• Allowing the map to be scrolled by using the arrow keys and/or WASD. (veqryn)
• Added original owner, whenCapturedByGoesTo, captureUnitOnEnteringBy, and changeUnitOwners to the Territory tooltip and territory tab info. (veqryn)
• Fixing Move Panel and Place Panel so that Undoing a move or place will not result in scrolling back to the top, and will instead scroll to make sure that the move under the undoed move is still visible. (veqryn)
• Allowing all sounds to have a player associated with them. Just name the sound '_'. If the player sound does not exist, it will use the default non-player sound. (veqryn)
• Added a ton more new sounds to the engine. (veqryn)
• Changed Sounds so that instead of specific sound files, the engine will search for specific sound folder. The engine will then randomly select a sound in that folder and play it. This allows for randomized sounds. (veqryn)
• Made sure any clicking or dragging gives focus to the main map panel area. Also ensuring that if focus goes to the tabs panel tabs, that the focus goes back to the map. (veqryn)
• Created new game option property, 'Submarines Defending May Submerge Or Retreat', which will allow defending submarines to submerge or retreat to a friendly neighboring sea zone. (veqryn)
• Deleting game option property, 'Hari-Kari Units', since it doesn't do anything at this point. (veqryn)
• Deleting game option property, 'Previous Units Fight', since it doesn't do anything at this point. (veqryn)
• Allowing sea units to retreat back if the retreating to territory contains only ignored enemy units. (veqryn)
• Disallowing rockets from firing over impassible territories by default. (veqryn)
• Added message on how long a ban lasts for, when a user tries to reconnect to the lobby. (veqryn)
• Created ui wrapper for properties, and allowed most to be editable. (veqryn)
• Created new map utility, 'MapPropertiesMaker', which will make the 'map.properties' file. (veqryn)
• Added an 'Is Amphibious' check box to the battle calculator, so that units like marines will correctly calculate for an amphibious battle. (veqryn)
• Getting Decoration Placer to auto place all images nicely on the map if they match the territory names or if they are not decorations. Also including detailed instructions. (veqryn)
• Got the Decoration Placer to work with placing PUs, decorations, name images, capitals, vc's, and all other image types and text files. (veqryn)
• Creating new map utility, 'Decoration Placer', which allows a map maker to put decorations and other images on a map, recording their points in a text file. (veqryn)
• Fixed bug in Triggers that use 'chance' and also have more than 1 action or event inside them, so that they will no longer test once for each action, and instead only one time total. (veqryn)
• Created new tab, 'Notes', which will just show the game notes, on the right side of the screen. (veqryn)
• Getting the objective panel to not refresh more than every 10 seconds, and adding a 'Refresh' button so that it can be manually refreshed. (veqryn)
• Getting the objectives on the objective tab to show up in colors (red = true, blue = used up), and show more information: <#of uses left><#of objectives filled>. (veqryn)
• Including on Objective tab whether condition is currently true or not, and getting it to update with the game. (veqryn)
• Creating new text file, 'objectives.properties', which will hold all the details about what objectives to show on the objective tab. (veqryn)
• Creating new stats panel, 'Objective' Tab, which will contain a list of all national objectives and any other conditions the map maker wants. (veqryn)
• Created new 'map.properties' variables: 'map.cursor.hotspot.x', and 'map.cursor.hotspot.y'. (veqryn)
• Allowing TripleA to use custom cursors located at 'misc/cursor.gif'. (veqryn)
• Getting TripleA to use any sounds located in a folder named 'sounds' in any map file, thereby allowing custom sounds for every map. (veqryn)
• Renaming the 'images' folder into 'assets', and then moving the 'sounds' folder to be inside of the 'assets' folder, inside the triplea program directory. (veqryn)
• Created new text file, 'comments.txt', which will control where things like convoy route names and comments will go. (veqryn)
• Deleted 'map.properties' variable 'map.showConvoyNames' and replaced with 'map.showComments'. (veqryn)
• Created new folder, 'territoryNames', which can be filled with .png images of each territory name. These will be displayed at the points in 'name_place.txt'. (veqryn)
• Created new 'map.properties' variables: 'units.stack.size', 'map.showSeaZoneNames', and 'map.drawNamesFromTopLeft'. (veqryn)
• Deleting xml property, 'Display Sea Names', and will replace it with a map.properties property 'map.showSeaZoneNames', because display options should not be in the xml, only game logic should be. (veqryn)
• Deleting xml property, 'Display Units as Counters', and will replace it with a map.properties property 'units.stack.size', because display options should not be in the xml, only game logic should be. (veqryn)
• Created new 'map.properties' variable 'map.scrollWrapY', and got TripleA to successfully scroll in the Y direction, as well as both X and Y at the same time seamlessly. (veqryn & frigoref)
• Created new 'map.properties' variables: 'map.showResources', and 'screenshot.title.enabled'. (veqryn)
• Creating a ConnectionFinder for the 'map' part of the xml. (edwin van der wal)
• Adding Mnemonics to menu options in game. (frigoref)
• Improved performance of Polygon Grabber and added a auto-grab to it to will attempt to grab any polygon that does not contain other polygons, based on the centers file. (edwin & veqryn)
• Set up UI for map creator, fixed it up to be able to run all utility files, including sending arguments to them. (veqryn)
• Creating a new Map Creator / Map Maker that is accessible from the Engine Preferences section of TripleA. (veqryn)
• Updating TileImageBreaker and PlacementPicker to include more notes on how to use them, as well as fixing some bugs and allowing arguments and remembering selections. (veqryn)
• Updating CenterPicker and PolygonGrabber and AutoPlacementFinder to include more notes on how to use them, as well as allowing arguments and remembering selections. (veqryn)
• Fixing Global 1940 to match 2nd Edition version. (veqryn)
• Preventing fighters that used up all movement to get to a battle, from getting to retreat. (veqryn)
• Allowing PlacementPicker and AutoPlacementFinder to accept two arguments (when run by command line), the width and the height, of the placements. (veqryn)
• Fixed issues preventing the smallMap from being updated after switching map skins. Also polishing up support for map skins that are totally different than the original map. (veqryn)
• Creating new 'map.properties' variables: 'units.width', 'units.height', 'units.counter.offset.width' and 'units.counter.offset.height', allowing maps to use non-standard sized unit images. (veqryn)
• Fixing a bug in center picker, and fixing a bug where selecting a map skin didn't verify the map before changing the user preferences. (veqryn)
• Fixed bug where rockets could attack a factory multiple times. (veqryn)
• Deleting the game option 'Rocket Attack Per Factory Restricted', and replacing it with its inverse, 'Rocket Attacks Per Factory Infinite'. (veqryn)
• Fixed issue with not being Java 1.5 compatible. (veqryn)
• Fixed null pointer error in getSkins method when user has installed triplea to the user folder. (veqryn)
• Fixed issue with showing Turn Summary from right clicking on the player's node while in the History mode, which showed the current player's territory summary instead of the selected player. (veqryn)
• Fixing movement validation bug that disallowed movement into a sea zone controlled by the enemy with subs, if the sea zone also had an owner, even if subs are being ignored. (veqryn)
• Adding new AI, 'Moore N Able (2)', with ability to read a script file from map folder. (kmoore)
• Fixing Concurrent Modification error with getIsAmphibiousMarine method in battle display. (veqryn)
• Fixing comparison method in Easy AI (weak ai) so that adheres to the comparison contract. Also cleaned up a lot of code, fixed a lot of warnings. (veqryn)
• Fixing bug history panel bug caused by loading a savegame at the end of the last player's turn, causing a 'Can not add event, not in step' error to be thrown. (veqryn)
• Adding new menu option 'Focus On Own Casualties', which when selected will cause the default casualty selection to focused, allowing the user to hit spacebar to accept it. (hakon)
• Changed order of steps so that in games where Submarines may submerge before battle, the attacker is asked first, then the defender is asked. (hakon)
• Showed convoy blockade dice rolls in History Panel even if the blockade damage is zero. (veqryn)

• OS X 10.4 or later
• Java 1.5 or later

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