Cold Path - turn-based multiplayer strategy

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Hi, I’m using google translator so sorry for any mistakes. I really love this game, I’ve been playing it since the middle of last year (2021) and so I would like to ask, have you ever thought about releasing it on a PC platform?

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So I’m in America and the majority of people playing this game are russian. Could someone tell me a workaround so I can play with English players?

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Currently there are no english servers. But now you can create your own.

Cold Path Server Sources are opened

Cold Path players can now create and set up a global server. The game server is highly customizable. There are already servers with modified gameplay (RP servers where wars for no reason are prohibited and you need to play the role of the ruler of your country by writing messages in the chat and Empire of 12 paths with new game features written using plugins)

The server is the core of the game. Here are all the main scripts for processing game actions and logic. Also there is networking here. The game server has been tested and online in the game is stable. Server is written in pure Lua.

I think this will be a useful example for other developers. License is MIT, you can use the source code to write your own project. I hope this helps you create your cool game.

Server sources: https://github.com/jalhund/cold-path-server
Guide: Global servers - Cold Path

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Thanks for the help denis

How do i use boats?

Denis, just wanted to say congratulations for creating something which has brightened the lives of so many people. It’s a fantastic game

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You need to build port

Thank you!
I still love the turn-based strategy genre and am working on a new Warnament game
Warnament will be much better than Cold Path.
And yes, it’s Defold engine!

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The maps and scenarios in the screenshot are both official and from the community. Yes, there is a map editor, and all maps are loaded dynamically

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Are you going to add a hundreds year war, map or no?

Maybe even some napoleonic wars?

Sorry, there will be no major updates for Cold Path. I am working on Warnament project. I have not enough free time to work on other games.
There is Scenario Editor for Cold Path, you can create scenarios yourself. It’s even possible to create custom map (see Cold Path Map Editor) and create scenario of any year for created map

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Hi Denis. I constantly play cold path. I am exited about this game. I have some questions, and I would be pleased if you answer them. Do you know some players in this game? If yes, can you tell me the most powerful players? (I am Tamerlane)
Why sometimes Official servers do not work?
i heard that now you are working on Warnament. Which one do you recomend more? Warnament of Cold path.

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مرحبا!
لعبتك رائعة ولاكن هناك شيء ينقصها ألا وهي اللغة العربية!
هل يمكنك إضافتها في أقرب وقت ممكن

Hi. Thanks!
@Jamshid_Xudoyberdiye @11130
I’ll answer your questions. But please feel free to communicate with me in our discord server: https://discord.gg/jfCZVRn2GR
This is forum for game developers, not players. So that’s not really good to discuss non-technical things. It’s kinda offtopic

yes, I know a lot of active players. Mainly they are from our Discord.
We play different games, discuss stupid things in voice chats, etc

I don’t know to be honest. I’ll check it. Probably there is some bug that players fixed on their community servers (it can be the reason why official server does not work, but community ones are fine)

Warnament is definitely better, just check our YouTube to be sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7h4weLsQY

Anyway, there are problems of implementing Arabic in the game. Even if I add, it will not be shown correctly in the game. Let’s return to this after fix
More info: Investigate right-to-left (RTL) support in Defold · Issue #4900 · defold/defold · GitHub

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Hi i started playing the game Yesterday and I have been playing since thx man and please will Warnament be Free?:thinking:
If yes thank you so much but please work with SHN games if you can reach him and you guys should work together he is working on a new game too Thank you.

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Warnament is free for mobile devices. You can download it on Play Store. If you want discuss something or ask, it’s better to join our discord server (there is a link in previous message). This forum is for developers to discuss some technical things related to the game engine

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Same here, playing since yesterday :smiley:

On mobile, it has very similar vibe to Age of History, which is awesome. Warnament though keeps the difficulty level imho more balanced than AoH, because even though I manage to conquer few smaller countries I still have problems with bigger ones and it really takes caution and good planning to approach conquests. I quickly completed though whole technology tree - it could be imho more difficult to achieve nuclear weapons :sweat_smile:

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Thank you! Yeah, good point. I’ll think about how to rebalance nuclear research. I hope you’ll play it when it’s released on Steam. It will be so much better. Currently, we’re in the beta test stage.

Btw, Glad to see you active here after years :grinning:
Unfortunately, I rarely visit this forum, but I am very happy when I see familiar faces.
I started learning gamedev with this engine, and this forum is like a cozy home for me :slight_smile:

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Not gonna lie, I play mostly on Switch and mobile :smiley: Therefore, my other issue is the “scrollbar” selection on bars to select things when trading (e.g. money, gold, iron, etc). On mobile it’s very hard to drag and drop that little ball, so I wish it would have a bigger grab area :smiley:

Anyway, after next hours of play, I’m still really astonished about level of balance in it - AoH in comparison becomes really quickly really easy. And in Warnament I can actually “conquer” lands by buying them out and it just works.

QoL:
I would also suggest to make borders of ruled country a little bit more visible when in views that don’t color countries, but everything is grey, except few areas (like “Resources”). It’s important to have areas with given resources within your country borders, so I would like to clearly know if I have them or not without having to switch between Standard and Resources view. So either make border bigger, or add a little tint to the areas pointing out to which country they belong :sweat_smile: I think the biggest issue is with provinces around river?


EDIT: Ok, now, when I see it on PC it looks better, but on my phone, not so good :smiley:

🪲Bug:
Other bug I reported in game - that sometimes I get Requests from countries to join the war, like they would be my allies, but those are not (for example, above USRR asks me to join the war, but those are not my allies)

Other thing I noticed is that when a country that is not neighboring me starts a war, they don’t want to accept offer of peace without changes, even though they can’t reach to me and there is always something I would need to give them to send an offer that they would accept. At least, after some time, they send a status quo peace offer anyway themselves :wink:

Joined the Discord too :smiley:

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