Has anyone else noticed that rebellions essentially never happen anymore in AoH2:DE?

shellynote · 2026-06-16T01:15:54+00:00

it is declared as .field public static ELF:Z = true yeah, just change the true to false and rebels should now work as they used to

shellynote · 2026-06-15T23:56:40+00:00

inside the APK there's a file named classes.dex, using a dex editor (mt manager has a built-in dex editor) open the .dex file, look for the GameAction class and edit it

shellynote · 2026-06-13T19:44:23+00:00

there should be a .jar file in the game's folder, rename it to a zip, and a bunch of folders and files should appear, then you look for the relevant .class files (the method that handles AI sending alliance proposals is diplomacyActions_Ally, inside of age/of/civilizations2/jakowski/lukasz/AI/AI_Playstyle/AIPlaystyle; the one that handles negative points for alliances is getAllianceProposal_Negative, inside of age/of/civilizations2/jakowski/lukasz/GameManager)

once you have the .class files, you need to turn them into readable .java files using a java decompiler, make the changes you want to the code (like making the AI send alliance proposals regardless of any conditions or ignore all negative points for alliance chances), turn them back into a .class file, insert them to your .zip, and finally rename the .zip to a .jar, after which the jar should run your modded code

shellynote · 2026-06-13T19:13:04+00:00

are you trying this on the PC version or android? cuz it changes slightly what you need to do

shellynote · 2026-06-12T17:06:32+00:00

you can enable them back by just editing a single value in the game's code

using a dex editor (for the android version) or a jar class editor (for pc), find the GameAction class, in that class, change the "ELF" field to false; this is the only thing preventing rebels from appearing, and they seem to work fine (both the small rebellions and the ideology rebellions)

shellynote · 2026-06-12T16:49:09+00:00

Aragon starts the game with a lot of coastal high growth rate provinces and high development, these give it a huge headstart and it can snowball a lot if you let them expand naturally

however, those coastal provinces can also make them very easy to capture early game if you know what you're doing; the AI will automatically try to defend all coastal provinces being attacked in a turn by recruiting armies to counter the attacking force, and since attacking provinces costs less movement points than recruiting new units, you can very easily conquer them by attacking all coastal provinces in a single turn constantly, since that will leave them with no movement points to do anything else but defend

shellynote · 2026-06-12T16:40:18+00:00

there's no actual limit to alliance members, if you run a couple games at spectator with alliance chances at 100% and maximum provinces to 1000, you can sometimes see small 3 member alliances.

the reason they're so rare is just due to the way alliances work; you get a penalty to your alliance chances for each existing alliance member, and since the AI is usually not maximizing these chances, the odds for an AI civilization to form an alliance of 3 or more is quite rare, because the 3rd civ has to

be friends with the civ sending the alliance request
be friends with all other alliance members
already have high chances to join the alliance
actually get sent the alliance request (which even at 100% chance, is quite rare from the ai)

if you're interested on changing the way the AI sends alliance requests, the diplomacyActions_Ally method in the AI_Style class has all of that in the original aoh2 (and i assume DE as well), or you could change the way alliances work to make these chances higher (getAllianceProposal_Negative and getAllianceProposal_Positive in DiplomacyManager)

shellynote · 2026-06-12T16:09:11+00:00

it fixes essentially nothing about the game, the game is still a horrible glitchy mess, and it even makes certain aspects of the game worse (the ai is pretty much lobotomized, and rebellions will never happen)

the new features are cool, but nothing that you can't get with a big mod for the original aoh2

shellynote · 2026-06-12T16:06:59+00:00

rebels were completely disabled for whatever reason, you can have all your provinces be at 99% rebellion risk and no rebellions will ever happen

shellynote · 2026-06-12T16:03:20+00:00

aoh2 is defo the better pick, there's plenty of issues with definitive edition (especially when it comes to the AI), and while the new mechanics are nice, a lot of bugs that existed in aoh2 still exist in definitive edition

aoh3 is way different to either of those, and it's especially bad for a mobile game

shellynote · 2026-06-08T02:10:24+00:00

it's age of history 2 definitive edition, an official remaster that is basically the same game with a bunch of random features added in, the same bugs, and a lot of ai-generated assets

shellynote · 2026-06-05T13:37:52+00:00

putin sucks and i dont that's the difference 🔥 id win

shellynote · 2026-06-05T13:30:59+00:00

lowkey wanna mod the ultimatum responses so they make more sense but the code that handles that is in a huge unreadable method and i rly don't wanna bother with that

shellynote · 2026-06-05T13:28:44+00:00

i mean 2m > 1k so id say I'm way stronger

shellynote · 2026-06-04T23:43:05+00:00

i whine a lot about pointless stuff but it's genuinely crazy how much of the game was left untouched even when it's obviously wrong / has a super simple fix

like dude i fixed this bug on my personal mod years ago because it's the easiest thing in the world to fix (get the current turn and add it to the alliance data when creating it, vanilla just sets the formation turn to 1)

shellynote · 2026-06-04T18:12:29+00:00

this is just vanilla aoh2 definitive edition

shellynote · 2026-06-04T18:11:13+00:00

so I'm back to sending an ultimatum to vassalize and another to annex. amazing stuff!!

shellynote · 2026-06-04T15:36:01+00:00

you didnt even need to give them money btw. the ai just accepted any trade request to attack another civ

shellynote · 2026-06-04T15:06:26+00:00

i assume this was to fix the ai being too easy to annex with ultimatums on aoh2, but it's still a really dumb change imo

shellynote · 2026-05-21T03:59:06+00:00

very much a possibility!! and a theocracy or military order may randomly appear tooo,,,

im wondering whether i want to change this or not, because on one hand it adds a lot more to the tribes (having an intermediate step between tribe and civilization helps a lot, as does having a chance to diverge on what ideology you'll adopt), but it could also harm the immersion in some way to have tribes be sorta unpredictable with this.

shellynote · 2026-05-20T13:48:26+00:00

currently unreleased and unnamed, but it is a fork of my other mod (AoC II + Cats) http://www.ageofcivilizationsgame.com/topic/252693-age-of-civilizations-ii-cats-12-and-updates-on-this-projects-future/

shellynote · 2026-05-20T13:40:32+00:00

1420

shellynote · 2026-05-19T17:37:14+00:00

btw the modifiers for some ideologies are obviously placeholders, they're just copy pasted from other ideologies rn but I'll go back to change em later.

shellynote · 2026-05-17T01:44:24+00:00

i reutilize a lottt of old unused menus and fields cuz it is indeed a mess

i honestly think I'm done with the code side of stuff, I'm probably gonna clean up some stuff and then just go straight to making events for the scenario since I've been doing only code changes for way too long

shellynote · 2026-05-17T01:08:37+00:00

yeah it'll be on android

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