How to add new building slots upgrading cities - NEW

[husserlTW]

could you make a Major city into a minor one, and use the extra building slots from that and put them into your custom city? (basically reversing the size of the two cities ? )

That is what I am trying now. I've done before with virginia and philadelphia. Maybe we have interesting things tomorrow.

[Pikemen]

Yeah, if you where to make a start pos. With Virginia as a major city, And had no exiting bug, I would like to see it. Good work sofar

Cheers,
Pikemen

[husserlTW]

Yeah, if you where to make a start pos. With Virginia as a major city, And had no exiting bug, I would like to see it. Good work sofar

Cheers,
Pikemen

Sorry but I am looking the case of converting two 4 slot citie's to minor and use the remaining Id's with no luck so far. For Virginia you can use the saved_file I've already made which has no exiting bug (with Philadelphia minor). You can open it beside to a startpos and make the same changes in startpos if you want to use startpos file. You are very lucky that US (or Thirteen Colonies) own a major city (Philadelphia) and you can make the convertion without any bug or precondition.

[Burnoutfigs]

Im trying the same thing about taken buildings away from 2 majors to make one minor...Ill let you know the results and maybe we both can shar info.

[husserlTW]

Im trying the same thing about taken buildings away from 2 majors to make one minor...Ill let you know the results and maybe we both can shar info.

In my scenario 2 X 4 slot major give 6 free slots I but I can use only the 4 of them. I can delete building slots in startpos and regions.esf and make a minor city but I can't delete CAI slot because it crushes. The only thing I managed to do was when I gave the two remaining CAI to the same building ID (1 building with 1+2 CAI). The game worked but then the exit bug appeared.

[Burnoutfigs]

Ok this is what im trying to do, use all the buildings from Ingria, its already a 5 building town. and give to new orleans. the one problem im having is i really dont know what to do for making ingria road coords. I dont know if that would make it crash. i siill get a crash, the only thing i think it might me the coordinates for the road and fortifications for ingria or its the fact that i moved 5 buildings to lower louisiana from ingria and 1 building to ingria from louisiana in the Regions.esf..


what you think?

[husserlTW]

Ok this is what im trying to do, use all the buildings from Ingria, its already a 5 building town. and give to new orleans. the one problem im having is i really dont know what to do for making ingria road coords. I dont know if that would make it crash. i siill get a crash, the only thing i think it might me the coordinates for the road and fortifications for ingria or its the fact that i moved 5 buildings to lower louisiana from ingria and 1 building to ingria from louisiana in the Regions.esf..


what you think?

Don't make any changes in regions.esf for ingria.

After CA today's update, I'll update the tutorial using another 5 building slots city which is easier and have no bags or preconditions.

[Burnoutfigs]

I guess i was over thinking it. BTW +Rep again. Good job

[husserlTW]

Old startpos.esf don't work with 22/6 update. Regions.esf remain the same with no changes. Tutorial needs update.

[husserlTW]

TUTORIAL UPDATED WITH STARTPOS.ESF (v. 1.3.0. build, 22/06)

The conversion now is done by downgrade first a 5 slot major city to minor.

[husserlTW]

EDIT: FIX for the fortification issue has been added.

[Wolfgang von Zweibrücken]

So, currently the only known way to convert a minor city into a major one is to cannibalize the buildings from and downgrade an already existing major city?

[erasmus777]

So, currently the only known way to convert a minor city into a major one is to cannibalize the buildings from and downgrade an already existing major city?

Yes. We don't know enough about the CAI entries yet to give the program everything it needs to operate normally.

[Pikemen]

Can someone help me out with this?

Im trying to make Virginia a Major city by downgrading Venice. I can not seem to get past step 1 (converting Venice into a mro city). one thing I noticed while doing this tutorial was that the slot ID for Venice in my game is different that the ones shown in this tutorial, even though I am downgrading the same city. Does that mean I am using a wrong version or what?

Thanks,
Pikemen

[husserlTW]

Can someone help me out with this?

Im trying to make Virginia a Major city by downgrading Venice. I can not seem to get past step 1 (converting Venice into a mro city). one thing I noticed while doing this tutorial was that the slot ID for Venice in my game is different that the ones shown in this tutorial, even though I am downgrading the same city. Does that mean I am using a wrong version or what?

Thanks,
Pikemen

Tutorial is based in main/startpos.esf, you probably use main_2/startpos.esf (RTI, Late Campaign, etc.). It is the same thing just follow the tutorial. Where is the problem?

[Pikemen]

The Problem occurs when I downgrade Venice. I deleted the 4 building slots I was going to use (after I recorded them) and started up the game to see if I did everything right (like the tutorial says), but once I start a campain, the Game goes strait back to the main menu. So I must Have done something wrong.

Cheers,
Pikemen

[husserlTW]

The Problem occurs when I downgrade Venice. I deleted the 4 building slots I was going to use (after I recorded them) and started up the game to see if I did everything right (like the tutorial says), but once I start a campain, the Game goes strait back to the main menu. So I must Have done something wrong.

Cheers,
Pikemen

If you are sure that you've done it right, go for the next steps. You will not do any changes in regions.esf for Venice.

[Pikemen]

I noticed though, that in your Tutorial, the Goverment building slot ID is 696954900, while in my RTI it is 708962820.

Would that cause it to crash?

Cheers,
Pikemen

[husserlTW]

I noticed though, that in your Tutorial, the Goverment building slot ID is 696954900, while in my RTI it is 708962820.

Would that cause it to crash?

Cheers,
Pikemen

main/startpos.esf and main_2/startpos.esf are different. If you use your numbers and follow the tutorial you will have no problem. If you have stuck somewhere ask again.

Did you try the old startpos.esf I've made for Virginia. As far I know the RTI startpos (Late Grand Campaign) didn't change after 22/06 update and works.

EDIT: Yeap, I've tried it again and it works. Don't forget to place the right regions.esf file.

[Pikemen]

OK, I have been trying to do this for the last three days, no luck

I still cant seem to downgrade Venice, I do all the changes the Tutorial says, but when I go to check if it has actually been downgraded, it stays the same, Still a major city!

Once I can get that part down, the rest will probably be easy (i have done the other parts before). Is there anything wong with the RTI file?

Thanks,
Pikemen