Renaming Characters in WoTD campaign

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · August 16, 2009, 10:18 PM

The historical inaccuracies in the leaders (yes, I realize it's unfinished) and characters in the campaign irritate me. So I'm going to create the historical characters. Only one problem: When I go into the descr_strat and attempt to rename a character (say, change Antigonus Gonatas to Kassandros) it just crashes me to desktop.

Could you guys tell me the correct procedure for renaming a character?

**RedFox** · August 16, 2009, 10:39 PM

The names haven't been changed? I haven't taken a look at all of it myself, but it seems someone's work is incomplete. About the names, it requires some interaction with descr_names, descr_names_lookup and names.txt; There is the DS Name Validator of course to check for incorrect name assignments (which is the case here), a name assigned to a character must also belong to that faction. The names are assigned to the factions in descr_names.txt

I'm sure WotD will be fixed eventually. If you could though, it would be of much greater help if you provided a complete list of names which to change. I should have enough time on my hands to edit them in for 1.07.

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · August 16, 2009, 10:46 PM

Alright. I've just installed patch 1.06 (Epeirote campaign wasn't workin' out too well anyway) and it looks like at least some of the names have been changed. But I'll go through and see what I can find.

**Spartan 666** · August 17, 2009, 06:56 AM

really? I changed them A LOT of time ago...I don't think it was after 1.06 release.

Anyway don't worry, in 1.07 they are correct.

**RedFox** · August 17, 2009, 07:40 AM

That's exactly what I was thinking, I was almost certain I already asked you to do that ages ago. Hint to other people who report bugs: Make sure you have the latest patch!

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · August 17, 2009, 10:44 AM

Thanks. I actually installed the most recent last night after this. I'm a fool and I apologize.

Great mod, in any case!

**Spartan 666** · August 17, 2009, 11:12 AM

Don't worry, your report made me check again all the names and I still found a little old error I had never noticed, so it was luck you didn't install the latest patch!