Changing buildable structures in towns.

**Thoragoros** · March 28, 2010, 04:52 PM

Tutorial Purpose: To change the types of buildings allowed in secondary towns.

Towns are broken up into types, intellectual, commercial, and industrial. Obviously, these decide which types of buildings you are allowed to construct in each. Intellectual towns allow the building of secret socieites and universities. Commercial towns allow the building of banks and supply depots, while industrial cities allow the building of factories and gun smiths.

To change this, using the PFM (if you are unfamiliar with the PFM or how to construct a mod, consult this tutorial), changing what types of buildings are allowed is quite simple.

1) Opening the data.pack with the PFM, look for a file entitled campaign_map_towns_and_ports.

2) You will notice that each of the towns/ports has a 'type.'

3) You will see that the towns that are not listed as ports are either listed as 'town-intellectual' 'town-industrial' 'town-commercial' or as 'town-unused' DO NOT EDIT 'town-unused' those towns require startpos changes in order to be activated (if they can be activated at all). Also, for safety purposes, do not edit town types listed as ports, since these too have startpos ties, and I am not sure what the results will be.

4) Make your desired change to your selected town.

5) Save your mod.

That's really all there is to it. Quite simple, actually.

NOTE:

I do not believe that making these changes are savegame compatible.

**Mefistofeles** · April 14, 2010, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Thoragoros

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Has anyone gotten this to work? I've been trying to change Finland into an industrial center but when I follow the tutorial it remains a commercial center. Simply doesn't work for me. I'd be most grateful for any help.

Mef

**Thoragoros** · April 14, 2010, 02:52 PM

Are you trying to use this with a saved campaign?

**Mefistofeles** · April 15, 2010, 12:46 PM

No, I have only tried to start new campaigns. Interestingly I did manage to use the ESF-editor to change the startpos so I actually had a manufactory in Finland, but it still remained a commercial center so I couldn't build the higher level buildings as the edits in my modded finland_campaign_map_towns_and_ports didn't change Helsinki to an industrial center.

I even tried changing the mod-pack to a movie-pack. Didn't work either. Very odd.

Mef

**Thoragoros** · April 15, 2010, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Mefistofeles

No, I have only tried to start new campaigns. Interestingly I did manage to use the ESF-editor to change the startpos so I actually had a manufactory in Finland, but it still remained a commercial center so I couldn't build the higher level buildings as the edits in my modded finland_campaign_map_towns_and_ports didn't change Helsinki to an industrial center.

I even tried changing the mod-pack to a movie-pack. Didn't work either. Very odd.

Mef

Hmm, it's working for Mitch and myself with our WWI mod. I'll ask him to see if I have left anything out.

**husserlTW** · April 16, 2010, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by Mefistofeles

No, I have only tried to start new campaigns. Interestingly I did manage to use the ESF-editor to change the startpos so I actually had a manufactory in Finland, but it still remained a commercial center so I couldn't build the higher level buildings as the edits in my modded finland_campaign_map_towns_and_ports didn't change Helsinki to an industrial center.

I even tried changing the mod-pack to a movie-pack. Didn't work either. Very odd.

Mef

You mean that you've changed building type from X to Y in startpos building slot and the AI still realizes it as X?

**husserlTW** · April 16, 2010, 08:09 AM

I've triedThoragoros tutorial but never worked for me. Anyway I didn't pay much attention since I always make these changes through startpos. After Mefistofeles post I checked again and I can confirm the following:

1. Changing only db table is not enough to change the starting building slot (I repeat that is from my tests, maybe Thoragoros can do this.)

2. You can change the slot with the classic way we know from ETW, as Mefistofeles followed. In this case everything works fine.

3. Now about Helsinki: it is still referred as commercial center but this probably a cosmetic issue and not a real reference, because it can be upgraded to next industrial levels (I do not agree with Mefistofeles in this point) and the industrial effects are present (income, industry research techs, etc.) Anyway there is a way to fix this but you have to make changes in regions.esf file. For the moment there is not a stable Editor for regions.esf. In the next images you can see Helsinki as industrial center after both startpos and regions files have been changed. Second image is without regions.esf changes.

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**crucify_ego** · April 17, 2010, 07:40 AM

tried to find how to do this the "ETW" way but found nothing. anyone have a step by step way for NTW that works for sure

**husserlTW** · April 18, 2010, 06:31 AM

Open startpos.esf and go in:

[..] CAMPAIGN_ENV/CAMPAIGN_MODEL/WORLD/REGION_MANAGER/REGIONS_ARRAY/REGION/REGION_SLOT_MANAGER/REGIONS_SLOT_ARRAY/REGION_SLOT/BUILDING_MANAGER/BUILDING

of the slot you want to change and enter the new building. In data\db you can find the available type of buildings.

**Andronicus011** · August 10, 2010, 06:42 AM

The URL is not avaliable.
EDIT:Sorry Husser ITW this was meant for the URL instructions for Napoleon total war Balkan ,Iberian, Scandinavian mod. Again sorry!