descr_strat file help

[bretthamilton]

Hey all

I'm sure I'm just making maybe one little mistake, but when I alter a settlement's details such as population in the descr_strat file, when I try to begin an imperial campaign the game reverts back to the select game screen. This doesn't happen when I adjust the playable factions or a character's details in this file, only when I change a settlement details, even something as basic as population.

It happens when I manually edit the file, or use BrandonM's toolpack. If it helps I have the BI expansion patched to 1.6 and I am not using any other mods.

Thanks guys

[vikrant]

well u cannot alter only population u will also have to change city level
and all level related building
ie how can u have 14000 population with small town
so when u change population make sure u adjust it within the cities current level limit
otherwise change city level and related buildings{governers building}

[Kasetuh]

At first go to properties of your shortcut for RTW game and in command line add this (without ""): "-show_err" at the end. At most it shows you what problem occurs. Next post what programm tells you when you exit game - you will see message.

And, as respectable Vikrant sayd, each population requires appropriate level of city. First building that each city have is one of core_buildings (governor's house, villa, palace etc.). So if you want city with population of 14'000 you should place "proconsuls_palace" and write its level at beginning, see next:

settlement
{
level city
region Lakonike

year_founded 0
population 2500
settlement_tax 51
plan_set default_set
faction_creator greek_cities
building
{
type core_building governors_palace
}
building
{
type port_buildings port
}
}

Unfortunately there not shown tabulations. =(( BTW with red I've marked what you should change.

so levels of cities are:
0. village (population =400) no buildings available except governors_house
1. town (>400) here basical buildings become available
2. large town (>2000)
3. city (>6000)
4. large city (>12'000)
5. huge city (>24'000)

levels of core_buildings (governor's):
1. governors_house (requires town)
2. governors_villa (requires large town)
3. governors_palace (requires city)
4. proconsuls_palace (requires large city)
5. imperial_palace (requires huge city)

And siple recomendations:
1. backup original files before changing anything in them. Because if smth goes wrong you will need to reinstall entire game or repair it, its waste of time really.
2. use wordpad while editing txt files. notepad can make some mistakes, because RTW code is not simply text.

[bretthamilton]

thanks so much for the quick replies, i think i tried to put stuff in a settlement that didnt have the requirements, like you guys have said. I managed to add some buildings with correct requirements and it works now - thanks guys

[Kasetuh]

You are welcome, I think each man that wants to modify something in game is respectable for this. Good luck with modding =)

[Trajan]

This belongs in the Hall of Scribes.