Please help me (adding family members)

**Flavius Nevitta** · August 13, 2007, 04:56 AM

Hi there!

I have a problem:

I'm working on a mod at the moment and I changed some things in the descr_strat but when I try to change family members I often get a problem:
"Error couldn't find spouse Poppea(or other)"

It works if I add a male character and I can marry him to a woman but when I try to marry someone to my faction leader's daughters I get this error.

When I turn the line with family connections off ( ; )the girls appear proberly in the family tree and the generals appear on the map with all the set attributes but when I marry them I always get this error. I managed to add one guy and marry him to my youngest daughter, worked well, then I added another guy and now even the one who worked before doesn't work anymore.

Please help me I don't know what to do, all the lines seem to be correct:

Some generals:

Code:

;Septimius; Roma (Latium)
character	Lucius Septimius Severus, named character, leader, age 47, , x 117, y 63 
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, GoodDefender 1, PoliticsSkill 3, GoodAdministrator 2, Leader_Bonus 1, Military_Service_Years_17to25 9, Former_Military_Service 4, Christian 1
ancillaries aged_retainer, Governor_of_Latium_Quaestor, Roman_I_Legion
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

character	Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, named character, age 42, , x 95, y 71 
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 3, Energetic 2, Leader_Bonus 1, Military_Service_Years_9to17 2, Former_Military_Service 1, Christian 1
ancillaries freeman_clerk, Roman_II_Legion
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

;garrison Germ.Flav.

character	Lucius Fabius Cilo, named character, age 43, , x 86, y 110
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 2, MathematicsSkill 1, Leader_Bonus 1, Military_Service_Years_1to9 7, Former_Military_Service 1, Christian 1
ancillaries drillmaster, merchant
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

;army, Bituriges
character	Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus, named character, age 31, , x 52, y 102
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 2, MathematicsSkill 1, Leader_Bonus 1, Military_Service_Years_1to9 7, Christian 1
ancillaries drillmaster, merchant
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

and here the family lines:

Code:

character_record		Decimus Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus,	male, age 2, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Julia, 	female, age 48, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Poppaea, 	female, age 32, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Alypia, 	female, age 27, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Aurelia, 	female, age 26, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Minervina, 	female, age 19, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Marcella, 	female, age 18, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Plautilla, 	female, age 16, alive, never_a_leader

relative		Lucius Septimius Severus,		Julia,	Poppaea,	Alypia,     Aurelia,     Marcella,     end
relative		Gaius Fulvius Plautianus,	Poppaea,	Plautilla,     end
relative		Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus,		Aurelia,	Decimus Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus,     end
relative		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caracalla,		Plautilla,	end
relative		Lucius Fabius Cilo,		Marcella, end

**Flavius Nevitta** · August 13, 2007, 08:22 AM

Another faction, same problem:

Code:

character	Gaius Pescennius Niger, named character, leader, age 52, , x 163, y 71
traits GoodAdministrator 1, GoodCommander 1, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, Leader_Bonus 1, Christian 1
ancillaries poet, chirurgeon, historian, oracle, orator
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman legionary first cohort i				exp 2 armour 0 

character	Gnaeus Pescennius Niger, named character, age 25, , x 172, y 65 
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 2, MathematicsSkill 1, Leader_Bonus 1, Military_Service_Years_1to9 7, Former_Military_Service 1, Christian 1
ancillaries merchant
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman legionary first cohort i				exp 2 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		cyrenaica legionary cohort 				exp 2 armour 0 

character	Aulus Asellius Aemilianus, named character, age 24, , x 174, y 67
traits LoyaltyStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 2, GoodAdministrator 2, GoodCommander 1, NaturalMilitarySkill 1, MathematicsSkill 1, Military_Service_Years_1to9 7, Former_Military_Service 1, Christian 1
ancillaries drillmaster
army
unit		roman generals guard cavalry early				exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		roman legionary first cohort i				exp 2 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit		claudia legionary cohort 				exp 2 armour 0

everything works except adding the last guy as husband of Ancharia

Code:

character_record		Titus Pescennius Niger, 	male, age 1, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Gratidia, 	female, age 42, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Sempronia, 	female, age 22, alive, never_a_leader
character_record		Ancharia, 	female, age 18, alive, never_a_leader


relative		Gaius Pescennius Niger,		Gratidia,		Aelius Pescennius Niger,	Gnaeus Pescennius Niger,	Ancharia,	end
relative		Aelius Pescennius Niger,		Sempronia,		Titus Pescennius Niger,	     end
relative		Aulus Asellius Aemilianus,	Ancharia, 	end

Error: can't find spouse Ancharia

this is driving me insane really

**Salvor Hardin** · August 13, 2007, 04:51 PM

I have encountered the same problem and so far I have not been able to solve it either. The only thing I have noticed -a really weird one- is that if the father of the girl has no surname then you can marry her with no problem. So it is either giving no surname to your leader or leaving the girl single. I chose the second option, of course.

By the way, Septimius Severus...looks really promising!

**Squid** · August 15, 2007, 10:40 AM

If you look at your post on the org, a suggestion has been posted that may work.

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=89973

**Flavius Nevitta** · August 16, 2007, 01:45 AM

Yes thank you I will try both versions, or let's say I'm trying to try. I don't know what it is now but the campaign loads and then I get a CTD before the campaign map appears. Sadly no error msg.

**Salvor Hardin** · August 16, 2007, 05:12 PM

It could be something related to names. You have probably given a name to a family character of a faction that is not in that faction's names in the descr_names file.

It could be something related to the map, too, if you have changed some of the regions names.

**Flavius Nevitta** · August 17, 2007, 02:34 AM

I changed a settlement name. the strange thing really is that once one thing is running I get an error for something else which worked before.

The weird thing is for example:

I tried to create my Roman family till I ran into the "spouse" problem. OK well so what I wanted to do is turn all relatives of this family off except faction leader and his wife and sons/daughters and start anew.

All of a sudden I get msges that it couldn't find the town name I changed. But I haven't touched this file at all since then and it was working all the times before.