Advice for making changes

[Chalupaku]

Hi everyone. DLV is a great mod, but I'd like to make a few alterations to fit my playstyle. I was hoping someone out there could direct me to the proper files for the following:

1) changing the coming of age trait for characters

2) reducing the population growth rates from trade and such. I'm guessing this is hardcoded, but I hope not.

3) adding a base trade income boost to a province, since I'd like to try balancing the advantage that large numbers of over land trade routes give to cities like Venice and Cordoba. Is this possible?


Thanks in advance, and keep up the excellent work!

[Furin]

1) :\MTW2\DLV_ext\data\descr_campaign_db.xml, change <age_of_manhood uint="xx"/> , be careful not to interfere with <parent_to_child_min_age_diff uint="12"/>

2) reduce the base farming level in :\MTW2\DLV_ext\data\world\maps\base\descr_regions.txt

example:

North_America
Miccosukee
aztecs
Native_Rebels
207 22 212
tobacco, coal, america, crusade, horde_target, jihad, metropolis
5
6 ;<---- base farm level
religions { catholic 0 orthodox 0 islam 0 pagan 100 heretic 0 }

additionally you can lower the population growth boni from farms and markets in the edb

3) I would add new resources to a province in :\MTW2\DLV_ext\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr.strat. You need to know the location where to place it, you can get this with the show_curserstat command.

Alternatively/additionally you can make two new hidden resource like "metropolis", let's call it "moretrade" and "lesstrade", then you go in the edb and copy the lines for market buildings, make one market building with a higher trade bonus and add the moretrade resource (look how it looks like with metropolis), below add a market structure with less trade bonus and add the lesstrade resource. The markets for the different regions will look the same but have different income boni, you need to add moretrade and lesstrade to every province in descr_regions. I have not tested this, not sure if it works but you can give it a shot .

[Kambe]

Thanks, that was helpful

[Chalupaku]

Indeed, thank you very much for your thorough response .