True or false.

**Crayo** · December 30, 2007, 04:38 AM

I was reading up a review on Kingdoms before I got it and it mentioned that you could re-name castles and cities in-game, but not provinces.
I haven't come by any way to do it in-game, or is it a false benefit?

Also, what are the possibilities of making the player be able to pick heirs?
I personally don't want to kill off family members just to keep it in the original starting blood-line.

**kelvintyk** · December 30, 2007, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by Crayo

I was reading up a review on Kingdoms before I got it and it mentioned that you could re-name castles and cities in-game, but not provinces.
I haven't come by any way to do it in-game, or is it a false benefit?

Also, what are the possibilities of making the player be able to pick heirs?
I personally don't want to kill off family members just to keep it in the original starting blood-line.

You can rename a settlement by opening the settlement scroll for that settlement and clicking on its name. As for picking heirs, thats not possible as of now.

**Crayo** · December 30, 2007, 06:05 AM

Ah, alright cheers for the reply.
One more question if you don't mind. Let's say I renamed a city to something else, then I used a "create_unit" cheat (just for a bubble) would I need to type the new city name or the old one? e.g

create_unit London etc (as the original)

to

create_unit Test etc (as the new)

Thanks in advance!

**kelvintyk** · December 30, 2007, 06:34 AM

Not too sure about that. You can try it out. But most probably the old name. Cause the cheat uses data from the files and when you rename a settlement, the original settlement names does not change. If it doesn't work with original, then type the new one. Won't hurt to try.

**Crayo** · December 30, 2007, 07:41 AM

Yup, yup. Your predictions were correct. When editing castle / cities names in-game, and IF you decide to cheat you've gotta type the original names of the castle / city.

Thanks for helping altogether, Kelvintky. +rep

**kelvintyk** · December 30, 2007, 08:13 AM

Haha anytime. Thanks for the rep. Here is one back to you.

**Red Iberian** · December 30, 2007, 09:00 AM

No! Sorry, but i disagree when i a change the names of the settlements i use the cheat process_cq new name and works

**Salahiddin Ayoubi** · December 30, 2007, 09:05 AM

You can use both if u want to insert its name into the shell,

example: If you renamed "London" "Tellytubbyland", you could type in either

**12345abcd3** · January 03, 2008, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Salahiddin Ayoubi

If you renamed "London" "Tellytubbyland"

rofl

, *starts campaign and changes London to Tellytubbyland*. Damn scotland keep on besieging Tellytubbyland!

**kelvintyk** · December 30, 2007, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Red Iberian

No! Sorry, but i disagree when i a change the names of the settlements i use the cheat process_cq new name and works

Alright thanks for confirming that. Although i don't use cheats...it won't hurt to have new knowledge.

**Crayo** · December 31, 2007, 12:49 AM

Strange.. Didn't seem to work with me. I used spaces when re-naming and used the _ when using the medieval shell, and got a 'err. can't find settlement or character' (or something similiar) message.
I did test with the add_unit cheat - but I'm not fussed, i'm not much of a cheat user either.

**kelvintyk** · December 31, 2007, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by Crayo

Strange.. Didn't seem to work with me. I used spaces when re-naming and used the _ when using the medieval shell, and got a 'err. can't find settlement or character' (or something similiar) message.
I did test with the add_unit cheat - but I'm not fussed, i'm not much of a cheat user either.

Try a "-" instead of "_" in places you have a space.

**Lamanz** · January 01, 2008, 02:38 PM

You can rename a settlement by opening the settlement scroll for that settlement and clicking on its name. As for picking heirs, thats not possible as of now.

Are you serious!?! Awesome! Time to erase any memory of Aztec habitation in my Spanish colony cities...

**kelvintyk** · January 02, 2008, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by Lamanz

Are you serious!?! Awesome! Time to erase any memory of Aztec habitation in my Spanish colony cities...

Yes i'm totally serious. Try it out.

**malcolm mcdowell** · January 10, 2008, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Lamanz

Are you serious!?! Awesome! Time to erase any memory of Aztec habitation in my Spanish colony cities...

yeah its awesome... i have las cruces, san miguel etc... america is finally spanish!

i had one game in normal m2tw where i relocated the scots immediately to the new world, and had new edinburgh, glasgow etc. gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside

**Skyline Pete** · January 02, 2008, 06:21 AM

It's an awesome feature I didn't know existed untill late last year.

Renamed one of my castles to Wallace Castle (in Britannia) and let William die there of old age. He had taken it from the Danes a few years before. Now all my Wallace children carry on his legacy!

**Grimmy** · January 04, 2008, 12:35 AM

I use this rename feature in every game. I don't erase the city or castle's name, but I add to it. Helps me keep organized.

The format I use (using London as a baseline for example purposes) is:

London(xguildnamex) for towns or castles where I want a particular guild. Helps me remember what is wanted where when the popups come.

London(guildname) for towns or castles that have a basic level guild in them. Helps when looking at the campaign map and planning building/troops builds.

London(Guildname) for master level guilds

London(GUILDNAME) for guild HQs.

My campaign map is my war planning map so all the administrative/organizational data I can use is placed upon it.