Disable Floods

**Callawyn** · January 26, 2008, 03:31 PM

The known bug relating to floods can be extremely annoying. It doesn't just prevent construction of watchtowers, it permanently cripples movement through any province that experiences the event. Why not just disable the event from ever occuring? There's a file in \data\world\maps\base called descr_disasters.txt. For vanilla, kingdoms and every mod I ever play, first thing I do is edit this file. Change the seasons the flood can occur to 'false' for every season, and the event never occurs again. I have to believe this bug annoys a lot more people than just me, I've never understood why this disaster hasn't been disabled in every mod. Most players will never figure out what's causing the problem, or if they do they won't know how to stop it happening, why not mod it out of existence?

**Aszrayel** · January 26, 2008, 04:29 PM

It might have gotten overlooked. It looks like every other disaster is set to false except storms in winter and floods in summer so maybe those 2 were meant to be false but weren't changed.

**SirPeacemaker** · January 26, 2008, 05:11 PM

Harry Lime has explained, there is a problem with the watchtowers. / disaster bug/ But I had absolutely no idea, what cause the problem with the crippled moves. And now, I know.

**Callawyn** · January 26, 2008, 06:57 PM

Prob is much worse when playing a mod with bigmap, if flood hits the wrong province, you pretty much have to restart your campaign. The movement reduction is severe and permanent.

**SirPeacemaker** · January 27, 2008, 04:25 AM

Hmm. And what about to delete the map.rwm file. Could it help?

**IZ-Master** · January 27, 2008, 06:33 AM

how to disable them

i dont want to restart my campaign ^^ also if i remove them would it be save compatible ?

**Aszrayel** · January 27, 2008, 05:29 PM

To disable them go to Medieval 2 Total War/DLV_ext/data/world/map/base directory and open up the desc_disasters file. Set the disasters you wish to disable to false. I'm not sure if this is save game compatible but probably is not.

**Valantine** · January 27, 2008, 06:34 PM

I'm pretty sure it's NOT save game compatible, i think yo ucan still use your campaign but you will see some weird things happening with floods repeating every turn. Best to edit the file and then start a new campaign and consider your old Empire the way of Atlantis!

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**Aszrayel** · January 27, 2008, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Valantine

I'm pretty sure it's NOT save game compatible, i think yo ucan still use your campaign but you will see some weird things happening with floods repeating every turn. Best to edit the file and then start a new campaign and consider your old Empire the way of Atlantis!

V