Mongol Bigger Starting Settlements Mod

[Aszrayel]

This is a simple mod that I made that I thought would help the Mongols out. Since about all the factions started with at least one large town and a wooden castle I upgraded the two starting Mongol regions to just that and also gave them some of the upgraded buildings. I also changed their 'building AI' to religious so they didn't just lose settlements because religious unrest being way too high. I found that the AI do build the Jewish Synagogue buildings and the conversion from those for the AI hurts them more than it should. I think they can 'deal' with it for a bit but not as good as a human player can. With his permission this mod also comes with a modified version of GrandViz's original desc_campaign_ai_db file from his 1.6 Ultimate AI (full credit goes to GrandViz). In this file all I did was copy and pasted DoW offensive parameters against all religions thinking this could help the passiveness of the Mongols. I ran through a test one night of this and it does seem to help them, but it wasn't tested extensively.

http://files.filefront.com/Mongol+Se.../fileinfo.html

*Change Log*

2/24/08
-changed can_force_invade lines back to false so these don't override the invade parameters
-increased invasion parameters for the Mongol AI in the desc_campaign_ai_db file in some lines

Install instructions:
1)extract to your M2TW directory using 7zip
2)delete the map.rwm file found in the DLV_ext\data\world\maps\base directory (pretty sure it's not save game compatible since you need to delete the map.rwm file)

Edit: Any feedback would be much appreciated. Especially regarding the Mongols passiveness. Also of note, the desc_strat file I modified is for the main campaign. I did not modify the desc_strat files for no garrison and vanilla style campaigns yet.

*Note*
I made this modifying the files from DLV 5.3 so I'm not sure if some of the new parameters will work for any version of DLV that doesn't run from the kingdoms.exe

[Swiss Halberdier]

Is the mongol enhancement working for 5.3 and 5.4beta7? I want to test it.
Good idea Aszrayel

[Aszrayel]

This mod should work with any kingdoms version of DLV as it really only increases settlement sizes and replaces the desc_campaign_ai_db file with a different one. There is a desc_strat file for the main campaign also but this only changes each region's faction/culture 'ownership'. Thank you for trying it out.

[SonOfCrusader76]

This is a simple mod that I made that I thought would help the Mongols out. Since about all the factions started with at least one large town and a wooden castle I upgraded the two starting Mongol regions to just that and also gave them some of the upgraded buildings. I also changed their 'building AI' to religious so they didn't just lose settlements because religious unrest being way too high. I found that the AI do build the Jewish Synagogue buildings and the conversion from those for the AI hurts them more than it should. I think they can 'deal' with it for a bit but not as good as a human player can. With his permission this mod also comes with a modified version of GrandViz's original desc_campaign_ai_db file from his 1.6 Ultimate AI (full credit goes to GrandViz). In this file all I did was copy and pasted DoW offensive parameters against all religions thinking this could help the passiveness of the Mongols. I ran through a test one night of this and it does seem to help them, but it wasn't tested extensively.

http://files.filefront.com/Mongol+Se.../fileinfo.html

Install instructions:
1)extract to your M2TW directory using 7zip
2)delete the map.rwm file found in the DLV_ext\data\world\maps\base directory (pretty sure it's not save game compatible since you need to delete the map.rwm file)

Edit: Any feedback would be much appreciated. Especially regarding the Mongols passiveness.

What's happening in my game is there are thousands of Mongol stacks milling around the Middle East area, but they're doing nothing, apart from slowing down the AI's turns (massively). I'd like a mod that either kicks them out entirely or makes them actually attack something!!!

[Aszrayel]

What's happening in my game is there are thousands of Mongol stacks milling around the Middle East area, but they're doing nothing, apart from slowing down the AI's turns (massively). I'd like a mod that either kicks them out entirely or makes them actually attack something!!!

This is happening in your game with this mod installed? In my 5.3 campaign I noticed them actually using the stacks. Some attacked some settlements and some other stacks they used to garrison their fronts and other settlements that needed.

[Swiss Halberdier]

In my 5.3 campaign as France they've attacked the kiev and the turks in the years 1235-1240. Captured 2 cities of each nation and then they've stopped their conquest to "sleep" some hours and just moving around the same province. After that, I lost my last spy in the east and I have to ship another spy there to see whats happenend to them.

[Aszrayel]

In my 5.3 campaign as France they've attacked the kiev and the turks in the years 1235-1240. Captured 2 cities of each nation and then they've stopped their conquest to "sleep" some hours and just moving around the same province. After that, I lost my last spy in the east and I have to ship another spy there to see whats happenend to them.

Well it's nice to see them do something at least . An easier way to keep tabs on 'em is to use the command console. Hit your ~ key on your keyboard to bring it up. Then type in toggle_fow. This will make the fog of war turn off and you will be able to see every region on the map. I am uploading a new version in which I made some changes. Will put changes in changelog.

[Swiss Halberdier]

I know the command "toggle_fow" but I play without the use of it. Surely for testing to see what the mongols do I will use it.

-changed alliances so they only last 10 turns (hopefully-haven't tested this yet)
Are all alliances cut after 10 turns? AI with AI? Player with AI?

Is this the newest version on Filefront? "Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:56 PM"
Is the new version savegame compatible?