Mods to make my game better

**DrunkGiant** · February 24, 2008, 06:32 PM

Love the mod.... But I do need help to make it better for me.

1. Merchants? Any other way to get them other then having 20% judaism
2. My biggest issue, losing faction generals and leaders way to early.... anyway to beef this up?
3. Building on to point to, if not beefing age up, anyway to make it so my children can produce more off spring? Im not a fan of adoption, Ill marry princess, but I like to keep my crown in my blood line.

4. Rebels? Anyway to tone this down? And also turn off resurfacing factions? My french game had a lot of issues with rebels around my main country and then portugal kept spawning, well spawned twice just south of Paris... and they spawn with some pretty good troops...

**DrunkGiant** · February 24, 2008, 09:36 PM

If anyone can help me solve any issues Id be so thankful, I love the role playing element of the game.... much better then all the other mods, love having governor/general, and such, but just the fertility and early deaths are brutal for me.

**Mr_Cyberpunk** · February 25, 2008, 01:21 AM

1. can be fixed with a small script.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=142708

2. Don't charge your generals into spearmen or archers and you'll be fine.. You've got to train them up and use them better before trying that. latter on they own everything!

3. There is an option to increase the children limit from 4 but I can't recall where it is located.

**vonKrysiak** · February 25, 2008, 04:16 AM

As for the generals I have increased their HP to 3 points (but then all the heavy cav have 2 in my version) so they live way longer and unless you charge spearman/pikeman they are going to live longer that way ;-)
Now as far as chaging the amount children I wouldn't go for it - I remember seeing posts a few months back that it was causing some problems if you increase above 4
basicaly you wont be able to have more children/generals if you only have a handful of cities - the number of all the characters (generals/kids ) is based on the size of your empire if I am not mistaken so if you already have twice the amount of generals than provinces then it is less likely you will get another family member born...

**DrunkGiant** · February 25, 2008, 12:05 PM

Whoops sorry guys on point 2. I should of been more clear.

2. Anyway not to lose generals at such a young age? Anyway I can easily move that up from 30 -> 50 or something like in the newest patch?

I rarely have problems losing my generals in battle, unless I desperately need them to keep fighting when they only have such few men.

**vonKrysiak** · February 25, 2008, 12:52 PM

Oh then you might want to change the old age in descr_campaign_db, look for line:
<old_age uint="30"/>
change that to higher value like 50 or 60 and you should be golden - unless there was another thing added while I was away but I think thats what sorted it for me in my last campaign (damn that reminds me I forgot to do it in my last campaign grrrr)

**Harry Lime** · February 25, 2008, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by vonKrysiak

Oh then you might want to change the old age in descr_campaign_db, look for line:
<old_age uint="30"/>
change that to higher value like 50 or 60 and you should be golden - unless there was another thing added while I was away but I think thats what sorted it for me in my last campaign (damn that reminds me I forgot to do it in my last campaign grrrr)

It's save game compatible

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**vonKrysiak** · February 25, 2008, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

It's save game compatible

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Thank God for Harry Lime, I would have offered you one hundred virgins on the altar I keep stashed deep in my garage if not for the fact that I have to keep a low profile as it is not strictly legal in Ireland

I am off to change my file then ;-)

**DrunkGiant** · February 25, 2008, 05:48 PM

Thanks for the help guys, after I downloaded the merchant fix, I went in and played with the age thing, and Im hoping thatll make my game much better. Keep my generals alive longer to keep em around to pump a few kids out.

**iceman0486** · February 26, 2008, 03:56 PM

Only thing is . . . well, this is the Middle Ages we're talking about. Average life span ain't all that high.

Also, the 4 kid limit has a lot to do with manageability. It's math. 1 king = 4 kids = 16 kids = 64 kids = 256 kids = 1024 kids!!!!!!!!!! And that is what? 6 generations? This is of course assuming that none of them die, are bribed away, etc. Also, the game script that reduces the chances of children being born/adoptions when your territories are filling up.

Moral of the story is, more children probably isn't the answer.