Changing the recruitment time

[Sgian Dubh]

Hi all,

How do you change the recruitment after you have installed RS?

Thanks,

[Worm]

C:\Program\Acitvision( or creative assembly )\Rome total war\data\_IMPORTANT_STUFF\Recruitment. Here there are two batch files, run the one called 0_turn for 0 turn recruitment and 1_turn for 1 turn recruitment

[Mulattothrasher]

This is an alternative method is you want only certain units changed. I assume you are familiar with the directory where you installed the game? Go to that folder, open the data folder, then scroll almost to the very bottom. You'll see a file called export_descr_unit.txt. Open that file and search for the name of the unit(s) you want to change the recruitment time for.

Entries in that file look like whats below. The red number is what you want to change. Changing the red number to 0 = zero turn recruitment, 1 = one turn recruitment and so on.



type barb peasant
dictionary barb_peasant ; Barbarian Colonist
category infantry
class light
voice_type Light_1
soldier barb_infantry, 60, 0, 0.7
mount_effect chariot -20, horse -20, camel -20
attributes sea_faring, hide_improved_forest
formation 1.2, 1.8, 2.4, 2.4, 6, horde
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 1, 0, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, knife, 25 , 1
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 0 , 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 1, 0, 0, leather
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 1
stat_ground 3,0,0,0
stat_mental 1, low, untrained
stat_charge_dist 60
stat_fire_delay 5000
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 0, 280, 10, 20, 30, 150
ownership dacia, gauls, germans, scythia, spain, slave

[Sgian Dubh]

Great.

Thanks!

[Mjr Phil]

Is it just as easy to make minimap display/hide province borders as well? AFAIK both these options are selectable during installation...

[Nellup]

To change the region boarders go to
(your RS directory)\Data\_IMPORTANT_STUFF.

eg. C:\Program Files\Activision\Roma Surrectum\Data\_IMPORTANT_STUFF
and then to change the region borders to visible go to the Region_Borders_Visible folder and copy that descr_sm_factions and paste it into your Data folder, which will overwrite the old one.

To change region borders to invisible go to the Region_Borders_Invisible folder and copy and paste that descr_sm_factions.

Or if you want to do it manually, go to your data folder and open descr_sm_factions (make a backup first, just in case things so horribly wrong).
For each faction it'll say something like, if you have faction borders visible:

faction						romans_julii
culture						greek
symbol					models_strat/symbol_julii.CAS
rebel_symbol				models_strat/symbol_slaves.CAS
primary_colour				red 85, green 135, blue 65
secondary_colour			red 0, green 0, blue 0
loading_logo				loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_julii.tga
standard_index				0
logo_index				23
small_logo_index			248
triumph_value				5
intro_movie				fmv/intros/julii_intro_final.wmv
victory_movie				fmv/victory/julii_outro_320x240.wmv
defeat_movie				fmv/lose/julii_eliminated.wmv
death_movie					fmv/death/death_julii_grass_320x240.wmv
custom_battle_availability	yes
can_sap				yes
prefers_naval_invasions		yes

To make them invisible, change the secondary_colour so it is the same as the primary colour so you end up with this:

faction						romans_julii
culture						greek
symbol					models_strat/symbol_julii.CAS
rebel_symbol				models_strat/symbol_slaves.CAS
primary_colour				red 85, green 135, blue 65
secondary_colour			red 85, green 135, blue 65
loading_logo				loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_julii.tga
standard_index				0
logo_index				23
small_logo_index			248
triumph_value				5
intro_movie				fmv/intros/julii_intro_final.wmv
victory_movie				fmv/victory/julii_outro_320x240.wmv
defeat_movie				fmv/lose/julii_eliminated.wmv
death_movie					fmv/death/death_julii_grass_320x240.wmv
custom_battle_availability	yes
can_sap				yes
prefers_naval_invasions		yes

[dvk901]

Just look under _important_stuff in your data folder. There is a lot of info in there, and all the files necessary to make the changes asked for in this thread.