can someone Please help.

**Furor_Mancunia** · August 14, 2008, 08:43 AM

ok i have been playing ss now for a couple months and clucking love it. i had everything set up nicely but i recently installed banzai's animations pack and this sent my installation completely west.
ive done a re-install and now the 2 turns per year mod i was using for some reason prevents the game from getting past the splash screen. i know the new perfectly polished mod has 2TPY as a feature but i dont want to use that mod as some of its features do not appeal to me.

can somebody please tell me the files i need to edit to get a working 2 turns per year? i know about editing the desc_strat file but that alone does not seem to work.

please help me on this guys i havent been able to play ss for a week and its doing my head in.

thanks in advance.

**~~Grandmaster Ryu~~** · August 14, 2008, 08:47 AM

Never >: )

No Perfectly Polished = no help ^^

<3 j/k

On a serious note

You'll need to double construction times, population growth, reduce kings purse, unit recruit times

stuff like that =]

Caeser will probably upload his files later on - he always does when a thread like this pops up

**Furor_Mancunia** · August 14, 2008, 08:50 AM

ryu cheers mate but this is what i need to know:

i edited the desc_strat file to show timescale 0.50

however the game still advances 1.5 years with every turn.

what is going on???

**~~Grandmaster Ryu~~** · August 14, 2008, 08:52 AM

Erm - well that's not possible lol

Make sure you're 1. editing the right descr_strat files, make sure it's named correctly also

do it for both late era and early era just incase.

**Furor_Mancunia** · August 14, 2008, 08:54 AM

ill give it another shot.

cheers for the help man.

typical... i own an impossible game....

**~~Grandmaster Ryu~~** · August 14, 2008, 08:57 AM

Actually make sure you have the [io] file_first = true switches on the .cfg files also - otherwise it won't read the descr_strat

**Furor_Mancunia** · August 14, 2008, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Grandmaster Ryu

Actually make sure you have the [io] file_first = true switches on the .cfg files also - otherwise it won't read the descr_strat

sorry mate could you explain - im a bit of a newb at modding

**Caesar Clivus** · August 14, 2008, 09:00 AM

You also have to start a new campaign. Changes to descr_strat aren't save-game compatible.

**~~Grandmaster Ryu~~** · August 14, 2008, 09:02 AM

Okay in the medieval2.preferrence.cfg file located in the C://Program Files/SEGA/Medieval II Total War directory

there should be lines that read,

[io]
file_first = true

make sure of that.

Same for Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg located in C://Program Files/SEGA/Medieval II Total War/mods/Stainless_Steel_6

As Caeser just said - you need to start a new campaign also, however I took that for granted that you had =/