Cities <-> Castles conversions

[StarDruid]

Anyone know if it's possible to make a mod or just plain mod m2TW to allow cities to change to castles. Also to allow it to only with a certain population size? So say plague hits and kills off a good portion of you pop or you sack/exterminate after taking a city and it falls to down to the right levels?

Did a search a few days ago and found a thread that said what you need to change to possible allow cities to change to Castes but they never said what file to edit but I believe the original poster couldn't get it to work.


Kind of a Newbie at M2TW as I just got it a few days ago but done some editing/unit making for other games like Total Annihilation so not total lost on the general ideas of what I might need to do. Thought most of the time I was wonder around lost half the time guessing if i was doing it right.

[sinople]

It's easy. Go to your export_descr_unit file (you need to have unpack your game).

Then go to this line :

building convert_to_castle
{
    convert_to convert_to_city

Change it like that :

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building convert_to_castle
{
    convert_to convert_to_city
    levels village_to_wooden_castle small_town_to_stone_keep large_town_to_castle city_to_large_castle large_city_to_fortress huge_city_to_citadel
    {
        village_to_wooden_castle city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 0
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  1 
            cost  800 
            settlement_min village
            upgrades
            {
                small_town_to_stone_keep
            }
        }
        small_town_to_stone_keep city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 1
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  1 
            cost  1600 
            settlement_min town
            upgrades
            {
                large_town_to_castle
            }
        }
        large_town_to_castle city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 2
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  2 
            cost  3200 
            settlement_min large_town
            upgrades
            {
                city_to_large_castle
            }
        }
        city_to_large_castle city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 3
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  2 
            cost  3800 
            settlement_min city
            upgrades
            {
                large_city_to_fortress
            }
        }
        large_city_to_fortress city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 4
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  3 
            cost  4500 
            settlement_min large_city
            upgrades
            {
                huge_city_to_citadel
            }
        }
        huge_city_to_citadel city requires factions { denmark, hre, scotland, france, england, mesoamerican, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } 
        {
            convert_to 5
            capability
            {
            }
            material wooden
            construction  3 
            cost  5000 
            settlement_min huge_city
            upgrades
            {
            }
        }
    }
    plugins 
    {
    }
}

I attached it. Now you can convert all your cities to castles.
You can do the same with last level of castles as well

Ps I didn't try it, so tell me if I'm wrong