Adding faction to Prestige List and Changing from Minor to Major?

[Evil_Dane]

Do anyone know how to add a faction to the prestige list and change a minor nation to major, i would love that...

[Truelz]

I've done that for denmark I can sent it if you want

[Isostran]

I've done that for denmark I can sent it if you want

Can you throw me one too Truelz? Please

[Aykis16]

But how do you do it?

[Isostran]

But how do you do it?

Once I get the file I'll check it out and tell ya.

[Cursisanafou]

Alright i had to do some tests but here you go.

use the ESF editor and go to the faction you want to have as major.

morocco is my example:

347794776 - Faction ID
morocco
Morocco
True
True
False - Change this value to True

As far as i've tested minor factions may have half the prestige that major factions have.

To change this, you use the PFM (pack file manager) open patch.pack and go to factions_tables expand and click on factions

go to your faction and go to Type, change this from minor to playable.

I just have to change this back again to see if it effects it.


Note: if your faction starts with 0 prestige the bar and the flag won't show up until you gain prestige.


Now i'm a bit confused... i did it once and i had 10 prestige... now i only have 5 prestige but not really anything changed... very odd..,. oh well.

[tuore]

I'll post a detailed guide.

First, get the ESF editor.

Then, open up your startpos.esf located in C: Program Files / Steam / steamapps / common / empire / data / campaigns / main with the ESF editor.

And here's a quoted guide:

The first section we will be editing is known as the CAMPAIGN_PREOPEN_MAP_INFO as the name suggests this is what the game reads in when you are at the grand campaign start area so it can populate the menu with who can be played and what regions they own.

We first want to edit CAMPAIGN_PLAYERS_SETUP. Find the emergent faction you wish to play.

Under its CAMPAIGN_PLAYER_SETUP section you will see the faction's name and then three booleans. By setting the second boolean to True you will allow that faction to be chosen at the menu.

Next find your faction in FACTION_INFOS and set the last integer to 1 or if you plan to give your faction multiple regions, then just put the number of regions you plan to give. This step may not be completely necessary because I notice for the faction I stole the regions from they automatically updated to reflect correctly in the start game screen.

Next we have REGION_OWNERSHIPS_BY_THEATRE. Each subsection is for a specific theatre, India, America, Europe. So find the theater for your region and then find the specific region entry and change the faction name to the name of the Emergent faction you want to play.

Now we are moving on to the CAMPAIGN_ENV section. This defines the bulk of the campaign state at the start of the first turn.

Under CAMPAIGN_PLAYERS_SETUP you will do the same process as in the prior section where the second boolean needs to be set to True.

Next we will move to CAMPAIGN_MODEL/WORLD.

Under this section you will see a FACTION_ARRAY and a REGION_MANAGER. These are the two final areas we will be editing.

Firstly go into the FACTION_ARRAY and find the Faction you want to be emergent or the faction you want to give a region to.

When you have found him you will see a lot of data variables for the faction at its FACTION section level. Here is what some of them do:

1. faction_id - int
2. faction_db_name - uft16
3. faction_display_name - utf16
4. unknown - Boolean
5. unknown - Boolean
6. Is Major Faction? - Boolean
7. unknown - Binary Data
8. Official Religion - utf16
9. unknown - Boolean
10. capitol_region_id - Int
11. capitol_region_id - Int
12. unknown - Boolean
13. Is Emergent? - Boolean
14. unknown -Uint
15. unknown - Binary Data
16. unknown - int
17. unknown - int
18. Main AI mode - utf16 (FULL or MAINTAINANCE)
19. AI Personality - utf16
20. protector faction_id - int

So just change the 6th number to True.

[Evil_Dane]

I'll post a detailed guide.

First, get the ESF editor.

Then, open up your startpos.esf located in C: Program Files / Steam / steamapps / common / empire / data / campaigns / main with the ESF editor.

And here's a quoted guide:

The first section we will be editing is known as the CAMPAIGN_PREOPEN_MAP_INFO as the name suggests this is what the game reads in when you are at the grand campaign start area so it can populate the menu with who can be played and what regions they own.

We first want to edit CAMPAIGN_PLAYERS_SETUP. Find the emergent faction you wish to play.

Under its CAMPAIGN_PLAYER_SETUP section you will see the faction's name and then three booleans. By setting the second boolean to True you will allow that faction to be chosen at the menu.

Next find your faction in FACTION_INFOS and set the last integer to 1 or if you plan to give your faction multiple regions, then just put the number of regions you plan to give. This step may not be completely necessary because I notice for the faction I stole the regions from they automatically updated to reflect correctly in the start game screen.

Next we have REGION_OWNERSHIPS_BY_THEATRE. Each subsection is for a specific theatre, India, America, Europe. So find the theater for your region and then find the specific region entry and change the faction name to the name of the Emergent faction you want to play.

Now we are moving on to the CAMPAIGN_ENV section. This defines the bulk of the campaign state at the start of the first turn.

Under CAMPAIGN_PLAYERS_SETUP you will do the same process as in the prior section where the second boolean needs to be set to True.

Next we will move to CAMPAIGN_MODEL/WORLD.

Under this section you will see a FACTION_ARRAY and a REGION_MANAGER. These are the two final areas we will be editing.

Firstly go into the FACTION_ARRAY and find the Faction you want to be emergent or the faction you want to give a region to.

When you have found him you will see a lot of data variables for the faction at its FACTION section level. Here is what some of them do:

1. faction_id - int
2. faction_db_name - uft16
3. faction_display_name - utf16
4. unknown - Boolean
5. unknown - Boolean
6. Is Major Faction? - Boolean
7. unknown - Binary Data
8. Official Religion - utf16
9. unknown - Boolean
10. capitol_region_id - Int
11. capitol_region_id - Int
12. unknown - Boolean
13. Is Emergent? - Boolean
14. unknown -Uint
15. unknown - Binary Data
16. unknown - int
17. unknown - int
18. Main AI mode - utf16 (FULL or MAINTAINANCE)
19. AI Personality - utf16
20. protector faction_id - int

So just change the 6th number to True.

Thanks for this extreme good guide i will be going back to this for help when i wanna make another faction major

[Truelz]

I'll upload it to filefront very soon (Just gonna remember my username ) BTW you could just do as Cursisanafou said. But that would be without campaign goals/targets

[Truelz]

http://files.filefront.com/startpose.../fileinfo.html Here it is... But remember to backup the original!!!

[Evil_Dane]

Thanks!!