How to add new building slots upgrading cities - NEW

[husserlTW]

2 questions : 1st how i can add a farm in Austria Region and how i can make Presburg(hungary) a 4-slot city???

1. You can't.

2. Follow tutorial.

[Utereg]

I want to change Utrecht as univeristy to a big city and Amsterdam to a university. How to do that?
And must I start a new game and save it? And use that? Where are my save games ?

[husserlTW]

The only thing you can do is changing the names in loclisation_loc and thus what name should be appeared in game, you cannot actually make the change because the one is a city and the other a town. Below you can see the entries and in Bold the changes you have to make.

start_pos_settlements_onscreen_name_settlementamsterdam88 / Amsterdam / False
start_pos_settlements_onscreen_name_settlementamsterdam330 / Amsterdam / False
campaign_map_towns_and_ports_onscreen_name_townutrecht / Utrecht / False

[Utereg]

The only thing you can do is changing the names in loclisation_loc and thus what name should be appeared in game, you cannot actually make the change because the one is a city and the other a town. Below you can see the entries and in Bold the changes you have to make.

start_pos_settlements_onscreen_name_settlementamsterdam88 / Amsterdam / False
start_pos_settlements_onscreen_name_settlementamsterdam330 / Amsterdam / False
campaign_map_towns_and_ports_onscreen_name_townutrecht / Utrecht / False

Ah ok, thats pity . Then I will do that, its only not geopgrahpy good, doesn't matter.

Thank you for your reaction

[xxon]

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial. I tried to make Cologne a 5-slot city borrowing Venice slots, I followed every step but it crashes when I select Start Campaign. It starts to charge the campaign, but when it's about 1/5 it crashes.

BTW, I don't use the vanilla startpos.esf, I use the All factions (but emergent ones) playable startpos.

These are the files I edited.regions.esf and startpos.esf

[Iqaone]

Thank you for this great tutorial HusserlTW.

I followed your instructions and managed to convert naples to major city and St. Petersburg to a minor one. However, I failed to overcome one thing. As you can see in the attached picture, no building is shown on the campaign map in St. Petersburg, although The Magistrate is already built. I re-checked all the steps again and again, I could not find anything. I am missing something. I appreciate any help..
Thanks in advance..

[Geronimo2006]

Thanks HussarITW. Can you do a more comprehensive guide to changing forms of government? I know there is one thread on it but it is extremely short and just a response to someone asking how to change to a Republic. It doesn't explain changing from CM to AM and vice-versa.

[Iqaone]

Hello to all,

I found out the problem. During the convertion, I also changed the coordinates of the government building in St. Petersburg which I shouldn't.

I copied the original coordinates from the original startpos.esf and the issue is solved.

On the other hand I have another question in mind. Does it make any difference in AI behavior (about upgrading etc.), if we change the government building from magistrate to minor_magistrate or vice versa in cities converted to towns? (St. Petersburg in my convertion)

[husserlTW]

These buildings are in deferent group (government and minor_government) . They defer in available levels, units and income. I think government are better. Anyway if you change it in minor you have to make changes in coordinations and in regions.esf.

[Iqaone]

Thanks for the reply HussarlTW, I appreciate it.

[Echtrae]

hi i can't seem to get my head around how to do this. Whenever i think i have cracked it the games just crashes back to the start menu. would it be possible if i upload my save game that you would be able to change Dublin, Ireland to a major city for me?

[husserlTW]

No but I can check your files you've tried to mod and correct them. Put the startpos or the save game and the regions.esf in a folder, compress it and upload it in a free hosted server like filefront, mediafire, etc. and post here the link.

[Echtrae]

ok i think im getting through it now. it was the spreadsheets that i was having trouble with but seem t understand it now. However i do still have a problem. in step 3 where i have to change the settlement owner id i am having trouble locating the correct slots for the venice buildings. i can find 2070 but cannot locate the other 4, would this be because i deleted them in step 2 of 'major to minor'? did i delete the wrong part... i deleted the 4 settlements other than the govt. settlement.


ok i have just seen that there are 4 or 5 2078 some have 0 others have 1. i will change the ones with 0 and see if that works... in the mean time if im wrong let me now. ty........... hmm they have the wrong building slots numbers, maybe i''l just wait for reply.

[husserlTW]

As far I can understand you downgrade Venice with settlement Id 2078. If this is the case then the cai building slots you are looking for are 2075, 2074, 2073, and 2071. Check the 9 digit Id to be sure. 2077 and 2076 are roads and fortifications. 2072 is remaining government building in Venice which you do not have to touch.

[Echtrae]

k thanks will give it another go now

[Echtrae]

hey this is my file would you mind having a look at it, i think did have it at one stage (without changing the fortification size at the end) but then i went to make ireland playable and activate another town (galway) and now its ctd. would you mind just double checking me making dublin ireland a major city. i had also had both of those working together (without the major city change) before i tried to change it.


http://www.filefront.com/16665983/startpos.zip

[husserlTW]

I need regions.esf file with Dublin a major city. Also you have to make it more clear what is your problem. Have you made Ireland playable and activated a town successfully and then you failed in Dublin's conversion?

[Echtrae]

i think i got dublin converted ok, i loaded the game before unlocking ireland and activating the town of galway and it loaded fine. however i hadnt done the change on the town wall because the programme was out of date or something and i couldnt find main.pack with the other programme i was told to download DBEditor i think it was called. then i then proceeded to unlock ireland and activate galway but now it just ctd. i have gone through it a few times again but can't seem to find the problem, i believe the problem lies in a mistake i have made (but cant find) in the latter two. i was going to post in the other two tutorials for a fix to the respective issues but saw that you were the author of both so i just posted here. thanks again in advance.

http://www.filefront.com/16674971/regions.esf

[husserlTW]

You've done a good job so far, executing a difficult tutorial! There are 2 problems easy to be fixed.

1. In FACTION Ireland you've entered the CAI Id (4 digits). You have to enter there the 9 digit Id from REGIONS_ARRAY.

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2. In Galway BUILDING_SLOT you've copied BUILDING_MANAGER instead of BUILDING record. Right click on BUILDING copy right click on 1st BUILDING_MANAGER paste. Right click on second BUILDING_MANAGER and delete. Your file should show now like this:

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Save and exit. After these changes everything should be o.k. Start game as Ireland and proceed buying Ireland region, save exit, make Hybrid, correct treasuries and you are ready.

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EDIT: To fix camera bug (showing Ivory coast in the beginning) download attached file and extract it on your desktop. Open in the same instance of the EsfEditor CAMERA.esf and your startpos.esf. Copy CAMPAIGN_CAMERA_MANAGER from CAMERA.esf and paste it on CAMPAIGN_ENV. Delete the old one, save and exit.

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[Echtrae]

dude, you are a legend. thanks a million and i don't just mean for the tutorials but for the 'follow up care' that you have given. if i could give rep i would but for now thanks will have to suffice. i will return to give rep when able.



thanks again.