Add a little extra money.

**Napoleon Rimmer** · December 25, 2009, 01:42 PM

All,

Does anyone know how you can add a little extra money in the campaigns? As i play on hard i am finding it slow and frustrating starting with what u start with. So i want to add a little bit more to make it a bit more exciting. Is it something you have to edit in the startpos?

Cheers

**Geronimo2006** · December 25, 2009, 01:44 PM

In the Empire Optimized thread (empiretaketwo) there are new downloads that massively increase the starting cash. For example, I had 67,000 as France. Don't know if that was the intention but it's what happens.

**Napoleon Rimmer** · December 25, 2009, 02:05 PM

Thanks all though this does give me a little extra money to start with it cancels all unit and ships cost so i can recruite as many units as i want and it does not cost to up keep them. This part takes the Military challenge out of the game. Thanks anyways. Do you know of a way of manual editing what ever u have to edit to achieve this?

Cheers

**Geronimo2006** · December 25, 2009, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Napoleon Rimmer

Thanks all though this does give me a little extra money to start with it cancels all unit and ships cost so i can recruite as many units as i want and it does not cost to up keep them. This part takes the Military challenge out of the game. Thanks anyways. Do you know of a way of manual editing what ever u have to edit to achieve this?

Cheers

I'm not sure but it would probably involve altering the startpos.esf file. There is a thread/section on startpos.esf mods somewhere on the forum.

**Isabelxxx** · December 25, 2009, 04:38 PM

-Open your startpos and go to:
Campaing Env\Campaign Model\World\Faction array\Faction array\...
-Open your faction, ex.France
...\Faction array\ France \Faction economics
-The first line is the starting treasury
Put what you wanna.
Ex: 15000
-Save.

Make backups before change anything.

There is a tutorial for this:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=272139

**Napoleon Rimmer** · December 25, 2009, 05:19 PM

Thank you ever so much. Getting really frustrated not having enough money to defend myself when playing on hard. Maybe ill last more than 10 years.

Once again thanks

**Okuto** · December 25, 2009, 05:28 PM

you really don't want to unlimit things as the AI will spam.......I unlimited everything and all I fought were elites.....it was very....frustrating. The AI will only build what wins in auto resolve, which comes in the form of cav and cannons, elites, etc. You'll wonder how a bankrupt france can recruit swiss guards and irish regiments up the butt

**Napoleon Rimmer** · December 26, 2009, 02:57 AM

I am actually playing as france all i have done is raise the starting amount from 8000 to 15000. When playing on hard i lose about 90% of my territory in america. as the AI seem to build an army really quick, and not having enough to start with makes the next ten years or so boring as u have to wait untill ur funds increase before u can raise an army good enough to fight back. at least now i can build a few extra units in america, will and think it will be more of a challenge.

Cheers