4 civ avoid the hotseat?

[.:Zack Fair:.]

Why? If I start a new hotseat game Irish and some other civ vanish in the nothing..why?

[axnsan]

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[princeps.omnis]

I think what you're asking is why all the factions don't appear as playable in a hotseat campaign. SS has more factions than vanilla, so not all of them will appear on the selection menu.

To change this, you have to do a very simple edit of descr_strat: you just move whatever factions you want playable to the playable list, and then move a corresponding number of factions to the unplayable list.

Like this:

Hotseat mode seem to have less faction choices. the only fix is to edit descr_strat:
change this

campaign        imperial_campaign
playable
    england
    france
        hre
    spain
    venice
    sicily
    milan
        scotland
        cumans
        byzantium
        russia
    moors
    turks
    egypt
        denmark
        portugal
    poland
    hungary
        knights_templar
        lithuania 
        kievan_rus
        aragon
        ireland
        norway
        kwarezm
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
    papal_states
    mongols
    teutonic_order
    jerusalem 
    slave
end

to, say, this

campaign        imperial_campaign
playable
    england
    france
        hre
    spain
    venice
    sicily
    milan
        scotland
        kievan_rus
        aragon
        ireland
        norway
        kwarezm
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
  cumans
        byzantium
        russia
    moors
    turks
    egypt
        denmark
        portugal
    poland
    hungary
        knights_templar
        lithuania 
    papal_states
    mongols
    teutonic_order
    jerusalem 
    slave
end

p.s. mine is uglier

For more explanation, see: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=245778

[.:Zack Fair:.]

No one knows? Oh, and how can I play the "Late Era" campaign in hotseat

[bɑne]

Not all factions are playable in hotseat - you have to switch them around.

Topics of interest concerning hotseat
Ireland and ETC. or Want to play as Norway in hotseat
Figured out how to defend in hotseat

If thats not it, I join axnsan with

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[.:Zack Fair:.]

Thank you, and for the late era?

[axnsan]

same path but instaed of imperial_campaign go to custom/late_era_campaign

[.:Zack Fair:.]

no, wait..I'm asking how to play late era in hotseat

[.:Zack Fair:.]

Up please I need it now..

[bɑne]

Instead of bumbing the topic you could have used that hour to figure out the search function.

Try
6.2 Hotseat issues

[axnsan]

switch the imperial_campaign folder with the late_era_campaign one

[bɑne]

You can manualy swap the files, but better make a back-up before you do so as many things can go wrong.
First of all, the Late Campaign files can be found in Medieval II\mods\Stainless_Steel_6\data\world\maps\campaign\custom\(don't remember this one, but there's only one folder)
Early campaign is in \data\world\maps\base and \data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign
You'll have to switch the campaigns, make sure you put everything in the right folder.

[.:Zack Fair:.]

I've already do the search and I've already swapped..but the game crashes

[adecoy95]

use the eras_swapper.bat in the SS mod folder to switch campaigns

[Kaledon]

There are threads with the proper steps to play late era hotseat. I found it without difficulty. Really, the search feature is not hard to use.

[bɑne]

I've already do the search and I've already swapped..but the game crashes

Doublecheck your changes. You either missed files or missnamed or missplaced...

I forgot to mention in my last post that there are two files in \data\text that need to be switched of name. One of the is called imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt (or something like that). The other one has the same end (from regions).

Maybe Joris can jump in here... that way I could stop channeling him.