Two - Minor to Major, and how to change cultural groups?

[Dulahan]

Two questions:

First: How do you change a minor nation to a major so it turns up on the graph and diplomacy for major nations?

Second: How do you change the cultural group a nation recruits from? It seems weird to me that Dagestan is recruiting European style units.


And a bonus! Is there any way to stop the AI from cheating? Because I'm seeing it recruit units it shouldn't even be able to. Every building sabotaged and multiple line infantry or cavalry in one turn style stuff.

[devans]

To change a minor faction to a major you need to edit the startpos.esf file with an ESF Editor. Instructions on how to do it can be found here.

To change the units available to a faction you can use the Database Editor.

[Dulahan]

Do you have a link to a tutorial for how to use the DB editor for adding units to a faction?

[devans]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=239545
Although it's made for the Pack File Manager, you can use the DB Editor. You just have to find the right tables.

[Dulahan]

Thanks... this looks... difficult.

I'm trying to add the naval units to Georgia.

I suppose I'll need to know which grouping they're in to boot. Is it the Russia-Poland one?

[Dulahan]

OK, I can find the file, but I can't figure out how to unlock the Availability field. It's greyed out on me and stuck on False.

[devans]

OK, I can find the file, but I can't figure out how to unlock the Availability field. It's greyed out on me and stuck on False.

You create a new table, rewrite the information you want (what I'd do is copy and paste the units you want and change the faction availability to Georgia) and save it as a pack file. Then load it with Mod Manager and you should be set to go. There's probably a better way but that's the way I do it.