Unit Replenishment

[Moosoulini]

Anyone know how to change unit replenishment across the board quickly and easily? I know I could go into export_descr_buildings and change each individual unit, but that would probably take about half my life. Any way to, for example, double the rate of unit replenishment?

[Polycarpe]

Anyone know how to change unit replenishment across the board quickly and easily? I know I could go into export_descr_buildings and change each individual unit, but that would probably take about half my life. Any way to, for example, double the rate of unit replenishment?

Hi there, you can't really do this in-game but you have to work in the EDB to really change this. it doesn't take that long, just a good afternoon

[Moosoulini]

Ok dude, cheers for the response. Tomorrow could be a monotonous day!

[Kolaris8472]

If you have Notepad++ you can replace common occurrences. Iirc when I edited it there were 12 different rates, and halving them all only took me about 10-15 minutes.

[Ferdiad]

Notepad++ is a lifesaver.

[Moosoulini]

Glad a came on here to check if there was any other suggestions before I spent all afternoon on it. Thanks guys!

[Moosoulini]

No idea what I did wrong, but after making the changes I wanted to, when I load the game it crashes before it gets to the main menu. Any idea what happened?

[Pesticide]

does it actually make sence to replenish units ? I had the feeling that simply buying a new unit and restock the old one made more sence and i could not buy a new unit and replenish at the same time. So Replenishment kinda felt useless and i even feared it would delay the ability to recruit new untis with additional turns i needed to wait before i could recruit them again.

[Fred Putz]

I guess You messed something up. Just have a look at the system log.

Anyway - just wanted to say that this a really annoying work. I´m doing that too for my little project atm.

[Moosoulini]

@ Pesticide. I think we are talking about different. I'm talking about the time it takes for units to be recruited again, rather than retraining units after a battle.

[Fred Putz]

I always change the default.cfg to from:

to=mods/SS6.3/system.log.txt
level=* error
;level=* trace

to:

to=mods/SS6.3/system.log.txt
level=* error
level=* trace

and then i have a look at it. It´s located in Your SS 6.3 folder. Should be an error message. No clou - e.g. EDB line 4 collum 3 or something like that. It´s easy to find that mistake that way. If there´s no error message - ask the professionals here.

[Moosoulini]

@Fred Putz. Do you know what I could have messed up? And how do you look at the system log? But yeah, it is very tedious! Notebook++ was a major timesaver though.

[Kolaris8472]

A crash huh? Hmm.

Could you post one unit line after your changes? Just to make sure you edited the right part, spacing is ok, nothing got knicked accidentally.

[Moosoulini]

17:12:32.015 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
17:12:32.015 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
17:12:32.031 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
17:12:35.375 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/SS6.3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 2110, column 140
Unexpected in condition parsing: 'recruit_pool'


that is the system log. not sure what unexpected in condition parsing means?
this is the line that seems to being questioned, 2110:

recruit_pool "Lithuanian Skirmishers" 0 0.25 1 0 requires factions { slave, } and hidden_resource lithuania

[Fred Putz]

export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 2110, column 140

Just have a look at that line and compare it with the ones above. Perhaps a missing space character (had that too), perhaps something else.

Edit: i would compare it with the working edb-backup

Is this a mod? In my 6.4 EDB there are no entries for slaves. (Or i haven´t seen them)

        recruit_pool "Lithuanian Skirmishers"  1   0.25   2  0  requires factions { lithuania, } and hidden_resource lithuania

That how a line looks like in my EDB - but line 2110 is an empty one.

[Moosoulini]

no... no mods. thats just what i have... no idea why haha

[Fred Putz]

Ok there are entries for slaves - just in those longer lines. Still don´t know why my line 2110 is an empty one and Yours not.

        recruit_pool "Lithuanian Skirmishers"  0   0.13   1  0  requires factions { venice, scotland,  england, france, portugal, spain, aragon, moors, milan, papal_states, sicily, hre, norway, denmark, poland, russia, cumans, kwarezm, turks, jerusalem, egypt, byzantium, hungary, kievan_rus, teutonic_order, mongols, slave, timurids, } and hidden_resource lithuania

Congrats - i have done nothing.

[Moosoulini]

I even changed that line back to the original and still get the same thing. What is even more bizarre is that there is no column 140. It only goes as far as 132...

[Moosoulini]

*FIXED IT*
After realised that there was no column 140, I just pressed delete at the end of the line. When I reran SS to check if that had worked, it said the error had occured on line 2111, again 8 characters after the line ended. I just kept pressing delete at the end of each line till i got to a blank line and now it works. Thanks for your help Fred!

[Gorrrrrn]

If using Notepad++ make sure you save the .txt file as a Windows format file.
(For some reason it will sometimes change the format to UNIX which destroys the formatting -only it won't show in Notepad++, only in Notepad.)
To get the formatting back you need to change the EOL (end of line) code to windows.
--
another point find and replace can cause a lot of problems if you are changing numbers - check for the values used in the original and try to find multiples / fractions
which are not already used, so you don't change some values twice.
(eg you may want to change values such as 0.5 and 0.25. DOn't change the 0.5 to 0.25, use 0.26. or else if you change the 0.25 you'll get both lots.)
also use the exact number esp if you are changing values with 0 in them, you might change the wrong values.

If deleting a faction make sure you check every entry so you don't leave empty values {} if it's the last faction.

And finally don't block replace - check every time you change a value in case it's not the value you want to change -
eg don't change all 1's to 2's (it might be good for recruitment pools but cause havoc elsewhere - check every occurence before doing so.

Always keep a back-up of the original file in case of total mess-ups.