Reducing Units Upkeep To Zero And Adding Diplomats To Faction At Start?

[westy159]

I want to try a campaign where there is no unit upkeep costs (if thats possible), so how do i reduce the units upkeep cost to zero?

Also im paying PAX Britannia but Romano-Britain does not start with a diplomat, spy and assasin like the other factions. How do i edit the game for this to happen?

Thanks guys.

[Feldspar]

for the upkeep. its in export_descr_unit.txt ust look for the stat_cost line and I beleive its the second number thats upkeep. if you look at the top of that file it should tell you what numbers affect what

[Lusted]

Go into export_descr_unit.txt. On this line for each unit:

stat_cost 1, 480, 90, 50, 80, 480

change the third number, 90 in this case, to 0 to have 0 upkeep.

[westy159]

woah that would take forever. Sure no ones already done this and posted the file to download?

[Lusted]

Nope. Most people like to keep upkeep in as it is realistic.

[Boudicca]

Actually...using an editor it takes about 10 minutes.

[Arbaces]

Yep... It won't actually take too much to change the upkeep to 0 for all units, there ain't much in the vanilla EDU somewhere around 200 I think... all thou need is patience, I recently managed to rebalance all stats and unit prices for all units in 10 hours . I'd rather suggest a better gameplay with modding the recruitment time to 0 instead of upkeep. Removing upkeep removes the difficulty, it's like cheating (Pressing "~" and typing add_money 40000 as many times as you want to add money). Well... that's for upkeep.

To add assassins , spyes , diplomats , characters here's what you have to do:
1)Go in the game, choose a position for your diplomat, move the cursor over it, press "~" (to activate console) and write show_cursorstat. Take a pen. Write as many coordinates as you want depending on how many agents you wish.
2)go in bi\data\world\maps\barbarian_invasion\descr_strat.txt or data\world\maps\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt (if for vanilla RTW).
3)search for (pressing CTRL+F) "romano_british" and go at the end of the faction descriptions but right before "character_record" is seen.
4)there you add the info as it is for other factions
"character Decius Curtius, diplomat/spy/assassin, age 29, , x 103, y 73 (coordinates noted from campaign in step 1)
traits GoodSpy 4"
You will have to open bi/data/descr_names too and choose names from there depending on the faction you wish to add an agent too (You can't add Decius curtius as a romano-british agent since the name doesn't exist in the database of romano brits, to go straight to romano british use CTRL+F and search for "romano_british")

Farewell

[westy159]

Yep... It won't actually take too much to change the upkeep to 0 for all units, there ain't much in the vanilla EDU somewhere around 200 I think... all thou need is patience, I recently managed to rebalance all stats and unit prices for all units in 10 hours . I'd rather suggest a better gameplay with modding the recruitment time to 0 instead of upkeep. Removing upkeep removes the difficulty, it's like cheating (Pressing "~" and typing add_money 40000 as many times as you want to add money). Well... that's for upkeep.

To add assassins , spyes , diplomats , characters here's what you have to do:
1)Go in the game, choose a position for your diplomat, move the cursor over it, press "~" (to activate console) and write show_cursorstat. Take a pen. Write as many coordinates as you want depending on how many agents you wish.
2)go in bi\data\world\maps\barbarian_invasion\descr_strat.txt or data\world\maps\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt (if for vanilla RTW).
3)search for (pressing CTRL+F) "romano_british" and go at the end of the faction descriptions but right before "character_record" is seen.
4)there you add the info as it is for other factions
"character Decius Curtius, diplomat/spy/assassin, age 29, , x 103, y 73 (coordinates noted from campaign in step 1)
traits GoodSpy 4"
You will have to open bi/data/descr_names too and choose names from there depending on the faction you wish to add an agent too (You can't add Decius curtius as a romano-british agent since the name doesn't exist in the database of romano brits, to go straight to romano british use CTRL+F and search for "romano_british")

Farewell

Thanks a lot for that help Arbaces. You will be in my prayers tonight.