Extending the Campaign End Date in Rome: Total War

[Cicero111]

Hi all,

I'm sorry if this question has already been asked, but I have searched all around the forums and have yet to find a thread giving me an answer to it. Is there a way to extend the Rome: Total War campaign past its regular end date, say pushing the end date to 2,000 A.D. or something like that? I knew how to do this in Medieval Total War by editing the ini files with the start and end dates, but I have failed to find a similar ini file in Rome Total War. Thank you ahead of time for any help you all can provide on this question. Again, sorry if it has already been asked.

[Lusted]

Go into data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt and look for these lines:

start_date -280 summer
end_date 14 summer

And change the bottom one to whatever you want. This will only take effect when you start a new campaign though.

[Cicero111]

Thanks for the help...

[Kesl]

What about the start of the campaign. Could I change the start date to 300 BC?

[CaesarVincens]

Yep, as far as I know any date should work.

[HouseOfHam]

Except year 0. For a BC date, just make it negative.

[Killerbee]

You can even start for instance in year 2800 and end in 3500 .. but i have a question , how do you change the 'BC' into something else (for instance AUC , like in RS , or 'Third Age' in some lotr-mod ...)

[Aradan]

text/shared.txt

{ST_X_BC}                    your_version_of_bc %d
{ST_X_AD}                    your_version_of_ad %d

You can check how other mods do it and find out how to do it yourself.

[Killerbee]

Thx , yea i know i could check it out , but the only problem was that i didn't knew wich file it was .. Although i suspected it was somewhere in shared , strat or expanded_bi

Anyway , thx Aradan !

[Kesl]

Thanks