Editing starting Age of Agents

[Akora]

Is there a way to edit what ages your agents will be when you recruit them? I'm pretty sick of getting 39 year old ninjas. Seriously the average life expectancy in feudal Japan was 34 - 39 is a bit late to start a career as a ninja.

[LiquidSantanero]

Is there a way to edit what ages your agents will be when you recruit them? I'm pretty sick of getting 39 year old ninjas. Seriously the average life expectancy in feudal Japan was 34 - 39 is a bit late to start a career as a ninja.

I can't really say how to prevent the game engine from randomly choosing the age of spies, but you can change it yourself. When you have an agent or just hired one save your game.
Then open your saved game (make a back up 1st) with esf.editor 1.4.6 and go to: campaign_save_game/campaign_env/campaign_model/world/faction_array/faction_array/faction.
The 1st faction is the faction you are playing with. open character_array and search for the characters you want to change, either name, surename or date of birth, which you can do in character_detail

Save after every change you made. It's better if you save ofter because if you make too many changes the esf.editor might not save all the changes or might corrupt some files.

Alternatively you can use TAW's tool Shogun2 converter, which you can convert your esf. file into html and when your done making changes, convert it back to esf. It's far easier than esf. editor.

Hope this was helpful...