rebel spawn rate

[soibean]

Hello,
I am trying to adjust the rebel spawn rate. I was playing a campaign as Parthia on H/M and within two years everyone province I conquered had a 6 + stack of rebels plus a family member within it... so I want to raise the number.
I went into the data folder then to world, campaign, imperial campaign and finally descr_strat. When I change the brigand and pirate spawn numbers, I get an error saying it cannot create the file and that I need to recheck the path and file name?
Any advice?

[QuintusSertorius]

Changes to descr_strat.txt aren't savegame compatible.

[soibean]

yea I read that in the other forum and was planning on restarting the campaign.
I found that if I moved the file to the desktop and then edited it, I could change and save the file. I hate windows vista

[QuintusSertorius]

It might also be the text editor you're using. People recommend Notepad++ and other things to do the job, because Windows Notepad messes with the format.

[JackAlexander]

Where is descr_strat.txt? I can't find in the Data folder. Also is there anyway to do it from the console? Changing the rebel spawn rate, and maybe giving free cities to some factions..

[Korlon]

No, you cannot do it from the console.

Look in your \EB\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder.

[JackAlexander]

if I changed it from the file, will the change affect the current saved games? if not, will the saved games work?

[soibean]

I think it only affects new games, but I believe your old games still work