Command lines

[Argyle]

Hello, first time poster, long time reader.

I just recently got back into playing MTW and I remember that you could add a few command lines to the MTW shortcut, but I can't for the life of me remember any of them. Now I'm wondering if anyone could help me and list a few of them?

Thanks in advance,
Argyle

[caravel]

I can only remember these two offhand:


-ian

Debugging mode


-green_generals

Generals that die of old age are replaced by a general of inferior stats (instead of a clone).

[drone]

I searched around for a bunch of these, and came up with the usual suspects as well as a couple I had never heard of. I haven't tried them all, but the ones I found are here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/wiki/index.php/MTW_Command_Line_Switches
Not sure about the death messages or old age switches, haven't tried them. If anybody knows more switches or better details, please post and I'll upgrade the wiki.

[caravel]

I've not heard of those unusual ones before, any luck trying them yet drone?

:bow:

[drone]

Never tested them out, and unfortunately don't have time to do so now. I have theories on the old_age switch, maybe it was used to debug the 56 year old king bug.

Found it, numerology thread, quoted from eat cold steel:
http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/1701/t/Medieval-TotalWar-Numerology.html?page=2

And from a dev post:
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10-20-2003, 05:29
eat cold steel
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Time for one of my hidden-in-some-obscure-thread-secert-extra-command-line-switch-post me thinks. New to the VI patch:

-old_age:A where A is when the old age kicks in for generals, for kings, royal blood and hero add 10 years to that. It defaults to 40 which gives you some variation.

-death_msg:R where R is the rank of a general must be to get a general dies of old age parchment when you are displaying non-critical messages.

-critical_death_msg:R same as the one above, but it display a death message regardless of if the non-critical message check box is ticked or not. The default is death_msg:4, critical_death_msg:11. This gives the same behaviour as before the patch - you only death message when you want non-critical message and the general is rank 4+.

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If eat cold steel actually posted it, I would say they are valid switches. The patch mentioned would be the 2.01 fix, I guess.