Civil War Message Issue

This is a repeat post from twcenter.net forums. I'm posting this here in hopes of getting a larger audience to review this issue.

I'm making my first mod from Vanilla RTW and it is going pretty well so far except this one glitch. No matter what faction I play I always get the following drop down messages, "Rome at War!" & "Julii start Civil War." It says this in the drop down messages at the beginning of a turn. However, no civil war is actually happening and all the Roman factions stay allied to one another. This normally only happens when one non-Roman faction declares war on another Roman faction. What have I done wrong to cause this to occur?

It is probably important to note that I have non-Roman factions set as super factions. For instance, Numidia is the superfaction for Carthage and Egypt; Parthia is the superfaction for Pontus and Armenia; Macedon is the superfaction for Greek_Cities, Seleucids, and Thrace; Britons are the superfaction for Dacia and Scthyia; Spain is the superfaction for Gaul and Germany. I did not edit the superfaction relationship for any of the Roman factions.

It is probably also important to note that the Julii are not at the top of descr_sm_faction as dvk901 had suggested this may be the cause of the Julii being blamed for civil war.

If anyone has seen this before or thinks they may know what could be causing this issue you input would be greatly appreciated.

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Originally Posted by CPT Worsham

This normally only happens when one non-Roman faction declares war on another Roman faction.

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This should read as (This normally only happens when one non-Roman faction declares war on another NON-Roman faction.)

I think the announcements are part of the super-faction functionality. You can change the messages to something else in text\event_strings.txt. Vanilla has the following lines:

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{roman_civil_war_brutii_start_notify_title}                Brutii Start Civil War
{roman_civil_war_julii_start_notify_title}                Julii Start Civil War
{roman_civil_war_scipii_start_notify_title}                Scipii Start Civil War
{roman_civil_war_notify_foreigners_title}                        Rome At War!

{roman_civil_war_notify_foreigners}                                Civil war has broken out in all Rome's lands. The Romans are now so hungry for blood that they have turned upon each other! Perhaps we can profit from their madness!
{roman_civil_war_brutii_start_notify}                        The Brutii are vain, cruel and treacherous. War between Romans should be unthinkable, but the Brutii have started a civil war. They seek to save Rome, they say, but all they really seek is to make themselves the new kings of Rome, the hypocrites!
{roman_civil_war_julii_start_notify}                        The false and treacherous Julii have declared war upon the Senate and People of Rome, and plunged the empire into a civil war. The mob may love them, but may the Gods be less forgiving!
{roman_civil_war_scipii_start_notify}                        In their misguided belief that the Gods favour them above other Romans, the Scipii have started a civil war! If not opposed, they will make themselves the rulers of the Roman world!

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Try adding your own lines. For example:

{roman_civil_war_carthage_start_notify_titile} Carthage Starts Civil War
{roman_civil_war_carthage_start_notify} The cruel Carthaginians, in their never-ending quest for more land and money, have betrayed their friends and neighbors, the Ptolomeis.

House of Ham,

I'll give that a try and let you know how it turns out. Thanks for your help!

House of Ham,

You were correct. Thanks again!

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Originally Posted by HouseOfHam

I think the announcements are part of the super-faction functionality. You can change the messages to something else in text\event_strings.txt.

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House of Ham,

I took your guidance one step further and decided to completely delete the civil war message from the event_strings.txt file as well as all its related files to include the advice code and trigger. This did in fact get rid of the civil war message. However, now I get "defeat is immanent" message in its place. I guess the only real way to put an end to this problem is to remove the superfaction entitlement from the non-Roman factions. Any ideas or suggestions otherwise?