Modding Commander Obtaining skills

Folks,

I've gone back to v1.0 which is still not great but I much prefer it to v1.2. I can just about stand v1.0 although two things that still annoy me are the lack of diplomacy (i.e. impossible to get a ceasefire with anyone) and the ease at which commanders increase their command stats.

I know that the diplomacy is probably hard-coded but what about the way commanders get given stuff like "Good Commander" and "Great Commander" after a battle....even if the enemy army decides to withdraw.

Is there a way in which I could mod this so that it's more like v1.2 as otherwise it's just too easy to get legendary commanders.

Cheers
Starkhorn

You need to modify the export_descr_character_traits.txt file.

There are two sections:

First section is all the available traits, the threshholds for each level, and their effects.

The second section is a list of what triggers a chance to obtain a point (or more) in each trait. The points need to add up to the treshhold in order for the character to obtain the next level of a trait.

So, you can either mod the GoodCommander trait (for instance) to have higher threshholds or reward a lower number of command stars, or you can edit the triggers to make it more difficult to obtaining points in GoodCommander. You could even edit the triggers such that points in GoodCommander are not awarded in situations such as you describe.

Take a look at the file and come back if you have specific questions.

Ok thanks.

So would simply copying across the v1.2 file into a 1.0 installation could more or less do the trick as i guess to the commanders getting command rank too easily, they simply adjusted these values ?

Cheers
Starkhorn

To be safe (since I'm not sure exactly what they changed) you should copy the following AFTER BACKING UP THE ORIGINALS OF COURSE. ~:)

data\export_descr_character_traits.txt
data\export_descr_VnVs_enums.txt
data\text\export_VnVs.txt

Those are all the files that have trait info in them.