How to jump to a future year

[Epistolary Richard]

Barbarian Invasion players out there may recall that I once released a Year Jump mod for BI which allowed you to give your control of your faction to the AI and the game would then auto-pilot to the year of your choice.

I was going to release a similar mod for M2, however CA have made it so staggeringly easy that no modding is required!

Here's what to do:

Have a look in your Medieval II Total War folder and you'll see a file called medieval2.preference.cfg - right click on this file and go to Edit and the file will open in Notepad.

Add the following three lines to the [multiplayer] section (which were originally posted here):

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false


Then start a campaign as normal and select the faction you want to play as (remember to deselect any other factions additionally highlighted).

Launch the campaign and bring down the M2 console by pressing the ' key.

Type in:

control timurids
control the name of your faction

The game will then autopilot you - at any time, type:

control the name of your faction

again and the game will stop at your faction's next turn and give you control.



Jumping 50 turns from the start of the game, as in this example, means you'll be facing far stronger and more developed opponents.

[Lovasìjász]

very cool!

I quoted you to TWcenter as well (if you don't mind!)
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...&postcount=111

[Epistolary Richard]

Not at all

As was noted in the Mongols thread, this is a good way of testing mods to see what, if any, long lasting campaign impact they may have. Like the old -ai command, but with the ability to stop and look around at any point - and also, of course with M2, having a campaign script running at the same time.

[Shahed]

Hi Richard this did'nt work for me.

I did the following:

1. Copy pasted the text above:
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false

Into the cfg file and saved the file.

2. Launched game
3. Selected ONE highlighted faction and started.
4. Dropped console and typed control timurids... then control england but got the message "console disabled for hotseat multiplayer"

[Epistolary Richard]

Are you using the patch? This has to be v1.1 to function.

I've played through my campaign for a while now, as noted elsewhere, the limit to the functionality is that if you're attacked by the enemy the battle is auto-resolved - which I imagine is something some people will like and others not so much.

A benefit I realised though, is that you can YearJump any number of times. For example in my England campaign I took over the kingdom in a pretty dire state. Now I've really turned it around and am crusading against France, but it's getting a little boring so I might skip the next sixty years or so again.

[sapi]

Actually mate you made the same mistake in your other thread - you forgot to note that the multiplayer console is disabled by default, and you have to enable it while you're putting in the other stuff for this to work.