Need Help

[Old Templar]

I have never modded before; just enabled the Russians to be playable in Early.
I think that the ship building time is to long and historically incorrect( 3 turns/years for a longboat). Russia, like Denmark and other coastel factions are at an economical disadvantage.
I would like to reduce the building time for boats to only 2 years - Can anybody give me some detailed instruction on how to do this?
I don not have a special editor, just what came with Windows XP.
Your help is greatly appreciated.


"I care little for your Cause; I fight not for your Crown, but for your half-crown, and your handsome women"

[Kekvit Irae]

Open up the unit_prod11.txt file with the Gnome unit editor, and scroll down to row 123 (Longboats). Column 5 dictates how many years it takes to build it. Just lower it and save the file.

EDIT: You can get the Gnome UnitProj Editor by going to the Org's download sections under the Tools. If you dont want to download it, just open up the uni_prod11.txt file in Notepad and run a search (F3) for Longboat, and change the first 3 to 2 (or 1 if you wish)

[Old Templar]

Thank you, kekvitirae, for the fast response.
I will give it a try.

[Kekvit Irae]

^_^

[Old Templar]

I downloaded the GnomEditor as suggested and made the changes at row 123, and saved everything. Now, I can not load the game - the error message reads "to many columns in parsefile". Where did I fail? Some advise on correcting my mistake?

[Lotar]

restore the origonal file, and try again.

[Kekvit Irae]

Odd. Did you remember that columns are the ones going left and right, and rows are the ones going up and down?
If it continues, just edit the file in Notepad

[Old Templar]

Funny, while the changes made in GnomEditor (3 to 2) appear; they do not when I open the unit_prod file in Notepad. Do I now have two conflicting files?

[Kekvit Irae]

Did you save the file before you opened it in Notepad? If not, that's the reason.

[Old Templar]

Both GnomEditor and Notepad indicate the origional time of 3 years; however, the message that there are to many columns in the parsefile still does not allow loading. It seems, I need to reinstall the game - or is there a way to check columns?
Where can I find the unit_prod file in Windows Explorer?

[Kekvit Irae]

Here is the file you want. Just unzip in your root MTW directory (C:\Program Files\Total War\Medieval - Total War\) and overwrite.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Backup your files before you mod

[Old Templar]

Thank you kekvitirae for trying to help.
I found the culprit - I have two MTW version (MTW-orig. and MTW-Mod) on my c: drive. Obviously the GnomEditor can not discriminate between the two; hence the conflicting changes when switching from Gnom to Notepad.
I think I should eliminate one version and try again.
I will try again and let you know later what the result was.