Early Notepad File-Set Behavior

[Haethurn]

I was looking around in the Early notepad file in the Total War folder, following some directions to add the Papacy, Sicilians, Aragonese, etc. as playable factions, when I noticed a section called SET BEHAVIOR.

I was just wondering how crazy it would be if I set all the factions to BARBARIAN RAIDER or CRUSADER EXPANSIONIST. Can I add the rebels in there and make them barbarian raiders? And lastly, what other fun stuff could I do with this Early notepad?

[solypsist]

to the dungeon

[PseRamesses]

Quote[/b] (Haethurn @ April 17 2004,23:37)]I was just wondering how crazy it would be if I set all the factions to BARBARIAN RAIDER or CRUSADER EXPANSIONIST. Can I add the rebels in there and make them barbarian raiders? And lastly, what other fun stuff could I do with this Early notepad?

Well, basically you can change almost everything as long as you doesn´t forget to change related stuff too. Check the FAQ and guides to modding in this forum.
Changing your, or other factions, behaviour will have a significant impact on the game. Ex: I grew tired of France stampeding through Europe and HRE falling apart in every other game so I simply changed "catholic expansionist crusader" to "catholic defensive crusader" and 9 out of 10 games it runs as I want it. I also changed the Eggys to "Devoutee" since I don´t find it appealing to find them in the Balkans after a massive blitz on the Turks and Byz.
Good luck

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I have recently changed all Caths to _DEFENSIVE, Orths to _STAGNANT and Muslims to _PEACEFUL. We'll see how much it will prevent them from megalomaniac frenzy.
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[PseRamesses]

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I have recently changed all Caths to _DEFENSIVE, Orths to _STAGNANT and Muslims to _PEACEFUL. We'll see how much it will prevent them from megalomaniac frenzy.
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Mouzafphaerre,
So you´re going for the full monty, huh? Would be great to know your reactions on this regarding stability, gameplay etc. Keep me posted please

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I'm playing GA, always with a preset model in my mind. The largest target I have ever had is with the Russians. The AI always spoils my RP fun with Italians doubling the Roman realm, Spain swallowing entire Europe etc.

I started and quit a Turkish campaign with the new settings (ait fun with names coming from unknown hells, like Qansawh ). Will keep you updated on how things go.

Oh, btw I removed all those silly land bridges (Wessex/Flandre, Morocco/Spain, Sweden/Denmark, Sicily/Napoli, Corsica/Sardinia) too. Expansion is no more cheap.
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[Haethurn]

Quote[/b] (solypsist @ April 18 2004,01:22)]to the dungeon

No, no, please, no, NOT THE DUNGEON PLEASE I WILL BE GOOD PLEASE DON'T SEND ME TO THE DUNGEON NOOOOO

Oh, the dungeon FORUM. Well, that's alright.

[PseRamesses]

Quote[/b] (Mouzafphaerre @ April 18 2004,09:31)]

Quote[/b] ] I'm playing GA, always with a preset model in my mind. The largest target I have ever had is with the Russians. The AI always spoils my RP fun with Italians doubling the Roman realm, Spain swallowing entire Europe etc.

My Spaniards stopped doing that after I changed their behaviour and the Italians are nicely put in their place trading.

Quote[/b] ] I started and quit a Turkish campaign with the new settings :). Will keep you updated on how things go.

Please do. I haven´t chnged all facs yet, just the annoying ones, he he

Quote[/b] ] Oh, btw I removed all those silly land bridges (Wessex/Flandre, Morocco/Spain, Sweden/Denmark, Sicily/Napoli, Corsica/Sardinia) too.

Me too. That was one of the first things I "modded" when I bought the game. Only time an army crossed a waterway on foot was in 18th century when a Swedish king came up on the Danes back, who had cancelled the alliance we had with them, from a war in Germany.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Btw, if any of you folks have any experience tackling names (people, provinces, factions, heroes, castles) then please have a look at my thread. I'm desperately in need of help.

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....t=16892
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[Mouzafphaerre]

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I have a bad habit of messing up my well-going Turkish campaign with a stupid error and -not having saved- restarting over. Just quit another one for a fresh restart.

It seems that removing the land bridges has more effect than setting the behaviours. The "crusaderness" is hardcoded and although I removed that attribute from all Caths, they keep sending.

The Spanish, having failed to cross to Africa freely, were eliminated. Ole I would expect the similar for the English (because of the removed landbridge) but they wiped off the French in a couple turns instead.

The good part is, everybody plays in her own backyard. No more Spanish hordes spamming the Middle East.

Will keep reporting.
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[Mouzafphaerre]

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Forgot to mention; removing landbridges and resetting behaviours aren't the only modlets that have been applied. I redistributed ships to provinces according to geographical identity, so that whoever owns a Mediterranean province will be building Galleys and up, North Africa will allow Dhows etc. and Western Europe enables Barque et al.

I'm not sure if it has a direct effect on the new political map though.
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