Deleting Factions

**The Evil Emperor Mindstation** · 11-09-2004, 23:03

I'm having trouble deleting carthage. I can start the campaign just fine but as soon as I try to look at where carthage was the game CTDs. I've deleted carthage from the descr_strat.txt file and moved their provences to rebels. Is their something I'm missing?

Thanks for any help.

-Emp

**Myrddraal** · 11-10-2004, 17:30

The only thing I can think of right now is that you could have missed one of the provinces. Are you using the show_err on the shortcut? Sorry but thats all I can think of.

**The Evil Emperor Mindstation** · 11-11-2004, 01:23

Nope. I didn't see any provences of carthage. On the minimap it even shows the provences belonging to the rebels. The game CTD and doesn't given error report. Is anyone else experiencing this?

**Sinner** · 11-11-2004, 01:29

I believe that the Carthage faction must still exist with at least a faction leader, including bodyguard. Since the faction has no cities it will die out at the beginning of the game. When placing the faction leader, make sure he isn't inside a city, I would guess this would either cause an error or it'd be counted as a captured city & the faction thus saved.

The settlements for the ex-Carthaginian provinces must all be setup even if they have no buildings. Segesta in Liguria would be a good example of this.

**The Evil Emperor Mindstation** · 11-11-2004, 01:58

Thanks Sinner, that did it.

-Emp

**Duke John** · 11-11-2004, 07:07

The above is a solution, but not the correct solution to your problem.

In Data\world\maps\base\descr_regions.txt you have a list of the provinces with some details. Now let's take this entry:

Code:

Sardinia				
	Caralis				
	carthage				
	Beronicensis				
	198 35 13				
	wine, dogs, pigs		
	5
	5

Notice carthage in the third entry. This is about which faction started the city. So when the campaign loads up the game notices it and will show a carthagian city. But carthage is no longer present in the game, so whenever you move the camera to a carthagian city the game tries to visualize it -> *not present in campaign* -> CTD!

So search for carthage in Data\world\maps\base\descr_regions.txt and replace the carthage faction entry with "numidia" (looks appropiate). Do not replace the city Carthage itself in Africa!

Cheers,
DJ