Family members/tree editing tutorial

**Monkwarrior** · 01-29-2005, 09:24

Only one more detail.
The game considers that the order the relatives appear is:
husband, wife, son1, son2....

But it is important: the sons (and daughters, here there is no difference) are in age order: example son1=14, son2=12, son3=6, son4=2.
If the ages stated above do not fit with this order the game will crash.
Cheers.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 01-29-2005, 17:23

The exact spacing and making the age of the children sequential have been great tips.

Let me make sure I understand one thing:
husband 53, wife 45, son 22, son 18, daughter 17, son 8
would this be ok, mixing the son/daughteers like that?

husband 53, wife 45, son 22, son 18, son 8, daughter 17
Then would this be incorrect, to give sons first, then daughters?

I think from what you said the first one is the right one, but I just want to be 100% sure. Thanks again guys! keep 'em coming!

**chemchok** · 01-29-2005, 18:06

Yeah TA, make sure all the children are in age order, regardless of sex.

So... husband 53, wife 45, son 22, son 18, son 8, daughter 17 ...would be incorrect.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 01-30-2005, 09:56

Hmm. Taking the surname off the kids on the last listed family (the bottom line of families in the .txt) and then removing those same children's surnames from the character description lines seems to have fixed at least one of the problems. No misspellings or anything like that, but maybe it just didn't like their last name ;-) Anyway, I'm thrilled to get this family working now. Playtesting and a decade in they are still doing well. Though Numidia is a crappy place to playtest.