OK, what did I do wrong THIS time?!

**vastator** · 06-08-2005, 15:38

Thanks for the advice, ER. Unfortunately my Disk 1 has a crack in it and I can't load the

game at the moment. Oh well, at least my wife will see a bit more of me..!

BTW, how do I use show_err?

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-08-2005, 15:59

Read this. A few things that all modders should know.

**vastator** · 06-08-2005, 19:59

Thanks - very useful!

**Mikeus Caesar** · 06-09-2005, 20:22

I know what to do. If you increase the population above the towns capacity e.g. the max capacity of a town is 6000, and then it gets upgraded and you increase it to 7000, then it won't work. You have to upgrade the town. So if you want a huge city, you have to put an imperial palace in there, and then you can increase the population to 24000+. And as for starting treasuries, as long as you don't go above 99,999,999, you should be fine. Any higher, and you'll start off in something like 1,400,000,000 debt.

**The samnite** · 06-10-2005, 02:19

Also delete map.rwm after editing map related files.

**professorspatula** · 06-10-2005, 02:36

You don't have to delete that file when just editing the descr_strat.txt file, at least not for populations, starting treasuries and stuff like that.

**vastator** · 06-11-2005, 17:53

OK, new disks arrived yesterday, so I tried a few experiments. Increasing starting treasuries - fine, no problems at all. Carthage and the Seleucids are now swimming in cash. (Hah! That'll teach you Egyptian bastards!

) Making ANY other changes in descr_strat locked me out of the Imperial Campaign. Lowering the Egyptian population, giving the Germans farms, making the Carthaginian faction leader and his heir 10 years younger - same result every time. Still, the increased treasuries should make a difference to the more vulnerable factions.