I can't seem to get any recruits - what's wrong?

**Laridus Konivaich** · 07-03-2005, 05:47

I was thinking about the cost issue, and I came up with a new idea for how to solve it, you can simply take "blood_and_tears" or "blood and tears" and use the ASCII codes for each character, in decimal format. In fact, you could even use your original blood & tears! since all characters would be converted into numbers before the game engine parsed them. So, as it turns out, your cost was perfectly fine, but your character encoding was not supported; here is what I get for the characters in ASCII codes:

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cost     981081111113238321161019711411533

The most likely issue for this value is that it will cause an overflow, depending on what numeric data type has been used for the 'cost' value. I suspect that it is a short integer (8 bit) and will overflow above about 32,000, but extensive testing would be required to determine this.

About the team not showing up: one thing that I would try is setting the dev_forum_visible: option in preferences.txt to true, since it starts as false, which could be related to not being able to find the mod team:

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dev_forum_visible:TRUE

Have you checked to see if you have an extra 'barracks' building card in the settlement? This could be part of the issue, if you haven't made a new one, and placed it in the \data\ui\ folder.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-03-2005, 09:08

The most likely issue for this value is that it will cause an overflow, depending on what numeric data type has been used for the 'cost' value. I suspect that it is a short integer (8 bit) and will overflow above about 32,000, but extensive testing would be required to determine this.

That's an interesting theory. I think we need to get someone on this right away.

About the team not showing up: one thing that I would try is setting the dev_forum_visible: option in preferences.txt to true, since it starts as false, which could be related to not being able to find the mod team:

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dev_forum_visible:TRUE

I've changed that now but while I was in that file I realized I needed to change some other preferences. Here are the new settings should you need them for future reference. They seem to have improved things a little:

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FATIGUE:FALSE
LIMITED_ENTHUSIASM:FALSE
VEGETATIVE_STATE:FALSE
ENABLE_MSN_SPEECH:TRUE
DEVELOPMENT_MOD_SPEED_UP:TRUE
MICROMANAGE_ALL_SUBFORUMS:TRUE
UNLIMITED_MEN_IN_DEV_TEAM:TRUE

Have you checked to see if you have an extra 'barracks' building card in the settlement? This could be part of the issue, if you haven't made a new one, and placed it in the \data\ui\ folder.

No, I wanted my mod_team to be unique and have a really great image.

Thx for all your help.

Dol Guldur

**Bwian** · 07-03-2005, 10:04

I think you need a second hidden resource 'can_UV_Map' in there. It could be the first part of the process is working, but the models are invisible due to a lack of UV-mapping.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-03-2005, 14:18

Thx Bwian - updated!

I'm amazed at the wealth of experience you guys have

Thx again,

Dol Guldur.
Chief Designer, "Rome: Total Parody" (aka "All Roads Lead To Rome: that are above road_level 1", "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day: the minimum is one turn which is equal to 6 months")

**Epistolary Richard** · 07-03-2005, 20:08

All my team members appear with a black peasant card, how can I tell them apart?

Oh, and is this compatible with RTR?
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**barocca** · 07-03-2005, 20:18

have you considered adding the following resources?

has_coffee_machine
pizzeria_nearby
maccas_nearby

B.

--edit--
almost forgot you need to exclude this resource
tavern_nearby

**Epistolary Richard** · 07-03-2005, 20:49

There's also a bug in the game within the traits, upon Event New Recruit, the game checks _twice_ for the Unexpected Absences traits, leading to a far higher occurrence within the Mod Team characters that was originally intended. player1 is working on a solution.

**Dol Guldur** · 07-03-2005, 21:28

Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard

All my team members appear with a black peasant card, how can I tell them apart?

Oh, and is this compatible with RTR?
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You'll need to work out how cultured each team_member is before you can decide what sort of image you can give them. There's a bug whereby they try to create their own image but this can be overcome by setting up a TyrannicalModTeamLeader trait.

As regards your second question the answer I'm afraid may be no (though it is untested). The problems lies in the inability to restrict recruitment from certain regions which obviously is incompatible with the ZoR system. Scandinavia seems particularly hard to discourage in this regard. Many HRs have produced no result.

My Event New Recruit causes a CTD. Any idea why?

Barroca,

Updated! Thx.