CTD after making more factions playable

**Sheep** · 09-29-2005, 06:14

If you have patched to 1.3, go back into the regular RTW descr_strat and make the nonplayable factions playable and you will see that causes a CTD also. Impossible to play as Macedon or Thrace (for now) in RTW 1.3. But unlockable factions work just fine.

I guess when they said "nonplayable" they really meant it...

**Ciaran** · 09-29-2005, 10:51

That´s definitely not good, especially if -as I suppose - you have to install the 1.3 patch when installing BI. And for the development of new mods that´s a downright catastrophe, if the non-playable factions are hardcoded now.

**lars573** · 09-29-2005, 15:28

He's talking about the Roxolani in the BI campagin. Go back and check the alterations if you accedentally chopped a letter off of the faction name it would cause the CTD.

**MiniKiller** · 09-30-2005, 19:37

Originally Posted by lars573

He's talking about the Roxolani in the BI campagin. Go back and check the alterations if you accedentally chopped a letter off of the faction name it would cause the CTD.

Ya everything is spelled right. I cut/pasted so its all there.

**Viking** · 09-30-2005, 19:53

This was a slap in the face. I was really looking forward to test out the unplayable factions in BI, they look better than in RTW.

**professorspatula** · 09-30-2005, 20:45

If you want to make the unplayable factions playable, perhaps you need to do some extra modding to descr_strat.txt file. Currently some of the factions have no starting leaders or settlements and instead have something like this:
faction romano_british, balanced caesar
dead_until_resurrected.

That suggests that merely adding those factions to the playable section of the file will do nothing but cause troubles. Some modifying of starting settlement ownership and creating a few characters for the factions awaiting 'resurrection' might make them playable from the start, but then again, might not. I'm sure someone will give it a go if they haven't already.

**PaulTa** · 10-19-2006, 02:20

I've got that problem currently. I have a box set that includes Rome TW and the BI expansion, and I can't seem to mod in the unplayable factions for Rome TW by itself. I was really looking forward to Spain...

Come to think of it, I'd really love a civilized faction besides the Romans that have decent sword units, apart from Seluceids(sp?). The lack of sword wielding units is a real bummer, right up with the fact that Greece only has one decent unit type.

I like the visuals, but MTW seems to be winning the game play award so far. :(

**Geoffrey S** · 09-29-2005, 15:30

It must be possible to play them somehow; I distinctly remember one of the FAQs mentioning releasing a savegame to allow people to play as the Romano-British, one of the emerging factions.
Edit: bah! What on earth made me say Anglo-Saxons?

**lars573** · 09-29-2005, 16:18

That was a maybe about a save file from Captain fishpants to play the Romano-British. Now the only reason that making the Roxolani playble would cause a CTD is that there are now 2 or more files that control the starting points on the campagin map. What needs to be found is the file that controls the emergence of factions like the Huns and Vandals.