Always start a fresh campaign, if you mod anything?

[Suraknar]

Hello,

If memory serves, yes in MTW you had to restart a campaign after any modifications.

It does not lead to Gamesave coruption to do otherise it just may lead to a CDT...since as you have gathered much information is saved in the savegame after being processed (parsed?) from the files one mods...

So its creats incompatibility...

I would suggest strongly to refer to this Guide, it also contains Q&A.

Guide to Modding

Also if you are not getting many answers in questions, please do not take this personally, modding is Interest driven and closelly attached to the latest Hype or Game one plays...its also a question of, as I call it, "frame of mind", every game has different moding approach(Graphics system, file System, Scripting etc), one has to, at times, "forget" how to mod a previous game in order to get in to the moding spirit of a new game...and going back and forth is not as easy, hence the documented Guides and the purpose of Forums such as these.

On top of it, with BI out this is a transitionary perriod, many are actually in the process of both playing and mod testing the new possibilities of BI, I myself, not having BI yet, have to rely much on the already documented threads about learning to Mod RTW... fortunently there is much available...

So I do empathise with your situation here, yet I do suggest any novice Modding groop of MTW, band together, try to answer one another, the modders before you had to discover the game, you only have to discover their threads for answers :)

You guys are the new "experts" on the matter anyways!

EDIT: Ah yes for your dillema, a solution would be to create a backup of your curently modded files alloong with your savegame, that way you can proceid making other changes and learn, and whenever you want to go back to that campaign just reinstall the backed up files. :)