Can the wall towers/gatehouses be modded?

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-15-2005, 01:46

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Continued from Getting rid of machine gun Siege Towers?

I want to get rid of the magic autofiring town towers and gatehouses, ie remove their firing ability. Can this be done? The engine file has apparently nothing to do with this and the walls file seems irrelevant too.

Thanks in advance.

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**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-17-2005, 10:18

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**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-22-2005, 08:16

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**edyzmedieval** · 11-22-2005, 13:13

I think the towers yes....

descr_walls.txt

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-22-2005, 13:25

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Thanks eddyz, I already checked that one. I'm afraid it doesn't allow much, if anything, except a couple reload_ticks_ parametres.

Thanks, at least for replying. I was starting to feel transparent.

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**edyzmedieval** · 11-22-2005, 13:31

Maybe you should try to make 0 at the reload_ticks....

No problem, always here to help as far as my knowledge goes....

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-23-2005, 13:47

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https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ghlight=towers

This might be the answer.

It seems this board has an unwritten rule for punishing those who don't search enough with absolute silence.
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**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-23-2005, 14:06

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Negative again. -1 doesn't seem to differ from 1.
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**Shigawire** · 11-23-2005, 15:16

Ticks you say? in the world of 3d animation, 1000 ticks equal 1 second.

I don't see how a negative or positive would make a difference.

Perhaps it controls the latency of each reload. Try a larger number.
f.ex. 10000 ticks = 10 seconds between each reload..

**Mouzafphaerre** · 11-23-2005, 15:29

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So even 1,000,000 ticks wouldn't practically kill them. Are yu sure there's no way of preventing them from firing at all?
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**Shigawire** · 11-23-2005, 15:35

I have no clue at all. All I know is the meaning of the word "tick" in this 3d-animated microcosm.

Why would you want the siege towers not to fire at all? Providing cover fire was first role of the siege tower in its use in Sicilia, in places such as Motya for example. Covering fire was also the first role of the "catapult" invention. Not as mural artillery, but as a supporting base of fire for the others.

Katapeltai roughly translates to shield-penetrator if one looks at the etymology. The first katapeltai was the arrow-firing "gastraphete" (belly-bow), then came the torsion devices.