How to disable (and then re-enable) brigands and pirates

**Epistolary Richard** · 11-15-2006, 01:03

No, it works on a blanket effect. All the regions marked with the no_ hidden resources are either spawning brigands/pirates or they're not.

**General_Sun** · 12-26-2006, 20:19

Hate to say this, but are you sure?

I just tried it, still getting bloody rebels.

**Epistolary Richard** · 12-28-2006, 05:02

Yes, I played my own Milan campaign without rebels (and quite enjoyed it too!). You'll still get rebel stacks where they're set up at the start of the game, and also where they're actual characters who've rebelled (or lost their faction). This merely stops those randomly spawning rebels.

If you need further convincing, run the vanilla game and look at the Americas (where the designers intended this to be used), you won't see any rebels appearing.

**General_Sun** · 01-01-2007, 23:53

If you'll take a look at my Amerial Wars mod ER, I play tested it many times. I always get rebels. But the no_brigands is there...

**General_Sun** · 01-02-2007, 23:20

My beta testers are telling me that it is not working... Looking at the other values again and setting them up higher to see if that's where the effect might come from.

**DukeKent** · 02-06-2007, 05:28

Is their a way to just cut down on the brigand and pirate spawn rate? I would like to cut them down to about 1/3 of what they currently are.

**DukeKent** · 02-06-2007, 20:18

I am still getting rebels in an existing campaign after making the "no_pirates, no_brigands" change to Smyrna_Province. Does this change have to be done before a new campaign starts?

**TheSocialist** · 02-25-2007, 23:31

Originally Posted by DukeKent

Is their a way to just cut down on the brigand and pirate spawn rate? I would like to cut them down to about 1/3 of what they currently are.

Go to descr_strat.txt, and there should be a bit right at the start that looks like so.

Code:

start_date	1080 summer
end_date	1530 winter
timescale	2.00


marian_reforms_disabled
rebelling_characters_active
gladiator_uprising_disabled
night_battles_enabled
show_date_as_turns
brigand_spawn_value 20
pirate_spawn_value 28

Now change the brigand_spawn_value and pirate_spawn_value down.