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[Lord Condormanius]

I'm at turn 140 and now hold 14 territories (I've gained and and lost an handful over the years). Anyway, I see this thing taking a long time. Before I started, I changed the timescale to 0.50, so there are actually 900 turns total. That leaves me with 760 left.

[Shahed]

I'm at turn 140 and now hold 14 territories (I've gained and and lost an handful over the years). Anyway, I see this thing taking a long time. Before I started, I changed the timescale to 0.50, so there are actually 900 turns total. That leaves me with 760 left.

Hey how'd you do that ?

I don't understand how the turns work, sometimes it's a season, a lot of the time feels like a year has gone by.

[Lord Condormanius]

It's really easy to do. The way it is set now is turns take 2 years. Oddly enough, characters age 1 year every two turns ( 1 year every 4 years). If you go into the descr_strat file (If you don't know where it is, it is easy to find.

from your C drive, open the program folder for MTW2. Then go through a series of folders -- open "data", then "world", then "Maps", then "campaign", then "imperial_campaign".

A bunch of text files and some other stuff will show up. (If you don't know what you're doing, leave these things alone) You want the file called "descr_strat".

Open it. It should look more or less like this:

I have indicated changes in bold that will make your game:

1. have six month turns (like RTW, 900 turns total).
2. characters will age correctly 1 year per 2 turns.
3. both seasons each year.
4. Instead of inticating the turn, the Campaign map will indicate the year (sorry it doesn't tell you what season it is).

; Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
england
france
hre
spain
venice
end
unlockable
sicily
milan
scotland
byzantium
russia
moors
turks
egypt
denmark
portugal
poland
hungary
end
nonplayable
papal_states
aztecs
mongols
timurids
slave
end


start_date 1080 summer
end_date 1530 winter
timescale 2.00 (change to 0.50)


marian_reforms_disabled
rebelling_characters_active
gladiator_uprising_disabled
night_battles_enabled
show_date_as_turns (delete this line)
brigand_spawn_value 20
pirate_spawn_value 28

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Save and you're done. you will have to start over from the beginning of your campaign. Also before you save, you will want to uncheck the "read-only" box on the file preferences for the descr_strat file.

[Shahed]

Great ! Thanks very much !

Start over. That's gonna be teh suck. Is there a way to avoid starting over ?

[Lord Condormanius]

Nope. I had to do it too, but only after 20 turns. I really think it's worth it, though. the game feels a lot better, at least to me. Some people will argue but I like it better.

[Shahed]

Turn 91 here. Ok. Well might do that, but anyway it's worth knowing for the next campaign. Thanks.

Still open on best way to open end the game.

Edit: By the way won't changing time scale to 0.5 make the game much easier ? Though it is ridiculous (I think) that a simple market takes 8 years to build some of the unit training might go through the roof, if it's 0.5 no ?

[unknown_user]

I've got mine set to 1.00.

That way, I still have a nice and long campaign.

Yeah, the generals and agents and whatnot age at half the speed, but I can deal with that more than I can deal with them aging at quarter speed.

By setting it to 1.00, you get a long campaign, but you don't necessarily lose out on the oppurtunity to see the mongols, the black death, gunpowder, and the americas (if you move REALLY slow).

[Valdincan]

It's really easy to do. The way it is set now is turns take 2 years. Oddly enough, characters age 1 year every two turns ( 1 year every 4 years). If you go into the descr_strat file (If you don't know where it is, it is easy to find.

from your C drive, open the program folder for MTW2. Then go through a series of folders -- open "data", then "world", then "Maps", then "campaign", then "imperial_campaign".

A bunch of text files and some other stuff will show up. (If you don't know what you're doing, leave these things alone) You want the file called "descr_strat".

Open it. It should look more or less like this:

I have indicated changes in bold that will make your game:

1. have six month turns (like RTW, 900 turns total).
2. characters will age correctly 1 year per 2 turns.
3. both seasons each year.
4. Instead of inticating the turn, the Campaign map will indicate the year (sorry it doesn't tell you what season it is).

; Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
england
france
hre
spain
venice
end
unlockable
sicily
milan
scotland
byzantium
russia
moors
turks
egypt
denmark
portugal
poland
hungary
end
nonplayable
papal_states
aztecs
mongols
timurids
slave
end


start_date 1080 summer
end_date 1530 winter
timescale 2.00 (change to 0.50)


marian_reforms_disabled
rebelling_characters_active
gladiator_uprising_disabled
night_battles_enabled
show_date_as_turns (delete this line)
brigand_spawn_value 20
pirate_spawn_value 28

---------------------

Save and you're done. you will have to start over from the beginning of your campaign. Also before you save, you will want to uncheck the "read-only" box on the file preferences for the descr_strat file.

Thank you.

[Frantz]

0.5 is for people who like to play slow ( at maximum level of difficulty , otherwise is too easy)...taking care of armies , play the puppet-master role , expanding slowly , keeping alive the most factions is possible , aiding weak nations ... i love it ...

[Lord Condormanius]

It is pretty great. i have to admit I was a little annoyed with the game until I figured out how to do it.

[Valdincan]

It is pretty great. i have to admit I was a little annoyed with the game until I figured out how to do it.

Whats the game without this? About 300 turns?