Recruitment Limitations

**Barry Fitzgerald** · 12-04-2006, 01:31

I got mixed feelings on this one..in some ways I prefer the RTW recruitment method....more logical IMO. With MTW2...well even retraining takes a while sometimes...something I will get used to no doubt...

SO on that one jury is out for the time being. I liked it in RTW in that you could in theory run out of people! not just a military problem..but it made finances an issue too...so I think it was a good feature.

I didnt mind the wall towers firing...I mean this was a city or fortress...militia troops etc....more realistic in a way...currently if no units are there..no firing! That isnt ideal IMO...so nobody would be in the towers? Hmm dont think so! lol

If part of your unit went off into the towers etc to fire..then yeah great..as it is you dont have that.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! That is becoming my motto for MTW2!

**GFX707** · 12-04-2006, 02:28

The problem with the RTW recruitment method for me was that not every single person recruited had to live in that exact city....I mean what about recruiting from surrounding towns, villages etc? There is not just a city and then a void completely free of humanity all around....the problem I have with the M2TW recruitment system is that it's gone from being able to recruit 120 men every 6 months to being able to recruit 360 men in two years....a step backwards despite seeming like an improvement at first.

I won't mention anything about my fleets taking twenty years to cross the mediterranean.

**Lord Condormanius** · 12-04-2006, 03:17

Originally Posted by GFX707

...the problem I have with the M2TW recruitment system is that it's gone from being able to recruit 120 men every 6 months to being able to recruit 360 men in two years....a step backwards despite seeming like an improvement at first.

I won't mention anything about my fleets taking twenty years to cross the mediterranean.

These are just a couple of the reasons that I changed the timescale to 0.50 (6 mos/turn).

**GFX707** · 12-04-2006, 20:38

I wonder if you can change the timescale to 0.08....roughly one month per turn? I had a think about it, and movement rate wise it seems the most realistic option. That way it doesn't take forty years to march your army across Europe.

**Lord Condormanius** · 12-04-2006, 20:53

If you did that, there would be 5300 turns. The way the economy is set up, you would be having huge cities in very early years. Also family members and named characters age correctly with 6-month turns.

**Heledir** · 12-04-2006, 21:34

How do you change to 6 month turns?

**Lord Condormanius** · 12-04-2006, 21:42

You have to change the timescale from 2.0 to 0.50 in the descr_strat file. You can also change the diplay to show years instead of turns by deleting the line that says show_years_as_turns. If you don't know what any of this means, I can direct you. It's really easy.