Solution: Events on various timescales

[Barry Fitzgerald]

The default time scale is too fast...though I got 47 regions..I never got near america..or jerusalem.

But then I did play the english. I know you can modify the file..but I would have liked to have seen an option to select how long years are..and a more realistic campaign goal...and a non war one like MTW

[Bucky_Rogers]

How do we adjust the timescale, then?

[Shahed]

How do we adjust the timescale, then?

As is stated above use the medmanager or else BEFORE starting a new campaign:

Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign
descr_strat file

1. Backupthis file.
2. Change turn scale from 2 to 0.5
3. Change file properties to write enabled
4. Save

I've been playing on timescale 1.0 for a while now and got frustrated that I never got around to fighting the mongols, get gunpoweder, see the timurids or visit america, so I did a bit of digging around in the files and came up with a solution.

This is useful for anyone really who uses any timescale (including default) to make the game more fun (yet probably slightly less historically accurate) to play with.

To do that, you need to go to the desc_events.txt and firstly remove the read-only marker on it.
Nextly, you'll find a lot of words and numbers in that file. THe numbers after the word "date" mean when those events appear.
Note that date here refers to years, not turns. That means if you play under timescale 2.0, those dates means [turns played]/2 and for timescale 1.0 means [turns played].
Sometimes there is a second date given, this is the last date that this event will possibly occur (boundary)
That is really the interesting part as you can modify those numbers to fit your needs and thus determine when you want which events to occur!

Of course thats not where it ends. You can now also go to the descr_mercenaries.txt file and change when various mercenaries appear. If you made the mongols appear early or gunpowder develop earlier, you might want to change a few dates there as well to suit the changes. The changes there are more strightforward as they just mention the date (the year) things become available and until when.

Happy editing and enjoying a more fun M2TW!

Let me know if you experience any problems with this or any feedback

Can I change this in the middle of a game ?

Also can you please tell me when the following will occur in my game. I'm playing on 0.5 scale.

event	historic	first_rudder
date	100

event	historic	first_magnetic_compass
date	102

event	historic	science_maths_zero_europe
date	122

event	historic	mongols_invasion_warn
date	128 144

event	historic	gunpowder_discovered
date	160 170
movie	event/gunpowder_invented.bik

event	earthquake	earthquake_in_alexandria
date	222
position	230, 38

event	earthquake	earthquake_in_alexandria_2
date	232
position	230, 38

event	plague 		black_death_hits
date	266

event	plague 		black_death_2
date	270

event	plague 		black_death_4
date	274

event	historic	first_blast_furnace
date	270

event	historic	timurids_invasion_warn
date	288 304

event	historic 	world_is_round
date	320 328

event	historic	science_de_docta_ignorantia
date	364

I don't get it, so the first event above will appear in which year ? Thanks a bunch !

You might be interested in MedManager. The new version allows you to adjust the time scale for an existing game. So you do not have to start a completely new campaign to try out different time scales.

It will also allow you to change other things, like showing the date rather than the turn number.

You can also change the end date for the campaign. So if you are finding things are too easy for you, and you have ages to go until 1530, why don't you set the end date for say 10 years time, and then race to the end!

That's a cool programme. THANKS !