Following the instructions - it isn't working. Trying to make some simple changes.

[Lusted]

If you are using the mod switch function, and running the game from the .bat you made, have you put the modded files in the mymod\data folder?

[frogbeastegg]

I'm doing it the 'easy' way and using what alpaca calls the "io.file_first" method. I've edited the unpacked files themselves, and told the game to load unpacked files first.

[alpaca]

Hmm try reverting the edu file and make a small test change.

Lusted: She's obviously using io.file_first ;)

[frogbeastegg]

My 25 attack peasants didn't show up either. Lucky for the AI, unlucky for me. I'm tired of being on the losing side of all these tests

Guess I shall have to try deleting my secondary copy of the game, unpacking the original install, and setting up a mod switch folder with a new version of the frogmod on that install.

This is why modding doesn't appeal to me. I've spent an entire afternoon on this, and all I have to show for my efforts is tired eyes. I could have read another of my Christmas books instead.

[Casuir]

Use a bat file. Open a new text file in the medieval directory, paste this into it:
medieval2.exe --io.file_first
save it as whatever.bat and start the game with it. Your changes should show up ingame. I had the same problems with the cfg method, think its something to do with the game being copied to another folder.

[Aegis]

Put the following in the mymod.cfg file:
[features]
mod = mymod

[alpaca]

Use a bat file. Open a new text file in the medieval directory, paste this into it:
medieval2.exe --io.file_first
save it as whatever.bat and start the game with it. Your changes should show up ingame. I had the same problems with the cfg method, think its something to do with the game being copied to another folder.

Well I just met with froggy via chat, and I have to say, I can reproduce her problems. The io.file_first setting does not take a lot of the files into account that you throw at it (it appears that every file that works in a mod folder doesn't work with file_first from the base dir and vice-versa) - at least for me.
However, the changes work in a mod folder. I'll put a bit more research into that...

[Casuir]

The problem I had was using the [io] part in a cfg file not a mod folder. I've definitely had changes to the edu file and others in the normal data dir work with the bat file.

[Musashi]

Alpaca: Have you tried it using the command line switch instead of the cfg file method?