Time

[Irishman3]

How do I reduce the turn time to one year instead of one turn=two years?

In your Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder, look for the file named descr_strat.txt. Open it with Notepad (or any other text editor), find the line that reads:

timescale 2.00

Change it to:

timescale 1.00

Start the game and you should see the change immediately. There is a very good Howto/FAQ over at the official forums that covers this (and much more) here:

Frequently Asked Questions & Game Fixes

[econ21]

It's also in our forum FAQ (stickied here), but thanks for the link to the official forum FAQ. It is very good, as you say - I'll link to it in our FAQ.

[Derfasciti]

Thanks.


This going to be a very stupid question.

How do I get into my MTW2 folder. I have an idea but it's just not coming to me.

[Bijo]

Open Windows Explorer by pressing Windows flag button + E (the button in between left Ctrl and Alt), or go to My Computer on the desktop.

Since I have no idea where you installed the game, and you neither, I suggest to right-click on My Computer and choose Search.

In the search fields you can specify your search, and type in a name or a wild card, etc.

I suspect you chose the standard path for the game to install, so there's a good chance it will be on C:\ .

Type in Medieval and wait for the search to finish. After a little while the folder should be found. Then just click and click until you get to it.

[Derfasciti]

Thanks. The main reason I'm doing this is to lengthen the time I have to get the goals of the Long and Short campaigns finished. I assume this will do it?

Also, is it adviseable to change it to a year or six months?

[Skott]

Thanks. The main reason I'm doing this is to lengthen the time I have to get the goals of the Long and Short campaigns finished. I assume this will do it?

Also, is it adviseable to change it to a year or six months?

Yeah, it'll lengthen the game time. Basically you double the amount of total turns in the game when you change it from 2.0 to 1.0. I'm personally using it and I like it. Some are doing .5 and .25 to get the seasons each year but it can throw some things out of whack. Overpopulation for example. Your cities/castles have more time to grow and that causes revolts to happen due to squalor & overcrowding. If you plan to go lower than 1.0 (.25 or .5) I'd suggest lowering the growth rates as well to balance things out. Otherwise you are going to have to exterminate alot of your own castles/towns on a regular basis. That may make you alot of money but its also time consuming and not very realistic. Nor much fun IMO. Some may feel otherwise though.

[Irishman3]

It's also in our forum FAQ (stickied here), but thanks for the link to the official forum FAQ. It is very good, as you say - I'll link to it in our FAQ.

Sorry Econ, didn't know it was in the FAQ here, just knew I saw it in the FAQ at the official forums so linked there.

About game turns and lengthening the campaign, as mentioned above it will double it changing to 1.00 year per turn, quadruple it changing to 0.50 per turn. I'm personally using Candelarius M2Lite mod (the 1 year per turn, shows years on menu, adjusted growth and building rates version) and modded their mod config file to be 0.50 (or 1 year per two turns) and like the results very much so far. Plays much more like RTW and BI did on the campaign level, and as I read in a thread about time and changing it in a thread over at the official forums (believe it was Olmsted pointed it out) Generals age 6 months per turn so its a nice fit.

[Derfasciti]

Ok i officially tried it today. I brought it down to 1.00 and I did this from the file it was in. Descr-Strat or whatever. So I exited, saved to a new file, and tried again. Still going by two years.

I noticed i'm supposed to open this file with something? How does that work?

Do I open my new file (stupidly titled Pizza) or do I open the other unchanged and original file?

[katank]

You need to uncheck the read-only attribute of the original file and save to that and then start a new campaign. The game doesn't check for your Pizza file.

[Derfasciti]

Ahhh. So this won't register to current campaign files?

[sapi]

No.

What you need to do is change the file so that it's not read only, open it in notepad, make the changes, save it, and start a new campaign