BI.exe Faction Issues (BI players plz)

**Intranetusa** · 03-20-2007, 03:06

I'm using BI.exe to run EB, and I thought it was suippose to make the AI more agressive?

Right now, I'm at 250 BCE, and Swezbo, Pontus, Epieros are all unagressive. They each have only 1 city - only 1.
I checked the chart, and the city/fiance/millitary chart is literally a straight horizontal line.
In my EB with RTW.exe game, Swezbo had around 6-7 cities, Pontus got wiped out when they attacked Seleucid, and Epieros had about 5-6 settlements.

Also, in my BI-EB campaign, Carthage hasn't conquered a single province by 250 BCE while in my RTW-BI, Carthage ususally conquered 3-4 settlements.

Help plz.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 03-20-2007, 03:21

It is somewhat random. Even with BI, you will get stagnate factions. Just bad luck on that campaign, I guess.

**The Celt** · 03-20-2007, 03:43

It helps to use the console to give them more Money.
Just start the game, activate the EB script when it prompts you to, end turn, open the console(press ~), then press the up arrow key to scroll through commands from the script until you see "add_money slave, 2200", simply change "slave," to "germans," or "pontus,"(Saka in EB) or "Egypt".(Carthage in EB)
This helped alot in my Casse campaign with keeping the underdogs alive. Now Pontos is battling Egypt for control of Asia minor, while Heyasdan(sp?) is taking the Black sea coast, and Lusotann kicks Carthage out of Spain. Money makes the world go round as they say!

**Watchman** · 03-20-2007, 03:45

As one of those writers of Antiquity observed, "they have gold and silver in abundance, and those make war, as other things, go smoothly."

**Intranetusa** · 03-20-2007, 06:24

Originally Posted by The Celt

It helps to use the console to give them more Money.
Just start the game, activate the EB script when it prompts you to, end turn, open the console(press ~), then press the up arrow key to scroll through commands from the script until you see "add_money slave, 2200", simply change "slave," to "germans," or "pontus,"(Saka in EB) or "Egypt".(Carthage in EB)
This helped alot in my Casse campaign with keeping the underdogs alive. Now Pontos is battling Egypt for hmmof Asia minor, while Heyasdan(sp?) is taking the Black sea coast, and Lusotann kicks Carthage out of Spain. Money makes the world go round as they say!

hmm, this isn't working. When I try to type in "add_money Carthage/ Germans/Romans/etc, 100000" it says faction unrecognizable. After I end a turn, what I previously typed appears when I use the arrow key. When I press enter a prerecorded script, it says nothing, so I assumed it worked. But when I checked the finance charts, it didn't show the faction getting any money.

Do you have a link to detailed instructions on this?

btw, are these for RTW vanilla or EB? Cuz you said Carthage = Egypt?
Do I type in the "EB" names or the regular RTW names? Cuz I think I tried them both "Sweboz"/"German"/"Germany"/Germans" etc and it still didn't work...