How many years till it's all over?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi guys,
I'm quite upset. I know that my epic Aragonese campaign, which I played from Early on moderate, my first ever M:TW campaign which I have played past 1200 without total destruction, will soon reach it's sad and mournful conclusion - I'll most certainly miss it's domination over my whole life for the past week.

However, due to my sheer idiocy, I'm sorry to say that I have now knowledge of when it will all be over. I predict perhaps somewhere around the year 1500, which gives me 88 turns to gain control over the epic map, I know that that will never happen, my main and most dominant neighbour, they are on all five of my front, the English, are simply too strong to be destroyed before the game is out.

So, may I ask you famous and most highly revered veterans when this epic game will come to an end? I'm sorry to irritate you with my noobishness, yet I don't want to have a shock ending in 1420 without my even knowing that it will happen.

Thanks very much for tolerating me, cheers!

[The Unknown Guy]

l453, I think.

[Noir]

Dear Omanes,
the game ends with the fall of Constantinople at 1453. if you have enjoyed intriguing, politicising, backstabbing, lending generous help, went from the dreaded gates of hell to the sheer heights of heaven as a ruler and above all enjoyed numerous battles waging Total War, then little does it matter whether you win or lose.

Keep Enjoying

Regards

Noir

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

l453, I think.

Wow, the service here really is high speed. Thanks very much!

May I also ask you if you can play beyond the concluding point. It would just be a shame to have it all end in 1453 without being able to go onwards.

BTW, that's true Noir, I really have enjoyed every second of this truly amazing campaign, especially the part where I went totally bankrupt and just managed to get back in the green through some rapid conquests! M:TW really has contained everything that I ever have wanted out of a game. When I first bought it I was expecting R:TW in the Medieval Era, yet what I got was something completely different, more epic, more challenging, more fun and more politically unstable!

[Noir]

i dont think so; in RTW you certainly could.

Noir

[The Unknown Guy]

The HISTORICAL fall of Constantinople. Right now Byzantium is roaming the steppes. Novgorod is holding them off for the moment. I don´t know which of them will be more BONUS POINTS FOR THE AWARD by the Golden Horde. I hope both. I need their lands to expand and bit Hungary in the BONUS POINTS

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

i dont think so; in RTW you certainly could.

Thanks again!

BTW, in my campaign the fall of Constantinople was in 1388 by an epic English and Aragonese coordinated force, yet the English got it as they had the largest army size, they conquered it in a crusade.

[The Unknown Guy]

I´m the HRE and Hungary is eating me :(

[Noir]

I always thought that having "dynamic" - as it happens - event messages, as for example the fall of Constantinople would be great in TW.

Noir

[The Unknown Guy]

It would be pretty.

It would also be interesting to have a dynamic event in l204, concerning the 4th crusade, which caused a big "Catholic Uprising" in Constantinople, in the event of the game starting on Early and Byzantium holding it.

It would also give pause (of sorts) to the Byzantine Juggernaut.

A global "Fall of Constantinople" message would be fitting too.

[Noir]

There's plenty of ways to tame the beast, but you need more factions than vanilla in the east.

Noir

[naut]

May I also ask you if you can play beyond the concluding point. It would just be a shame to have it all end in 1453 without being able to go onwards.

Actually there is.

Go to you main game folder, and open the folder campmap, then startpos, (usually C:\Program Files\Total War\Medieval - Total War\campmap\startpos).

Open Early.txt and add the following to the end of the file, (where "YEAR" is any year after 0).

SetGameEndDate::			"YEAR"

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Thanks Rythmic.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Sorry to inform you this, but your method seems to have failed Rythmic. It's probably my fault however, I am hopeless with text files, so may I request more information about how to use the system in more detail. I can't seem to figure out where I went wrong. Sorry.

Thankyou for tolerating me.

BTW, could XL be effecting it, I'm playing XL Early, but I think I have placed it at the bottom of that file too.

[naut]

I think the problem would be that it won't apply to your save games. Only to new campaigns.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I think the problem would be that it won't apply to your save games. Only to new campaigns.

Oh shame, but many thanks anyway. I think I'll start a new game as one of the other Spanish factions, The Leonese seem to appeal to me the most. Thanks again.