Parthia can build colonies?

**Pharnakes** · 06-07-2007, 18:00

Why can Parthia build colonies? I mean building them is dependent on having ports, and surely the Parthians were no great sea farers? Yet Pontos can't build them, and they were a hellenized nation that, IIRC did engage in colonial activities.

Is this a bug then?

Edit: and so can the hai?

**blacksnail** · 06-07-2007, 18:24

Are you getting this by looking through the code, or by playing the factions?

**Pharnakes** · 06-07-2007, 18:31

The code, fildiling around with the colonies for my mini mod, I happened to bump into that.

**blacksnail** · 06-07-2007, 18:36

That is either a bug or a placeholder.

**Pharnakes** · 06-07-2007, 18:39

What about Pontus though? and will I be able to remove parthia and romans_scipii from the code without screwing something else up? (although i can't for the life of me see how it would).

**Foot** · 06-07-2007, 18:43

Originally Posted by Pharnakes

What about Pontus though? and will I be able to remove parthia and romans_scipii from the code without screwing something else up? (although i can't for the life of me see how it would).

Remove it as you will.

Foot

**blacksnail** · 06-07-2007, 18:48

Originally Posted by Pharnakes

What about Pontus though? and will I be able to remove parthia and romans_scipii from the code without screwing something else up? (although i can't for the life of me see how it would).

The key is to look at export_buildings.txt and try to find a corresponding entry for culture type or faction type. If nothing, and it is using the generic base description, it is probably a placeholder for a future building or an artifact from an earlier version that for whatever reason was not removed.

I'm not a historian, I'm just a guy who tries to keep the game from breaking, so I can't answer you on the Pontus thing. I will say that in many cases we will "double up" a complex for a variety of uses, and that a complex name is just our internal reference, not something that ever shows up in the game. We could have the Pahlav version be "giant wheel of cheese" in export_buildings.txt if we wanted and the player would never know that another culture used it for a colony.