How do you change Rebel spawing rates

**El Diablo** · 12-04-2007, 22:27

Firstly the good news -
I have a new computer at home (yay me)

Now I have to go through the process of installing my Total War "back catalogue". Starting with my beloved RTW.

The one piece of "modding" so to speak that I did to my last game was to lower the pirate and brigand spawn rate to almost zero.

I did not elimiate them totally but having 17 rebel stacks appear every turn gets tedious when you often have 4-5 other battles as well.

So now the point of this thread - I can not remember how to do it and I have searched the forums with little (actually no) success.

So a please to the more techical minded out there to instruct me how to do it (using small idiot words as I am not the most tech-savvy).

If you need to do the same for BI and M2TW and you know hwo that would also be appriciated.

Thanks in advance

ED

**Caius** · 12-04-2007, 23:25

Hey El Diablo,

The one piece of "modding" so to speak that I did to my last game was to lower the pirate and brigand spawn rate to almost zero.

You made a mistake there. You need to put 100 there, not zero. That will fix the problem.

Cheers

Caius

**El Diablo** · 12-05-2007, 04:40

Thanks Caius - but I also can not remeber what file to change!
When I wrote "to almost zero" I meant that the spawning of pirtaes and brigands is almost zero not the number I put it.

Sorry for thelack of clarity.

Any ideas?

ED

**El Diablo** · 12-05-2007, 05:18

Found it!!!

Originally posted by Econ21
To do this, the first player needs to edit the file descr_strat.txt in:
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\bi\data\world\maps\campaign\barbarian_invasion
to change "brigand_spawn_value" to 100 and that for pirates to 100.

Should have looked harder

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 12-05-2007, 08:59

Glad you got it sorted El Diablo

Moved to Modding Questions

**Makanyane** · 12-05-2007, 09:17

you can actually put higher number than 100 in like 9999 which really does seem to stop them completely.

**Lucky_Shotz** · 12-05-2007, 17:16

yeah, i use 500, and the rebels virtually never spawn, once every 100 turns or so.

**El Diablo** · 12-05-2007, 20:08

Once again it becomes a taste and personal balance thing. At 100 I had 3 rebel spawning events last night in about 30 turns or so. None were large and none were a problem apart from I always try and send a far smaller stack against them in the hope of "a man of the hour" event.

I jusy hate having 75% of my battles against rebels and I also hate having fleets sunk by pirates - that one really gets my goat!!!

**Red Spot** · 12-06-2007, 20:18

I've set up my rebels with the 20 men and pirates with 3 ship, than put them around 50 and have few rebels, but they tend to spawn big ...
(not really sure if its the combi of settings or if either one of them is the thing, but I like it :))

G