Hax's Great Guide to Civil War

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Real awesome guide! Some questions though.

2) Save the game under a different name! Like: EpirosCivilWar or something

Do you mean that one should copy their EB folder/file, change the name of that file and do the changes to the copied one?
And are there any bugs/gamebreaking glitches associated with these changes?

[Poulp']

Do you mean that one should copy their EB folder/file and do the changes to the copied one?
And are there any bugs/gamebreaking glitches associated with these changes?

I think you should make a bacth copy/paste of your EB folder, and make another, different, game save (ie, what I should have done a few days ago...)

Hax,

After further reading I have two questions:

- "disable_ai" what does it do ? Does it prevent the ai from donig anything ? moving troops, building... buildings ?

- Do you require a dead faction to implement your civil war ?

[Hax]

Do you mean that one should copy their EB folder/file, change the name of that file and do the changes to the copied one?
And are there any bugs/gamebreaking glitches associated with these changes?

Yes, the safest thing you can do is just to make a copy of that file. My EB folder looks something like this:

.../EB/data/descr_sm_factions.txt
.../EB/data/descr_sm_factions_orig.txt
.../EB/data/text/expanded_bi.txt
.../EB/data/text/expanded_bi_orig.txt

In fact, I currently use four seperate EB installations (1.1, 1.2, 1.2 with mods and another backup 1.2 with some other things)

And are there any bugs/gamebreaking glitches associated with these changes?

Changes like these won't likely corrupt anything, but when modding, you should always be on the safe side. Like sex.

- "disable_ai" what does it do ? Does it prevent the ai from donig anything ? moving troops, building... buildings ?

Everything. It prevents the AI from doing anything at all. I've just found that it doesn't work in a script, but it does seem to work in the normal console box. So just open up your game, open the console box (~) type "disable_ai" and the AI will stop functioning. It will be reverted again once you restart your game.

2) No, you require a living faction. I don't know what happens when you try to control a dead faction, but it won't work at all. Maybe this changes with the M2TW engine, but I'm not sure!


athanaric: Thank you very much, I'll incorporate it in my beginning post

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Good Guide!!

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Hax, a question.

If the rebelling part of your empire needs to be modded to become another faction, does that faction need to be completely wiped out before the rebellion happens?

E.g. if I am Epirus, and want my Epirote rebels to use the Koinon Hellenon faction slot (greek_cities), does that mean I have to wipe out KH first? Or should I leave at least one KH city (e.g. Rhodes) alone before I make the modding changes? Or will bringing a 'dead' faction back to life this way mess up the EB script?

[Hax]

E.g. if I am Epirus, and want my Epirote rebels to use the Koinon Hellenon faction slot (greek_cities), does that mean I have to wipe out KH first? Or should I leave at least one KH city (e.g. Rhodes) alone before I make the modding changes? Or will bringing a 'dead' faction back to life this way mess up the EB script?

No, the faction you use to rebel has to be alive with at least one city, somewhere. It won't work with dead factions at all.

[Hooahguy]

excellent, truly excellent.
definitely has given me some great ideas....