How can you alter the map?

I am new to modifications, I know how to open the world edit thing but when I try to save the map with some of the alterations I want it doesn't seem to work. I try to star the game and it shows instead of the normal list of 'The Babylonians' etc it shows the first move names 'The Mesopotamian Peoples.' Additionally the starting civs end up with 2 settlers and 2 warriors a piece. Anyway kow I am doing it wrong, but what is the easiest way to go about this? (thanks in advance!)

Additionally the starting civs end up with 2 settlers and 2 warriors a piece.

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It's the consequence of the following:

Every time a RFC game starts, a settler and a warrior are given via Python to the starting civs.
If you modify the map, the program saves the units the starting civs already have, but still adds settlers and workers via Python.

To fix that, just open the WB file in notepad and delete the unit code (don't remember the exact code, my comp is now on maitenance again because they've added bad RAM during the last maitenance. Just search for "settler").

It's not only about the units, other things change when you modify the map through worldbuilder.

What I do myself is make some changes on the map, put a sign on each, like an egyptian lion, save that as a temporary file, then open both the temporary file and your new map file and search for egyptian lions, then apply the changes from the temporary file to the new one.

the trick is you cant save, you just have to open up and edit it every time.

Chiyochan said:

the trick is you cant save, you just have to open up and edit it every time.

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I cheat to much once I do that.

Well I'm happy with my new map I saved although now civs get large amounts of money upon spawn for some reason, w/e.

I'd like to learn how to change unit affects, building effects etc. Is there a tutorial for that somewhere?

Well i figured out my own problem and will give my solution. I altered the map as I willed, saved file. I then opened the original in word pad, copied up to the line 'endmap' and pasted that section over the info on my altered map. All my problems are fixed! Now Vikings can settle Greenland if they want, Indonesia is much more accessible, and Maya have a fighting chance.

Another way to do it is to use the WinMerge program, which shows the differences between two files.