I've finally worked out how to get your CDA.txt columns displayed. I actually had to go look in the python code.
It needs to go here ... my games\Beyond the Sword\CustomDomAdv\CustomDomAdv.txt
If that directory doesn't exist (as was the case for me), then nothing happens.
i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even more than i did before. in a "you're my hero" way, not a "be scared, i'm going to leave hubby and stalk you" way.
CDA showed up for me and i adore it. i spent a while customizing it last night. but today i loaded my game, and all my customizations were gone
! i re-read the documentation, saw the "The advisor's configuration is saved in a file called CustomDomAdv.txt in the main Civ4 directory (usually C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4)" line and tried 7 different places, even Vanilla because of the word main. do you remember discussing my freaky install when i couldn't get your cobbled pack to work
? i tried My Games directly, and underneath \CDA\ in CustomAssets where my mods are, but it didn't occur to me to try including the \CDA\ folder within My Games. i found your post and now i can save the changes!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=6091412&postcount=19
That dir is created when you install BUG, and the file is put inside it...
well see, i didn't use the .exe since my installation of civ4 is quite bizarre. i have the game on one directory and /altroot'd so that it looks for custom assets, mods, etc to another drive where it saves games etc. it actually doesn't look at My Games at all
. i was afraid my setup would scare the installer, so i used the zip. i put the CDA directory where my custom assets are, since that's what the structure document shows (of course it doesn't expect a freaky civ4 setup). at first i had the "can't close the BUG options screen" problem, but i figured out that the important part of the instructions isn't the "BUG mod.ini and CustomAssets need to be siblings so make sure you don't put the .ini within that directory" part, it's the "put BUG Mod.ini into My Games" part regardless of whether Civ4 even acknowledges that it's there. but i hadn't yet figured out that i needed to add the \CustomDomAdv\ part to that directory on top of the .txt file.
but your mod is completely awesome, and i love you even tho i was dumb and it drove me crazy(er) for a bit there. in a "you're my hero" way of course, not a "be scared, i'm going to forget all about ruff and start stalking you now" way.
other than that issue, which is completely on my end since my install is so weird, nothing about the mod confused me. 2 minutes playing with it and reading your .rtf and it's easy as sin, more intuitive than i'd have guessed. which must have been hard work for something with so much info and flexibility. wow!