How to control animal spawning?

[Joij21]

I set the start date back to 500,000 B.C. in order to play as the Neanderthals with a more historic start. Unfortunately it seems the animals are set to spawn at 200,000 B.C. so I would like to know how I can set their spawn date earlier.

 

[Joij21]

Nevermind, I found it.

 

[garfunkel]

Even better if you explain what you did so that people finding this thread by Google six months later can benefit from your experience. Don't be DenverCoder9!
https://xkcd.com/979/

 

[Joij21]

Caveman2Cosmos/Assets/XML/Units/CIV4SpawnInfos.xml

That's the file, but you have to change the spawn date for each animal manually and there are around a hundred of them. Good luck.

 

[raxo2222]

No need to do it manually - that is edit each line separately.
In notepad++ you can search for all uses for this tag, copy results, sort and remove duplicates.
Then you can replace original unique dates with ones you want.

 

[Joij21]

No need to do it manually - that is edit each line separately.
In notepad++ you can search for all uses for this tag, copy results, sort and remove duplicates.
Then you can replace original unique dates with ones you want.

Yeah I just use a text editor.