Starting units

[BobTheTerrible]

I tried searching, but couldn't find anything pertinent. I've been trying to get civs to start with some more units. I was able to get 2 settlers through opening up civilizationinfos.xml and changing free units from 1 to 2. Now, I want to also give 2 warriors (or archers, or something) to civs as well at the beginning of the game, so that the AI will actually use both settlers. I tried creating the following line under each civilization entry (with the proper spacing) and it did not work (I tried both UNITCLASS_ARCHER and UNITCLASS_WARRIOR).

<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_SETTLER</UnitClassType>
<iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>
<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_WARRIOR</UnitClassType>
<iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>

I also tried setting the iStartingDefenseUnits in GlobalHandicapInfo.xml to 2, but that made no effect as well (which is strange, since it worked when I tried it a few months ago). Setting the starting worker or explore units to 1 works, however. (Also, there is a separate entry for both iStartingDefenseUnits and iAIStartingDefenseUnits - does this mean the AI gets the units in iAIStartingDefenseUnits in addition to the ones from iAIStartingDefenseUnits, or are they separate measures?

 

[The_J]

Are you sure, that this code is in your .xml?

Because it has to be

<FreeUnitClasses>
				<FreeUnitClass>
					<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_SETTLER</UnitClassType>
					<iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>
				</FreeUnitClass>
				<FreeUnitClass>
					<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_WARRIOR</UnitClassType>
					<iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>
				</FreeUnitClass>
			</FreeUnitClasses>

And yes, they get them in addition.

 

[BobTheTerrible]

Are you sure, that this code is in your .xml?

That explains it. I didn't close off the Settler thing and start a new one for the warrior. Thanks!

 

[BobTheTerrible]

Hmm. This is the code that I have under Babylon:

               <UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_SETTLER</UnitClassType>
               <iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>
	</FreeUnitClass>
	<FreeUnitClass>
               <UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_WARRIOR</UnitClassType>
	       <iFreeUnits>2</iFreeUnits>
         </FreeUnitClass>

It doesn't seem to be working. I made sure to clear the cache. It works for other civs (at least the one I tried it on), but not Babylon for some reason. Ideas?

 

[The_J]

Have you tried to replace the not-working code with working code?