Why in the light is this not working?!?

[SJSerio]

Unfortunately...I have no idea. Sorry to say.

...but is Greece drawing upon that name list? Have you deleted Greece as a Civ? If that doesn't work...well, I'm just throwing ideas out there. Maybe one will help? Modding Civ is kinda unpredicable, especially Civ V.

If someone else knows more about this, jump in and tell me I'm wrong. Please, be my guest.

I haven't checked out Greece, itself, so I'm not sure. I'll have to learn the code for deleting Greece, I suppose. I haven't had much time to work on it this week because I only get a few hours (3 - 4) from when I get home and when I have to get to bed (I commute to DC everyday and have to get up early). It would just be too involved for me to try and work through in the evenings due to my time constraint. I will have to look more into it tomorrow (Hooray for Friday!).

UPDATE: I checked Kael's guide and found the examples he gave to be pretty straight forward so I went ahead and tried first Disabling and then Deleting Greece. In both cases, neither worked. I must be missing something in the code for Macedonia.

 

[SJSerio]

OK... now I have tried several things and still no luck. First, I changed the city list to be the same as Greece. When that didn't work, I changed made an all new (short) city list for Macedonia and still got the same results. For now, I have removed the actions for the files which include Macedonia and I am just looking at the City-States.

There is a minor issue that I have found when loading the City-State list. I started the game and the City-States appeared fine, but the Civilopedia entry fore each City-State does not appear correctly. It just has the tag line and not the full text. I went in and checked the text file and mimicked that by putting in a header line and formatting it similarly, but it still does not display correctly (though, I don't know if that is because I looked at it with a game already in progress). Finally, does anybody know how to edit the personalities of the City-States? There was no entry in the City-State file and the game randomly assigns them to the one's that I created (and the choices it made seem a bit off).

 

[takkyon]

Well, part of the problem with your Civilipedia entries is that they say TXT_KEY_CIV5_AKSUM_TEXT in the minor civ definitions but they say TXT_KEY_CIV5_AKSUM_TXT in TextInfos_CityStates.xml

 

[takkyon]

I got your mod to work with a few minor changes. First, I deleted the Greek civilization by putting <Delete Type="CIVILIZATION_GREECE"/> right after <Civilizations> in the file where the Macedonians were defined. Also, you had some minor typos. In the minor civ file, some of the flavors were written as GRowTH instead of GROWTH. You mispelled TAUCHIRA as TAUCHIRAN for one of the Tauchira text definitions. Also, I have found when I was making my city state mod that if there was a single conflict in a text definitions file, the entire file wouldn't load, so I was careful to not create duplicate definitions. To avoid against that here, I rename everything from TXT_KEY_CITYSTATE_<X> or TXT_KEY_CIV5_<X> to TXT_KEY_CITYSTATE_NEW_<X> or TXT_KEY_CIV5_NEW_<X>. It's not necessary, but if you ensure that your definitions are unique with an extra addition onto its name like this, you don't have to worry about conflicts and it's easier to locate other problems. Lastly, there was some problem with your TextInfos_CityStates.xml file. I'm not sure what it was, but when I took all its contents and put them into a new file with a different name, it worked.

I've attached my modified version of the ModBuddy project if you just want that rather than fixing it all yourself.

 

[SJSerio]

Thanks Takkyon. I downloaded your version and loaded it up. The problem is, it still seems to be having the same problem when I try to load the map. Everything appears in the map fine, but when I go into the game and load the scenario, I scroll down the list and where Macedonia should be it says Random with nothing after that. Did that work for you? (or did you even try the scenario?)

 

[takkyon]

Well, I'm not sure if you updated the map since you posted it earlier, but when I opened up the version posted earlier in this thread, the start position for Macedonia was still set as the Greek empire, so you would need to change that.