MikeLynch
Just a Baker Street Muse
OK, I've been wrestling with this infuriating problem for about twenty hours now.
In events.txt, there's supposed to be a way to create a bunch of units (in the Extended Original they're "Colonists") on Centaurus, the second map.
I have tried to clone this seemingly basic event and it won't function correctly -- it always, always puts the units on Map Zero (Earth).
I am using the Z coordinate as described in the ToT manual. I've even used as my Centaurus map an all-land map that shouldn't prohibit units from being created in any of my ten location options.
But no matter what value I put in the Z coordinate, they wind up on my original planet.
(I also have a third planet, Mars, upon which I can't create units for the same reason.)
I even tried using an odd little parameter I found in the Fantasy events.txt that looked like this:
map=1
but to no avail.
Am I missing something really obvious here? Will it only work if it's saved as a scenario file? Is there a "trick" to that Z coordinate that I'm not getting? I haven't been able to find any answers on the various guide sites. Please help!!
In events.txt, there's supposed to be a way to create a bunch of units (in the Extended Original they're "Colonists") on Centaurus, the second map.
I have tried to clone this seemingly basic event and it won't function correctly -- it always, always puts the units on Map Zero (Earth).
I am using the Z coordinate as described in the ToT manual. I've even used as my Centaurus map an all-land map that shouldn't prohibit units from being created in any of my ten location options.
But no matter what value I put in the Z coordinate, they wind up on my original planet.
(I also have a third planet, Mars, upon which I can't create units for the same reason.)
I even tried using an odd little parameter I found in the Fantasy events.txt that looked like this:
map=1
but to no avail.
Am I missing something really obvious here? Will it only work if it's saved as a scenario file? Is there a "trick" to that Z coordinate that I'm not getting? I haven't been able to find any answers on the various guide sites. Please help!!
