Well, if we start to re-work the province names, the team will need to discuss on how to do it
Well, if we start to re-work the province names, the team will need to discuss on how to do it
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I am new to modding in SS, but on Sicilian Vespers and on my modding days of Regions and Provinces we used a script allowing the names of settlements to change depending on who owned it. It was thus possible to allow Constantinopolis to change its name to Istanbul when conquered by turks, as an example. But for don't fall into the trap of using letters like â or ì. The game cannot read those and moving the cursor over the settlement causes crashes.
Point taken about Athens, even though from that paper it looks like Athens had its ups and downs, flourishing around 9th-12th centuries and then dropping down again for the next 200 years. I still think Thessaloniki is way too bigger as on the map it looks like the whole Greece is centered on it. Splitting it in 2 might be a good idea, especially if someone plans on designing future campaigns placed in other time periods (like the Dark Ages of Sicilian Vespers, 980AD).
Don't forget the limits of regions which is 200 (sea included). That means if youhadadd a region there, you need to remove another one from somewhere else on the map.
Regarding Constantinople renamed as Istanbul, that was due to the conquest by the Ottomans. We don't have them in game. So not sure it would be realistic to rename it that way
Last edited by Lifthrasir; April 10, 2017 at 11:23 AM. Reason: Typo
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I know about the regions limit. That's always the issue on these kind of modifications. My suggestion went more along the lines of splitting that large regions between the other ones (Constantinopolis, Korinth, Naupaktos and the lefover to remain as Thessaloniki).
As for Constantinopolis -> Instanbul it was just an example. There were more of these scripts, which I can dig them out when I get home. It should solve discussions about how to name the cities after who owned them. The beauty of that script is that if turks for example capture the city it get renamed in the next turn. If the byzantines take it back the next turn, the turn after that, the city reverts back to the greek version. AFAIK there were no CTDs because of it either. Obviously, what I foresee to be the biggest issue is going to be to pick how it behaves when it moves to the rebels and in SSHIP, city do rebel a lot.
Do you have the list of the letters which do not cause crashes? Actually, I though that all ASCII characters would not. For instance, I thought that ì wouldn't make problems. See here.
I don't think it's a good idea to make any changes in the provinces locations, borders etc. There had been a lot of good work in the past (I'm not aware of, actually, but I see the results) and any change should be now well though out. I think only changes in the names of provinces or settlments should come to a discussion - they're easy to implement.
Yes, it's why I asked about the rules. If we would start this re-work, we would need to have the rules. We can still gather information - and I'm doing it here or here.
@ REDrake, just note that we try to keep the script as "light" as possible in order to keep AI turn duration as short as possible. So such a script implementation will be considered with these parameters as well. Also, as mentioned by JoC, no region change planned for now.
@ JoC, I'm continuing this discussion in "our" place
Last edited by Lifthrasir; April 10, 2017 at 12:34 PM.
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I don't know for certain the whole list of letter that might cause issues. I do know for a fact that any letters that have characters below the letter cause issues. Letter like ç or ș are definitely to be avoided.
As for the rename script, I dug out the one used for Sicilian Vespers. It looks like this:
I leave it to you if you consider it worthwhile including or not.;--------Adrianople----------------------------------------------------------------------------
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType slave
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = sicily
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianopoli
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = venice
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianopoli
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = milan
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianopoli
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = papal_states
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianopoli
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = antioch
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianople
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = jerusalem
change_settlement_name Adrianople Adrianople
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = turks
change_settlement_name Adrianople Edirne
terminate_monitor
end_if
if I_SettlementOwner Adrianople = byzantium
change_settlement_name Adrianople Hadrianoupolis
terminate_monitor
end_if
end_monitor
Thanks Mate
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Well, I think we need such a list. if anyone comes across it, please post it in this thread (actually, I think it exists somewhere since in every mod one would ask such a question. EBII? TATW? HiMA? DIK?
For instance, in Polish letter ó seems to work, while ł doesn't (I suppose).
Two short questions:
- does the code mean that the change of the settlement name would happen every turn? what would happen if the player changes the name by himself?
- is it possible to change province names in a similar fashion, or it's only limited to the settlements' names?
The number of required monitors would indeed be high - 199 settlments x 29 factions... I don't think it's worth the time. Or maybe for a very limited number of settlements (well, Adrianople should indeed change name if taken by the Turks...). Anyway - as the goal of SSHIP is to be historical, we would need to gather the necessary information first.
As promise, here is the next preview of the map adjustment for the next release: the Nile delta:
Current version:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Next release:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
This should be more reflective to the 12th century reality. Note that the metal resource in South West of Cairo has been moved slightly to the South and is now accessible for merchants
Next change: Persia
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Great! Its good that you plan to change Iran! Good luck
There won't be a major overhaul but rather an adjustment based on what has been posted in here
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Thats good enough. As that is exatly what need to be done regarding Iran. Anyway, I have one more question. Have you considered changing Merv with some other city, like Kermanshash or anything... I think Merv is possitioned offmap, it should not be on current SSHIP map, as it is placed more east.
The question has been raised and answered in the thread I've linked in my previous post. For now, the answer is "no settlement change planned" and "definitively no for Kermansha".
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Yes, Merv in reality would be slightly offmap, but it still was such a huge and important city (literally one of the biggest cities at that time) that I think it has it's place in the game.
AFAIK, it changes in accordance with the owner, not if the player renames the city himself. Also, I don't think it is possible to change name of the region as well. That would mean a script that modifies descr_regions every time a province changes hands. That is usually reflected with the title ancillary. Like Duke of Alexandria v Caliph of al-Iskandariyya.
Posts about Persia moved to this thread (page 3) for discussion and until we reach "an agreement" . I keep this thread for final previews
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Hi Liftht,
I've got a request to have a look at three maps of the Armenian Highlands (SSHIP, EBII, and Barrington Atlas) and perhaps to change the course of the rivers here.
I think that:
- Tigris should be shortened a bit - it should start in the first hills,
- Euphrates should be shortened and start somehow at Qualikala (Theodosiopolis) (or probably even later, look at EBII), since further upstream it was a smaller river, easy to cross
- Araxes should be added as it is in the EBII - it's been an important river
- one may think about adding two fields with the Arsanias river, I think. But I'm not 100% sure, let's think about gameplay (so that we don't create completely dead-end parts of the map.
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Will have a look at it and will let you know
Thanks for the map, very useful.
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