Unique / Custom Settlements for Strat Map

[Jurand of Cracow]

I can set it to do that, but you run into the problem of when you upgrade other settlements, it will switch to the unique model i.e. Jerusalem has the unique model for a city, large city and huge city, but when you upgrade a large town to a city as the Kingdom of Jerusalem, it will turn that town now turned city into another Jerusalem - it's why you'd have to reserve huge cities for the unique city models.

So it means that each of the unique settlements would need to be huge city from the very beginning? Well, this is a problem for most, but Constantinople, Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, maybe Fes, maybe Palermo (but not really, iirc I've included a link to an article discussion this issue in the Sicily historical thread). The great cities of Jerusalem, Venice, Florence, Paris, London, Kiev and other - these were not huge cities on 12th century. What's more, building them up and then upgrading is part of the gameplay.

Originally it would have been, as it is just graphical, but because we'd need to set the huge cities at the outset and nothing further, it wouldn't be. In theory you could have it save game compatible, you just would need to consciously not upgrade your cities to huge. Not sure how competent the AI is in upgrading it's cities tbh, never paid much attention to what they are doing in them

On the other hand, this would not be a problem in the SSHIP - we would simply disable upgrading all the cities to the level above 4 (ie large city becoming huge city).

How out of date are the 0.98 version of these files compared to what is currently being developed?

Not much, they are mostly the same.