How can I add "Americans" to the CRADLE Mod?

[johnc214]

Ok so I know it's not historical or truly in line with the idea of the Cradle of Civilization mod, but I like to play CTP2 as the Americans. I get database initialization errors when I have tried to "Americans" to the valid civilizations for this mod. Can someone tell me exactly which CRA files to modify and how?

THANKS!
John

[johnc214]

Sorry for the typo

What I meant was:
I get database initialization errors when I have tried to **add** "Americans" to the valid civilizations for this mod.

The editor wouldn't let me fix it, even though I'm logged in. Weird.

Thanks!

[Locutus]

Well, it should only involve changing civilization.txt in default\gamedata (or rather CRA_civilization.txt in this case) and civ_str.txt in english/gamedata (CRA_civ_str.txt). Just copy the entry on one of the existing civs for both files and rename everything. Don't forget to increase the number at the top of the (CRA_)civilization.txt file with one (to indicate that the total number of civilizations has increased by one).

I must admit though that I had some very weird problems with adding new civs myself a few days ago, I eventually ended up reinstalling the whole game to get rid of them (and I'm still not quite sure if it worked because I got distracted by other things). What kind of errors are you getting? If my above explanation doesn't help, could you post the exact messages you're getting?

Edit: testing, please ignore.

[hexagonian]

There is a couple of files with the majority of the original civs (including Americans) in the english/gamedata and the default/gamedata folders. Each of those folders has a folder called CRA_playing options - within those folders are the files for the original civs in them. Take the

CRA_civilization.txt
CRA_civ_str.txt files

located there and switch them with the existing files.

[johnc214]

Thanks for your help! I had modified those but had left off the "}" character at the end of the 'Americans' listing in one of the files. Therefore, I was getting errors when I tried to run it. After seeing your posts and convincing myself there were no other files needing to be changed, I looked again and found my error.

So simple, yet so frustrating! Thanks again!

[hexagonian]

Miss one little character and it throws everything off...

When I was setting up the ancient civ city lists, I missed a quote mark on one of the lines of text. It took me 8 hours to locate the error.

That was the most frustration I had with setting up this Mod. Most everything else went smoothly.

[Locutus]

Yeah, those details can really get to you. Fortunately tracking them down because easier with experience (as *extremely* experienced modder I should know)
That's why copy-'n-paste is often a good way to work: at least you can't forget anything... Of course, then there's the risk of copy-'n-pasting too much but you can't have everything :-|