Grey Wolf
Donor
Port Provinces and the Great Lakes
Another thing I want to do is to see if I can make the Great Lakes playable. For some reason you can build shiips to go onto Lake Winnipeg but since you can only build them in one province they seem pretty pointless!
I'd like to give the USA and Britain/Canada the chance to build ships for the Great Lakes. Presumably since the ships one builds at Lake Winnipeg can/do go onto the lake, the lakes are already set up as playable areas of sea, its only that the Great Lakes cannot as things stand have any ships built for them.
Somewhere I assume I am going to have to define eg Sandusky as a port province, since thats the red flag on the naval base building advisory screen. Is that ALL that needs to be done? And does setting it thus also ensure that the little jetty for Naval Base level zero appears and that the functionality to build ships will follow it?
Ah, I just found positions.txt in the map sub-folder which looks insane! I am assuming it is giving co-ordinate positions as to where the icon will appear in every province...I suppose it can be guessed at when adding Naval Base to, eg Sandusky, since it gives
x=1507.000000
y=1658.000000
as the position for a fort, so its just a matter of working out how very slightly to tweak it to show a naval base.
But this file obviously does not define Sandusky as a port or non-port province, merely acts upon that definition to show what works it is allowed to, and where they would go
I CANNOT FIND ANYWHERE that defines what is, and what is not, a port province - is this not a moddable area of the game???
And why DID they make it possible to build a port on Lake Winnipeg and put ships on that lake?
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
Another thing I want to do is to see if I can make the Great Lakes playable. For some reason you can build shiips to go onto Lake Winnipeg but since you can only build them in one province they seem pretty pointless!
I'd like to give the USA and Britain/Canada the chance to build ships for the Great Lakes. Presumably since the ships one builds at Lake Winnipeg can/do go onto the lake, the lakes are already set up as playable areas of sea, its only that the Great Lakes cannot as things stand have any ships built for them.
Somewhere I assume I am going to have to define eg Sandusky as a port province, since thats the red flag on the naval base building advisory screen. Is that ALL that needs to be done? And does setting it thus also ensure that the little jetty for Naval Base level zero appears and that the functionality to build ships will follow it?
Ah, I just found positions.txt in the map sub-folder which looks insane! I am assuming it is giving co-ordinate positions as to where the icon will appear in every province...I suppose it can be guessed at when adding Naval Base to, eg Sandusky, since it gives
x=1507.000000
y=1658.000000
as the position for a fort, so its just a matter of working out how very slightly to tweak it to show a naval base.
But this file obviously does not define Sandusky as a port or non-port province, merely acts upon that definition to show what works it is allowed to, and where they would go
I CANNOT FIND ANYWHERE that defines what is, and what is not, a port province - is this not a moddable area of the game???
And why DID they make it possible to build a port on Lake Winnipeg and put ships on that lake?
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
