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Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 1:11:42 AM

Mr. Yuck

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Playing as the Union I am not getting any VP for cities I capture. This is not a gamebreaking bug for me but what is, is that I have a CSA gunboat in Cairo that won't leave or die. My army there is getting no supply, can't change weapons, etcetera.

In Norfolk, where a CSA ship was left after I captured the city, I am not having the same problem.

Is there a way to go into the save and delete these two units? And how about adjusting my VP?

Thanks.

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RE: Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 1:19:05 AM

Gil R.

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Mr. Yuck,
Were you the one previously complaining about the gunboats in Cairo, or was that someone else? If you were, did you send the save files to ericbabe@west-civ.com? And if you weren't, could you please do so, so that he'll have another example of this?

Eric will have to explain whether the files can be edited -- never done that myself.

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RE: Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 1:35:13 AM

dude

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I was one of the ones that did... my thread comment is still in the Beta area. I got around it by finding the gunboat in the save and changing the area it's in to a CSA area. The real trick is finding the area value in the save game file. Let me go back to my file and see if I can get some info to help you edit it...

be back shortly....

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RE: Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 1:56:29 AM

dude

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Here are the steps to move a Gunboat in the save file: (read it all before doing anything�)

1) First make sure there�s nothing else in the province (at least no other gunboats of yours) there (it�s easier that way)

2) Find the Province ID number in the AcwProvince.txt file in the data folder (for Cairo this happens to be 199 Central_Miss._R. If you need someplace else you�ll need to look it up (I had to move another GB from St. Louis too.) You�ll also need to find the value of someplace to move them too. I moved them to 207 (Miss._R._Natchez), though I had a problem with them later when I took that province.. but I didn�t really care then about the production from that spot� so I left them. You can pick someplace else.

3) Open the save file [the file with .sve] (make a back up copy first just in case.) with a text editor (yes the file type is not txt but it is still just a text file.. just make sure when you save it later it still has the .sve extension.

4) Search the file for the value of the province (199 for Cairo)� this may take a few tries until you find the right value� now how do you know that you have the right value?� you�ll find the value near a line that says Gunboat and there will be two values �. See this screen shot:

5) replace the number you found (in the screenshot there are two 199�s for Gunboat [My_Gunboat]� edit BOTH numbers. I suspect one is the current location and the other the move to? But anyways I edited both and it worked) Substitute the number for the province you want to move too. I changed both values to 207.

6) Save the file, run the game, and see if they�ve moved (they did for me.)

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RE: Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 2:00:40 AM

dude

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for the record I tried to delete the gunboat and I was unable to figure out where the record began and end and the game kept crashing. Editing it's location was safer... i continued playing with no other problems other than the one mentioned above ... once I moved them and then later took the province I moved them too they still would not die or leave...

I probably should have moved them too an empty river province that had no city... but I moved them to Natchez hoping the CSA would fix them and then I could kill them later... no luck... they were still unsinkable.

Good luck... let me know if it works for you too.

Dude

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RE: Need help editing save - 6/15/2007 2:03:32 AM

Mr. Yuck

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Thanks Dude for the illustrated tutorial and Gil, I will get the save to Eric.

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