Need a Dynasty Editor.

[Didz]

Has anyone found a way of editing your dynasty information during a game?

I need to find a way of changing the dynasty name, and adding wealth to their treasury.

Has anyone found anyhting that works?

[Roden]

I just went in and edited the configuration file to where everytime I train in my house it adds 40 million to my treasury. It modified it for 4.2, there are a few websites that will show you how to edit the configuration file in notepad, not that hard, even a 3rd grader can do it :)

[Didz]

My understanding is that the config.ini file only determines the starting conditions of the game.

I've seen the cheats where you edit this to add large amounts of money to you character, but my understanding was that this would only take effect if you were starting a new character.

http://uk.ign.com/cheats/games/the-guild-2-pc-741996

In the end I used iCheat to make the wealth change as it has a function that updates an existing treasury by adding money using an in game function (e.g. training). It also allows other things like appearance to be changed. But unfortunately it still doesn't allow you to change your family name.

Having said that the [GAME] section of the config.ini file obviously does get read every time the game is loaded because some mods use this section to record triggers that determines whether their mod is invoked or not and what parameters to use when it us. So, if you knew a code that would add money or change a name it might work if it was recorded here. I've just not seen any examples of it being used.

If it did work of course one would have to remove it once it had modified the game, otherwise it would get run everytime you reloaded.

[Didz]

Whilst trying to find the code that determines difficulty levels and what they do I finally came across what might be the solution to my search for a way to change a family name in game.

In the userconfig file there is a couple of lines:

[UserConfig]

CharFirstName = "R\00i\00c\00h\00a\00r\00d\00"
CharLastName = "W\00h\00i\00t\00t\00i\00n\00g\00t\00o\00n\00"

Now if you ignore all the \00's, you can see that this spells out the name of my current character.

So, in theory if I edit this it should change the characters name in the game. Worth a try anyway.

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Ok! Well tried it and it didn't work.

Apparently the Userconfig only gets referenced when you start a new game. So, its a sort of memory aid that remembers what the character in your last game was called and looked like and gives you exactly the same character for your new game.

It doesn't change the name of your character in the current game. However, it does confirm where your character names are stored. So, now I know I'm looking for a way to edit CharFirstName and CharLastName.

[sf]

Think UserConfig is only for when you start a new game (the default values in character creation)

And a lot of things/mods/script changes will work on an existing save game. You need to start a new one.

The only changes that can affect an existing (saved) game seems to be:
1) setting value config.ini
2) EXISTING scripts must have been written to actually read and use those values.

If condition 2 is not met, nothing you can do. If it is met. then quitting the game, changing the config.ini and restarting it (in save game or otherwise) SHOULD reflect he change.

Changing name in game CAN be done with a mod/script. Unfortunately, adding a mod script requires starting a new game, except that if I start a new game, I could rename my character already... see the irony? lol

[CielCat <3]

there's a way to change the name... but in MP it might cause some trouble^^

[Didz]

Originally posted by CMeRSgt_Napi_EU:

there's a way to change the name... but in MP it might cause some trouble^^

I never play MP so it wouldn't matter.

How would you do it. I was assuming it would need a mod, like iCheat to make it happen?

Originally posted by sf:

Changing name in game CAN be done with a mod/script. Unfortunately, adding a mod script requires starting a new game, except that if I start a new game, I could rename my character already... see the irony? lol

The iCheat Mod seems to be able to introduce itself into an existing game and modify character information at will.

http://forum.nordicgames.at/showthread.php?213399-REL-I-Cheat-Mode-Install-Thread

I've already used it on my current game to add money to an existing dynasties bank balance and to change the appearance of the character (basically he shaved his moustache off).

I wonder if thats because it uses the mod manager system.

But whatever the reason I'm thinking that I might be able to add a script to that mod that changes the characters name. Most of the code is already demonstrated by the other scripts it already contains, so it would mostly be a case of replicating and modifying routines.

It would actually be a logical addition to the mod, as it pretty much allows everything else about your character to be changed except their name.