Hi folks, I'm getting close to completing the AJE Aurelian scenario but still have to convert the standard option events (and add a few of my own) and still a fair bit of testing to do. A thought occurred to me. I have to go through many of the standard event files and change the faction mnmcs - ROM to TTR or something like that. Would it not be easier to assign a faction mnmc to something like SIDE1 or SIDE2 etc. It could be assigned with one line and then scenario designers would not have to go through the laborious and possibly error inducing process of changing all events to a different faction. Instead of using the faction in standard events SIDE1 or SIDE2 would be used as the mnmc (in fact in all places where a faction mnmc would be used). It would certainly make designing a new scenario a bit easier for me and I assume for the people working on the stock scenarios.
If this is not possible then I think faction mnmcs should at least be something like RMX1 instead of ROM for example. Then you could change factions on mass without worrying that ROM might be part of a word that isn't a faction. Probably not an issue for a game like ACW2 with only two main sides but for any future games that can have many factions like AJE it might be worth consideration.
Cheers,
Chris
P.S. thinking about this a bit more - are the many different factions an unnecessary complication? I am using the Severus scenario as the template for Aurelian. Could I just have kept say the CLO faction and used that as Palmyra and assigned PAL units to it? Not sure about that but I think there could be more work than needed going on here.