Just as an overview: I'm currently working on balancing a modified French and Indian War scenario that makes a few alternate-history assumptions, and uses AutoRaise for both sides - with the British, considering their numerative manpower advantage, benefiting more for it. Admittedly, I'm just doing this for fun. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Having also read this gem of a topic, I'm as well-versed as could be expected in how to create and modify scenarios. This is good, because, as I quickly learned, autoraise data is usually nested in the scenario file, in one way or another. I've already set
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AutoRaiseON 1
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Include 55AutoRaise.inc
It works fine - but I noticed something unfortunate. Unlike the files specified for inclusion in scenario event files (.sct files), changes made in .inc files are not reflected in a scenario unless one goes through the entire scenario-creation process ("Make Script" in CVS Splitter, run game in edit mode, save scenario, exit, restart) again. This makes adjusting autoraise levels a sincere hassle. To further complicate things, there's actually an autoraise section already included in the setup file. My questions are, then:
[color="Red"]1.[/color] What is the purpose of the 'AutoRaise' section in the setup file, if you use a separate, AutoRaise .inc? Does it add to, replace, or get replaced by the separate file? Is it okay to streamline things by just using the separate file?
[color="Red"]2.[/color] Because it's rather annoying to re-encode the scenario file every time I modify autoraise levels, is there some way to have the game load these separately from the scenario file, so changes made in them will be detected as quickly as changes in event files are - or, at least, within one restart? Could I, perhaps, specify my .inc file in the scenario file - such as
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1756 Montcalm.sct
Optionsdip_FIW.sct
Optionsmil_FIW.sct
1755 RaidResponse.sct
1755 Cherokee.sct
55AutoRaise.inc
I'm aware of the fact that AutoRaise levels can be set by event - would I be better off, for testing purposes, just writing an event that fires the second month, to accomplish what my AutoRaise .inc would?
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Speaking of the AutoRaise .inc file, I have just a couple of questions regarding it. Part of what I'm trying to do is add a couple Indian units to the autoraise proceedings for both sides - which is proving difficult! Take the French side, for instance. These two lines:
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AutoRaise = $uni_INF_Bra1|2|35
AutoRaise = $uni_INF_Bra3|1|20
[color="Red"]3.[/color] Based on what was said to Lodilefty in his AutoRaise topic, I recall that this number -
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AutoRaise = $uni_INF_Bra1|[color="Red"]2[/color]|35
[color="Red"]4.[/color] I recall reading in another topic that units are only Autoraised in strategic cities. Do I need to add a VP to Indian villages, or other settlements in the greater Louisianne and Northwest areas, to see any results? Or is there something else I'm missing?
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Finally, units. My questions relate to these five lines, which are presented in absence of the rest of the file around them.
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ForcePool = x
AutoRaise = x
RaiseRule = x
Area = x
AltArea = x
[color="Red"]5.[/color] ForcePool sets...what, exactly? I know that in ACW it sets the base, unmodified number of that unit that can be trained - but units aren't trained in WIA. Is ForcePool a surrogate value for the number in red?
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$uni_INF_Bra1|[color="Red"]2[/color]|35
[color="Red"]6.[/color] AutoRaise has two values with which I am familiar -
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AutoRaise = -1
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AutoRaise = 1
[color="Red"]7.[/color] Same with RaiseRule - I've seen -1, 1, 2, etcetera. Based on the other topic, I assume these values refer to Militia, Tory, and Continental raise-rules, for which the values are all hidden - but which is which? What values give what results?
[color="Red"]8.[/color] Finally, Area and AltArea - I assume that the unit's preferred raising-point is in the Area, and it will also occasionally appear in the AltArea - but will it only be raised in strategic cities? And does it tend to want to appear in the largest city in the chosen area?
Lots of questions - but thanks for reading, and thank you in advance for any service or aid you can render!
~Kaoru