Byzantine Mod finally here (kind of)!

Xanthippus · Dec 3, 2004

NB: Not a proper mod yet! Some assembly required.

I notice a lot of people have wanted a byzantine mod, and in my own search all I've come up with are threads requesting one and nothing being done about it. I've just finished playing through a game of my own as the Byzantine Empire and have scripted a whole bunch of custom events, as well as using Green Beret's events that he posted in his Byzantine AAR to start me off (with some of my own modifications). I don't have the experience or ability to be able to turn it into an official mod, so I thought I would just put my events up for grabs and either let people piece it together themselves, or let someone turn into into a mod that everyone can use.

With all these I was using Dark Renown's All in One Mod and the latest 1.03c beta patch. Also, please note that these events were all written on the fly, some were circumstancial (i.e. the trigger is just a date, so will need fixing), and some I made just so things would go the way I wanted them to. These events are far from balanced, and probably have way too many positives and not enough negatives (but that's for you to decide.

) and some may be incomplete/not work correctly.

Adding the Byzantines and relations
For the following events to work you will need to add the following:

In... \victoria\db\events.txt

Code:

event = "db\events\byzantine.txt"

In ...\victoria\db\revolt.txt

Code:

U02 = {
	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1840 }
	expirydate = { day = 1 month = january year = 2000 }
	minimum = { 1035 1036 1032 }
	extra = { 1030 1033 1031 1034 1037 1029 1028 }
	capital = 1036
	culture = { type = turkish }
	religion = sunni
	literacy = -1
	ai = "default.ai"
	primitive = yes
 }

U04 = {
	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1885 }
	expirydate = { day = 1 month = january year = 2000 }
	minimum = { 1869 1868 1835 2255 1870 }
	extra = { }
	capital = 1868
	culture = { type = nubian }
	religion = sunni
	literacy = -1
	ai = "default.ai"
	primitive = yes
 }

U09 = {
	date = { day = 19 month = february year = 1887 }
	expirydate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1905 }
	minimum = { 969 973 968 }
	extra = { 921 974 976 975 972 1007 918 937 941 1006 976}
	capital = 973
	culture = { 
		type = greek
		type = bulgarian
		type = serb
	}
	religion = orthodox
	literacy = -1
	ai = "default.ai"
	primitive = no
 }

In ...\victoria\db\country.csv

Code:

U00;DarkBrown;GRE;MIN;Light_Red;Yellow;9;28;X
U02;LightGray;TUR;MIN;Light_Grey;Green;3;8;X
U04;DarkGray;EGY;MIN;Brown;Gold;9;29;X
U09;Red;GRE;MIN;Green;Gold;9;28;X

In ...\victoria\config\world_names.csv

Code:

U00;Byzantine Empire;;;;;;;;;;x
U02;Turkey Minor;;;;;;;;;;x
U04;Sudan;;;;;;;;;;X
U09;Socialist Byzantium;;;;;;;;;;X

Next...

Download byzantine.txt and place it in .../victoria/db/events

Download byz.zip; unzip it, rename byz.bmp to U00.bmp, make a copy of it and rename that to U00monarch.bmp; place in .../victoria/gfx/map/shields
Do the exact same with byz_flag.bmp, but put them in .../victoria/gfx/map/flags

Download BYZcommie.zip. Unzip; rename BYZcommie.bmp BYZcommie_flag.bmp to U00commie and place in their respective folders. Also, make four copies of each and rename them to: U09, U09monarch, U09commie and U09republic, placing them in their respective folders.

Download grebyzantine.zip. Unzip; rename grebyzantine.bmp and grebyzantine_flag.bmp to U00republic; place in respective folders.

Make copies of the four TUR flags and shields. Rename them all to U02.

Now...

You're set to go. You can play through it as I did if you don't want to edit it. Hope this helps, and I hope someone will make good use of my events and make a proper mod. Have fun!

Xanthippus · Dec 3, 2004

Also, you can add this to ...\db\events\flavor_gre.txt\ if you wish:

Code:

event = { 
	id = 50033
	random = no
	country = U00

	picture = olympics

	name = "EVT_30600_NAME" # The First Modern Olympics
	desc = "EVT_30600_DESC" # 
	style = 0

	date = { month = may year = 1896} 
	offset = 100

	action_a = {
        	name = "ACTIONNAME30600A"
		command = {type = prestige value = 30 }
	}

}

unmerged(41774) · Mar 23, 2005

Does your method work for creating any other countries?

borg1980 · Mar 25, 2005

Mod version for VIP would be great. Four unused tags are avaible
(for exmaple RUT, SIE, U13, U19).

unmerged(36950) · Mar 26, 2005

borg1980 said:
Mod version for VIP would be great. Four unused tags are avaible
(for exmaple RUT, SIE, U13, U19).

I made a personal mod for Bizantine Empire that work with last Vip but i don't know what provinces must go to Byzantium.
What do you think of this map?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Byzantium1180.png

borg1980 · Mar 26, 2005

RomanAcqui said:
I made a personal mod for Bizantine Empire that work with last Vip but i don't know what provinces must go to Byzantium.
What do you think of this map?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Byzantium1180.png

Maybe this political map would be more interesting - http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:ShepherdByzempire1265.jpg?

Xanthippus · Jun 15, 2005

Hey guys. I've been away for a while, just realised that people had shown some interest in my mod. I may take a look at fixing up all the errors, balancing it etc. and making it compatible with the latest version of VIP. All depends on how much time I get (working a lot at the moment); but I would like to do it and make it a proper mod. I'll need help making it an install, but I have to get the work done first, so we'll see how things go!

Lord Boreal · Jun 16, 2005

It depends which stage of the Empire you wanted to mod into Vicky. Byzantia at its Zenith or just before it downfall to the ottomans, or at the time of the first crusade, which is similar to the original map posted by Roman Acqui.

And yes I would be interested in your mod Xanthippus.

unmerged(23556) · Jul 11, 2005

Did i understant this wrong. Do i just need to control konstantinyya or is there other things i need. i did only that(got control of byza but didnt do anything else)

event = {
id = 603
random = no
country = GRE

picture = crimean_wars

name = "Byzantine Revival"
desc = "Constantinople is ours, The Turks have been evicted from Europe, we have much foreign support, shall we ask the Turks to seceede their European Lands?"

trigger = {
control = { province = 971 data = GRE }
}

date = { day = 3 month = january year = 1840 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1920 }

action_a = {
name = "Yes, Let us take back what is ours" # Accept
command = { type = trigger which = 28007 }
}

action_b = {
name = "No, We must not overrate our power" # Refuse
command = { }
}
}

Should i make a map(edit sorry i ment flag :rofl: ) for sudan?

G-Klav · Jul 18, 2005

jamie85 said:
Did i understant this wrong. Do i just need to control konstantinyya or is there other things i need. i did only that(got control of byza but didnt do anything else)

event = {
id = 603
random = no
country = GRE

picture = crimean_wars

name = "Byzantine Revival"
desc = "Constantinople is ours, The Turks have been evicted from Europe, we have much foreign support, shall we ask the Turks to seceede their European Lands?"

trigger = {
control = { province = 971 data = GRE }
}

date = { day = 3 month = january year = 1840 }
offset = 30
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1920 }

action_a = {
name = "Yes, Let us take back what is ours" # Accept
command = { type = trigger which = 28007 }
}

action_b = {
name = "No, We must not overrate our power" # Refuse
command = { }
}
}

Should i make a map(edit sorry i ment flag :rofl: ) for sudan?

You need to be in the year 1840 or later, and you need to control Constantinople, that's all.

Xanthippus · Jul 21, 2005

jamie85 said:
Should i make a map(edit sorry i ment flag :rofl: ) for sudan?

There already is one... if I remember correctly it comes as a standard flag. Or maybe it's only standard with VIP, not sure. Either way, it's available in the Victoria Flag Directory.

I did start working converting some things to VIP, but I've been run off my feet lately with my job and I had to sideline the project. I've not given it up though, might get there someday soon!

SeanB · Sep 30, 2005

You say to make a copy of the commieflags for u09, but there is already a u09...some middle eastern nation. And another thing, I followed your steps, but I can't seem to get the event where the OE cedes Constantinople to you to fire...can anyone else? I tried firing it with the console, but it was no use. Whats the deal here?

unmerged(39148) · Oct 1, 2005

This is a really nice job! But the far more intresting thing is the events you made. even the ones you don't use. They give some great ideas!

SeanB · Oct 1, 2005

So, are you saying you actually got it to work? I even tried downloading the patches and the all in one mod, but still it isn't working... *sigh*

Edit: Hrm, interesting. I managed to get the first event to fire just now but putting all of the events in the byzantine.txt into the Greece.txt. Though I did the first step as you instructed, it still did not recognize the file...odd.

Edit2: Heh, when the Byzantium reborn event triggered, all my provinces went black, and I became the Piritani Republic.

What the hell is up with that one? lol I did fix their files by the way.

unmerged(12435) · Oct 4, 2005

SeanB said:
So, are you saying you actually got it to work? I even tried downloading the patches and the all in one mod, but still it isn't working... *sigh*

Edit: Hrm, interesting. I managed to get the first event to fire just now but putting all of the events in the byzantine.txt into the Greece.txt. Though I did the first step as you instructed, it still did not recognize the file...odd.

Edit2: Heh, when the Byzantium reborn event triggered, all my provinces went black, and I became the Piritani Republic. What the hell is up with that one? lol I did fix their files by the way.

I guess you played this mod in VIP? Because in VIP U00 is for Piratini while in vanilla it is free tag used for Byzantium

unmerged(47212) · Oct 18, 2005

Can't get it to work...

Hi, I'm an evil Mac user running OSX 10.4 and can't get this SOB to work. Followed all the instructions, installed VIP 0.4b, currently at 1.03c3 (Mac users will get me).

I can select my country, get that far, boot it, but when I try to get past that, it crashes as the meter nearly fills up and is about to go to the gameplay map.

Specs:
2048 RAM
Dual 2.5 ghz at 1ghz fsb
256 Radeon 9800pro

Anyway, I tried both replacing the previous u00, u02, and u09 strings, and adding them. Sadly, to no effect.

Any advice on what I could be missing?

---The Adventure Continues---

Okay, so I tried to edit it in vanilla. Unfortunately, when I added the strings and replaced the userdefined country strings in World_names, I couldn't even get it to the country selection screen: it froze during loading. Well, I alleviated that by eliminating Sudan from the list (world_names, country.csv, and the rebellion.txt), given that it had no graphics. After that, I could get to country selection, but when it crapped out at the very end during the last loadtime before the game map.

--Part 3--

Well, I managed to get the damn thing to run by specifically editting each aspect in the VIP. This thing just plain doesn't work in vanilla. Well, I had to run it in VIP mode, then, of course in order for it to function. Now, for the life of me, I can't get the Byzantine events to trigger. I tried dumping the Byzantine events into Greece.txt AND ottomans.txt, but to no avail. Well, turns out that was my mistake in the first place for not realizing that, of course, the VIP events are in a different folder. So I figure to put the necessary string where it belongs...now it I'm back to step one in getting it to boot. *sigh*

--Konstantinos

hammerfalls · Nov 29, 2005

finished mod

hey Xanthippus, I just wanted to say I took your mod and kinda ran with it, the finished work can be found here.

T'ung Dynasty · Jan 8, 2006

where and what is Byzantine????

i am kinda blurr,sorry......

Kanaric · Jan 10, 2006

you know you could probably just take greece and give it events like moving its capital to constantiople. Having an empire called "byzantine" in the 1800s is completely unrealistic.

The word byzantine was created by a french historian and is ment to degrade the country. If it were to live to the 1800s it would be called the Greek Empire as thats what everyone in the west called them in the medieval era.

Lord Boreal · Jan 10, 2006

The Byzantine Empire was the surviving remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire and at its peak covered much of the Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor the middle east and egypt. Imagine, the Ottoman Empire in Victoria but in pretty Greek blue

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