adding units to a save game

[vlad17]

HI,
I was playing MP yesterday and a bug happened. My opponent was producing transport plane and when the due date of his first plane arrived, the game just did not not give him the unit. it just "forgot" to give him the unit and went on to produce another transport plane (which takes 4 months or so). I guess the quickest way of fixing that bug is actually to modify the savegame and give the unit to teh appropriate country. I am not so good at modding so detailed help would be greatly appreciated. thanks a lot in advance.

 

[blue emu]

The main problem with that is that every unit in the game (and there are thousands) must have a unique ID number... and it's very difficult to tell which numbers are used and which are available.

The easiest method would be to edit the save to make his current Transport Plane build 99.9% complete, so he gets it finished tomorrow. That way the game itself will assign a valid ID number to it.

 

[vlad17]

Thanks blue emu. That indeed seems like the best method. Could you or anyone give a bit more details about how to do it? (which line to edit, etc...)
Thanks again

 

[blue emu]

Make a back-up copy of your saved game, before attempting to make any changes.

Open the saved-game with Notepad or Notepad++ (NOT with a fancy text editor like MS-Word).

Search for: country = {

You will find one entry per country... eg: Germany is the third entry.

Having located the part pertaining to your buddy's country, now search forwards from there for: division_development = {

That will take you to your build-queue section. You will find entries like:

    division_development = { 
        id = { type = 4712 id = 212703 } 
        name = "" 
        progress = 2.0000 
        location = 300 
        cost = 12.9504 
        date = { 
            year = 1967 
            month = june 
            day = 3 
            hour = 0 
            } 
        manpower = 2.0000 
        total_progress = 0.7700 
        size = 99 
        done = 5 
        days = 11044 
        days_for_first = 142 
        gearing_bonus = 0.2500 
        type = tactical_bomber 
        extra = none 
        extra = none 
        extra1 = none 
        extra2 = none 
        extra3 = none 
        extra4 = none 
        model = 1 
        brigade_model = 0 
        brigade_model1 = 0 
        brigade_model2 = 0 
        brigade_model3 = 0 
        brigade_model4 = 0 
        }

Look for one labelled: type = transport_plane

That should be the entry you are looking for.

Set total_progress = 0.9990

Save and exit.

 

[vlad17]

That's brilliant,
thanks a lot!

 

[sbr]

There are more efficient ways of finding a specific country, such as capital = xxx, where xxx is the capital province's id. /nitpick

 

[MartinBG]

There are more efficient ways of finding a specific country, such as capital = xxx, where xxx is the capital province's id. /nitpick

This search will send you 2 pages down from the begining of the country section.

Fastest country search is with "flags" (without the quotes). First "flags" entry is for global flags, the rest are local flags for each country and they are just 4 rows from the begining of each country section (including country name):

country = { 
    tag = [COLOR=DarkOrange]ENG[/COLOR] 
    ai = { 
        switch = no 
        [COLOR=Cyan]flags[/COLOR] = { }

 

[75Antons]

Sorry about thread resurrection.

I had a similar problem to the OP, I made 6 Brigades of Artillery and shipped them out of Bristol in late Jan '38 to join with my infantry divisions based in Port Sudan (waiting for Italy to get all jumpy and land grabby). The transports duly arrived in very early Feb, however, no artillery at all! Not on the ships, not forgotten back in Bristol, just, gone. I checked the stats and apparently I had no artillery brigades at all. Zero, zip, nada, nicht, b*gger all.

Frustration and panic quickly ensued, until I found this topic with the help of my old pals, the Google brothers.

So, I would like to thank Mr Emu for his very easy to follow instructions (I copied my save game, re-entered the game and made 6 more brigades, shot through a day and saved again. I then played about with the time left on the items and "hey presto" 6 shiny artillery brigades!

On a personal note, I think they may have gone AWOL near the coast of Spain to get a nice tan.