Early Israel Mod for Vic:Rev

[jamius]

Just wondering if there is an early Israel mod for Victoria Revolutions. I dl's the Early Israel Mod 2, but the target is for Paradox and not Strategy First main folder. And anyway, I didnt know or think it would work anyway. And another thing, why cant Egypt create Israel under release stas in GC? I asked these questions before but never could find the post again...if its moved, please let me know.

 

[OHgamer]

Just wondering if there is an early Israel mod for Victoria Revolutions. I dl's the Early Israel Mod 2, but the target is for Paradox and not Strategy First main folder. And anyway, I didnt know or think it would work anyway. And another thing, why cant Egypt create Israel under release stas in GC? I asked these questions before but never could find the post again...if its moved, please let me know.

it should still work, just change the target from Paradox to Strategy First by hitting the browse button in the mod installer window. This is an issue that is not just victoria vs revolutions, it's caused by localization of the original Victoria game. North American versions of Victoria were published by Strategy First, so that is the default folder for North American players, while some Europeans (not all, IIRC Britain has it's own publisher) have the default folder as Paradox Interactive.

As for Egypt not creating Israel, you have to have a nation defined in revolt.txt for it to be releasable, and it has to be active from the start date listed in the revolt.txt entry. Either Israel is not in the revolt.txt at all, or its start date is after the start date of the GC. You can customize that easily by either modding in an entry for Israel into your own revolt.txt file, or if it exists already, just changing the start date to be 1 Jan 1836.

 

[jamius]

Thanks so much for your help.

 

[jamius]

Ok, well, I tried changing the paths. What I did was unzipped it and took out the Victoria folder, then rezipped it (just the victoria folder itself), then extracted it directly to the Victoria folder (so the program files and paradox folders were not a prob)... and the result is nothing changed in the game and Israel isnt offered as a player. Any Ideas?

 

[OHgamer]

Ok, well, I tried changing the paths. What I did was unzipped it and took out the Victoria folder, then rezipped it (just the victoria folder itself), then extracted it directly to the Victoria folder (so the program files and paradox folders were not a prob)... and the result is nothing changed in the game and Israel isnt offered as a player. Any Ideas?

with zipped/rar'ed files, you need to open the file outside of the folder that your copy of Victoria is installed, and then manually transfer the contents of the zipped download one by one to the exact location in your Victoria copy where the files can overwrite the original victoria files.

As Victoria does NOT have mod-dir capability, the vast majority of mods are going to result in changing basic universal files used in all scenarios of Victoria, so what you might want to do before installing a mod is making a desktop copy of your clean Victoria installation and then applying the mod to the desktop copy. That way if you end up not liking what the mod does, all you have to do is junk the desktop copy, not do a full de-install and re-install of Victoria to remove any traces of the mods you might apply.