Editing a multiplayer savegame for IA difficulty

[unmerged(227348)]

Hello everyone,

my friends and me are playing a multiplayer game. We played our first session with hard difficulty because the host forgot to set it to normal. Right now, a few human nations are getting roflstomped by some IA blobs (Bohemia, Golden Horde).

Has anyone ever tried to edit a savegame just to set a different difficulty level?

I'm afraid that we could get a massive desynch problem. Maybe not now but horribly in the 4th, 5th session or later on.

What's the desynch chance in this situation for your experience? 100%? 200%?

 

[EliteTK]

I don't think it would cause a desynch, since every player would load from the same savegame. Anyway, you can just make a backup of the save if you're afraid of problems.

 

[Dauth]

I've edited save games for multiplayer several times without issue, as elite mentions they load the game from you.

 

[unmerged(227348)]

We have already edited savegames in the past, but never IA difficulty. Have you ever tried?

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

By IA, do you mean AI? Or Imperial Authority?

 

[unmerged(227348)]

Oh god. Sorry. Yes, AI. Artificial Intelligence. My mistake

 

[miotas]

It's fairly simple to change difficulty settings, you can make a save of a new game using the settings you want and find a section at the top of the save file that looks like this

gameplaysettings=
{
	setgameplayoptions=
	{
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 	}
}

Then you copy that into the game you wish to change. It probably wouldn't be hard to figure out what each number changes and make editing even easier, but I haven't been bothered to find out.

 

[unmerged(227348)]

Thanks for the answer, but we actually know how to edit a savegame. What we don't know if this is maybe going to compromise the savegame's stability (especially for a multiplayer)

 

[cacra]

no it wont, you can always check in sp to make sure the save is corrupted. and if the save doesnt load for another player then send him the save under the same name (make sure it ends in .eu3) but that isnt because of the edited save i dont think