AUC to BC/AD?

[KingPenguin]

This is probably either really simple or impossible to do, but:

Is it possible to change the years from AUC to BC or AD? I don't want this in the actual game, but in various mods this may be useful. It's no big deal, but I want to know if that's possible.

 

[Rado]

I was actually just wondering about this, hope someone knows.

 

[Hallsten]

I think that BC is pretty much impossible at the moment and I think it will remain that way. There is a time limit removing patch that increases the timespan from 2-65536, and it does not allow negative numbers, nor can it make the game count in reverse. I expect that AVC was chosen to eliminate the BC/AC-shift.

 

[Fintilgin]

If Paradox wants to make it an option, though, it would be fairly straight forward.

The game always keeps track of everything in AUC, but if you click the 'Display BC' button, then, before it displays the number, it just subtracts 753 from it. That's all.

The engine doesn't have to keep track of negative numbers, nothing internal is changed, it just displays a little differently.

 

[KingPenguin]

So would it be as simple as a little text file if you don't need BC? Would just AD be easier? Not even converting it, but just changing where it says AUC to say AD for a mod.