Inability to select some countries from saved game files.

[unmerged(58270)]

I have noticed a problem when loading any saved game file that originates from the 1836 grand campaign. It appears that you are unable to select some of the countries by simply clicking on their respective boxes as they are shaded out, in addition to this i am also unable to select them from the drop down menu of countries. This only appears to be an issue with the 1836 scenario as all other saved games from alternative scenarios work fine.

 

[Kagernaut]

Far as I know, thats standard.....

 

[unmerged(58270)]

Far as I know, thats standard.....

AH yea sorry, it does seem that all scenarios with the exception of the 1861 campaign have this as a feature, shame really i liked it the way that HOI Doomsday deals with the loading of games.

 

[Kagernaut]

Yeah I know, I preferred that as well.

 

[King]

This WAD from the original Victoria.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

It's "easily" circumvented by renaming your computer in the multiplayer screen, or by deleting your computer's name from the savegame.

 

[unmerged(58270)]

I have tried renaming my computer in the multiplayer screen , but as I intend to play the saved game as a single player venture there is no way to start the game and then sequentially save it. Therefore i cannot remove see how to remove the restiction. Is there anyway around this?
Also how would you delete the computer name from a saved game?

 

[sirsri]

Try this, open up the save game in notepad (it will be the .eug file)

you'll find something like this which is I think the default

ENG = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "United Kingdom : " }
FRA = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "France : " }
GER = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Germany : MORT" }
RUS = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Russia : " }
TUR = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Ottoman Empire : " }
HOL = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Netherlands : " }
SWE = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Sweden : " }
SPA = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Spain : " }
USA = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "USA : " }
CHI = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "China : " }


(Computername MORT, playing as Germany)

Replace it with something along the lines of

AWA = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Awadh : " }
BHU = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Bhutan : " }
NIP = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Japan : SECTOID" }

Computer name here is SECTOID, they were the only handy saves I have right now sorry. I don't think the computer name matters, just use whatever is your computer name.

Now the greyed out countries will be Awadh, Bhutan and Japan will be selectable. You could even just go with replacing the whole block with

NIP = { desc = "" countrytactics = "" playername = "Japan : SECTOID" }

Which makes any country selectable, BUT on the stats screens the only nations that show up are the ones listed here.


I *think* that is all you need to do, but haven't time to test.

 

[unmerged(58270)]

Aha! Thanks to your comments i have finally cracked it!
I edited the saved game file and deleted the computer name from the file. This lead to all nations being selectable. Thanks for your help it was of great use!