Morpheus, it is esy to add some colonial dynamism to the nations you speak of.
Go into the DB folder and open up the "trader" file in a text editor such as wordpad or notepad.
The reason I suggest trader is that is has less country entries than "colonists" and the effect is exactly the same in "trader" as in "colonists"
You should see a line of country abbreviations on the first line separated by semicolons. On the first line, at the end, simply add the country tag that you want to have dynamism followed by the semicolon.
Then go down to each time period and add the number of colonists you want to have. For example 300 would indicate 3 colonists per year, 400 means 4 colonists and so forth. A number such as 350 would only mean 3...the extra 50 is dropped unless the country you are adding has a tag in the "colonists" file, in which case the numbers are simply added.
The text for adding the countries should be pretty easy to follow. The trader and colonist files aren't difficult to change or understand.
When you're done, just save the file and bingo, you have colonial dynamism.
Here is an example:
This is a small sample trader.csv file
NUMBER OF COLONISTS PER YEAR DATABASE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
PERIOD;MIN;NAT;ENG;SPA;END
1520;1;1;10;200;
1560;1;1;20;300;
1615;1;1;200;200;
1665;1;1;200;200;
1700;1;1;250;100;
1760;1;1;250;100;
1792;1;1;200;5;
If you want to give the Golden Horde colonial dynamism simply add the STE tag before END on the line with all the country tags. The finished line should look like this:
PERIOD;MIN;NAT;ENG;SPA;STE;END
Then, at the end of each time period, add the number of colonists you want followed by the semicolon. The year referenced is the ending year of the time period...so 1520 means the time frame 1492-1520, and so forth.
If I wanted ot give the golden Horde colonial dynamism of 8 colonists per year for the whole game, the correct text would look like this:
NUMBER OF COLONISTS PER YEAR DATABASE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
PERIOD;MIN;NAT;ENG;SPA;STE;END
1520;1;1;10;200;800;
1560;1;1;20;300;800;
1615;1;1;200;200;800;
1665;1;1;200;200;800;
1700;1;1;250;100;800;
1760;1;1;250;100;800;
1792;1;1;200;5;800;
Hope this answers the question and since the IGC isn't likely to be updated, learning how to mod thing yyourself will make things a lot easier and more fun.
Stoney
