need help with cities.txt

[jollyschwa]

I'm creating a game with 16 fictional nations, each with a four team league. Every time I create a new game nations.txt works fine but I can't get the cities to show up.

I've tried three different approaches.

1 - I added the nations and cities to the default nations.txt and cities.txt. Nations were listed but not their cities.

2 - I created each file from scratch (once using Aptana, once using Works Spreadsheet, and once using Notepad). Same result as above.

3 - I replaced existing nations with the fictional ones. Then I replaced some of those nation's city names with the fictional ones. Again, same result.

So either my game's whacked or I am. I'm guessing it's me. Probably something really simple that I just can't see. Can someone take a look at my nations and cities files and see what I'm doing wrong?

[Goody]

Make sure that none of your latitudes and longitudes end in a zero that has been dropped by the spreadsheet program when you saved it or converted it.

[jollyschwa]

Thanks for the reply, doesn't look like anything's getting dropped.

[albatross11]

Hey Jolly-guy,

I don't see anything wrong with your created files. In your first approach, did you use "unique" (new) country ID numbers? In other words, did you use Country ID 1 for North Horn? If so, then those cities would show up under Afghanistan.
What you could try is the following:
Close game.
Backup (or rename) the original (default) nations and cities files.
Delete any nations.dat and cities.dat files you've created.
Open game and create new league. (maybe use the attached cities.txt file.) Attachment 180307
As an aside; looking at your nations.txt file, I don't know if this is what you're shooting for, but these are the types of names you're going to get:

North Horn - all American
Cape Villa - all Hispanic
San Calin - all Japanese
Ashland - all Korean

and so on through the first 16 Name sets.


Peace,
albatross11

Originally Posted by jollyschwa

I'm creating a game with 16 fictional nations, each with a four team league. Every time I create a new game nations.txt works fine but I can't get the cities to show up.

I've tried three different approaches.

1 - I added the nations and cities to the default nations.txt and cities.txt. Nations were listed but not their cities.

2 - I created each file from scratch (once using Aptana, once using Works Spreadsheet, and once using Notepad). Same result as above.

3 - I replaced existing nations with the fictional ones. Then I replaced some of those nation's city names with the fictional ones. Again, same result.

So either my game's whacked or I am. I'm guessing it's me. Probably something really simple that I just can't see. Can someone take a look at my nations and cities files and see what I'm doing wrong?

[jollyschwa]

Thanks for the help albatross. Still can't get it to work for some reason. I even deleted all my leagues, they were all just tests anyway. I might try a reinstall. Even the file you gave me doesn't work.

The ethnicities/names is something I'm still tinkering with. I want this world to be like the real one where each nation has a majority but I want the world as a whole to have an even balance. So the nations on the edges of my map are 90% or more one race, while the ones in the middle are pretty evenly integrated.

I can't believe how much this game has changed. I started with version 4, but stopped after 7 because I just didn't have the time to play it anymore. I like the way it's evolved, just still figuring out the nuances.

[jollyschwa]

Sweet! So the reinstall did the trick. I must have screwed something up playing around with everything.

I used the cities file you gave me, too. Thanks again for all your help!

[albatross11]

Originally Posted by jollyschwa

Sweet! So the reinstall did the trick. I must have screwed something up playing around with everything.

I used the cities file you gave me, too. Thanks again for all your help!

Good deal!

Peace,
albatross11