Customizing World - Cities

Lordofbrewtown · 10-22-2020, 11:13 PM

Looking for some help here. I have one game saved using a customized nation (added cities to Bermuda).

I want to create a new game, and use the same world/import the cities. I have tried copying the world.dat file; but, that doesn't work. The OOTP manual indicates there should be a cities.txt file saved under the 'data database' file saved in the OOTP installation directory. I cannot find a 'datadatabase' file/directory, or a cities.txt file anywhere.

Has anyone had success importing cities and/or nations?

Thanks

Rain King · 10-23-2020, 11:21 AM

That sounds like the old setup, I guess they haven't updated the manual.

Everything is now in the world_default.xml file within the database folder.

Lordofbrewtown · 10-23-2020, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain King

That sounds like the old setup, I guess they haven't updated the manual.

Everything is now in the world_default.xml file within the database folder.

So, that file does not appear to be unique to each saved game - so shouldn't the cities I created in the previous game be showing in a new game? If so - they are not.

I have also attempted to copy that file, and paste over it - again - no success. Seems like I'm missing something that should be easy

Matt Arnold · 10-23-2020, 04:09 PM

Unfortunately, there's no way to copy the city list to other game files. If you edit the world_default.xml file, you can use that as a default or import it into other games, but there's no direct way to export the xml from one file to import to another.

Lordofbrewtown · 10-24-2020, 01:37 PM

Thanks Matt. I also realized that I forgot to re-import the world database in the global menu after trying to copy/paste over the world files (realized this after re-importing names files); but, I had already spent a couple hours re-entering some cities.

10-22-2020, 11:13 PM	#1
Lordofbrewtown Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: St Petersburg, FL Posts: 301	Customizing World - Cities Looking for some help here. I have one game saved using a customized nation (added cities to Bermuda). I want to create a new game, and use the same world/import the cities. I have tried copying the world.dat file; but, that doesn't work. The OOTP manual indicates there should be a cities.txt file saved under the 'data database' file saved in the OOTP installation directory. I cannot find a 'datadatabase' file/directory, or a cities.txt file anywhere. Has anyone had success importing cities and/or nations? Thanks

10-23-2020, 11:21 AM	#2
Rain King Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3,323	That sounds like the old setup, I guess they haven't updated the manual. Everything is now in the world_default.xml file within the database folder.

10-23-2020, 04:09 PM	#4
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 16,244	Unfortunately, there's no way to copy the city list to other game files. If you edit the world_default.xml file, you can use that as a default or import it into other games, but there's no direct way to export the xml from one file to import to another.

10-24-2020, 01:37 PM	#5
Lordofbrewtown Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: St Petersburg, FL Posts: 301	Thanks Matt. I also realized that I forgot to re-import the world database in the global menu after trying to copy/paste over the world files (realized this after re-importing names files); but, I had already spent a couple hours re-entering some cities.