Any way to adjust champion recruitment at fame levels?

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So, I've been playing LH a lot the last week. Both vanilla and with the patchwork mod which I greatly enjoy, and am soon going to test Blood & Mana.

But one thing that really doesn't fit my style of play is the rate at which champions are gained - I'd like them to be rare, powerful and important, not something I get a half-dozen of in the first half hour.

Is it possible to adjust how much ffame is needed for each champion to show up? I guess I'd like to delay them by about 20 fame + 50% fame, or something in that neighborhood.

Also, is there any mod or similar that makes it so that the nationality you are affects what champions join? It feels kinda weird to be, say, Altarian, having a whole nation full of Altarians, and then none of my champions are... It'd be nice if at least one of the two offered matched your own race.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Is it possible to adjust how much ffame is needed for each champion to show up? I guess I'd like to delay them by about 20 fame + 50% fame, or something in that neighborhood.

If you open CoreGameEvents.XML, there are events named "GameEvent_Champion_#" (no quotes, and # is replaced by an arabic numeral). These events have a fame value which triggers them (look for the line that starts with <TriggerData>, and this is the amount of fame required for the champion; <TriggerStringData> is the line specifying the resource required, and <TriggerType> is the line specifying the way that the event is triggered). Edit that fame value and you can change when the champions appear.

I'd suggest that you create a backup copy of CoreGameEvents.XML before you do anything to it, just in case you break something through an editing error.

Also, is there any mod or similar that makes it so that the nationality you are affects what champions join? It feels kinda weird to be, say, Altarian, having a whole nation full of Altarians, and then none of my champions are... It'd be nice if at least one of the two offered matched your own race.

Not that I know of, though you could check the list of mods over in the modding forum.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

1- Ooooh so it's so easy? Thanks a lot!:D

2 - I've looked through the mod list and googled a bit but haven't found anything :( Oh well.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmmm... It doesn't seem to work to me. I've changed it as you suggested I think (like this) but in game it still shows up and happens at the normal intervals (getting the first at 3 fame).

I have BMB and Blood & Mana installed, but neither has a file with the "gameevents" in the title, nor does any of them have an xml that contains RecruitFreeChampion as a phrase.

 

It is the file in InstallFolder\data\English\ right?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, when I was to install blood & mana I made a full reinstall (including a manual delete) of LH. I guess I could reinstall it again, maybe something were left.

 

Is there anything in particular that needs to be manually deleted apart from documents/my games/Legendary Heroes and the standard install folder?

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Primal_Savage, reply 6

1. If you've made a backup of CoreGameEvents.xml, then you need to make sure the file is not in your LH folder or it will be read as well and could cause conflicts (even if you renamed it to something else).

This was the issue. Thanks a lot!