City xy coordinates

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

Yeah I've thought about making Bantam and Batavia exist in different eras, and moving one of Samarang/Malang completely (Bali? Bengal?). The default game has city names pointing in different directions though, so its doable

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Maybe in the City Data or something. Look at cities in the original game with different angles and maybe use data from that.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

It's in maplabel.dta I think. I get lost trying to decipher it

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Sounds right. Must be something like that. Does any of the cities have different angles if you use the original in the East Indies?

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

Ioilo is on the left, and Tidore as well, couldn't find any unique entries in their cityloc data though

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Iâ€™d say map label. City loc is location of cities themselves not the text display on the map Has to be something like that.

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Iâ€™d say map label. City loc is location of cities themselves not the text display on the map Has to be something like that.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

Can you tell which entries in maplabel correspond to individual cities?

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

I havenâ€™t taken a look at it. Iâ€™ve been working hard on my project and business as well . Is it laid out similar to the city loc but with different codes? If it is maybe you can look at the different angles on the of map take a note of which cities ha e different angles. Then note the kind of angles then use that data when creating the East Indies. One can be turned so it doesnâ€™t collide with the other city name. If you can find a pattern then the first one is likely Antigua and you can move down the list but finding the pattern might not be easy. I wish you luck.

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Might be some information buried deep here about dta. Files Jinglangsdo an that dude who created the trainer knew a lot about the game.

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8185 **206015 Gold** -

Phalzyr did the PH-trainer

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

From here:

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 863 **14640 Gold** -

Pirate, remember which entries in the exe for each city were for wealth?

So for Antigua, it's:
A5 01 00 00 (x coordinate, although overridden by cityloc)
75 00 00 00 (y coordinate)
06 00 00 00 (not sure, 02 or 06 might be port but that's also affected by cityloc)
01 (country) 0C (??) 06 (??) 00 (city size)
02 00 00 00 (not sure)
50 00 00 00 (not sure)
00 00 00 00 (not sure)
11 01 00 00 (starting eras)

So for country, 00 is Spanish, 01 is English, etc. For city size, the biggest like Havana and Cartagena are 04. (Barbados is 02, which I think you've used before?)

What affects merchant wealth? Something in there affects supplies but I'm not sure if we can get to specific ones like goods, spices, etc.

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Best I could tell itâ€™s all in the middle after nationality. Population everything in it. Those numbers change a good bit. Best way to study that is use the the trainer then make a city rich double population etc then save the game. Open the saved game and search the first 8 bytes of the city string you saved they never change then compare to original. The part near the end before you get to eras does something I think but not sure what. All those numbers change in game except the first and last the eras. I havenâ€™t cracked the code yet but I could make some mean cities.

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

If the city has no port there will be a 80 in it and no 02 or 06. What those means I donâ€™t know but Iâ€™ve seen them change to 07 in a saved game. Mostly the Spanish has that 02 but some French cities have as well. Dutch English are all 06.