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How do you add new trade routes? i have the map editor and mod tools and i can access the oringinal XML files in the Gamedata/mods/source/data/xml . ive fooled around with some of the other files and i know how to edit them. ive also read the 3 documents that come with
now i know that there is 3 XML files edleast that have something to do with trade routes: TradeRouteFiles , TradeRouteLines , TradeRoutes .
TradeRouteFiles , and TradeRouteLines i cant figure out how to do anything with.
now ive loooked through TradeRoutes and it seems to me that the first 11 trade routes (or edleast till is says "<!-- Used for Medium Map -->") shown are part of the Galactic Conflict Campaign in Galactic Conquest. this is the campaign that i want to add new trade lines in.
so first just to experiment i copied the way the other trade routes were written and this is what i wrote:

<TradeRoute Name="Coruscant_Byss"

<Point_A>Coruscant</Point_A>
<Point_B>Byss</Point_B>
<HS_Speed_Factor>5.0</HS_Speed_Factor>
<Political_Control_Gain>0</Political_Control_Gain>
<Credit_Gain_Factor>0.5</Credit_Gain_Factor>

</TradeRoute>

This is a trade route between Coruscant and Byss i tried to add, but when i load up the game nothing shows up in the GC campaign. no new trade routes there or anything.
i then tried REMOVING one of the existing trade lines (the Fondor_Abregado_Rae one if that matters) but it was still there when i loaded up the game a second time.
can someone help me with this at all? or should i go try EAW Nexus or another site such as that?

Thanks

Off-topic : Jedi_Trooper, if I had been you, I would not have hesitated to ask such a question on several Bulletin-Boards in order to enhance your chances to be able to work out your current Issues, and I guess Locations such as Petroglyph Fan Forums, Den Games Network Forums and LucasForums' Star Wars : Empire At War Modding Section might be the most "helpful" and efficient ones you could find across the whole Web...

ah, to add new trade routes, you not only have to "declare" them in the traderoutes.xml, but you have to "call" them in the setup for the galactic map you're using. if you wanted to add them one of the gc maps, you would look in campaigns_singleplayer.xml for the specific one, and the find the <Trade_Routes></Trade_Routes> tag and add yours to the list. unfortunately i'm not sure where the setup for the actual campaign galactic map is tho, you'll have to look around. you might try campaigns_main.xml or campaigns_standard.xml, or it might be somewhere else entirely.

hope this helps...

thanks leviathan and nyax. ill look through the XML files mentioned and others that i think might have something to do with adding new routes and ill ask around at the sites leviathan mentioned.

Off-topic : In my opinion, the LucasForums Section dedicated to Star Wars : Empire At War is the Location you should prefer in case you would wish to get answers to Modding-related questions, Jedi_Trooper, as this whole Message-Board has always been rather well-administrated by qualified and friendly members who will not hesitate to provide you all the Resources you'll need, even though you will be consulting this Place for the first time...
However, feel free to pick up the one you will wish, amongst all those I have mentioned in my above message...