Any way to choose a starting location?

[TienIsCoolX]

Is there anyway for me to choose a province that I want to start in before I start a game? I'm playing a 1500 province map so it's kinda hard to check that one box in the map editor for each province one by one, so is there an easier way to do this?

[TienIsCoolX]

ok now I'm trying to set this command in, but where do I put it?

#specstart <nation nbr> <province
nbr>

Do I just edit the .map file of the map and copy the line in say..

#specstart <number of late man> <whatever>

I can't seem to find the nation number of late man, but there is one that says "reserved", is this it? (number 65 btw)

[Ballbarian]

LA Man = 51

Yes.
Edit the map file and add the specstart line:
#specstart 51 <prov nbr>

[TienIsCoolX]

Ok I added that line and in the game settings it had the line "special starts are enabled" and when the map was done loading I just started in some other province, tried reloading it 3 times and it gave me random provinces still. What did I do wrong?

[Ballbarian]

Make sure that the province is not marked "no start".
Post the terrain value of the province in question. (#terrain <province nbr> <terraintype>)

Also, watch for #nostart <province nbr>.

[TienIsCoolX]

it doesn't have "no start" and it has a border mountain and forest in the map editor.

[Ballbarian]

Can you attach the map file? Not the image, just the map file.

[TienIsCoolX]

k

[Ballbarian]

Sorry, forgot to ask which province you were trying to use as a start.

Nevermind. I am half asleep.

[Ballbarian]

Change this:
#specstart 51 <163>
To this:
#specstart 51 163