thanks

locate the settings.lua file in the folder of this mod and change it manually

like to switch to A and B era

Hey, is there any way to do this without commonapi?

There is a working version on the website with manual install. I know this is not the most convenient way. However you can still edit in the settings.lua yourself or play with the default setting.
I am not sure if this mod will get an update - I gave up playing with the insane automatic town development. Btw: contributions welcome at any time.

I don't find it working at the moment... and referring back to CommonAPI2 doesn't help as that one doesn't work either.

Is anything not working?

Please update the mod to a newer version of the game. Thank you

nur die settings.lua ändern. Keine anderen Dateien. Andere Mods aktiv die irgendwas mit Stadtentwicklung machen? Oder es könnten Hochhäuser einer Mod sein.

meine mod.lua bei der Townbuilding Ära. bei B u. C auf false gesetzt. Auch in der Settings.lua Ära B und C auf false gesetzt. Trotzdem baut die KI immer wieder Hochhäuser aus Ära B in meinen Städten, auch wenn ich sie abreisse. Auch in der Townbuilding Level alles auf false gesetzt. Ich möchte gern nur in der Ära A spielen. Habe die Zeit bei 1918 angehalten. Die Common.API geht nicht, da ich auf meinem IMac spiele. Kann mir jemand helfen. ??

wie stellt man das ein? bekomme das nicht hin :/

From a user that is the convenient view. But dont forget the modder side, where every mod is a lot of work. Historically, at the release of this mod TPF2 did not even have official mod settings. We had to rely on CommonAPI which had/has huge additional tools to the base game but because of its invasive behavior it has to be updated every game update. Due to bad communication from the developers this caused many problems, so he disabled it for steam. Anyway, this mod works fine alone, with the depicted default settings.

I did, but as it turns out that is the link for the "dummy" mod. I had to download the full version directly. And, after a lot of aggravation finally have it working.

Apologies for the frustrated grumbling, but unless it's my computer causing the problem, I just expect to apply a mod and have it work on its own without a bunch of tweaking from me.

I think "BuildingsEraA = false," is pretty self-explaining. The Mod Settings Guide is general - the content of settings file is just an example. Anyway, in the comments of the guide you find the link to the manual CommonAPI download.

I am now trying to edit the settings.lua file as you suggest as a last resort, and it does not contain the code as you described...

Here is the contents of the settings.lua file:

return {
BuildingsEraA = false,
BuildingsEraB = true,
BuildingsEraC = true,

}

Where are these lines:

return {
capacityFactor = 2,
townDevelopInterval = 60,
logging = true,
}

At this point, when a mod causes this much aggravation, it almost seems not worth it!!!

VacuumeTube, I'm trying to use you 2 building filter mods with the API2 dummy mod that you suggested and recommended. I subscribed to the mod and it doesn't work... I just spent 1 1/2 hours researching and changing settings files in the API2 mod and it is just a dead mod.

Now I realize that you are not responsible for someone else's mod being broken and not working, but you recommend it.

Have you heard of any new fixes to make this mod work for your mods. For now, I guess I'll just fiddle with editing the .lua file in your mod... which is very dissapointing to say the least!

You need town development on and the town needs higher numbers, either base values (sandbox editor) or the factors in the town window

hey sorry to bother you but i have a question, is there a way to make the town builder lay down more higher level buildings instead of level 1s? im running both town filter mods(era+level) and the no ai upgrade mod

See Mod Settings Guide

I need some help! I want to play with only buildings from era A and I don't know how to activate this mod. CommonAPI2 seems to do not be working so I don't know what to do. Thanks

Where do you find this mod? I loaded it onto a saved game but do not see it anywhere.

It's not compatible with that mod, it doesn't make any sense to activate both.
With this mod, you chose what is available, independent of game year.

Finally I found the reason of the problem: this building era filter will not apply if the mod "Town buildings: no end year" is also enabled (whatever the mod order)

Thank you :o)

yes like i said

Thanks for your answer, but so it mean that for example, if i start game in 1850 with your default mod setting there will be only era b + c building who spawn ?

With the mod, buildings are "timeless". You decide which buildings are available

I don't understand this : "The default setting is Era B+C, so that modern and conventional buildings appear together."

It mean that if we start in 1850 we won't have stone buildings ?

Changed everything to default values. Finally seems to have done the trick. Thanks for letting me know what was going wrong

You can also set 1990 in my code to 2020 if you changed them all to that

Could not find any reference to that in the scripts but I can always try changing them back.

Did you really change the availibility of the files? Because that's how the mod determines the era und if it is filtered.

Still having this problem, only now the level filter is broken as well. Ugly skyscrapers everywhere...

wait you changed the dates of all buildings?

That's why I'm confused - I can't think of any possible conflicts. The rest, I've already checked. Era C buildings spawn after 1990 but I can't find any reference to that date in the files I've looked at, as I've changed all values to 2020.

Any mods active that change the availability of town buildings? I don't know of any conflicts yet

I only happen te use the vanilla buildings....I've triple checked the mod settings. I suspect mod loading order is the problem due to some mod conflict.

Sure those are vanilla buildings?
Eventually start a new discussion and post a screenshot

Also having issues with this, the game keeps spawning Era C buildings after 1990 though this is explicitly disabled.

any town building mods installed?

I have the following configuration in the file settings.lua
BuildingsEraA = true,
BuildingsEraB = false,
BuildingsEraC = false,
However, the AI started as usual to replace all old buildings with "Era B" ones around 1930.
I'm not sure why this mod does not work for me

Ich kann es nicht deaktivieren. Kann jemand helfen?

Hi VacuumTube. Are you able to put the filters [of both mods] into the Enabled Mods description [now ingame] rather than use Common API2 as this mod crashes my game so have gotten rid of it. Thanks.

@VacuumTube: Bei mir funktioniert es jetzt auch mit bereits existierenden Städten wieder.

Mit Build 29331 sollte es wieder gehen

Seit dem heutigen Update auf die Version 29189 funktioniert offenbar der Filter nicht mehr. Die Städte bauen jetzt auch wieder Era C, obwohl ich nur Era B freigegeben habe. Auch der Level-Mod scheint "unwirksam" zu sein.

Vielen dank für den Mod. Da ich so um 1930 spiele aber gern die alten Gebäude behalte ist das super für mich.

Wie gesagt, ich glaube das mit dem Level ist nicht mehr so. Kannst ja mal bei der Parallel-Mod Town Building Filter (Level) schauen. Ich konnte beim Testen 2100 mit nur Level 1 Gebäuden auskommen.
Ansonsten schreib mir mal bei tpfnet, wie der Test war

Das hatte ich bei TPF versucht. Das ist in der townsutil... Zeile 198 199 und irgendwo danach. Anstatt die Variable abfragen zu lassen, habe ich den Zeitpunkt diesmal einfach fest auf 1950 gesetzt. Muss jetzt mal testen wie es in einem normalen Spiel läuft. Im schlimmsten Fall sucht er 1920 ein lvl 3 Gebäude. Kann man da vielleicht ein Era A Gebäude editieren indem man da die 2 auf 3 ändert und dann evtl den Namen des Files auf 3 stellt? Ich versuche das einfach mal. Man kommt nur so selten zum längeren Spielen ^^

Das müsste eigentlich kein Problem sein. Wichtig ist nur dass zu jedem Zeitpunkt Gebäude zum Bauen verfügbar sind (was die Level angeht, nur Lvl1 muss zwingend da sein, bei TPF2 zumindest).
Hast du schonmal versucht townbuildingsutil zu modifizieren?