Most of the other things you mention are doable, one way or another.

Start off with your first one:

If you want the townhalls not to be captured then open Data\UnitsMD\FrnCen.MD and find the line CAPTURE and put a / in front of it to disable it.
Do the same for the other nations townhalls ( EngCen.MD, ...)

and just go from there...

Oh and remember to work on a copy AND keep all modified files aswell in a separate folder so you know which one's you changed.

Here I type in Italic my short remarks to yours ideas.

1) Militia - fast producing cheap units - low morale, low shot power, low CS. training. (option in Barracks to make these troops equal in power as first line troops later in game.) - Yes, but it were some kind of reserve units and they were not equal in power as line units
2) first line troops - Muskets, Fusiliers. - average morale, shot power, & CS. - It were common combat line infantry units, however fusiliers were little bit better than musketeers units.
3) Elite troops - Highlanders, Voltiger, Black Watch - High shot, morale, average CS. - Could be, as elite or light infantry units
4) Grenadiers - Grenadiers - High shot, high morale, high CS. produced from the blacksmith. after upgrade, 2 units, upgradeable to 4.
- they were elite units, specialised in assault or strong defend and more ofen in bayonets combat, but they fired /shot/ on average level
5) Elite Guard - Guard units - Very high Morale, shot, & CS. 1 infantry units, 1 Calvary unit. Produced from palace. - Suggest few more units here
6) Mercenary's - 1 infantry unit, 1 Calvary unit, Produced from palace. - Suggest few more units here too
7) Rifle unit - High shot, high morale, average CS. Produced from blacksmith, 2 - 20 man formations, available with blacksmith, upgradeable to 4, then 6 in the blacksmith. - 15 men formations could represent elite companies which were common unit for these sharpshooters
8) Sapper - Built in the blacksmith. - 2 - 15 man formations upgradeable to 4. - Could be

Calvary, Same concept. Give all nations the same options for Calvary. - I do not think so, cavalry had big national differences

Light stable - 1 Ulan, 1 light Calvary, 1 Hussar, up upgradeable to additional groups of 3 types.
- It should be more light cavalry units and every nations had some specifics e.g. Austrian and Prussian prefered Hussars, Poles prefered Ulans, French had more Chaseur a Cheval, Russian had a lot of Cossacks, British prefered light dragoons, Spaniards had more Casadores, Rhine - had many different light cavalry however they had many Lighthorses units, Egyptian had their light Mameluks.

1) Ulan - low morale, high speed production, high CS.
- Oh, uhlans had not bad morle and good abilities e.g. Poles fast formed so many uhlans units and Vistula ulans win British and Spanish Heavy Dragoons, destroyed entire British Infantry Brigade, capture artillery battery and 5 British colors everything in one Battle. Soon Napoleon orederd trasfer 6 French Dragoons regiments into Lancers and formed 3 more lancers units too. Rusian Tsar did near the same in 1812, he even ordered armed some thier hussars units with lances too, Prussian and Austrian also increase their ulans regiments. Rhine also armed many troops with lances. All they did it with some reason. Uhlans/Lancers were cheap and can be more universal units, could be light and even crack cavalry units.

2) light Calvary armed. - Med. morale, med production speed, med morale, med CS.
- What mean light cavalry armed? If it mean Light Dragoons or Chasseur a Cheval, they were not so good. It was common supporter light cavalry units for British and French. Other nations used them in less number of units.

3) Hussar. - High morale, high shot, med CS.

Heavy Stables - Again all nations have the same options. Each stable comes with 1 formation of each type. upgradeable in groups of 2 each type.

1) Heavy Dragoon. - High morale, Very high shot, high CS
- It were more or less line cavalry units, but shot sitting on horse back was not so effective. This is why dragoons still used sabres/palash. Worse that British dragoons were beaten sometiome even by ulans and French, and Russian transfered many dragoons units into lancers or another light cavalry units. Austrian and Prussians also reorganised their dragoons, however they still were heavy dragoons.

2) Curssiar, - very high morale, high shot, very high CS - shot defense high. - Could be

Did you try out something already?

Nowy,

Please motivate why 1.3 is better then 1.4.

E.A.

But at this point it appears that I am going to Baltimore MD. And the wife will be staying in Florids until the house gets ether sold or rented. So I will have litle money to much of anything else in the afternoons, so this would be a good project for me.

My thoughts on 1.4 vs 1.3 are to take advantage of the changes already made concerneing lagg, and online play.

What you say about building on the file instead of the engine? are any of the settings in the engine different? I am assuming that the engine is not modable?

So I am thinking that I would use the decompiled files from 1.4, and build from them, since I have already translated them for the most part.

Is that you in your new Avitar?

Daddio

No thats not me in that avatar. If I had such clothes, I'd probably do better

Wish you all the best with the job offers.

On topic:

Ofcourse you can extract the files from the 1.4 patch and use the parameter files to build your mod on those, but things like fixes concerning lag, online play to my understanding are in the engine and its related files of patch 1.4, which doesnt recognize the english version.

Someone should ask GSC about this, not just for your mod but for the sake of the english players that can't play with the full 1.4 patch. I completely forgot to ask this in my last mail, for which I apologize. I really should have.

E.A.

Since I am on the TC files what do I need to do to make the TC build cost?

You mean what line you need to modify to change the town center build cost?

If so::

* PRICE
$ price NeedRes
[] /
& BUILDING & UNITS
+ /
^ PRICE 2 WOOD 450 STONE 700
= Amount of Resources and how much of each resource the unit/building costs. So it has 2 resources as cost, followed by the resource and its amount.

Say you want a tc to cost for example 100 wood, 100 stone and 100 gold, it would be:

PRICE 3 WOOD 100 STONE 100 GOLD 100