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Do either of these two work?

SelectFaction = ITA
SelectFaction = $ITA

The second will work only if the factions are defined in an Alias file, which don't usually exist in the "official" games.

The first is the correct way, as the Engine properly interprets it.

https://www.leqg.org/doc/age/www.ageod. ... ction.html

Gracias otra vez, as the Russians are saying.

I always done it the first way and this might shed light on something that I recently stumbled over. Or maybe not.
I haven't found an alias file for factions in my PON installation. But is there any and I just didn't find it?

There are factions files (.fac) in every Ageod game in the folder

"\GameData\Factions"

True, Nikel. While they contain UID and FactionTag, they have no Alias.
Maybe I am missing something.

I might explain. I was craving through 1880 eventfiles in PON. You have a lot lines like in 1880WinC Events Fixes.sct



where I would write it like



Now I wonder if they can work, if there is no file for Faction Aliases.

Hmmm. I have a vague recollection that the engine allows either, as we had issues early on with a volunteer-who-shall-remain-nameless kept putting the $ sign in.....

From memory too, you don't need to put a $ when citing a faction trigram (is that the correct word for an abbreviation of 3 letters?

There is no need for faction aliases and if you see one, it is an automated left over but is not needed. The game will check what TUR stands for directly...