[Mod] Abandon City (small mod)

[Thomas Diemar]

Jeg saw in some forum that the abandon city functionallity was missing. I also thought that this was missing.

Looking further around in the forums and in the civ4 files, i realized how simple it is to change the game.

The programmers who have writen the python code is furthermore obviosly tainted by Java.
Java is a language which i've been teaching first year computer science students for 3 years, so this made the task of creating mods even more easy for me.

In one hour i've incorporated and testet the interface change for my abandon button. I will continue with this small mod tomorrow after work.

[TheDarkside]

Awesome, I'm looking forward to this!

[Bhiita]

yea! sign me up for this too.

[Jon Shafer]

The interface is the hardest part.

All you need to do now is hook the button up to the CyCity().kill() function and that's basically it.

[Gramphos]

Unless you want abandoning a city take some time, in which case some more Python would have to be written. I think the coolest thing would be if all pop were converted to Emigrant units, who could join other cities, but only could travel for x turns withouth starving, depending on the ammount of food in the city when abandoning it. You should alsoe Have to have a military if you ant to pillage the tile of all the city improvments. (Maybe I should try to make my own abandon city mod (advanced ))

[MattPilot]

You 'da man Thomas!

I hope you'll include instructions so this mod can easily incorporate with other mods.

[Robert]

Abandoning a city should take 1 or 2 turns per population point. It shouldn't be easy to abandon a huge city.

The Gramphos idea of cranking out population who can join other cities is good as well. I don't think starvation should be an issue for them though.

[Thomas Diemar]

How do i hook my button up to execute some code when it's clicked?

I've looked through a lot of cy files, and its not described in http://civilization4.net/files/modding/PythonAPI/

Thomas

[Skoll]

Check Locutus' stickied post above titled 'Initial Python reference.' It talks about event handling. In this case maybe what you need to do is process an onMouseEvent or some such.

[Thomas Diemar]

I've looked through that. And i've tried the onMouse event. It dos'nt seem to fire when i click the button. It fires when i click the terrain.

[BaalRoGX]

is it possible to change the raze status at all?

I mean, should it be that someone else razes a 20+ city with 5-7 wonders in just about 1 turn? unrealistic for me!

Is it possible to create a mod which makes it depending on the value of a city when it can be razed at the earliest? maybe between 2 and 6 turns?

[Thomas Diemar]

yes.

But i need to make the connection between the button and the action i want to code.

[TheDarkside]

I'm down to the same problem in my mod... I want to make either a button or a hyperlink type text which fires an event and executes some code... This should be trivial but I just can't figure out how to do it

[Skoll]

And i've tried the onMouse event. It dos'nt seem to fire when i click the button. It fires when i click the terrain.

Hmm, well maybe try a kbd shortcut for now. I have onKbdEvent firing correctly when inside the city screen.

[gev]

Originally posted by BaalRoGX
I mean, should it be that someone else razes a 20+ city with 5-7 wonders in just about 1 turn? unrealistic for me!

Given that a turn is typically at LEAST a year, razing a city in that time is fairly trivial.