[Mod] The Great People Mod

[FrostyBoy]

What this Mod does:
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Whenever a great person, such as a great artist or prophet is born in any of YOUR cities, a window will popup, showing you a picture and a quote from the great person.

The windows are also colour coded for each type of great person.

Yellow/Gold = Merchant
Green = Scientist
Blue = Prophet
Red = Engineer
Purple = Artist


Install Instructions:
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Unzip the contents into Program Files\Firaxis Games\Civilization IV\MODS


Running the Mod
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1. Start Civilization IV
2. From the menu, go to advanced, then click on Load a Mod
3. Load Great People Mod
4. Civilization IV will restart
5. Start a game as usual

Note that everytime you want to play your game, Civilization IV will have to restart and load the mod.


The file size of this Mod is roughly 10mb.

DOWNLOAD MOD


Last notes
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There are bound to be mistakes with this mod, so if:

1. The picture, quote and name is correct, but the type of great person is wrong

2. The picture, type of great person and name is correct, but the quote is wrong

3. The name, quote and type of great person is correct but the picture is wrong

Let me know so that I can fix it.

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Thanks to vovan for the scripts.

[Martinus]

Wow, this is wonderful. Can't wait to try it.

[FrostyBoy]

Yes, it is a great mod, I highly enjoy using it.

I won't play a game without it, it just brightens up the gaming experience so much more.

[Bone_Jones_00]

It is a great idea for a mod...cant wait to try it

[FrostyBoy]

Hey is the mod working for people? It is not working for me..

I will have to check the script tomorrow, something is wrong

[vovan]

Sn00py, you decided to put the quotes in the images instead of using the XML file?

What you have posted there works fine for me, but like I said in the other thread, this version won't work if you use a language other than English.

[FrostyBoy]

Yeah vovan, I didn't use your textbox because when you came out with that updated script, I was already half finished with what I had done. So I didn't bother.. sorry

[Kinjiru]

Problems when loading a game?

Heya,

Great mod, really adds something that feels special.

When I start a new game up, everything works fine (Load A Mod, get told the application must restart, it does and the revised splash screen appears, start a new game, no issues).

However, I cannot load a save game. If I try to load a game, the app does not realize that the Mod has already been loaded in. So it tries to restart again but will not load the mod.

I also tried a fresh start-up (normal Civ), did the Load a Mod, then tried to load the save game. Still get the same issue.

To rule out the possibility of a corrupted save file, I started all over (multiple times) and still get the same issue when attempting to load a saved game.

So, am I just missing something incredibly obvious here?

[Kinjiru]

Fixed my own problem, kind of.

The should really be installed in the main cIV directory, not into the My Games\cIV directory.

ie.

Correct:
C:\Games\Sid Meier's Civilization IV\Mods\

Incorrect:
C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization IV\ MODS\

The 'incorrect' path does seem to work for SOME people with SOME mods. The 'correct' path seems to always work (after flushing the cache, of course - C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\cache ).

Now, in the top I said that this kinda fixes the problem. It does, but only for freshly saved games. I can now start a game with the mod, save that game, and later load that game.

Games started before I moved the files into the correct path will still not load. Guess there is something written into one of the files that looks for the old path.

Anyway, GREAT MOD. I absolutely love it!

[FrostyBoy]

Kinjiru, I think you have to put the mod into both directories.

I'm not sure..

I managed to get the mod to work lastnight

[MarkG]

edited the first post with the link to the file on apolyton

[FrostyBoy]

thanks mark

now my server can go back to sleep

[Fistandantilus]

This is a must have. Sn00py, you're a genius

[SpartanLord]

Great job! I woundered why the old thread died.


Anyway other download links:

GPM1
GPM2

I can add more if needed.

Comment to admin: I dont like the "popups" - when I'm paying for the bandwidth for the community. They should not be set for off site links. They should be like the Amazon ones at the bottom of the page.

[abman]

Thanks! Really excited to try this. And I'm really glad you said its for great people born in YOUR cities. That would be a bit much if it popped it up for each and every GP born. Also it lets me get a new experience every game as I get slightly different GP and learn new things from the popups.