[Mod] GreenMod (replant forest and other changes)

[Master Lexx]

GreenMod 2.xx

• New gamespeeds with longer research and more turns
• Forests replantable on tundra, plains and grass
• 9 new ressources (salt, sulphur, potatoes, coffee, pearls, lemons, cotton,...)
• Inquisitor unit, can remove non-state religions
• Demolitiontroop, can raze nat. wonders and cities
• 5 new units (2 with new 3D Models) and 4 new wonders
• 18 new units with new skins (one for each civ)
• Many tweaks to improve the gameplay, look below

Although the development is still continuing, this thread has been abandoned by me.
Please visit the mainthread here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=144428

In my Mod you can simply plant a new forest just with a worker.
I like to have a green empire and maybe some other do so too.
Don´t forget to look also at the other version changes!

It´s compatible with Civ4 1.52, (since version 1.70)


See changes.txt for detailed info, about all my changes and in which files I made them (for modders only).
In readme.txt you can find some little mod installation instructions and credits.
If you can´t extract the rar files, it´s because you use an to old version of Winace/Winzip. Get WinRAR. then.

If you get the missing fonts bug, or have any other problem with the city screen or buttons not showing,
delete this file: (you lose turntimer, not all resources are shown and get specialist limit again)
Civ4\Mods\GreenMod\Assets\Python\Screens\CvMainInt erface.py
Another solve is, to reinstall civ4 and update directly to civ4 1.52.

General mod installation instructions: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=138043

You can talk to me in on irc.irc-chat.net 6667 in #civfanatics or in #civmod
(irc channel for modding civ4) or click here for java irc to this channel

Download statistics:
GreenMod 1.0 - 183
GreenMod 1.1 - 24
GreenMod 1.3 - 143
GreenMod 1.4 - 115
GreenMod 1.5 - 342
GreenMod 1.6 - 137
GreenMod 1.7 - 518
GreenMod 1.9 - 569
GreenMod 2.0 - 2164

known bugs:

working on:
-vulcanos, meteorites


Version 2.1 changes:

• included 2nd Unique Unit Plus Mod by Master Lexx
• max xp limit from barbs and animals increased from 10 to 50
• max xp after upgrade increased from 10 to 50
• replant forest is working
• camel archer get +25% against mounted
• sdi cost increased from 750 to 2000
• shelter, bunker, sdi effect reduced to 70%
• inquisition now gives -2 happy for 10 turns
• 1/20 chance for combat or drill promotions when built
• now more ressources visible in city screen
• fixed terraform (water to land bug)
• added safety checks, so the special buildings dont stay
• removed crossbowman bonus against knights
• changed demolitiontroop raze city script

Now every civ has one aditional unit, questions regarding this part should not be posted here, there is already a thread
for the 2nd Unique Unit Mod Plus. Units can now carry over max 50 XP instead of losing all over 10. Also you now get
a different tank depending on if the civ is an eastern or western one. (M4 Sherman vs Tank-34).


Version 2.0 changes:

• base city production increased 1 to 2
• increased airbomb defense for cottages type improvements
• shrines make max 2 (was 3) priests and temple also 2 (was 1)
• stealthbomber and battleship cost increased
• (crossbowman now has also +50% against knights)
• new wonder: cold fusion plant, need tech nuclear fusion
• inquisitor limit increased to two, doesn´t anymore give -1 on continent
• fixed civ4 bug, teams now again get every members starting techs
• new skin for warrior, leopard look
• added civilopedia description for my ressources (eng & ger)
• removed wasteland terrain, wasn´t working properly
• fixed windmill bug and other 1.9 bugs
• new units: mobile artillery and mobile sam (with new 3d modells)

Cities now not only generate 1 prod, they all generate 2, before only a city on hills with plains generated 2 prod.
In a standard city you wasn´t able to asign more than 1 priest just because of buildings, so I changed this.
The crossbow was very effective against early armored knight, so I added this trait.
I already translated all names into ger, eng, fr, spa, ita, but I did not have any Civpedia descriptions for my things.
Since 1.52 teams only got 2 starting techs, regardless of how many members it had, I fixed this.


Version 1.9 changes:

• included Enhanced Interface Mod by SupremeOverlord
• changed tech150 and 200 gamespeeds to tech133 and 166
• decreased nuclear meltdown chance to 1/2000 (original again)
• fixed bug: no wonder movies displayed
• wonder movies are now also shown in multiplayer
• fixed MP bug: inquisitor and demolitiontroop caused sync loss
• decreased forest plant time on tundra
• workshop can be built on tundra too
• windmills after tech electricity change -1food, +2 gold
• global warming is now radioactive rain
• new improvement: soylent green facility, +2food, tech future, desert
• new improvement: waste refinemant factoy, +2 prod 1gold, tech future, desert
• new improvement: desert windmill, +4gold, tech electricity, desert
• recycling center health changed from unl. to +5
• castle now gives +2xp to melee and mounted units
• machinegunner cannot anymore be upgraded to saminfantry
• machinegunner now also have +25% against mounted units
• bombshelter now needs tech fission
• no max era to build national heroic and national epic
• new unit: privateer, ship, S5 M3, cost less than galleon, can carry 3 persons, need tech optic and gold/silver/gems
• new unit: biplane, S5 M1, range 4, weaker than fighter, cost less, tech physics
• new unit: aegis cruiser, S35 M7, can see submarines, intercept 70%, cost same as battleship, need alu and oil, tech computers
• new wonder: Copernicus' Observatory, tech astronomy, +100% research, can make 2 scientists
• new wonder: Leonardo's Workshop, tech machinery, +1 research per specialist in all cities
• new wonder: Mausoleum of Mausollos, +1happy on continent, needs masonry and alphabet
• removed the max 6 specialits shown in city screen
• inquisitor now needs tech theology
• demolition troop now can raze cathedral class buildings for 100 gold
• demoloition troop and workboat can build terraform improvement, tech railroad
• improvement terraform, needs to be worked for 30 turns, changes water to land
  or land to water, can only be built right next to a city, to get sea access or more land
• new textures: galleon less colored, worker: more stylish, mech infantry: urban camo,
  scout: more clothes, navy seal: darker look, german panzer: realistic look
• new sounds for tank and german panzer
• tweaked placement of my new ressources, especially sulphur
• epic and quick gamespeeds unit production now 1.09 again (slower for epic, faster for quick)
• included missing german text translations

Tech200 gamespeed is redundand since 1.52 because research costs have been increased.
Tech133 and 166 fit better with each 33% and 66% higher research costs and overall tuns.
Wondermovies can now be seen in MP too, it´s nothing bad, or do you build that many wonders in MP?
Workshops on tundra, why not? They can still decrease the food by one and the tundra cities aren´t anymore that uselss.
Windmills do not give anymore food after they change to windturbines for electricity generation.
Instead I made a new desert windmill, especialy for electricity, so they give much gold and can only be built on desert.

The Soylent Green Facility and Waste Refinement Factory are special improvments for a post nuclear war game.
So you don´t lose all your production and population because of desert then.
Recyling centers made forests completely redundand, but not anymore.
The castle was a less usefull building because it came so late, but with the extra xp for melee and mounted units this is changed.
Machinegunner not anymore upgradeable, so you can still produce them. Saminfantry has a different use
and I see no reason why you shouldn´t be able to produce them later on.
And now it should be less comon that you machine gunners are defeated by some cavalry.
Now there isn´t a max start era for any national wonders, so you can safely raze them with the demolitiontroop.
The new units of course have their own icon and new skins, the new wonders also have a wondermovie each.
If you now settle more than 6 great persons in a city they will be displayed into the city screen, but at least you know they are there.
Demolitiontroop can now also raze the cathedral class buildings.
The terraform improvements has it´s reason, you can now connect a city to the sea if it was placed just one title away.
Also cities that were placed to near to the sea can now gain a few titles land with this.
Some new textures that just look better, especially the german panzer (had a 88 on it), but also the others.


Version 1.7 changes:

• made compatibe with civ4 1.52 (python and xml)
• increased chance for nuclear meltdown from 1/2000 to 1/1000
• decreased chance for global warming 20 to 5
• increased nuke damage to units and pop from 30% to 50%
• Demolitiontroop now razes one nat wonder, you can decide which
• forest health stays on +0.4 and floodplains on -0.25

Hey, nuked were too weak, but not anymore. And the global warming is now less extreme.
You can now raze nat wonders with names A-Z and Z-A, just think, what´s the english name of this wonder.
With A-Z it cycles alphabeticaly beginning from A until Z through your nat wonders, the first one will be razed.


Version 1.6 changes:

• removed: slaves, savage warrior
• galley now also upgradeable to frigate
• carrier cargo increased from 3 to 4
• settlers auto burn down jungle around a new built city
• some less important fixes of the original civ4
• added demolition troop, needs tech engineering, can do actions on city:
  (raze all nat. wonders of city, costs 50 gold per culture level, not palace)
  (raze city, costs 50 gold per population of the city, not capitol, not with riots)
• Inquisitor makes -4 happieness in the city and -1 on continent for 8 turns
• spiritual trait gives +50% prod boost of monastry class buildings
• improved placement of my ressources, new gold summary icon
• turn timer, displayes actual turn of all, and percentage of turns played
• marginal reduced the appearance off all not strategic and not water ressources

Okay, this is not Rome total War, so no slaves here. Carrier is now more usefull for war.
Because of the long time needed for chopping down jungle, it was a big disadvantage to start in an jungle area,
but now the 8 titles around a new built city are automatically removed of jungle (gives no prod).
The new demolition troop can exist only once like the inquisitor, but you can use it unlimited times.
It can raze all national wonders of that city (of course not the palace), this costs 50 gold per culture level (legendary = 7).
It can also raze the whole city (not if it´s the capital, not with riots) this costs 50 gold per population.
The Inquisitor now makes 4 unhappy in the city as well as 1 unhappy on the whole continent for 8 turns when used.
Spiritual now givs 50% prod bonus for each of the monastry class buildings, so this trait is more usefull.
There were really too much Happy and Health giving ressources, now they are less,
althought there are still a few more ressources placed as in the original.


Version 1.5 changes:

• new ressources: lemons, cotton, slaves, ancient temple
• fixed bug: too less sulphur (now twice as much)
• removed the need of sulphur for rifleman
  
• forest and jungle cut time takes twice as long as original
• jungle cut production gain now gives 10 prod (was 0)
• slightly increased the placed amount of gems, incense, silver, whale
• slightly decreased the max north/south placement latitude of ressources
• new improvement: slaves tradepost, slaves obolete with democracy
• new unit savage warrior, needs slaves, +2str, 1mov, +0.5 against animal & archers
• improved the look of the inquisitor unit (now more cool)
• fixed general civ4 bug with missing text in option screen (displayed only the language as name)

I needed some time to really undestand what the most of the tags in civ4bonus.xml mean.
That was the reason for the too less sulphur bug, but now it should be as much sulphuer on a map as copper is.
Rifleman was coming too late, just before the soldier, so for balancing reasons, I removed the sulphur need for rifleman.
Why shouldn´t jungle give production? Junglewood is more valuable than normal wood. And it is cut and not burned!
Less imaxlatitude for ressources, who likes to have them that much in winter terrain? On a med size map the limit for
placing ressources is now 3 titles less north and south, you will still find them in winter terrain, just not that much.
Whales, gems, inc., silver: there were just 1 of them per 3 players, now it´s 1 per 2 players, like the most ressources.
The ancient Temple (as ressource) just looks cool and gives money, think of it as treasure and later as tourist profits.
The Inquisitor is now a christion missionary with 2 spearman and an axman, this looks much more fanatic and dangerours.


Version 1.4 changes:

• new ressources: coffee, sulphur, potatoes, pearls
• no more pigs and sheep on hills
• min city distance increased from 3 to 4
• (musketman), grenadier, cavalry, rifleman need sulphur to be built
• max worldwonders per city decreased from unl. to 6
• new minipictures for gems and clam
• decreased production gain by forest cut from 20 to 10
• forest and jungle cut time are now original again
• made replanted forest look different on grass/plains and tundra
  (plantation of forest on tundra costs double the time)
• altered the lowtech gamespeeds to Tech150 and Tech200 gamespeeds
  (each standard gamespeed with 2 new versions with 50%/100% longer research and more turns)

Okay, the potatoes look a bit worse..... but I will improve them in the next version.
The increased city distance is very good, I never place a city just 3 titles away from another one,
so this prevents the AI to build so many small cities, but this also means, that the AI produces
less in shorter time! But the overall research and production and population should stay the same.

The new gamespeeds alter the research costs, the number of turns and the length of golden age.
So Tech200 Epic is the same like epic, just with twice the research cost, twice the turns and
twice the lenght of golden age. The 200 means, the standard values for turns,research and goldenages of this gamespeed increased by 100%.
So there are 6 new gamespeeds: each standard with a 50% and a 100% increase number.

The middle age has always been to short in all my games, so with the need of sulphur it should be more common
that you use knights and samurai a bit longer. The special units of some civs don´t need sulphur, only the (4) early gunpowder units need it.


Version 1.3 changes:

• new ressource: salt
• new unit: Inquisitor, removes one religion of one of your cities,
  
  (needs tech_divine_right, can be built in palace, one max per player)

The new bonus resources all have their icon for cityscreen, for map, for worldeditor, and for civilopedia.
They also have new textures and look really different, at least one of them.
Regarding the "tea" resource: don´t forget, this is a game, you can make war, you can raze cities,
you can drop nuclear bombs and you can genocide whole civilizations!
So don´t even try to start a discussion about it´s judgement here!
It is not that easy to add new resources, it took some time!
And this mod will not mess up your civilopedia (unlike other mods).


Version 1.2 changes:

• decreased forest health to 0.4 (original again)
• new resource: "tea"
• new lowtech gamespeeds (30% longer research and golden age)
• fixed culture bug of lowtech gamespeeds of v1.1
• removed coal plant obsolete of v1.1

The lowtech gamespeeds have it´s reason, if you play on high difficulty you have to trade techs, so
the tech advancing is very fast, this helps a little against the high technology advance in the mid to end game.
All other game speeds remain as they are, low tech is just the speed as named with longer research.
So you have the 3 standard speeds and 3 lowtech speeds.
The new resource is more of a joke, but it is not unrealistic.


Version 1.0 changes:

• made forest plantable with worker after tech paper
  (in epic speed, one worker needs 30 turns to plant it)
• reduced production gain of forest cut from 30 to 20
• increased forest and jungle cut time (+30%)
• increased forest and jungle regrowth rate (+30%)
• increased forest health to 0.5 (was 0.4)
• increased flooplains health to -0.25 (was -0.4)
• doubled defence multiplier of fortification
• increased whaling boats production to 2 (was 1)

Nobody really uses the fortification improvement, so maybe now it´s more
worth to use it. It should be more likely now that you use forest and
lumbermills, which is better than workshops. And don´t forget: workers also
cost 1 money per turn, so it will be difficult to exploit the forest replanting.

I wish i could change the AI behaivior of cutting every forest. I simply hate
that in all my conquerd land there is no more forest anywhere. But this mod
helps a bit for this problem.
If you don´t like the fact that you can cut forest to gain production, simply don´t do it!


New bonus ressouces:
"tea" +1 happy, +1gold, +2gold/plantation
salt +1 health, +1gold, +4gold/quarry
potatoes +1 health, +1food, +3food/farm
coffee +1 happy, +1food, +3gold/plantation
sulphur +1gold, 2gold/mine, rare
pearls +1 happy, +1gold, +2gold,1food/fishingboats
lemon +1 health, +1food, +1food,1gold/plantation
cotton +1 happy, +1gold, +3gold/plantation
ancient temple +1gold,-2food, +7gold/examine

Credits:
Mylon - "InquisitorMod"
Frontbrecher - "Lost Wonders" & "Lost Units"
SupremeOverlord - "Enhanced Interface"
CivFanatics IRC channel - all the help and talk
http://freetranslation.com/ - good online translator

Warrior leopard outfit - Hell's Angel
German Panzer realistic style - mirtan
MechInfantry urban camo - Fëanor
Navy Seal darker clothes - CrazyAce
Scout with more clothes - Tremo
Modern Worker more stylish - Spindrift
Samurai less golden skin - Expositus
Praetorian with red shield - Master Lexx
Galleon less coloured - Master Lexx

Aegis Crusier - Frontbrecher
Privateer - Frontbrecher


But I still like my mod better, GreenMod is more an improvement of Civ4, it has nothing to do
with scenarios or complete and drastical and maybe unbalanced changes of civ4.

Screenshots of some new things:








Have fun!

Mainthread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=144428

[Axxaer]

Has this been checked to ensure its not chop exploitable? If so I'll download it sounds great!

[Master Lexx]

Hey 10 prod per forest isn´t very much, it takes long to chop it down and long to regrow it. So to exploit this, you would need much micromanagemant. Be sure, it works fine!

[Gramphos]

You should submit this to the Mod category in the direcotry:

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?cat=354&t=sub_pages

[The_Fan]

Instead of the Ancient Temple being a new resource, why not make it so ruined cities work the same way?

Also, it would be beneficial if you could break up some of these changes, because right now I'm reluctant to install it due to the broad, sweeping nature of the changes. Maybe a separate one for resources, another one for the terraforming changes, etc.

[Master Lexx]

I will never break it up, it´s a complete working mod, with new ressources and forest replantating. There is nothing bad with it. Of course i changed some things, but this is nothing to have fear of!

[Master Lexx]

Okay, I removed slaves now. And I fixed all the Inquisitor and Demolitiontroop exploits.
What do you think? Should I now integrate Lost Units and Lost Wonders in my GreenMod?

[Zuul]

Best would be different versions of your mod.

one all yours things
one all yours + the other mods you like
and one with just the new resourses

[Master Lexx]

For now it´s good, a well made improvement of civ4.

[djpsychonaut]

It would definitely be nice to have just the resources as the mod, like GoodMod2 from the CTP2 days. Some of these changes are a little much. For example, I'm wary to go back to the days of Saltpeter wars from Civ 3. You were basically out of the game by the Industrial era if you didn't have Saltpeter. Is that the idea with Sulfur now?

As for increased chance of meltdowns... I'm very surprised by that decision especially from past threads where people complained that on higher difficulty levels, meltdowns happen far too frequently.

Don't mean to berate you, but some changes just don't seem that necessary.

I love that we have coffee back as a resource! I remember it well from RaR in Civ 3!

[GeoModder]

With the new patch, it seems meltdown occurences have been halved.
Looks like quite some mods will have to be adapted again. Life's hard on those guys nowadays.

[Master Lexx]

I know, but the meltdown chance does not depend on difficulty. The ressources alone are worth nothing, this mod was meant as general improvement. And yes, sulphur is now needed, but you can survive without it and be still able to win the game, it´s just hard.

A few persons seem to have problems with missing fonts in my Mod, I don´t have this problem and many others also have no problems. But if this happened to you, simply delete this file (this is the turn timer modification): Civilization 4\Mods\GreenMod 1.70\Assets\Python\Screens\CvMainInterface.py

Only if you have the missing fonts problem! This will fix it, I have currently no idea why this happens and I am no python expert. I modified the file from version 1.52.

[Master Lexx]

Okay version 1.9 is out now. I don´t wonder why there are so less people writing here, this is apolyton and the mainthread is on civfanatics.

[lordroy]

I have been playing around with your mod... I like it...


Request:

Could you add the following 2 mods:

Snaitf's Unit Allegiance Mod

and:

FreeTechMod


I think that would make this the perfect mod.


-=R=-

[Master Lexx]

Okay, 2.0 is out. I am now woring on giving every civ a new unique unit, any ideas? germany, england, rome, america, they are easy, but I need ideas for the other ones, maybe somebody also knows a link for skins that would fit?