Custom Slow Gamespeed, Need help

[Qwertqwert]

I am making a custom game speed, it's incredably slow, but the purpose is simply to keep most of the game in a single era. For instance, reashearch might take 3000% (1/10th the speed of Marathon) but the unit building and buildings take the same amount of time. But for later eras, is there a way to get the turns to take months instead of years?

[Solver]

There is .

With 3000% research, you might just as well disable it, though. You're looking at a couple hundred of turns for a tech, with fast research.

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by Solver
There is .

With 3000% research, you might just as well disable it, though. You're looking at a couple hundred of turns for a tech, with fast research.

Well I am also changing the turns so that there are approximatly 12000 turns...

So how do I make turns take months?

[Solver]

I'd say if I remembered . There was a TURNTIMER_MONTHLY or similar setting... somewhere.

12000 turns, though? I gotta admite that hardcoreness!

[Qwertqwert]

Originally posted by Solver
I'd say if I remembered . There was a TURNTIMER_MONTHLY or similar setting... somewhere.

12000 turns, though? I gotta admite that hardcoreness!

Well hopefully it wouldn't take the entire 12000 turns to win the game. Though I'm not completly sure of the number or turns or the reashearch %, but they will be relative to eachother.

[Qwertqwert]

Do you have any idea of which file it's in? I can't find it anywhere.

[Will9]

It may be in gamespeedinfo (under gameinfo) by changing yearincrement to monthincrement. It is also possible to make weeks.

[Qwertqwert]

Hmm... You think that'll work? I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks.

Nope that doesn't work. With weeks or months.

[Solver]

Nope, that's not it. I just took a look at some XML files, and can't find where it was still...

[Will9]

Try posting on the creation and files forum.

[Qwertqwert]

I found some wierd "Weeks_Per_Month" thing but it didn't seem to have any function, it was in Global Defines.

[shinyhalo]

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Any answer on this yet?
I'd like to slow this game down too.

On Marathon:
15 years pass per turn
Units build in 5-15 turns
Buildings build in 20-30 turns
Research takes 10-20 turns.

I'd like it to be 1 year per turn
Unit build times remain the same
Buildings build times remain the same
Research takes 4 times longer 40-80 turns.

[Gulelin]

I've always wanted to do this too. I think that in order t represent a more realistic picture of historical advancement that eras should last alot longer. If you get this to work well please let me know how you did it. I haven't tried any modding yet, but this sounds like something i'd like to try.

[snoopy369]

To figure out how to do it monthly, check out one of the mods that does it monthly, like RTW or whatnot. I think you just specify it when you specify how many years each turn takes, but it's been a while.

If you want each turn to take a year, then you have all turns (however many) set to 1 year in the gamespeed excel file.

What you're asking, shinyhalo, is rather simpler than what they're talking about above. Just copy the marathon fields over into a new one, name it differently, and then give it values appropriate to how you want them relative to marathon. When I get home i'll try to look at this if i remember...

[snoopy369]

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/51359_SlowMod.zip

Slowmod: marathon with 1 year per turn and 4x slower research rate than normal marathon. Starts in 4000 bc.

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/51359_SlowMod0.zip

Slowmod0: same as Slowmod but starts at 0 bc.

I set them both for 1500 turns; you could set them for more if you want. Just open the xml file in /assets/xml/gameinfo/gamespeedinfo.xml and see towards the bottom of Marathon, it says MonthsPerTurn 12 and then has 1500 for the number of turns at that increment; just increase that number however you want.

The game start year is set in the other xml file (only present in slowmod0). Integer only is accepted, negative = BC positive=AD.