Scenario Civilopedias for Warlords

[kelvSYC]

Is there a quick reference guide for the scenarios for Warlords?

Looking through the Warlords python code, I do get how the scoring works in the Genghis Khan scenario, and how the Camps generate units (methinks 15% is low, and odds should increase depending on how long camps remain stationary, but I notably suck more than Civ4 compared to Civ3, as I can't even win on Settler in Civ4 but can win on higher difficulty levels on Civ3), but I can't seem to see how Great Generals are created in camps in doMongolGreatGenerals (although the script seems to imply that they always spawn in the same camp). What I don't get is what greatPeopleThreshold and getCombatExperience do. What exactly do they do?

[snoopy369]

16% is a pretty solid percentage (to start with), and 24% (if stationary) is quite reasonable, with 3 camps you generate a unit nearly every turn. The problem is that you get too many camps eventually, and the game gets silly, if it's not lower to start with. Figuring stationary time I think would be problematic based on how the python works (it generally doesn't like to keep track of things over several turns, from what I recall).

doMongolGreatGenerals assigns a GG to:
1) The capital city, if that exists. I think this happens through the normal game mechanics; that's the ine of "if (pCapitalCity != "") " checking to see if there's a capital city. If there is, then of course the GG just gets generated like normal I don't precisely understand the python here, as it seems to read the opposite of this, but I 'know' how it works in practice.
2) The first camp. Yes, it's always the first camp.

The function goes:

iExperienceThreshold = pPlayer.greatPeopleThreshold(true)
# iExperienceThreshold is set to the value of the experience needed for a great general to pop.  
#I think this is based on the great person (generic), not a separate value for GGs, but 
#I'm not reading the SDK code so I'm not sure what the (true) option means.
			
			if (pPlayer.getCombatExperience() > iExperienceThreshold):
# If the total combat experience is over the experience threshold, then let's pop a GG :)				
				# Decrease experience count
				pPlayer.setCombatExperience(pPlayer.getCombatExperience() - iExperienceThreshold)
				
				# Find first Camp
				apUnitList = pyPlayer.getUnitList()
				for pUnit in apUnitList:
					if (pUnit.getUnitType() == self.iCampID):
						
						iX = pUnit.getX()
						iY = pUnit.getY()
						
						break
				
				# Create Warlord / 'Great General'
				pPlayer.createGreatPeople(self.iWarlordID, false, true, iX, iY)

So basically your questions: greatPeopleThreshold is the threshold for the next Great Person (which I think is slightly different from regular Warlords, but I'm not 100% sure). getCombatExperience gets the current experience counter value to compare to said threshold.

Take a look at my walkthrough of this mod:

http://civilization4.net/3/220/

It might help you a bit I helped test this mod (you can see some of the fun of developing it on the civ4 news archives, Jon "Trip" Shafer did a live presentation about it at Apolycon) and I think it's really a fun mod to play, I still play it from time to time even though I've probably played it between testing and real game over 100 times...

Feel free to ask if you have any questions, I don't always browse this particular subforum but I'm around somewhere