Diplogame Mod Ideas

[OzzyKP]

Ok, I'm creating another diplogame thread (yay!) this time to talk about what we want in an ideal diplogame mod pack, and to keep ideas for later.

I came across this good mod for tech trading that may be very useful for us:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3879548#post3879548

Also Cyber started a thread here to ask for Mod assistance:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=176760

Another neat idea Capo suggested was for the UN Wonder to automatically produce peacekeeper units, and those units would be controlled by the UN owner, but wouldn't carry any nation's tag. They'd work like the Civ3 privateer.

Their upkeep costs could be applied to all nations equally.

[OzzyKP]

Inquisitor mod:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=142337

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=152635

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=142337&page=3

New religions:
Greek polytheism
Egyptian polytheism
Zoroastiranism

[deity]

Sounds interesting.

How does this fit in with Warlords?

[OzzyKP]

It doesn't.

Personally I think our next big game should be Warlords vanilla. ANd then after that we start playing around with mods. Or ideally get a second game going, perhaps not warlords, and maybe use mods with that.

[Prussia]

I think we should simply wait and see how much longer HOTWV is, because Warlords is coming up quickly, but it might not be possible for everyone to get a copy that quickly.

[Robert]

I don't expect HOTW7 to start before the end of august. That's 4 weeks after Warlords has been released.

[The Capo]

I think we should at least use the mod Cyber came up with, it seems to be a good idea and wouldn't really **** anything up.

As far as the new religions, we should have them represent the tribes we put in the game, just to bring it closer to reality. For instance, the Roman/Greek/Egyption etc. style of worship is known as Numinism, so instead of making it specific (Greek Polytheism) we would just think of one called Numinism. That is just a suggestion.

And of course, we should have the option of eradicating a religion, of course it would have disorder implications similar to the slavery-rush build option.

[OzzyKP]

bump for Aussie Lurker

[OzzyKP]

Most important I think is some kind of mod that enacts our tech trade agreements. Since when subs and AIs come and go it is impossible to maintain tech trading rules like that.

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

Well, from what I hear, Inquisition Mod has been updated to Warlords 2.08, as have all of the other mods made by TheLopez. I recently integrated a bunch of TheLopez' mods with my own to create a new CvGameCore.dll file-but you will still need to make the actual XML modifications yourself (i.e. I have done the work to make the new XML tags supported in-game).
You are free to make use of my Civic_Expander Mod (either phase 2 or 3), and I hope to update the True Prophets mod to Warlords v2.08.
Lastly, as I said earlier, as soon as I finish phase 3 of my Civics_Expander mod, I will be starting work on my new Ideology mod, to bring a little spice to the modern age.

Hope this all helps.

Aussie_Lurker.

[Robert]

Thanks for your help, Aussie!
Is there a mod for the tech trading rules we use as well?
Or can you give me hints on how to create it? I was able to do the UN mod myself with some hints as well.

What we want:
- Players can only trade techs they researched themselves
- Players can only trade these techs twice (or even better: x times, where x is a setting in the setup-screen)

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

Hi there CyberShy. Hmmmm, I thought Ozzy said that there was a TechTrading Mod available. If not, I will take a look at it as soon as I finish working on phase 3 of my mod (I am putting the finishing touches on 3c now).

Aussie_Lurker.

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

Oh and, btw, here are a few screenies to show you what I am currently working on, or what I have recently completed:







Unlike Civ3, I have decided to really contribute to the community in a big way for Civ4. I certainly hope my efforts can benefit you guys in some way.

Aussie_Lurker.

[Robert]

Originally posted by The_Aussie_Lurker
Hi there CyberShy. Hmmmm, I thought Ozzy said that there was a TechTrading Mod available. If not, I will take a look at it as soon as I finish working on phase 3 of my mod (I am putting the finishing touches on 3c now).

Aussie_Lurker.

Oh, ok, I'll look for it.
Your mod looks promising! Really curious to what all the civics do!

[The_Aussie_Lurker]

OK, so here's the deal guys. I am ahead of schedule on my Civics phase 3 mod, and so feel like I may be able to turn my attentions to a tech mod. Now, as you can see above, I already have a mod where techs can grant you a bonus to commerces and yields. Equally, there is a mod which can grant you a bonus to tech research times if you have access to a resource. So, first up I plan to merge these two mods.
Second, I have looked at CvInfos, and I think it may be possible to get you a FirstCanTrade function for techs-as we already have a Boolean and a and tag. If I can figure out how to fuse the two together, I may be able to give you a tag in TechInfos which will allow you to determine which techs can only be traded if you got them first-be it some or all of them.

Aussie_Lurker.