Possible Diplogame Mod

[Robert]

3) The Israeli city "Megiddo" is incorrectly tagged as HAR_MEGIDDO, so that will be changed as well.

That's interesting....
Har = Mountain
Har Megiddo = Mountain of Megiddo

Also known as: Harmageddon....
I've been there, on the top of the 'mountain', there's a huge valley, I saw the battle already happening..., space enough for billions of soldiers!
Reminded me a bit of the fields of Pelenor! (LOTR)

Megiddo has been destroyed 21 times in history!!
It's not for nothing that destruction and megiddo were tied together.

If we're going to play this mod we should live up to this tradition and raze Megiddo 21 times

[Pitboss Korea]

Quickly; if anybody notices any other problems with the buttons for the units (if they don't have the right ones, like the German Heavy Footman or the English Swordsman) I need to know now otherwise they won't be fixed in the patch.

[Pitboss Korea]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Well don't worry about the graphic changes. I guess most people don't use low graphic settings (all you lucky bastards with good computers) so it probably isn't worth sweating over.

Don't worry about it, who knows who else will join our ranks with crappy computers... the only thing that sucks about it is that I have to redo the fpk file altogether, that's all.

[Pitboss Korea]

Alright, really quickly. I didn't know what to do for the Iroquios Longhouse exactly, so I bumped the maintenence bonus to 75% and I knocked 20 hammers off of it because its just a damn longhouse, so theoretically it should be easy to build. That's what I am doing for right now, if you think thats stupid (I kinda do actually but I'm not good at thinking of this stuff) then let me know and I can change it, but you have a week.

[The Capo]

Okay, I've checked out the game on low graphics resolution and I've discovered that there are 46 different buttons I have to alter, but that isn't such a big deal. After doing everything else, changing a few image graphics is nothing. I also decided to check out the leaders themselves (to see if that effected them) and I noticed that Ivan looks extra creepy (I think the pupils/irises or whatever of his eyes are so low it appears that he just has white eyes), but there isn't really anything I can do about that. So beyond that Ozzy (and anyone else who DLs this with his settings) should be fine.

Further I assume that based on my Longhouse change nobody disagrees and the building is good to go.

I also changed the incorrect unit buttons (German Heavy Footman, and English Swordsman) and at the suggestion of "Pitboss Persia" have changed the names of the Axeman (Footman) and Swordsman (Light Footman) so certain units that don't actually weild axes (Celtic Kluddagros and Japanese Ninja) aren't incorrectly named.

The modules are going well so far, and I am getting closer to a final list of four: Hungarians (Magyars), Phoenicians, Nubians/Ku****es (don't know what I'll call them yet), and the last one..... ? I dunno, what do you guys think?

Finally; somebody suggested that I change the music for the title screen. I can't think of anything appropriate because I don't have extensive knowlege of the type of music that would be appropriate for this (i.e. Classical, or Dramatic music). I saw that on a PolyCast they said "viva la vida" by ColdPlay would be a good song to go with Civ, but I'm not a coldplay fan. But if you guys think that's a good idea I don't really mind using it. I'd rather have something a little more, etherial so to speak...

So anyway yeah. That's the update. Please respond with something useful for me.

Thanks.

BTW: Congratulations to President-elect Barack H. Obama (although I doubt he's reading this).

[Pitboss Japan]

For the love of god please do not use that crappy ass cold play song. I swear if I have to listen to that song every time I play the diplo mod I will hang myself. Isn't there something better? I'm partial to White Zombie myself. Couldn't you find something like that? Please pick anything but cold play.

[Pitboss Korea]

Yeah I don't like coldplay either.

White Zombie is certainly not going into it either.

I think the person who suggested a different song should at least give an idea as to what he wanted. Otherwise I'll probably leave it as is... or bring back Baba Yetu.

[Pitboss Japan]

What is wrong with Zombie? I think you should pick the song yourself. This mod is your baby so it is only right you decide the song.

[The Capo]

The reason it won't be Rob Zombie is simply because it has nothing to do with Civilization (and I don't really listen to it). With coldplay, while I don't like coldplay, the song "Viva la Vida" was discussed, and recognized by a lot of civ players, as being a really good song to go along with civilization (based on the lyrics that is), but I didn't really want anything modern. What I was considering was using the theme music from the television series (HBO/BBC) "Rome" or the theme music to the television series (Showtime/?) "The Tudors," or something else.

I want it to seem historic and magnanimous. So while Zombie is alright, and its better than coldplay (in my opinion at least) it doesn't really fit what I am going for. If you look at the lyrics to the coldplay song I discussed it really seems like it was written for civilziations, its very strange.

Anyway, I don't know, I might not change anything.

[The Capo]

Oh yeah, if you haven't seen the show Rome before this is the theme music. I think its pretty good for our purposes...

CLICK HERE FOR YOUTUBE VERSION

[Pitboss Japan]

The theme music from Rome is ok. Still rather hear Zombie but thats by they created the Ipod just for times like this.

[The Capo]

It isn't my intention to be mean to you, or an ******* or anything like by saying this; but you can't see the ridiculousness of having Rob Zombie as the background music to this mod?

I mean for one second think about it....

Rob Zombie?

[Pitboss Vikings]

or jsut let the users choose their own music.. i just have it randomly palying from my music directory while paslying

[Pitboss Japan]

I wasn't complaning. As long as it is not coldplay or country music I'm cool with whatever you choose.

[Pitboss H Roman]

Originally posted by Pitboss Japan
As long as it is not coldplay or country music I'm cool with whatever you choose.

Dixie Chicks and "Wide Open Spaces".