Reduced corruption via mod

[Trachmir]

I discovered that the "Reduces Corruption" Tag for city improvements is cummunalitive... so for instance you can add that ability to Police Stations and ease corruption for the industrial/modern age (since you get the reduction twice if you also have a courthouse).

Just FYI

[Mannamagnus]

Are these tags still in an easy to edit rules.txt? Or do you have to be a "rocket scientist" to make changes to e.g. the high corruption?

[Plutarck]

Just use the editor to open/create a .BIC file and then just change the rules. It's listed on the Improvement tab of the rules and is rather plain to see. Little intelligence needed, just don't go overboard

[Sarxis]

I have changed the Police Station to also include the courthouse 'decrease corruption' tag. See my mod for details (click on my signature for the mod).

[TheDarkside]

Good case in point for why the modding capabilities of Civ3 are horrendous. Sure, the editor has a nice little GUI this time instead of a text file. Now alot more people will be comfortable editting some game rules... but, the trade-off was POWER. It's very limiting what we can do now. Ex: Corruption. Lets say you want courthouses to be a little more logical in fighting corruption (as it stands now, I had a city with 6 corruption, build a courthouse, and now it has 5 corruption.... OH but what about the 1 commerce maintenance cost?! Ineffective!) So lets say instead of goign to this forum and ranting you open up the editor to make the courthouse more effecient.... oh look at this- a simple flag. No value to edit so you can make it better or worse- just a little checkbox to set a flag true or false. Of course you can go to World Sizes and change the city distance, but that effects a global corruption and not how well a courthouse works.

What I was hoping Civ3 would have is good mod support. I want scripting languages and access to just about any game variable!

[Pyrodrew]

"Distance between civs" I think is simply the minimum distance each civilization starts from each other. I don't think this is the Distance Corruption factor.