MOD: Ancients Civ3 Gov/Balance Mod

[Harlan]

I look forward to trying out your mod. One quibble though: I really, really think you should call Fundamentalism Theocracy instead. Especially since you also have the Fascist government - it is very easy to confuse Fundamentalism and Fascism, since they are so similar and Civ2's history with that. Theocracy as a name ties in especially well with the early start, and Monotheism prereq.

[ancient]

Originally posted by oriel94
Ancient,

Q)Does your mod alter the graphics in the cityview whereby the gold cost of units/buildings are displayed?

A)No, it is only intended as a balancing mod at this point.

Q)Can you explain what is meant by the letters B.R.F/(T) in the specs next to the units?

A)Bombard Attack Strength, Range, Rate of Fire, Transport

Can you explain what is meant by the entry "propaganda a:20 des:10 m:5 c:-15 r:5 d:0 fa:5 fu:-5". I don't understand this at all.
A means Anarchy
Des mean Despotism
C means communism
D mean Democracy
Fa means Fascism
Fu means Fundamentalism

Propaganda is a Operation your spys can do totry and convert your enemys cities. the rate of succes is affected by your governmet/ there gov, and your culture rating.
the stats i listed gives you the chance the listed government will be succesfull over the opposing gov. higher is better.

What is meant by "resistance Fu:-15 fa:-10"?
This is Cultural Resistance,


What is a rate cap?

Rate cap is pretty important, it is the max rate you can set Luxurys or resources..

I also have an unrelated point. Every game I've played, the Germans have been amazingly aggressive. Do you think there is any merit in *either* switching Germany's preferred govt to Fascism *or* toning down their aggression? It seems to me that a Democratic but massively aggressive civilization is a bit unrealistic.

I meant to do this, but didnt..

Im already thinking of Democratic Socialism, Constitutional Monarchy, and renaming 'fundamentalism' to 'theocracy' cus umm its the same thing except 'theocracy' sounds better i guess..

[ancient]

Updated Version 1.5

!! loads of new stuff..

[oriel94]

Hi Ancient

Thanks for the informative reply. I'm still looking forward to version 1.8.

Can you tell us whether using your mod pack will cause that annoying glitch whereby we can no longer use the science tech tree? Other mods have resulted in this game-design problem appearing.

Thanks mate.

[sianews]

It looks like that file is still 1.25. I couldn't find any of the new stuff in the mod. And is 1.8 still scheduled for release today?

[darkangel]

What changes did you make to the wonders?

[ancient]

No it is V1.8 i downloaded it to check

it is just named the same thing..

ok

the wonder changes are

The Pyramids
now is religious only, and doubles the affectiveness of temples, now cost's 35 sheilds

i only changed this because the other changes i want to make still havent been worked out

i havent noticed anyglitches

and i didnt add new techs so i dont think it would make that glitch.

[chequita guevara]

Why did you slow down the medieval naval units?

[ancient]

Because they were slow.
is that enough?

also it makes the modern and industrial age units seem faster..

[sianews]

Just downoaded it again and I'm still seeing 1.35. Still has Fundmentalism and none of the 1.5 changes.

[ancient]

did you move it into the correct directory and overwrite the earlier one?

[sianews]

Totally new directory. In fact, I just deleted the all instances of it to make sure. And I'm sure, could you send the file to sianews@neo.rr.com ?

[ancient]

ok, but before i do please do this

open up the attachment folder and see if their is a file called nav-air.xls?

[sianews]

Nope . The old file must be stuck in my cache from when I downloaded it origionally.

[ancient]

hmm i dont think its the files fault..
ok ill email you