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A Scenario That Lets You Colonise Mars....
...nearly.
The scenario is starting in 2024, with four civilisations sending a colony up to the surface of Mars to capture territory before the others can. Most of the units are abolished, all the Ancient, renaissance, and most Modern advances are deleted, and a lot of improvements are ready-built inside the cities (CTP1 space cities under force-fields), but I think the game will retain challenge, as the map is 80% desert, and so needs substantial terraforming. CATCH: Public works are sent from earth, 3000 at a time, every 3 turns. Use it wisely.
I have almost sorted the map, game files, units, AI etc, but I need two things:
1) I read somewhere that to get the civilisations you want in a game, to delete the rest from civilisation.txt and civ_str.txt, and start a game using just those you want. When I do this (cut them down to 4 civs - USA, Europe, China, Russia) the game crashes to desktop without an error message. Do I need a minimum of 8 or something ?
2) SLIC. Having spent most of this afternoon wrestling with aspects of Dale's FPH mod, Alex mod etc. i have realised that I am utterly incapable of doing this, so I present in pseudocode (qbasic style) what I think I need to make the scenario interesting:
Trigger1: <fontsize=1>BeginTurn: let turncount = turncount + 1
if turncount = 3 then (add 3000 pw and let turncount = 0)
else end
</font>
Trigger2: <fontsize = 1>BeginTurn: let turncount2 = turncount2 + 1
if turncount = 24 then (create a settler in capital city and let turncount2 = 0)
else end
</font>
Trigger3: No idea how to do this, but basically if the USA or Europe are at war with China or Russia on Mars, then on earth, the emigrants would stop coming so no more settlers arrive, until the nations are at peace again.
If USA or europe are at war with China or Russia for too long (a year, 12 game turns maybe), then drastic measures are taken by china (redirected asteroid, oops
) or russia(stray nuke), and all the Martian colonies are deprived of all future settlers and PW.
If anyone can help put this scenario into reality, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance.
The scenario is starting in 2024, with four civilisations sending a colony up to the surface of Mars to capture territory before the others can. Most of the units are abolished, all the Ancient, renaissance, and most Modern advances are deleted, and a lot of improvements are ready-built inside the cities (CTP1 space cities under force-fields), but I think the game will retain challenge, as the map is 80% desert, and so needs substantial terraforming. CATCH: Public works are sent from earth, 3000 at a time, every 3 turns. Use it wisely.
I have almost sorted the map, game files, units, AI etc, but I need two things:
1) I read somewhere that to get the civilisations you want in a game, to delete the rest from civilisation.txt and civ_str.txt, and start a game using just those you want. When I do this (cut them down to 4 civs - USA, Europe, China, Russia) the game crashes to desktop without an error message. Do I need a minimum of 8 or something ?
2) SLIC. Having spent most of this afternoon wrestling with aspects of Dale's FPH mod, Alex mod etc. i have realised that I am utterly incapable of doing this, so I present in pseudocode (qbasic style) what I think I need to make the scenario interesting:
Trigger1: <fontsize=1>BeginTurn: let turncount = turncount + 1
if turncount = 3 then (add 3000 pw and let turncount = 0)
else end
</font>
Trigger2: <fontsize = 1>BeginTurn: let turncount2 = turncount2 + 1
if turncount = 24 then (create a settler in capital city and let turncount2 = 0)
else end
</font>
Trigger3: No idea how to do this, but basically if the USA or Europe are at war with China or Russia on Mars, then on earth, the emigrants would stop coming so no more settlers arrive, until the nations are at peace again.
If USA or europe are at war with China or Russia for too long (a year, 12 game turns maybe), then drastic measures are taken by china (redirected asteroid, oops
) or russia(stray nuke), and all the Martian colonies are deprived of all future settlers and PW. If anyone can help put this scenario into reality, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance.
Any ideas...?
oh well.
But I must say the "space plane" in CTP is based on current NASA, ESA, and NASDA research.
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