How to remove units?

[Mike Wall]

I love this game, great improvement over Civ2, and all that, but I am not a fan of the 'cold war' units, in particular the lawyer and corporate branch.

I am quite happy to get my hands dirty and experiment, but could any of you guys give me guidance on what I would need to do to remove these units from the game without unbalancing the whole thing?

[Locutus]

Mike,

You have to add the flag CANT_BUILD to all units you want to remove from the game in Units.txt (in the directory *your_civ_dir*\ctp_data\default\gamedata). Find the entries to the units you want (e.g. UNIT_LAWYER or UNIT_CORPORATE_BRANCH) and go to the bottom of this entry, right above the '}', and add the flag.
This should solve the problem, although I don't know how the AI will react when the unit's aren't there anymore, but I think it will be fine.

BTW backup the units.txt file, just in case.

Let me know if you have any problems,

Locutus
[This message has been edited by Locutus (edited January 14, 2000).]

[Grandpa Troll]

Re: How to remove units?

Originally posted by Mike Wall
I love this game, great improvement over Civ2, and all that, but I am not a fan of the 'cold war' units, in particular the lawyer and corporate branch.

I am quite happy to get my hands dirty and experiment, but could any of you guys give me guidance on what I would need to do to remove these units from the game without unbalancing the whole thing?

I found an easy way was to simply make the "enabling advance" the "obsolete advance" in case anyone still cares

Gramps

[Casey_Val]

Yeah, good ideas, you could simply modify the enabling advance and put something like the last advance, or just put no_index and index 6 for those unwanted units and x_city_cant_build lines (x stand for space, land...)
Just take half an hour and walk though them, if u know something of text editing you will find lots of interesting things

[Grandpa Troll]

keep these ideas coming