Minor miscellanea

[Xmucane]

A few more minor questions:

1) Can new kinds of workers be added (in the pop.txt)?

2) Can new kinds of installations be added (listening posts, forts etc...)?

3) Can new kinds of terrain be added?

4) Can new kinds of tile improvements be added (farms, mines etc...)?

5) Can new speceffects be added; or can existing speceffects be altered?

6) Can new kinds of goods be added (and is there any point besides a greater or lesser gold variance)?

And for all of these questions - how many can be added?

Thanks a lot for bearing with me!

Cheers,
Xmucane

[J Bytheway]

Re: Minor miscellanea

Originally posted by Xmucane
1) Can new kinds of workers be added (in the pop.txt)?

Yes.

2) Can new kinds of installations be added (listening posts, forts etc...)?

I believe so, but you probably can't make buttons for them to allow the players to place them. You may also need to edit their appearance with TileEdit.

3) Can new kinds of terrain be added?

Yes, but you'll probably need to use TileEdit to fix the tile fileappropriately.

4) Can new kinds of tile improvements be added (farms, mines etc...)?

I don't think so. The number of such things seems to be hardcoded into terrain.txt.

5) Can new speceffects be added; or can existing speceffects be altered?

Almost certainly, but AFAIK noone has ever tried. You can certainly alter the sprites of the existing ones.

6) Can new kinds of goods be added (and is there any point besides a greater or lesser gold variance)?

I think so, and the other effect of this is to make monopolies harder to form.

And for all of these questions - how many can be added?

The limits are more to do with the sprites or other pictures than the number of items themselves. Sprites are limited to 199 in each category, and IIRC those using TileEdit started to run short of available places for terrains fairly quickly in CTP2...

[Locutus]

Re: Minor miscellanea

Originally posted by Xmucane
6) Can new kinds of goods be added (and is there any point besides a greater or lesser gold variance)?

Yes, check out Nordicus' New Trade Goods Mod (readme cointains instructions on how to do it yourself, if I'm not mistaken):

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?id=1821&t=reviews&toprate=5.0000&tophits=4391&cat=185