Scenario question needing answer please!!

[Grandpa Troll]

Ok

I make and play my own scenarios.................

I want to make one with 28 civs..I know how to edit the userprofile....

My question is how could I make it so say no civ makes more than say 25 settlers?

I would enjoy making say a game with everyone having 25 to start with..and then maybe only find in ruins..

basically a "Settlers Excluded game"..

I would have to alter the unit cost of a settler I assume..

I would increase the map size a bit...

Is this possible?



In a MP game you can start with 9 settlers and exclude them...I just wanna make it that way with more settlers..

Hope I can get some feedback...


I am trying to teach myself SLIC and have greatly appreciated all the help over the years to this point..

Now..anyone..ideas??

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[J Bytheway]

Check out Keygen's PBEM Mod Lite - that increases the number of starting settlers, but I can't remember whether it does it through SLIC or through altering DiffDB.txt - both should be possible.

To exclude settlers you could try increasing the cost to something astronomical, or you could create a new, dummy government which cannot be used, and restrict setttlers so that they can only be built under that government (That's probably a cleaner solution, but it's more complicated).

[Locutus]

There's a CANT_BUILD flag in CtP1 that you can use for settlers in units.txt

[J Bytheway]

Ah yes, that's a better way. It's been too long...

[Grandpa Troll]

I went to Units.tx and tried altering the , IIRC, last line..

ONLY_BUILD_ONE

to

ONLY_BUILD_NINE

The game crashed

I reverted back..since it stated no flag for that.

I looked through DIFFDB.TXT

I saw a line that was different in chieftain which allowed 2 settlers..versus in Diety allows 1

that line is the

EXTRA_SETTLER_CHANCE 1

[in diety]

EXTRA_SETTLER_CHANCE 1000000

[in chieftain]

so I went to change to 8000000 and launched..still got two..no crash

So I went up to 38000000

game launched, still 2 settlers so i figure that my sniifer on my bloodhound aint working..


I believe I could just make the enabling advance and obsolete advance the same, to not allow them to be built.

I tried in my WW2 Scenario making a flag CANT_BUILD and game crashed.

I ended up having to go through the whole list, LOTS of units and LOTS of lines..

(Here's my PLUG for EditPlus2 )

I love it. I have an XML editor but prefer EDITPLUS2 for this game...

Ok...I understand the way for "excluding" settlers...NOW how could I go about starting with say 25 for each civ?

Also...any suggestions so that they dont get disbanded due to costs?

Perhaps having a zero cost?

SHIELD_COST 540
POWER_POINTS 400

These are listed for the settler;

Is it the Shield cost I need to -zero- out?

Thanks for all the input..

Oh and Yes..I love this game!!!!

Peace

GT

[Grandpa Troll]

OK

I am making some forward progress;

I went to DIFFDB.txt

I changed starting ai units to 25...

I then launched the game and each of the 28 civs got 9 settlers to start...

Ok..does anyone know IF its possible to increase the stack size?..since I am assuming 9 is because of the stack limits??

Maybe somehow it would be possible to start with say 3 "cities" which would each have 9 settlers in them..making 30 settlers total per civ?..Just reaching for straws I reckon...


As for the "Human" {me}..I tried changing the chance an still maxed out at 2..

I guess I could use the cheat mode and simply manually put all settlers in..dont want to though...

Thanks for any further input...

Peace


GT

[J Bytheway]

If you want more than 9 you need to add them with SLIC.

[Locutus]

You already asked the same question a few years ago, I posted some SLIC code then. Here's the link: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=50782

[J Bytheway]

I thought I was suffering from deja vu in this thread...

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Locutus
You already asked the same question a few years ago, I posted some SLIC code then. Here's the link: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=50782

Forgive me

I am such a Moron!!

Thanks

It works very well!!

I thank you for the help..again this is why Apolyton is my favorite site..and you folks are such a help!!

I'll let you know how the ai acts.......


Peace & WOOT!!!

Grandpa Troll

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
I thought I was suffering from deja vu in this thread...

Well..I dont know about your sickness & Illness Mr J Bytheway..but I thought we had been through this thread before..

GT