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Medieval Mod 2
Here is the readme for by new Medieval Mod 2.
Note: Here is a link to the corrected uniticon.txt that you need for the mod to run correctly. http://apolyton.net/ctp/files/mods/uniticon.zip
And here is the link to the Update readme. http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum7/HTML/002004.html
Wes Whitaker
Medieval Mod 2.0
by Wes Whitaker.
This mod continues the changes made in the first Medieval mod, and adds customized versions of the
Awesome Aips and True Terrain mods. A detailed explanation of the changes made in the AIP and Terrain
mods can be found in their attached readme files. This file only covers the Medieval mod. The Advances
Chart is modeled on the one which accompanied the game, and lists all the changes made in this mod. The Misc. Readme lists the settings for printing out the Advances Chart, and describes all other changes I have made to the game files.
First of all, let me go through the formality of saying that I take no responsibility for any damage that may be caused directly or indirectly by our work. Also, feel free to use these files to make your own improvements to the game, just remember to do us me courtesy of mentioning where you got them from. Thank you. Now, on to the good stuff….
The graphics for the Javelin Cavalry and new Spy were supplied by Tom Davies (Morgoth), as well as the basic Advances Chart. The graphics for the Galleon were supplied by Harlan Thompson. Thanks to Don Blevins, Timothy Pintello, Nordicus, and all those who participated in the polls and questions on the Apolyton forums. And thanks to Markos, Dan Q and the others at Apolyton for providing a place where we can all go to discuss, develop and distribute our ideas about playing and improving the games we love.
LAND UNITS: (Version 1 changes)
I made many changes to the Ancient and Renaissance units, in order to break up the Ancient age into an
Ancient and a Medieval age. I wanted each age to have a scout, a defensive and an offensive infantry, a ranged unit and a mounted assault unit. I also made a few changes to the advancement table to try and separate the two eras. Most notably, Pikemen appear much earlier, while the Renaissance units appear somewhat later. In the original version, Musketeers appeared immediately after Pikemen, which made them not worth building. I have tried to give the units values which would make it an even battle between an offensive unit and a fortified defensive unit on open ground. (See the land units section below for a chart.)
I also added a new unit, the Javelin Cavalry, which is the Ancient Age's mounted assault unit.
LAND UNITS: (Version 2 changes)
Values for mounted units have been tweaked.
Cannon defense made stronger for greater historical accuracy (grapeshot).
I gave Siege Engines an attack of 1 and defense of 2 so they would not be helpless when in the front row of
battles.
The Mounted Archer and Horse Archer replace the Archer and the Siege Engine in the core and overflow aip
lists, which should result in a better mix of these four units in the AI’s armies.
Also, I took away the pirating ability of Samurai and Musketeers, and gave it to Horse Archers and Cavalry.
Lastly, most Modern Age ground units costs 20 to 25 percent more.
NAVAL UNITS:
The Trireme, Fire Galley, and Longship now costs 1/3 less to build, and almost 1/2 less to support. (See the
sea units section below for a chart.)
The new aips have the AI constructing more ships, so I eliminated the pillage ability for Triremes,
Fire Galleys and Subs to avoid the aggravation of continually having to chase them off.
I added a new unit, the Galleon. It is a Renaissance Age transport, capable of defeating earlier ships and able
to fend off the Siege Engine.
The Ship-of-the-Line's bombardment value I made equal to the Cannon's (so they can defeat Siege Engines),
and transport ability reduced to two (like in Civ) since the Galleon is now available. It's attack and defense
values were raised slightly so that it can handily defeat Galleons.
The Troop Ship and Destroyer are now available with Oil Refining, and the Sub with Mass Production.
The Destroyer can now carry 1 small unit, and the Sub can carry small land units as well. This gives you the
ability to land special units onto shore from a warship (Destroyer), or undetected (Sub.).
Finally, various values for the Modern Age ships have been changed. (See the chart.)
AIR UNITS:
I increased the hit points for Interceptors to 20, as this value seemed to give good results regarding the active
air-defense ability. I also gave SAMs and Helicopters 10 extra hit points. Finally, I reduced the attack and
defense value of these three units by the same percentage as their increase in hit points, in order to keep their
overall power the same for these abilitites.
This still left the problem of planes being defenseless over water. I found that if planes are bombarded over
water, it produced normal results (i.e. no water bug). So I took away the air_attack ability from all other units, and replaced it with the bombard_air ability. This seems to have effectively gotten rid of the water bug in engagements not involving the active air ability.
MISC. NOTES:
Every unit that can bombard can now counter-bombard.
SPECIAL UNITS:
Settlers and Engineers cost 25% less, and I have given Settlers a defense of 1, hp 10 and fp of 2.
**This should give Settlers, which the AI refuses to escort, the chance to fight off barbarian Warriors.
The Noble is no longer restricted to Monarchy, and Spies and Slavers can fortify.
Also, I decided to reduce the unhappiness caused by Reformation from 5 to 2, and the unhappiness caused by
attacking a Cleric from 3 to 1.
**Historically, attacking missionaries has caused some unhappiness, but not the total rioting that accompianies the current settings. Attacking a converter already puts you at war with that civ, so these penalties seem more appropriate to me.
I added a new, Medieval Age spy unit. It takes over the name Spy, while the old unit has been renamed the
Secret Agent. The new Spy can look into enemy cities, incite revolts, and steal technology, just like the old
unit. The new Spy has a 75% chance of success when spying into cities, like the Secret Agent, but a 75% chance of getting caught if the attempt fails. Stealing tech still costs 2,000 gold, but Spies have a 90% success rate, since gold is more precious earlier in the game. In the odd case that the attempt fails, there is a 75% chance of capture. Finally, Spies have a 25% chance of inciting a revolution, and a 50% chance of being lynched if they fail. Spies are only available to civilizations with the Republic form of government, and become obsolete with Communism, when the modern spy, the Secret Agent, becomes available. They cannot become vets or plant Nuclear Weapons. (The stats for the new Spy are listed at the bottom of the land units section.)
Secret Agents now cost 20% less to build and support, and can become vets, which increase their chance of
success 50%.
SPECIALISTS:
Slaves cost more to feed, 7.5, and consume wages, in order to account for the cost of sheltering and clothing
them.
Laborers are available with construction of the Mill.
**Mostly this change was made to help out the AI, which was constructing Factories in cities with low production in order to be able to use Laborers.
ADVANCES:
I added a new advance, Chivalry, with which the Knight becomes available. The Stirrup now allows
Horse Archers.
Most of the early Renaissance Age advances are somewhat more expensive, while the later ones are much
more expensive. Several other changes were made to advance pre-requisities. (See the advances section below for a list of the changes.)
Note: Combined Arms now shows the Helicopter, instead of the Interceptor. (Just a cosmetic change.)
GOVERNMENTS:
Turns-to-readiness reduced from 7 to 5, 10 to 7, and 15 to 10, depending on the government.
______________________________AnarTyraMonaTheoRepu FascFund
MAX MARTIAL LAW UNITS (old,new)5,3 4,3 3,3 1,2__ 0,1 2,2 0,1
MARTIAL LAW EFFECT (old,new)___1,1 1,1 1.5,1 1,1 0,1 2,1 0,1
Democracy wages reduced to 4, gold coefficient raised to 1.25, and production coefficient raised to 1.5.
**Wages in a Democracy aren't necessarily higher than for a Republic, and the same freedom which increases knowledge applies to production efficiency as well. I always seem to choose Communism and Fascism over Democracy, so hopefully this will make the decision more difficult.
I have made new gl files for the right-hand side of the Library screen. The one for Tyranny looks like this:
Production Coef:___1.0
Gold Coef:_________1.0
Knowledge Coef:____1.0
Max Science Rate:___.5
Workday (Hrs.):_____10
Wages (Gold):______3
Rations (Food):____7.5
Crime Coef:_________10
Too Many Cities:_____8
Martial Law Units:___3
Martial Law Effect:__1
**I didn't include this file in version 1, since governments seem to be one of the files people most like to have their own version of. However, I think these subtle changes have a measurable, and hopefully beneficial, effect to the game. Besides, if you don't like them, you can always put your own version back in.
Note: The too many cities thresholds are set to CD’s settings, which are about right for a “normal” size map.
IMPROVEMENTS and WONDERS:
Aqueducts are now available with Geometry.
**This will help Clerics, and those of you that use the Theocracy form of government, with its extra rations penalty. And anyway, Engineering had too many things accompanying its discovery in this mod.
The City Clock now costs 2/3 as much to build, 1070, and 3 gold to maintain.
Forcefields, and the National Shield Wonder, give 2/3 the protection of the original, and costs 2/3 as much to
build.
I created a new improvement, the Stockade, which is a primitive form of City Walls. It adds 1 defense,
prevents slavery, costs 200 production and 1 upkeep, and is available with Stoneworking. City walls now adds 3 defense, still protects against slavery and conversion, costs 400 production and 3 upkeep, and is available with Engineering.
**By dividing up the city walls improvement this way, it prevents the full city walls benefit until the Siege
Engine becomes available. This way, you won't be assaulting walled, fortified Phalanxes with Legions, and only Archers available to soften them up beforehand. Meanwhile, it makes it easier to protect against slavers when a city is small.
Note: To remove the Stockade's ability to prevent slavery, simply open the improve.txt file, and in the
Stockade section (it's listed 2nd) delete the line: IMPROVEMENT_FLAG_PREVENT_SLAVERY.
I removed the Castle tile improvement, due to a bug, and transferred most of its characteristics to the
Fortification. The Fortification now gives a +100% defense bonus, while costing 600 PW. It is availible with Engineering.
Undersea tunnels costs 2/3 as much to build. These are basically maglev tunnels placed on the ocean floor, so I don't see why they should be so exorbitant in cost. Especially when one pillage wreaks the entire tunnel.
I changed the improvements list to a more logical progression.
SEA and SPACE COLONIES:
Sea and space colonies can now build most ancient improvements.
Also, I made the Space Colonies and Sea Colonies advances cost 1/2 less to research.
Finally, I switched Smart Materials and Space Colonies on the advances chart, and had Fusion replace
Arcologies as the second preq for Space Colonies.
**Combined with CD's replacement of Arcologies with Superconductor as the second preq for Sea Colonies,
these changes should allow for earlier and further development of these aspects of the game.
Note: Space Marines are now available with Smart Materials.
CONSTRUCT TEXT:
Note: The changes listed here are *in addition* to those done in the Awesome Aips. Explanations, when needed, are in the following paragraphs.
1)Percentage of land in continents set to 90.
2)Percentage of land with rivers set to 15.
3)Chance of getting a veteran set to 25.
4)Change building penalty set to 0.
5)Nice radius set to 15.
6)Population indexes for the Genetic and Diamond ages reduced by 1/3.
7)Chance that piracy kills trader reduced to 20, and the gold obtained from piracy reduced to 20.
1)About 90% of the land on Earth is in the continents, I believe. Also, from my knowledge of the aidata
files, I believe that this setting helps the AI expand better. After creating a new map, I alter the terrain to give
each of the AIs their own nice continent, with most having a land connection to 1 or 2 other civs. This seems
to result in the best games.
4) In the first patch, when they changed the build queue properties to allow the insertion of items, they made it possible to do so without losing any production, if done in each city individually. However, you still lose
production if you use the city screen to do simultaneous insertions. Setting this penalty to zero lets you use the city screen feature without penalty, and may help keep the AI from losing production when it makes changes.
5) It says that start locations are 2x nice radius. Well, it isn't. By setting this to 15, it should avoid setting off
the survival mode aip, which upsets AI development.
6)CD did some of this in his mod, but I still keep getting ridiculous figures. (Just a cosmetic change.)
7)With the increased number of ships due to the AAips, piracy has become so bad as to make it almost impossible to maintain overseas trade routes with the current loss settings. I have noticed that the AI will devote significant resources to producing more caravans if you start extensive pirating of its routes, rather than building more units to go after the pirates. With these new settings, you will have to stay on the trade routes for several turns to cause heavy caravan losses. This will either increase the chance of the AI finding and destroying your ships, or else force you to tie up your units in this duty for a long time, rather than putting them to other uses.
Since you will probably end up pirating more routes, the amount of gold given for doing this has been reduced.
DiffDB (Emporer Level):
_______________________________OLD________________ ____________NEW
AI_TECHNOLOGY_COST -0.1 -0.1 -0.3 -0.4 -0.5__ -0.1 -0.2 -0.2 -0.3 -0.3
AI_PRODUCTION_COST +0.35 0.25 0.3 0.2 0.1__ 0.0 -0.1 -0.1 -0.2 -0.2
AI_GOLD_ADJUSTMENT _1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.2__ 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2
As you can see, I decreased to tech bonus given to the AI later in the game, but I eliminated the production
handicap given to the AI, and replaced it with a slight bonus. I also decreased the starting base happiness to
74, and reduced the AI's minimun starting advances from 6 to 3, while leaving the max starting advances at 6.
INFO INCONSISTENCIES:
Advances' Great Library gameplay files usually won't reflect the changes made. However, the info about
requirements and availibilities (to the left and right of the picture) should be correct.
The Stockade still uses the City Walls icon, therefore you can’t tell which one a city has just by looking at it. **I spent many hours trying to find a solution for this, but to no avail. If anyone reading this *does* have a solution, please let me know, as this is the only feature of the mod that I wasn’t able to implement fully. This feature is at the very heart of the mod, though, so I feel that it is too important to leave out due to this one shortcoming.
LAND UNITS:
Unit/Age_______Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Vis Available Obsolete
ANCIENT AGE
Settler_________400 0 0 0 1 10 2 1 1
Warrior_________135 4 1 0 1 10 2 1 2 Toolmaking Classical Ed
Phalanx_________160 4 1 0 2 10 2 1 1 Bronze Work. Philosophy
Mounted Ar______240 6 1 1 1 10 2 3 2 Domestication Stirrup
Javelin Cav.____280 8 2 0 1 15 2 3 1 Domestication Chivalry
Legion__________240 7 2 0 1 15 2 1 1 Iron Working Classical Ed
Archer__________200 7 1 1 1 10 2 1 1 Stone Working Gunpowder
MEDIEVAL AGE
Pikeman_________320 _8 2 0 2 15 2 1 1 Philosophy Gunpowder
Horse Archer____480 14 2 2 1 20 2 4 2 Stirrup Cavalry
Samurai_________400 12 3 0 1 20 2 1 1 Classical Ed Gunpowder
Siege Engine____500 14 1 4 2 10 3 1 1 Engineering Cannon Making
Knight__________480 16 3 0 2 20 2 3 1 Chivalry Cavalry
Unit/Age_______Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Vis Available Obsolete
RENAISSANCE AGE
Musketeer_______560 16 4 2 4 15 3 1 1 Gunpowder Explosives
Cannon__________720 20 3 8 4 10 3 1 1 Cannon Making Explosives
Cavalry_________720 24 6 0 4 15 3 3 2 Cavalry Tank Warfare
Spy_____________600 18________________2 2 Republic Communism
MODERN AGE (cost changes only)
Machine Gunner_1000
Marine_________1200
Fascist________1300
Tank___________2400
SEA and AIR UNITS:
Unit___________Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Tran Available Obsolete
Trireme_________300 7.5 1 0 1 10 2 2 2 Ship Bld Hull Making
Gr. Fire________400 10_ 3 1 1 10 2 3 1 Alchemy Mach. Tools
Longship________480 12_ 2 0 2 10 2 4 2 Hull Making Ocean Faring
Galleon_________640 15_ 3 4 3 10 3 5 4 Ocean Faring Oil Refining
Ship of Line____900 25_ 5 8 5 10 3 5 2 Mach. Tools Oil Refining
Troop Ship_____1300 30_ 0 6 4 15 3 6 5 Oil Refining
Destroyer______1200 36_10 10 8 15 3 7 1 Oil Refining
Submarine______1200 30_15 15 5 10 3 4 2 Mass Production
Battleship_____2750 80_20 20 18 20 4 6 0 Steel
Aircraft Car.__2500 50__4 8 8 25 3 5 0 Aerodynamics
Interceptors___1750 45__6 12 6 20 3 10 Aerodyanmics
Helicopter_____1500 45__5 16 3 20 3 7/35 Jet Propulsion
Mobile SAM_____1200 36__3 16 3 25 3 6 Rocketry
ADVANCES:
Engineering also requires Alchemy.
Stirrup set back to original settings.
Chivalry requires Stirrup and Classical Education.
Cavalry Tactics requires Chivalry instead of Stirrup.
Gunpowder requires Optics instead of Agricultural Rev.
Machine Tools also requires Cannon Making, so that Cannon are available before SotL.
Steel requires Explosives instead of Railroad. This makes Machine Gunners available before Battleships.
Mass Production also requires the Corporation.
GlobeNet also requires Space Flight.
Philosophy and Engineering costs 50% more to discover, and Gunpowder about
15% more. Banking and Classical Ed have been brought back to standard costs.
Ag. Rev., Mech. Clock, Pr. Press, Cavalry and Cannon Making costs increased from 860 to 1000.
Nationalism increased from 860 to 1200.
Democracy, Age of Reason, Machine Tools, Medicine, Economics and Physics increased from 860 to 3200.
Sea and Space Colonies changes were detailed in their previous section.
Here is the link to the Update readme. http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum7/HTML/002004.html
[This message has been edited by WesW (edited February 24, 2000).]
Note: Here is a link to the corrected uniticon.txt that you need for the mod to run correctly. http://apolyton.net/ctp/files/mods/uniticon.zip
And here is the link to the Update readme. http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum7/HTML/002004.html
Wes Whitaker
Medieval Mod 2.0
by Wes Whitaker.
This mod continues the changes made in the first Medieval mod, and adds customized versions of the
Awesome Aips and True Terrain mods. A detailed explanation of the changes made in the AIP and Terrain
mods can be found in their attached readme files. This file only covers the Medieval mod. The Advances
Chart is modeled on the one which accompanied the game, and lists all the changes made in this mod. The Misc. Readme lists the settings for printing out the Advances Chart, and describes all other changes I have made to the game files.
First of all, let me go through the formality of saying that I take no responsibility for any damage that may be caused directly or indirectly by our work. Also, feel free to use these files to make your own improvements to the game, just remember to do us me courtesy of mentioning where you got them from. Thank you. Now, on to the good stuff….
The graphics for the Javelin Cavalry and new Spy were supplied by Tom Davies (Morgoth), as well as the basic Advances Chart. The graphics for the Galleon were supplied by Harlan Thompson. Thanks to Don Blevins, Timothy Pintello, Nordicus, and all those who participated in the polls and questions on the Apolyton forums. And thanks to Markos, Dan Q and the others at Apolyton for providing a place where we can all go to discuss, develop and distribute our ideas about playing and improving the games we love.
LAND UNITS: (Version 1 changes)
I made many changes to the Ancient and Renaissance units, in order to break up the Ancient age into an
Ancient and a Medieval age. I wanted each age to have a scout, a defensive and an offensive infantry, a ranged unit and a mounted assault unit. I also made a few changes to the advancement table to try and separate the two eras. Most notably, Pikemen appear much earlier, while the Renaissance units appear somewhat later. In the original version, Musketeers appeared immediately after Pikemen, which made them not worth building. I have tried to give the units values which would make it an even battle between an offensive unit and a fortified defensive unit on open ground. (See the land units section below for a chart.)
I also added a new unit, the Javelin Cavalry, which is the Ancient Age's mounted assault unit.
LAND UNITS: (Version 2 changes)
Values for mounted units have been tweaked.
Cannon defense made stronger for greater historical accuracy (grapeshot).
I gave Siege Engines an attack of 1 and defense of 2 so they would not be helpless when in the front row of
battles.
The Mounted Archer and Horse Archer replace the Archer and the Siege Engine in the core and overflow aip
lists, which should result in a better mix of these four units in the AI’s armies.
Also, I took away the pirating ability of Samurai and Musketeers, and gave it to Horse Archers and Cavalry.
Lastly, most Modern Age ground units costs 20 to 25 percent more.
NAVAL UNITS:
The Trireme, Fire Galley, and Longship now costs 1/3 less to build, and almost 1/2 less to support. (See the
sea units section below for a chart.)
The new aips have the AI constructing more ships, so I eliminated the pillage ability for Triremes,
Fire Galleys and Subs to avoid the aggravation of continually having to chase them off.
I added a new unit, the Galleon. It is a Renaissance Age transport, capable of defeating earlier ships and able
to fend off the Siege Engine.
The Ship-of-the-Line's bombardment value I made equal to the Cannon's (so they can defeat Siege Engines),
and transport ability reduced to two (like in Civ) since the Galleon is now available. It's attack and defense
values were raised slightly so that it can handily defeat Galleons.
The Troop Ship and Destroyer are now available with Oil Refining, and the Sub with Mass Production.
The Destroyer can now carry 1 small unit, and the Sub can carry small land units as well. This gives you the
ability to land special units onto shore from a warship (Destroyer), or undetected (Sub.).
Finally, various values for the Modern Age ships have been changed. (See the chart.)
AIR UNITS:
I increased the hit points for Interceptors to 20, as this value seemed to give good results regarding the active
air-defense ability. I also gave SAMs and Helicopters 10 extra hit points. Finally, I reduced the attack and
defense value of these three units by the same percentage as their increase in hit points, in order to keep their
overall power the same for these abilitites.
This still left the problem of planes being defenseless over water. I found that if planes are bombarded over
water, it produced normal results (i.e. no water bug). So I took away the air_attack ability from all other units, and replaced it with the bombard_air ability. This seems to have effectively gotten rid of the water bug in engagements not involving the active air ability.
MISC. NOTES:
Every unit that can bombard can now counter-bombard.
SPECIAL UNITS:
Settlers and Engineers cost 25% less, and I have given Settlers a defense of 1, hp 10 and fp of 2.
**This should give Settlers, which the AI refuses to escort, the chance to fight off barbarian Warriors.
The Noble is no longer restricted to Monarchy, and Spies and Slavers can fortify.
Also, I decided to reduce the unhappiness caused by Reformation from 5 to 2, and the unhappiness caused by
attacking a Cleric from 3 to 1.
**Historically, attacking missionaries has caused some unhappiness, but not the total rioting that accompianies the current settings. Attacking a converter already puts you at war with that civ, so these penalties seem more appropriate to me.
I added a new, Medieval Age spy unit. It takes over the name Spy, while the old unit has been renamed the
Secret Agent. The new Spy can look into enemy cities, incite revolts, and steal technology, just like the old
unit. The new Spy has a 75% chance of success when spying into cities, like the Secret Agent, but a 75% chance of getting caught if the attempt fails. Stealing tech still costs 2,000 gold, but Spies have a 90% success rate, since gold is more precious earlier in the game. In the odd case that the attempt fails, there is a 75% chance of capture. Finally, Spies have a 25% chance of inciting a revolution, and a 50% chance of being lynched if they fail. Spies are only available to civilizations with the Republic form of government, and become obsolete with Communism, when the modern spy, the Secret Agent, becomes available. They cannot become vets or plant Nuclear Weapons. (The stats for the new Spy are listed at the bottom of the land units section.)
Secret Agents now cost 20% less to build and support, and can become vets, which increase their chance of
success 50%.
SPECIALISTS:
Slaves cost more to feed, 7.5, and consume wages, in order to account for the cost of sheltering and clothing
them.
Laborers are available with construction of the Mill.
**Mostly this change was made to help out the AI, which was constructing Factories in cities with low production in order to be able to use Laborers.
ADVANCES:
I added a new advance, Chivalry, with which the Knight becomes available. The Stirrup now allows
Horse Archers.
Most of the early Renaissance Age advances are somewhat more expensive, while the later ones are much
more expensive. Several other changes were made to advance pre-requisities. (See the advances section below for a list of the changes.)
Note: Combined Arms now shows the Helicopter, instead of the Interceptor. (Just a cosmetic change.)
GOVERNMENTS:
Turns-to-readiness reduced from 7 to 5, 10 to 7, and 15 to 10, depending on the government.
______________________________AnarTyraMonaTheoRepu FascFund
MAX MARTIAL LAW UNITS (old,new)5,3 4,3 3,3 1,2__ 0,1 2,2 0,1
MARTIAL LAW EFFECT (old,new)___1,1 1,1 1.5,1 1,1 0,1 2,1 0,1
Democracy wages reduced to 4, gold coefficient raised to 1.25, and production coefficient raised to 1.5.
**Wages in a Democracy aren't necessarily higher than for a Republic, and the same freedom which increases knowledge applies to production efficiency as well. I always seem to choose Communism and Fascism over Democracy, so hopefully this will make the decision more difficult.
I have made new gl files for the right-hand side of the Library screen. The one for Tyranny looks like this:
Production Coef:___1.0
Gold Coef:_________1.0
Knowledge Coef:____1.0
Max Science Rate:___.5
Workday (Hrs.):_____10
Wages (Gold):______3
Rations (Food):____7.5
Crime Coef:_________10
Too Many Cities:_____8
Martial Law Units:___3
Martial Law Effect:__1
**I didn't include this file in version 1, since governments seem to be one of the files people most like to have their own version of. However, I think these subtle changes have a measurable, and hopefully beneficial, effect to the game. Besides, if you don't like them, you can always put your own version back in.
Note: The too many cities thresholds are set to CD’s settings, which are about right for a “normal” size map.
IMPROVEMENTS and WONDERS:
Aqueducts are now available with Geometry.
**This will help Clerics, and those of you that use the Theocracy form of government, with its extra rations penalty. And anyway, Engineering had too many things accompanying its discovery in this mod.
The City Clock now costs 2/3 as much to build, 1070, and 3 gold to maintain.
Forcefields, and the National Shield Wonder, give 2/3 the protection of the original, and costs 2/3 as much to
build.
I created a new improvement, the Stockade, which is a primitive form of City Walls. It adds 1 defense,
prevents slavery, costs 200 production and 1 upkeep, and is available with Stoneworking. City walls now adds 3 defense, still protects against slavery and conversion, costs 400 production and 3 upkeep, and is available with Engineering.
**By dividing up the city walls improvement this way, it prevents the full city walls benefit until the Siege
Engine becomes available. This way, you won't be assaulting walled, fortified Phalanxes with Legions, and only Archers available to soften them up beforehand. Meanwhile, it makes it easier to protect against slavers when a city is small.
Note: To remove the Stockade's ability to prevent slavery, simply open the improve.txt file, and in the
Stockade section (it's listed 2nd) delete the line: IMPROVEMENT_FLAG_PREVENT_SLAVERY.
I removed the Castle tile improvement, due to a bug, and transferred most of its characteristics to the
Fortification. The Fortification now gives a +100% defense bonus, while costing 600 PW. It is availible with Engineering.
Undersea tunnels costs 2/3 as much to build. These are basically maglev tunnels placed on the ocean floor, so I don't see why they should be so exorbitant in cost. Especially when one pillage wreaks the entire tunnel.
I changed the improvements list to a more logical progression.
SEA and SPACE COLONIES:
Sea and space colonies can now build most ancient improvements.
Also, I made the Space Colonies and Sea Colonies advances cost 1/2 less to research.
Finally, I switched Smart Materials and Space Colonies on the advances chart, and had Fusion replace
Arcologies as the second preq for Space Colonies.
**Combined with CD's replacement of Arcologies with Superconductor as the second preq for Sea Colonies,
these changes should allow for earlier and further development of these aspects of the game.
Note: Space Marines are now available with Smart Materials.
CONSTRUCT TEXT:
Note: The changes listed here are *in addition* to those done in the Awesome Aips. Explanations, when needed, are in the following paragraphs.
1)Percentage of land in continents set to 90.
2)Percentage of land with rivers set to 15.
3)Chance of getting a veteran set to 25.
4)Change building penalty set to 0.
5)Nice radius set to 15.
6)Population indexes for the Genetic and Diamond ages reduced by 1/3.
7)Chance that piracy kills trader reduced to 20, and the gold obtained from piracy reduced to 20.
1)About 90% of the land on Earth is in the continents, I believe. Also, from my knowledge of the aidata
files, I believe that this setting helps the AI expand better. After creating a new map, I alter the terrain to give
each of the AIs their own nice continent, with most having a land connection to 1 or 2 other civs. This seems
to result in the best games.
4) In the first patch, when they changed the build queue properties to allow the insertion of items, they made it possible to do so without losing any production, if done in each city individually. However, you still lose
production if you use the city screen to do simultaneous insertions. Setting this penalty to zero lets you use the city screen feature without penalty, and may help keep the AI from losing production when it makes changes.
5) It says that start locations are 2x nice radius. Well, it isn't. By setting this to 15, it should avoid setting off
the survival mode aip, which upsets AI development.
6)CD did some of this in his mod, but I still keep getting ridiculous figures. (Just a cosmetic change.)
7)With the increased number of ships due to the AAips, piracy has become so bad as to make it almost impossible to maintain overseas trade routes with the current loss settings. I have noticed that the AI will devote significant resources to producing more caravans if you start extensive pirating of its routes, rather than building more units to go after the pirates. With these new settings, you will have to stay on the trade routes for several turns to cause heavy caravan losses. This will either increase the chance of the AI finding and destroying your ships, or else force you to tie up your units in this duty for a long time, rather than putting them to other uses.
Since you will probably end up pirating more routes, the amount of gold given for doing this has been reduced.
DiffDB (Emporer Level):
_______________________________OLD________________ ____________NEW
AI_TECHNOLOGY_COST -0.1 -0.1 -0.3 -0.4 -0.5__ -0.1 -0.2 -0.2 -0.3 -0.3
AI_PRODUCTION_COST +0.35 0.25 0.3 0.2 0.1__ 0.0 -0.1 -0.1 -0.2 -0.2
AI_GOLD_ADJUSTMENT _1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.2__ 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2
As you can see, I decreased to tech bonus given to the AI later in the game, but I eliminated the production
handicap given to the AI, and replaced it with a slight bonus. I also decreased the starting base happiness to
74, and reduced the AI's minimun starting advances from 6 to 3, while leaving the max starting advances at 6.
INFO INCONSISTENCIES:
Advances' Great Library gameplay files usually won't reflect the changes made. However, the info about
requirements and availibilities (to the left and right of the picture) should be correct.
The Stockade still uses the City Walls icon, therefore you can’t tell which one a city has just by looking at it. **I spent many hours trying to find a solution for this, but to no avail. If anyone reading this *does* have a solution, please let me know, as this is the only feature of the mod that I wasn’t able to implement fully. This feature is at the very heart of the mod, though, so I feel that it is too important to leave out due to this one shortcoming.
LAND UNITS:
Unit/Age_______Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Vis Available Obsolete
ANCIENT AGE
Settler_________400 0 0 0 1 10 2 1 1
Warrior_________135 4 1 0 1 10 2 1 2 Toolmaking Classical Ed
Phalanx_________160 4 1 0 2 10 2 1 1 Bronze Work. Philosophy
Mounted Ar______240 6 1 1 1 10 2 3 2 Domestication Stirrup
Javelin Cav.____280 8 2 0 1 15 2 3 1 Domestication Chivalry
Legion__________240 7 2 0 1 15 2 1 1 Iron Working Classical Ed
Archer__________200 7 1 1 1 10 2 1 1 Stone Working Gunpowder
MEDIEVAL AGE
Pikeman_________320 _8 2 0 2 15 2 1 1 Philosophy Gunpowder
Horse Archer____480 14 2 2 1 20 2 4 2 Stirrup Cavalry
Samurai_________400 12 3 0 1 20 2 1 1 Classical Ed Gunpowder
Siege Engine____500 14 1 4 2 10 3 1 1 Engineering Cannon Making
Knight__________480 16 3 0 2 20 2 3 1 Chivalry Cavalry
Unit/Age_______Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Vis Available Obsolete
RENAISSANCE AGE
Musketeer_______560 16 4 2 4 15 3 1 1 Gunpowder Explosives
Cannon__________720 20 3 8 4 10 3 1 1 Cannon Making Explosives
Cavalry_________720 24 6 0 4 15 3 3 2 Cavalry Tank Warfare
Spy_____________600 18________________2 2 Republic Communism
MODERN AGE (cost changes only)
Machine Gunner_1000
Marine_________1200
Fascist________1300
Tank___________2400
SEA and AIR UNITS:
Unit___________Cost H A R D HP FP Mov Tran Available Obsolete
Trireme_________300 7.5 1 0 1 10 2 2 2 Ship Bld Hull Making
Gr. Fire________400 10_ 3 1 1 10 2 3 1 Alchemy Mach. Tools
Longship________480 12_ 2 0 2 10 2 4 2 Hull Making Ocean Faring
Galleon_________640 15_ 3 4 3 10 3 5 4 Ocean Faring Oil Refining
Ship of Line____900 25_ 5 8 5 10 3 5 2 Mach. Tools Oil Refining
Troop Ship_____1300 30_ 0 6 4 15 3 6 5 Oil Refining
Destroyer______1200 36_10 10 8 15 3 7 1 Oil Refining
Submarine______1200 30_15 15 5 10 3 4 2 Mass Production
Battleship_____2750 80_20 20 18 20 4 6 0 Steel
Aircraft Car.__2500 50__4 8 8 25 3 5 0 Aerodynamics
Interceptors___1750 45__6 12 6 20 3 10 Aerodyanmics
Helicopter_____1500 45__5 16 3 20 3 7/35 Jet Propulsion
Mobile SAM_____1200 36__3 16 3 25 3 6 Rocketry
ADVANCES:
Engineering also requires Alchemy.
Stirrup set back to original settings.
Chivalry requires Stirrup and Classical Education.
Cavalry Tactics requires Chivalry instead of Stirrup.
Gunpowder requires Optics instead of Agricultural Rev.
Machine Tools also requires Cannon Making, so that Cannon are available before SotL.
Steel requires Explosives instead of Railroad. This makes Machine Gunners available before Battleships.
Mass Production also requires the Corporation.
GlobeNet also requires Space Flight.
Philosophy and Engineering costs 50% more to discover, and Gunpowder about
15% more. Banking and Classical Ed have been brought back to standard costs.
Ag. Rev., Mech. Clock, Pr. Press, Cavalry and Cannon Making costs increased from 860 to 1000.
Nationalism increased from 860 to 1200.
Democracy, Age of Reason, Machine Tools, Medicine, Economics and Physics increased from 860 to 3200.
Sea and Space Colonies changes were detailed in their previous section.
Here is the link to the Update readme. http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum7/HTML/002004.html
[This message has been edited by WesW (edited February 24, 2000).]
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