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Is that character a variant? (I just love getting asked that in channel.) - Charis |
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Rebalancing Civ4: RtR Mod
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luddite Wrote:it's really irritating how random the religious spreading is. Absolutely agreed (see this post). How about adapting the great people mechanic? Every turn you get one religion point (2 with the shrine) in the holy city. You can spend the points on any city, needing something like distance * 2 * (number of other religions+1) points to spread the religion. DaveV Wrote:Absolutely agreed (see this post). How about adapting the great people mechanic? Every turn you get one religion point (2 with the shrine) in the holy city. You can spend the points on any city, needing something like distance * 2 * (number of other religions+1) points to spread the religion. Interesting but sadly uncodable. Religion spreading is clunky. What about changing the missionary spread so that the missionary still has a 100% chance of success in adding religion #2 into a city? That removes some of the random obnoxiousness of trying to intentionally spread a religion once you've had one randomly spread into your city. I'm afraid to mess with the random-spread aspect of religion, because obviously any slower is a bad idea, and any faster merely makes the first two religions that much more valuable, especially in an Archi game. PBEM10 Spoiler: Quote:(2:43:00 PM) Krill: btw
Summing that up, you want to increase trade routes by a flat 25%, so that a foreign trade route gives 1+25%+25%+150% for 3 commerce, reducing the differential between inland and coastal cities and making a harbor's effect get lost to rounding truncation.
I can see that working. But of course you've transferred more power onto trade routes as a whole. Making open border negotiations and diplomatic embargoes more important. I don't know if that's a plus or minus for the overall MP experience. BTW, obviously I didn't get to any No Espionage coding this past week, will try to soon. T-hawk Wrote:Summing that up, you want to increase trade routes by a flat 25%, so that a foreign trade route gives 1+25%+25%+150% for 3 commerce, reducing the differential between inland and coastal cities and making a harbor's effect get lost to rounding truncation. No worries T-hawk.  Yes and no, though. FM is only available after Merc is available, and Merc giving +2 gold/spec, +1 free spec starts allowing you to stack up per city boni that aren't really to be sniffed at, if you are pushing specs. however, I do wonder if Merc should give +2 free specs and not just 1 free spec. Ioan76 Wrote:Just one punctual request : please make a mod in which Lumbermills to be available with Metal Casting ... or another early tech in order to allow an alternative to massive forest chops !! Would that even make a difference? By the time of metal casting, most forests are already chopped. Even if they weren't, I'd still want to chop them, if only to make room for cottages. luddite Wrote:By the time of metal casting, most forests are already chopped. Even if they weren't, I'd still want to chop them, if only to make room for cottages. You will do this even for cities which are planned to develop/maximize production ? I'll say it will be a very good thing - at least for forests which are on plains ... Anyway - the main ideea is to have something to choose against "massive-chop strategy" - as you know ... is always better to have at least two option ASAP ... and lumbermills are available soooo late in the game. 
Ioan76 Wrote:Anyway - the main ideea is to have something to choose against "massive-chop strategy" - as you know ... is always better to have at least two option ASAP ... and lumbermills are available soooo late in the game. I've always thought that the Bronze Working tech was a bit too powerful. If I had my druthers I'd move slavery to masonry and forest chopping to metal casting. This might leave a few more forests around for later. Of course, on my mac I can't use mods, so it's academic.
Can we remind me exactly what we wanted to do with No Espionage? Going back to here in this thread, I think the only needed DLL changes are:
- remove the espionage-to-culture conversion - lose the doubled culture thresholds You can remove spy specialist slots and all ways to generate Great Spy points in the XML, right? |
