lordrune
Jan 14, 2008, 11:46 PM
Hi folks,
Firstly congrats on a great mod. I've started playing as of two days ago, and am thoroughly enjoying it - you have all done some awesome work.
I've started a couple of games now as the Bannor, and while my strategies aren't optimal, I've played enough to have a feel for the mod, and I've got a couple of questions resulting from that.
The first question is this. I'm missing the power graph from the F9 screen - I used it frequently to gauge how well I was keeping up my military numbers, and to see if neighbouring AIs were building up armies that could pose a threat. I know that we do have the demographics screen that shows the 'number of soldiers' - and that does its job well, but its nice to have the graph as a visual aid.
Related to that first question, maybe FFH needs an espionage system to be implemented? It will of course break vanilla compatibility - which may be a concern (although I can't imagine why any current Civ 4 player would *not* be playing BTS, unless they have cash problems). But it could fit in nicely with existing gameplay in this mod.
The second question - what to do about the Armageddon counter? I know what happens to my agriculture when it hits 40 (from experience) - is there anything else nasty thats associated? And what's pushing it up? Is it the evil civs - and is it possible to stop it?
The third question is more related to BTS itself - it seems that this mod is using 3.13 - which has a bug that causes the AI to constantly drop resource trades after establishing them (following the minimum 10 turns). This was resolved by Bhruic's unofficial DLL patch - which I succesfully applied to vanilla BTS - but the bug seems to have come back in FFH. Obviously, its not a gamebreaker, but it is frustrating - am I the only one having this problem - or am I the only one who's bothered - or is it in the pipeline to be fixed?
Firstly congrats on a great mod. I've started playing as of two days ago, and am thoroughly enjoying it - you have all done some awesome work.
I've started a couple of games now as the Bannor, and while my strategies aren't optimal, I've played enough to have a feel for the mod, and I've got a couple of questions resulting from that.
The first question is this. I'm missing the power graph from the F9 screen - I used it frequently to gauge how well I was keeping up my military numbers, and to see if neighbouring AIs were building up armies that could pose a threat. I know that we do have the demographics screen that shows the 'number of soldiers' - and that does its job well, but its nice to have the graph as a visual aid.
Related to that first question, maybe FFH needs an espionage system to be implemented? It will of course break vanilla compatibility - which may be a concern (although I can't imagine why any current Civ 4 player would *not* be playing BTS, unless they have cash problems). But it could fit in nicely with existing gameplay in this mod.
The second question - what to do about the Armageddon counter? I know what happens to my agriculture when it hits 40 (from experience) - is there anything else nasty thats associated? And what's pushing it up? Is it the evil civs - and is it possible to stop it?
The third question is more related to BTS itself - it seems that this mod is using 3.13 - which has a bug that causes the AI to constantly drop resource trades after establishing them (following the minimum 10 turns). This was resolved by Bhruic's unofficial DLL patch - which I succesfully applied to vanilla BTS - but the bug seems to have come back in FFH. Obviously, its not a gamebreaker, but it is frustrating - am I the only one having this problem - or am I the only one who's bothered - or is it in the pipeline to be fixed?