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As a longtime PolyCast listener, I couldn't help but notice that there hasn't been a new episode on this site since June. There have been a handful of more recent episodes posted to the companion YouTube channel, but they seem to be raw live streams in a pretty unfinished state. Most of the...

I'm trying to create a Lua mod to set the name of a unit to a unique value when it's built / added to the map. My mod appears to be loading, or at least, I see no obvious errors in Modding.log. But I see no evidence that my code is actually being run. I'd appreciate any advice on where to go...

https://github.com/jamesconradshea/civ4/blob/master/dist/btsColorEditor.zip Just a couple minor changes: * Fixed an annoying progressive roundoff error bug that was causing color values to "drift" between saves. * Added the target path directory to the title bar. Note that in the screenshots...

This modcomp generates random city names for all the regular civs in BtS as well as the barbarians. I have been able to merge it with the following mods: BAT 4.1 K-Mod Note that this is built on top of the BUG Mod core code, so you can't just merge it on top of unmodded BtS. The supporting BUG...

I've been working on this modcomp off and on for years for my own amusement and I finally decided to release it. This modcomp is a partial refactoring and enhancement of the unit naming code used in the BUG mod. I have been able to merge it with various BUG-compatible mods such as BAT, K-Mod...

I've never seen this before. I'm running a game where one of the leaders is Cyrus of Egypt. This last turn, one of the AIs (Alexander of the Zulus) spun off a colony: Cyrus of Babylon. Known issue? Should I report it as a bug? I can upload a save if anyone wants to look at it.

I want to experiment with adding some online capabilities to my personal mod, which is built on top of BAT 4.1. After digging around in the Python code I found urllib2.pyc among the system python code so I figured I'd start there. I tried to import it from BugConfig.py but didn't get very far...

I'm suddenly seeing an issue with unmodded BAT 4.1 as well as with my personal mod based on BAT. The attached screenshots illustrate what I'm seeing. In the first screenshot you'll notice that the Explorer unit bottom center is correctly rendered but the Explorer in the upper left corner shows...

So, I've been playing for 6 years now and have yet to move past Noble. I can win on that level frequently enough, but I think I must have developed some bad habits over the years that are keeping me back. Since I don't really have a good grasp of how game mechanics scale to different map...

I've just posted my first modcomp, an enhancement to Ruff_Hi's unit naming event manager. For certain civilizations, using the ^nav^ convention will name naval units by drawing from the historical navies of those civs. This modcomp requires BUG or some mod that incorporates it...

Well, I was finally able to break down and upgrade my hardware. I went with the max resolution of 1366x768. Everything is working fine, except I have a minor issue with the city screen. See attached. The top three tiles in the BFC are partially obscured. This doesn't happen when I zoom in with...

I have a question for everyone - how are the cultural borders with a vassal state determined, and is it any different from a border with a peer? Here's my situation: I'm Justinian, Churchill is my (voluntary) vassal. The fort being guarded by my marines is my only source of oil. Several...

I'm playing a warlord-level game as Justinian. Since the Byzantine UU and UB both require horses I've been scouting the continent for them. I found one way off to the west and figured I was SOL, but a couple turns ago I sent a scout to the far north and lo and behold, there are some...

Do AIs ever DoW your vassal even if they're friendly with you? It looks to me like one of my neighbors is readying for war. He's friendly with me and my power rating is way above his, the only two targets left for him are my vassal or another civ that's nearby.

I just finished conquering Louie on another continent and the maintenance costs are just killing me. I'm thinking of keeping a handful of the best cities and granting the rest independence, which I've never done. Right now I have a huge number of units left over there from the conquest. So...

So I'm playing as Hammurabi and find myself on a continent with Cathy, Liz, and Otto. Liz has founded Hinduism, I've founded Judaism. Otto adopts Hinduism. Both religions spread to Cathy but she picks Hinduism and builds the AP in Moscow. Meanwhile I'm working on my first SoD which I unleash...

Looks like I'm running 3.03. Can I go straight to 3.17 or do I need to patch to 3.13 first?

Hope this isn't too stupid a question, but how can I find out which version I'm running? I got a boxed copy of BtS for Xmas, and I'm hoping it's patched to 3.17, but how do I confirm that? Is there some kind of "about box" somewhere, or something lurking in the XML that would tell me?

I'm new to BtS and the whole espionage system so this may be a pretty naive question... I'm playing Hammurabi and am in the process of taking down Elizabeth. My offensive stalled at one of her cities because of a castle, so I sent a spy in to try and knock it out. It succeeded and I rolled in...

I've been playing a couple of games as Qin Shi Huang and I've been trying the following to get to Cho-Ko-Nus early: 1. Built the Oracle, took Metal Casting as my free tech 2. Built a forge and ran an Engineer 3. Wait for GE to appear, and lightbulb Machinery 4. Build a huge army of...