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The Empire State Building "The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, The Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for more...

Just was looking around the Civ 5 info center at weplayciv, when something caught my eye: Though not confirmed yet (according to the top of the article), this seems the most interesting new feature to me, as it's something I've campaigned for extensively in the past. I wonder if this means...

I started a game yesterday as the Russians and was busy expanding across Siberia when I noticed something about the city names. On a whim, I looked through the old Civ 3 and Civ 2 lists, which confirmed my hunch: Civ 4 Russian cities Civ 3 Civ 2 Civ 1 (from CFC info page) The older...

Requested yesterday by GeneralMatt for his British Empire mod (not to mention numerous other people in the past), this simple C++/XML change finally lets you have multiple derivative civs. It includes two main features, 6 new <DerivativeCiv> slots for a total of 7 possible colonies per civ, and...

I would like to modify the way damage is applied to ships during air attacks. Specifically, I want to make carriers and battleships the prime targets of bombardment, since they are more vulnerable due to their slower speed and larger size, and more important than their protecting screens. My...

Is there a way to change the era-based flag shapes in BtS? Specifically, I'd like to change the era art so that every era will use the modern flag design (the long rectangular version, not the Medieval triangle or ancient one). I looked through the SDK and Python, but could not locate the code...

An excerpt from a recent preview of Colonization: This really sounds interesting, but it also sounds like the existing civics system. The major difference is that you can only pick your choices "in increments of two."

According to this preview, the new leaders in Colonization II are: England George Washington and John Adams France Samuel de Champlain and Louis de Buade de Frontenac The Netherlands Peter Stuyvesant and Adriaen van der Donck Spain Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin For comparison...

I would like to change the unit AI code (CvUnitAI.cpp) to instruct a civ to move a unit to friendly terrain if that unit has a certain promotion. Specifically, I have modded Grey Fox's fuel modcomp to give mechanized units a "low fuel" promotion when they run low on fuel (no surprise there)...

I have been working on a new map and ran into a bit of a snag... I got these weird lines across the eastern portion of the terrain that I can't seem to eliminate. (My apologies if this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find anything when searching.) Notice they all terminate...

One of the most commonly cited shortcomings about Civ 4's naval system has to do with the immense difficulty in preventative actions. By this I mean that even if you have the most powerful navy in the world, you can't possibly cover all your bases. A single, small enemy task force with 5...

In the course of my scenario making I have often found that the level of AI aggression, even with the "Aggressive AI" option turned on, was less than what I wanted. I am aware of several different avenues for improving this, such as modifying leader personalities, but since the Civ4wiki site is...

Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to create a custom screen in Python? I looked in the reference forum but couldn't find one. Basically, all I want to do is create a new screen like the civics screen, but for something entirely different. I know several mods that do this (TheLopez's...

Every time I try to give my units custom names in the worldbuilder and then save the file, all the names reset to the default unit name. I thought perhaps I would work around this by manually setting names in Notepad, along the lines of "Uniquename=blahblahblah" under the individual unit...

When I was messing around with my WWII Pacific scenario, a thought occurred to me about naval units and how they travel. In the real world, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they were not able to stay around for very long (or to advance beyond Pearl Harbor) due to...

Apparently, it can't be done in any stock version of Civ 4. This is one of the few things in the game that really bug me. If you leave your battleships just outside of a city (or a fort in BtS), they are fair game, but once you pull into port, they suddenly become immune to all air strikes. A...

Does anyone here find it odd that several Great Leaders in the game are completely detached from their associated wonders? For instance, when playing as China you might get Sun Tzu as a military leader, but meanwhile the Maya build Sun Tzu's Art of War on another continent. Or suppose you're...

[BtS Mod] Civ-Specific Unit Art I pretty much have a monopoly on civ-specific things, so I thought I'd continue with my ideas for greater flavor. :D Now we all know that in BTS, there is a great new feature which allows you to incorporate "Ethnically Diverse Unit Art," so the same unit...

I was thinking about the new favorite religion tag in XML and the corporation system when I had an idea. Very often we hear about ancient religions or lack of religious diversity in the game. In fact, most leaders’ favorite religions in BTS are either “NONE” or “CHRISTIANITY.” How do we fix...

Blake posted this on Apolyton a few hours ago: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168349 Hopefully you can get some use out of it. :)