RevolutionDCM for BTS
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Civ game completely lacks the dynamics in geographical sense. All civs establish their cities and borders and become fixed entities, quite like 19th C nation states, rubbing the sides of each other during 6000 years. This is as far from the real history as Moon is from Earth.
An idea: "Evacuation" order for cities. It would produce 1 settler and a number of workers and military units respective to city size. For example, a city sized 7 would produce 1 settler, 3 workers and 3 military units and become Ruins with all buildings lost. The workers could settle back into new cities later. It would also require AI update.
Evacuation would be the way to literally evacuate endangered cities or to mount a truly all-out assault on the neighbour with better land or to run away from the neighbour who has decided to kill you off (like the Germanic tribes run away from the Alans who run away from the Huns). If all cities are cleaned up, an anarchy period would follow until establishing a city again, which would become the Capital.
This would also require lifting the ban on founding cities on rival territory.
What do you think?
An idea: "Evacuation" order for cities. It would produce 1 settler and a number of workers and military units respective to city size. For example, a city sized 7 would produce 1 settler, 3 workers and 3 military units and become Ruins with all buildings lost. The workers could settle back into new cities later. It would also require AI update.
Evacuation would be the way to literally evacuate endangered cities or to mount a truly all-out assault on the neighbour with better land or to run away from the neighbour who has decided to kill you off (like the Germanic tribes run away from the Alans who run away from the Huns). If all cities are cleaned up, an anarchy period would follow until establishing a city again, which would become the Capital.
This would also require lifting the ban on founding cities on rival territory.
What do you think?
glider1
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Hi there
Unfortunately I will not be able to complete RevolutionMP before the new year. Here attached is the work to date on Revolutions in multiplayer mode. The suggestion is to take the files and pop them into ROM271 and see if multiplayer works. Treat this as a BETA BUILD and be patient with multiplayer. I have tested a basis build of BTS 319 and Revolutions and multiplayer is very reliable in that environment.
What should work:
1) All Revolution game options like barbarian civ etc should work in multiplayer
2) Single player should work as per normal all options ok (Just return Revolution.ini to default)
What will not work:
1) If a player dies in multiplayer, game will OOS. I guess in this case, the multiplayer autosave could be reloaded by the host and play continued. This problem could have serious implications for AI's that die as well. Not sure.
2) If a player selects "defect and lead rebels" in multiplayer, game will OOS
3) If a player selects "accept and take control of new civ" in multiplayer, game will OOS
4) "Handover control" Revolution option has been disabled in multiplayer mode only
The reasons why options 1-4 above do not work is because currently the change player and auto play mechanisms do not work in multiplayer and cause OOS.
Have a peaceful Christmas. See you in the new year.
Cheers
Unfortunately I will not be able to complete RevolutionMP before the new year. Here attached is the work to date on Revolutions in multiplayer mode. The suggestion is to take the files and pop them into ROM271 and see if multiplayer works. Treat this as a BETA BUILD and be patient with multiplayer. I have tested a basis build of BTS 319 and Revolutions and multiplayer is very reliable in that environment.
What should work:
1) All Revolution game options like barbarian civ etc should work in multiplayer
2) Single player should work as per normal all options ok (Just return Revolution.ini to default)
What will not work:
1) If a player dies in multiplayer, game will OOS. I guess in this case, the multiplayer autosave could be reloaded by the host and play continued. This problem could have serious implications for AI's that die as well. Not sure.
2) If a player selects "defect and lead rebels" in multiplayer, game will OOS
3) If a player selects "accept and take control of new civ" in multiplayer, game will OOS
4) "Handover control" Revolution option has been disabled in multiplayer mode only
The reasons why options 1-4 above do not work is because currently the change player and auto play mechanisms do not work in multiplayer and cause OOS.
Have a peaceful Christmas. See you in the new year.
Cheers
glider1
Deity
Same to you Zappara. In case there is any confusion, there is no modding to be done, just replace Revolution.py and Revolution.ini in ROM to get better Revolutions mod multiplayer behaviour. There is extra discussion about it occurring here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=341764
Cheers
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=341764
Cheers
The mod is truly excellent, but it badly needs the possibility to install puppet regimes. If I conquer some cities in the other side of the world, I do not want to keep them and I cannot cede them to my vassals in the same region. This is most illogical. A special unit which could be used to start a fresh vassal civ in a given city would be wonderful.
Could it be possible to remove the restriction to accept foreign cities for the Vassal Civs?
What do you think?
Could it be possible to remove the restriction to accept foreign cities for the Vassal Civs?
What do you think?
Craterus22
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I usually just work on maps, but I am going to be attempting to try and work on my first mod (looking to modify a tech tree extensively for asoiaf scenario to help another guy and then might try to merge it with revDCM) - is it ok to use revDCM as a base? (the current mod is mostly graphics and unit/civ changes)
If it is ok - would it be reasonable to have people just make a copy of the revDCM folder and rename it and copy in the changed files? Or is that an unreasonable expectation or unlikely to be successful?
Also, do you guys have any tips or links to a good tech tree editor? Whenever I do a search on the forums it seems to only find editors that have been abandoned and do not work.
Thanks!
If it is ok - would it be reasonable to have people just make a copy of the revDCM folder and rename it and copy in the changed files? Or is that an unreasonable expectation or unlikely to be successful?
Also, do you guys have any tips or links to a good tech tree editor? Whenever I do a search on the forums it seems to only find editors that have been abandoned and do not work.
Thanks!
glider1
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@Craterus
Yeah enjoy modding RevDCM. Take RevDCM and rename it, and edit CvModName.py for the same name. As for tech tree editors, I cannot help.
Cheers
Yeah enjoy modding RevDCM. Take RevDCM and rename it, and edit CvModName.py for the same name. As for tech tree editors, I cannot help.
Cheers
I would recommend putting everything into one download instead of having a more complicated install, where people have to copy directories and copy files over etc.
If your mod is a single dir underneath Assets/Modules which could be added to RevDCM, that could be an option for a separate download. Anything beyond that should imo include the entire mod (i.e. RevDCM and your changes) in order to minimize installation issues.
I just use a regular xml editor as for all other aspects / files.
Craterus22
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thanks glider...
mambo - been trying to avoid the xml option (much rather drag and drop), but it looks like I have no choice - thanks
phungus420
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@Craterus22
Take a look at some of the other mods that use RevDCM as a base. You may be able to avoid reinventing the wheel that way, as there could be a mod out there that already adds most or all of what you want to add. Right now these are modpacks that use a RevDCM core:
Take a look at some of the other mods that use RevDCM as a base. You may be able to avoid reinventing the wheel that way, as there could be a mod out there that already adds most or all of what you want to add. Right now these are modpacks that use a RevDCM core:
- Diversica -Diversica ethnic art merged with RevDCM
- Legends of Revolution -Follows an Expansion Pack model.
- Quote Capita -A merge of Next War and RevDCM with Varietas Delectat art
- Rise of Mankind -The ultimate MEGA-modpack (Fan pick with over 100K downloads)
- WolfRevolution -A merge of the Wolfshanze mod and RevDCM
- Dune Wars -A science fiction universe, based on the Dune Wars novel
phungus420
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For any modmakers out there, please let me know if I am missing your mod, I think there are more RevDCM based mods, but I cannot remember any other specifically right now.
the SmarMap script doesn't place late game strategic resources properly.
Distinct lack of coal, oil, and uranium.
Many games I've played without a single oil tile on the map, or 1 offshore for the whole map.
Distinct lack of coal, oil, and uranium.
Many games I've played without a single oil tile on the map, or 1 offshore for the whole map.
I´ve seen the same thing when playing LoR. On a standard sized map only one oil (offshore), one coal, one aluminium and one uranium. None of them on my continent
. Was fun, though 
...Bug or feature?
Hey, just started using this mod. May be the perfect mod to play good unaltered BTS for now, after switching off revolution and DCM.. I did leave the barbarian civ thing though, it seems non-radical enough!
Anyway, while I don't have a clear opinion of new advisors/button placement stuff (=mostly harmless), there is one part that I feel is worse than in vanilla BTS:
The new Civics advisor thingy (F3). There is no button to turn it off in ctrl+alt+o. So I'd like to ask: Is there an easy way to get back the vanilla civics advisor? (can I just remove some file, remove some lines in some file?)
Why I think it is worse:
-I cannot see everything at once, but I must scroll, which is tedious.
-the standard layout is *excellent*, as long as everything fits in one screen, of course. It's great fun to move mouse slightly in that screen and see the benefits and costs, ah, so easily.
-missing information (at least +2happiness from barracks/nationhood).
Edit:
The hover-text is like this at the start of my current game:
A small bug?
Anyway, while I don't have a clear opinion of new advisors/button placement stuff (=mostly harmless), there is one part that I feel is worse than in vanilla BTS:
The new Civics advisor thingy (F3). There is no button to turn it off in ctrl+alt+o. So I'd like to ask: Is there an easy way to get back the vanilla civics advisor? (can I just remove some file, remove some lines in some file?)
Why I think it is worse:
-I cannot see everything at once, but I must scroll, which is tedious.
-the standard layout is *excellent*, as long as everything fits in one screen, of course. It's great fun to move mouse slightly in that screen and see the benefits and costs, ah, so easily.
-missing information (at least +2happiness from barracks/nationhood).
Edit:
The hover-text is like this at the start of my current game:
A small bug?
Hi Glider1, Phungus and the RevDCM team... 
I'm a big fan of the RevDCM mod. Sadly, I haven't been able to use it in MP since the version 2.5 (maybe 2.2 ?). I'm sure you guys are familiar with the matter: Every single time I attack a AI unit the game goes OOS... AI vs AI is OK.... Human VS Human is OK.
I'm using the RevMP python beta fix + the ini provided by glider as a Christmas present...
Appart from RevDCM, I have diversica, improved graphic and some woc compatible events (nothing fancy, just plain xml stuff).
Is my poor MP experience unique or is it the same for all RevDCM player at the moment ?
Btw, I m happy to help and do some beta testing here with my wife... We just can not return to the plain vanilla BTS !
I'm a big fan of the RevDCM mod. Sadly, I haven't been able to use it in MP since the version 2.5 (maybe 2.2 ?). I'm sure you guys are familiar with the matter: Every single time I attack a AI unit the game goes OOS... AI vs AI is OK.... Human VS Human is OK.
I'm using the RevMP python beta fix + the ini provided by glider as a Christmas present...
Appart from RevDCM, I have diversica, improved graphic and some woc compatible events (nothing fancy, just plain xml stuff).
Is my poor MP experience unique or is it the same for all RevDCM player at the moment ?
Btw, I m happy to help and do some beta testing here with my wife... We just can not return to the plain vanilla BTS !
phungus420
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Actually we've tracked that bug to BULL, so we recently found out specifically what is causing it. While this was the most egregious issue, RevDCM has never been supported in MP, and the current goal is to get it working in MP, at least as well as base BtS, so there is alot more to do. Currently glider1 is dilligently working on the MP compatible build, so he's the only one who knows when the next MP test release will be out.
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