Zebra 9's Additions MOD

Zebra 9's Additions

Version: 2.0
Multiplayer Compatible: No
Patch Compatibilty: Civ 4 Warlords 2.0.8

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Description: This MOD increases Map sizes so that the width is twice the height as well as keeping the original map sizes & adds a new map size (Zebra 9's Monster). It also adds a double of each difficulty level (mostly to balance the larger maps) that increases the number of barbarians, the chance of an AI declaring war, the number of free units & cities, unit cost, & increases the chance of getting a bad goody. It also adds 2 new civs to the Game, Israel, lead by David, & Byzantium, lead by Basil II, or Theodora. It also adds 3 new units, the Interplanetary Destroyer, Merkava (Israel's UU), & the Dromon (Byzantium's UU) & 2 alien units, the UFO & the Land Speeder. There are also 4 new buildings, the Summer Palace, Winter Palace, Theodosian Walls (Byzantium's UB), & the Kosher Deli (Israel's UB). I have also changed the scale of all of the units as well as creating new formations for almost every unit. Each leader now has 3 traits making for interesting leader selection. I increased the spread rates for Christianity & Islam because they did not spread fast enough to resemble history. I have also added Aliens, Generals, Promotions From Combat, Randomly Founded Religions, and Multiple Starting Tech Settings, 5 Ruler type civics, and 3 new Techs, all discussed below. Oh, I also had to totally redo the tech tree, what a head ache!

Installation:
1) Unzip into "My Documents\My Games\Warlords\MODS".
2) Load the game.
3) Click on "Advanced"-->"Load A MOD"-->"Zebra 9's Additions"-->"OK", the Game will restart.
4) Now you can play as normal.

Screenies:


New Techs & Tech Changes:


New Units:



New Civs:


New Map Sizes:


Bugs: No Map below Zebra 9's Tiny seems to work with all map scripts (Terra is the one that I know of). Generals can join a Great General & vis versa. When you recive a General from combat or whan you recive a promo from combat the bubble doesn't point to the right spot (working on the fix).

Help and Comments are appriciated.

Credits:
The Navy Seal: For adding building prequisits to units, adding units, advising me, & almost every formation. As well as makeing many good points & suggestions. Game tester.
Amra: I used his MOD, Amra's Byzantium v2, to get the leader heads, UU, & UB for the Byzantines.
Ariks: I used his MOD, Isramod, to get the leader head for the Israelites.
Sharick: For the Merkava Animation.
Elhoim: For the Better Ship Scale MOD that created the basis for my current Ship Scales.
snafusmith: For the Interplanitary Destroyer animation (the ATST).
Blake: For the Better AI CvGameCoreDLL.dll.
snipafist: For the Triple traits(All Default Leaders).
Rabit, White: For the Land Speeder.
The Lopez: Dead Civ Scoreboard MOD.
NeverMind: [PY] Combat Experience Counter
Chamaedrys: For the UFO


And I Would Like To Thank Alazkan Assasin For His Help and The Lopez for his tech tree editor.

Future Stuff.
Get all Map scripts to work with all Map sizes.
Add new civs and leaders.
Make it so units get injured on sertain terrain types.
Other Python stuff.*
Other SDK stuff.*

Change List:


Aliens:
I added aliens into Zebra 9's Additions v2.0 & here is what they do.
Aliens can only invade during or after the Industrial era & only have a 10% chance of invading (Is that to high?). They invade for three turns and recive 2 UFOs at each living players capitol, and the next they recive 5 Interplanetary Destroyers or Land Speeders or any combination of the 2. After 3 turns they are all destryed. They can not invade for another 10 turns. After ten turns it check to see how still has cities (the aliens can only destroy a civ by conquoring all of the civs cities and units), and if only one player remains he wins a time victory. May need balencing. Oh, this can be turned off at the beginning of the game.

Generals/Great Generals:
Generals are basicaly GGs that don't give quite so many XPs and don't award Special Promos. They can spawn from combat, or can be spawned from a city via the great people points. If they win a battle they can be promoted to GG status (GG promos will be opened up, if it has less than 30XPs it will be brought up to 30XPs, and will recive the respawn ability of GGs).
Great Generals now give more XPs and if lost in combat they can respawn as a general in your capitol.

Promos From Combat:
There are 5 new promos that can only be aquired from combat. They are Command, Scout, Smash, Valence, Plunder. Check the pedia for specs on these promos, but there is one thing about Command that is not listed in the pedia. If a unit has command it's chance of recive a General or Promo from combat is doubled. Now the base chance for getting a promo is 3%, if you are the attacker that is doubled, and if you have command it is doubled (so if you attack and have Command there is 12% chance that you will get a promo & if you are defending and have Command there is 6% chance that you will get a promo), and barbs recive 3% no matter what.
The Promo you recive is based on what you are fighting and where you are fighting plus a random factor.
Base Chance is 10
Valence recives Base Chance x 2 if it has a smaller base strength then the loser.
Command recives Base Chance x 2 if the winner is a GG.
Smash recives Base Chance x 2 the loser was a helicopter.
Plunder recives Base Chance x 2 if losers plot has an improvement on it.
Scout recives Base Chance x 2 if losers plot is not forest or jungle.

Starting Tech Settings:
At the beginning of the game you can select any of 4 starting tech choices,
1) Random (selects 1 of the other 3)
2) Default Starting techs
3) Random Starting Techs (Needs Some Work)
4) No Starting Techs

Randomly Founded Religions:
When you aquire a tech that founds a religion it doesn't just found. Every turn if you have the tech for a religion that has yet to be founded you recive a 15% chance of founding it, and if any civ that has a tech for a religion that has yet to be founded you recive a 5% chance of founding it.

Bug 8/31/06:
Custom Continets does not work.

*If you would like to help do somthing I'm open for help.

Feel free to comment about the changes made
New Units

Changes to Units

(follow off with the role-play) You have been warned!

darkedone02 said:

(follow off with the role-play) You have been warned!

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Are you still running your mouth off at people you don't know about things you know nothing about?

darkedone02 Whats that supposed to mean?

No questions! Hum. I must be good at the instructions.

I have edited the second post.

lol... you might wanna consider upgrading to Warlords 2.0.8

Do all of the leaders have three traits now?

lol... you might wanna consider upgrading to Warlords 2.0.8

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Were working on that we'll probably release it in mid-January.

Do all of the leaders have three traits now?

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Yes we're useing the tritraits Mod.

Zebra 9 will list the updates on the mod soon.

Yup just like TNS said.

Now the new updates will include Aliens, Respawning Greate Generals, Generals, and if I have time Some Super Cool Formations. It will be 2.0.8 compatible and I will be replaceing 32 civs w/ Bleeding Edge AI. I will give more in depth explinations when I realease the Zebra 9's Additions v2.0.

Now I do need help w/ Graphics and SDK. Python is vary close to nailed.

Big Day​

It now up and running, Aliens, Generals, Oh to much to list!
Check Post #1!!!

Uploaded Some Screen Shots!!!

Wow, Zebra, this is impressive...but it's kind of messy.

I got too many internal errors playing. Had to shut down repeatedly.

The "ruler" civic is really redundant. It makes the game confusing, and I'd prefer you just modified the existing government civics.

Also, the aliens are a good idea, but geez, they don't need to be that powerful! If you must make them so that they attack during the industrial era, when they totally overpower the player, at least don't make them have so many units! They razed half my cities! Furthermore, if I'm going to be beaten by a UFO, at least let it be a cool-looking one. The one in game is so low-poly, it looks like a citrus juicer!

The new unit formations are cool; they look militaristic, but I still prefer Rabbit's ethnically diverse units overall. Plus, I'm wondering if the swarming formations aren't adding insult to injury in the already-taxing Monster map.

Lastly, could we have a Monster Earth map?

Hail, I haven't played the mod but form reading the thread I've gotten some ideas for the mod. How 'bout you give the Aliens more then 3 units and make them have a chance of invadeing in all the eras with the other units that would be alot weaker then the ones you have atm.

Good luck with the mod, I can't think of anything else

I really like the Alien idea, except that the chance of invading needs to be like 0.001 or something very small, and I like Grishnash's idea of them being able to invade in all eras, just as long as they're not too powerful. If it's possible you could make the chance of invasion increase depending on what year/era it is, so that by the time it's the modern era it could be up to 1 or 2 percent.

I'm not sure why the aliens are destroyed after 3 turns? Do they go back to space or something? I think they should stay for at least ten turns. Also, it would be interesting if they could capture cities, but razing is still good.

Also with such a cool idea you need to have some awesome graphics (maybe I could help? )

I don't like any of the other changes (civics, techs, other unit changes etc.) sorry. Maybe you would consider creating an individual mod comp just with the aliens?

Some more issues, this time in the area of graphics:

*Is King David supposed to be animated? He looks like a modification of an existing LH, probably Musa, but he doesn't move.

*I don't think the ATST's were skinned, at least not properly. It doesn't take a hardcore SW fan to know they should be grey.

Chugginator if you want to help your welcome to. I didn't realy like the graphics I had anyway but they where the only ones I could find.
David was a sort of remake of a civ 3 LH.
I realy don't know anything about SW other than that it's a movie or something.
I realy don't care for my civics/techs that I added (going to junk them), what exactly didn't you like about the units (I will be balancing the Seige Tower in the next release).
I also want to get the aliens as multy era, but because I couldn't find any other graphics I couldn't add any weaker aliens (I found something that I want to try).

Now one question, did any of you actualy get an alien invasion.

P.S. I felt that the aliens had to leave after 3 turns so they didn't totaly kill you.

Grishnash said:

Hail, I haven't played the mod...

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Nope, sorry

Bahmo said:

*I don't think the ATST's were skinned, at least not properly. It doesn't take a hardcore SW fan to know they should be grey.

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The ATST's? The walking things? They are grey and look properly skinned in this mod

@ Zebra 9 - I'll help out with the graphics if you choose to release another version with just the aliens in it, no other changes. Also the stuff from Star Wars doesn't really suit this mod, I'd go with more generalised alien stuff (like Starcraft style zergs and protoss - would be cool.)