Quot Capita

avain · Jan 29, 2008

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3.19
current version: v8.1
date: 2010.08.21

QUOT CAPITA mod
"Quot capita, tot sententiae"
"As many opinions as people"

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ADDITIONAL CIVILIZATIONS

Civilizations made by me have install options to install for Quot Capita. First install QC, then download the civilization and choose Install for Quot Capita option.

Hungary , Polynesia , Australia , Poland

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NEW ADDITION! (2010.08.04) STONE AGE IN QUOT CAPITA (Prehistoric Era)

My suggestion to you guys/girls would be to just jump into the game and let you experience this new era!
I have high hopes it recreates the feeling of the age it tries to simulate:
you start with a small band of Homo Sapiens Sapiens struggling for survival in a hostile but at the same time exciting environment.
When food was more about hunting than gathering, when a mythological shroud enveloped those fearsome wild beasts and tales of
great achievements echoed the starry nights by the fire - this is the time when the seeds of great civilizations are sown.
SO LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!

If you are the sort of player who likes to know the exact whats and hows, I can understand this need, so here's the list of
features:

Stone Age tech tree - with stuff that was taken for granted before now only gradually becoming available. Sedentary lifestyle is a choke/checkpoint to Ancient Era and thus an improved growth, because there's ...
Seriously slowed early growth - you don't have access to settlers beyond your starting band. The earliest opportunity to build settler type units is at Tribalism. The food requirements for a city to grow are also multiplied by 3. All this means you need to rely on the next feature listed, which is...
Improved hunting mechanics - each animal now has a food "yield" (you can check it in Sevopedia), which is a base food value your nearest city will receive upon successful hunt. You need the Hunting tech for it to work; and you need the Hunter promotions for it to shine. The Coocked food tech also adds a small boost to the food value.
New unit classes with some completely new art- stone spears, stone axes, slings, battering rams
New buildings - e.g. Knowledge Inheritance, Stone Tools Workshop, etc. and the Lascaux Paints wonder (wonder art by avain).
New worker builds/improvements - with new, cool art!
New animals (wild boar, bison, orangutan, etc)
Homo neanderthalensis - the rival of Homo Sapiens. Will it be extinct again? Just be prepared, these guys have more muscle than the Governor of California!
Mythological creatures - when you are only armed with a stick or a stone spear at best, even a wild boar can instill fear that leads way to imagination. It is also quite possible that some now extinct animals were alive back then. The perception of these by the early cultures was interwoven with myths, beliefs and legends. So a lion might become a terrifying Chymera, a wild bull a mighty Minotaur. If you manage to defeat these famous beast however, it will provide more that enough fame for you, not to mention there will be something to story about by the fire while the kids are listening in awe. Just don't let the women see trough you and actually start demanding the hunted food You receive culture in your nearest city. Mysticism banishes these mythological creatures back to the legends where they belong.

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DESCRIPTION

What IS Quot Capita you may ask?

The simple answer is: it's a combined modpack including some of the best mods Civ community can offer.

RevDCM is it's beating heart:

Dales Combat Mod offers most importantly Ranged Bombardment, improved air combat, battle effects and more.
BTS unofficial patch
Better BTS AI - the AI is more capable, you might want to turn down a difficulty level or two
BUG - Unaltered, but greatly improved gameplay (interface, info screens and more!)
WoC - World of Civilization, how modular loading should have been in the first place
Super Spies does spice up the spying game, you can create your very own 007s and Austin Powerses here.
Inquisition let's you recreate one of the funniest eras in human history, and step into the shoes of the ever-jolly Torquemada. (I might have confused the fun part here with a Monty Python sketch , but whatever)
Influence Driven War feels natural when played, integrates flawlessly into the gameplay, now every battle counts for those cultural borders!

Varietas Delectat spices up the unit sets, and if you want some background info: I started to work on VD because I was dreaming of a big composite mod I can plug it into in the first place!

Stone Age is a whole new starting era for QC!

Mastery Victory done by the great Sevo. Once I saw this modcomp I knew that it perfectly expressed the way I like to play Civ: pursue everything and enjoy every last drop of it! It pretty much awards you points for everything you do - it measures your Civilization's almost every significant accomplishment!

Terraforming, Forest Planting - I admit I borrowed some code snipets and ideas here, and created a modcomp for terraforming and forest planting. This is basically for the human player to play around with the World and be able to do something about those pesky deserts and global warming - if he can afford it, of course! (I tried to make it so that the AI understands it, but considering the costs of these actions I think the AI is better off not using them)

Where is the Future Era and the Sci-fi in Civ, you may ask? BtS Next War and it's Extension by me tries to find an answer to this question.

GreatPersonMod adds a kind of flavour to acquiring a Great Person that I really like. You get a pop-up image and a quote from the Great Person - nifty, ey?

Events with images (Arian) - self explanatory, pop-up image with event description.

ActualQuotes - This mod replaces the original leader-specific diplomacy text with text based on attributed quotes.

Route Restricter - Don't be afraid, only some selected units will be restricted in their movement, such as the Railway Artillery prestige unit.

Hunting mechanics - Did someone mention food? FOOD! Hunt those mammoths for FOOD! :trouble:

You get food based on animal food yield in the nearest city. Can be augmented with Hunter promotions. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8289745&postcount=448

But above all: The aim is always to have a stable, playable, balanced and FUN game.

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COMPONENTS

You can check below the mods that are currently integrated:

RevolutionDCM for BTS v2.8 beta (revision 522) (RevDCM Team)

Better AI v1.01f+ (revision 591 + "AI refuses to take empty cities" fix) (Jdog500)

BUG v4.4+ (revision 2236) and BULL v1.2+ (revision 200) (BUG Team)

Varietas Delectat v9.2 (avain)

Leaders of Varietas Delectat v3.2 (avain)

Mastery Victory (by Sevo, Thorn and converted to BtS by me)

Terraforming, Forest Planting mod v1.1 (avain)

GreatPersonMod (improved graphics version) (Amra, Gaurav, TheLopez, Roamty)

ActualQuotes for BtS (Willowmound)

Route Restricter (shqype)

Stone Age (avain, thanks goes to The_Triturador, LunarMongoose)

Revorked modern era techs and units

New (balanced) resources, new promotions, new animals

BtS Next War (Civ4 BtS) + Next War Extended (avain): Plasma Infantry, Mammoth Tank, Terminator, Leviathan, Starfighter, Dropship, new Mechs, new Techs, reworked Arcologies, reworked Next war unit classes and more!

Installer version to ease the installation process

Minor gameplay changes, such as:

- You can get Great General points towards your VERY FIRST (and ONLY the first) Great General even via Barbarian combat (but not animal combat)
- Recycling Center now HALVES the building unhealthiness
- Hunting animals for food
- Diversified religions with a moderate spread rate differences, different base yields of culture/science/gold,
and some bonus to temples/monasteries to the religions with slower spread rate.

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INSTALLATION

- Important: first update your BtS to 3.19

- Run the installer

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RECOMMENDED PLAY SETTINGS

While you are of course free to play with any options you want, I thought I would formularize a recommended settings paragraph,
just because it will reflect the way I like to play, and thus it will always represent the settings I usually test and balance QC the most.

Map script: PerfectWorld2QC
Starting era: Prehistoric
Gamespeed: Legendary (950 turns)
Victory conditions: Mastery
NO Revolutions
NO Barbarian civs
Limited Religion

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LANGUAGE SUPPORT

English
Sorry guys, but I alone can manage only the English support, if you are willing to provide translation to other languages, go for it, I'll be happy to include them!

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SCREENSHOTS

When pictures speak a thousand words:

Spoiler :

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SOURCE FILES

Source files (SDK): included in the download
Also debug dll and nsi installer file is included

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Memory Allocation Failure issues (or MAFs)

By playing on bigger maps and with more leaders the memory usage of the game increases. On a 32bit OS this pretty much means guaranteed MAFs, usually happening somewhere in the late game. Even on 64bit systems it can be a problem, and you might need to
consider enabling the Civ exe file to be able to address more than 2GB of virtual memory.
I've personally tried a solution discussed from the threads I linked below, and it works. There is some risk involved however,
so please make sure you understand :hammer2:

what you are doing and how you can get back to a stable OS if something goes wrong.

Please read and follow: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9357900&postcount=1088

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CREDITS

The creator of Quot Capita owes serious thanks to at least the following awesome modders, teams, individuals:

RevolutionDCM team
BUG Team
Jdog5000
Sevo, Thorn
johny smith
mamba
tsentom1
AbsintheRed
The Almighty dF

all others involved, whether directly or indirectly, via included mods/parts, feedback or error reports! Thank You! :hatsoff:

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Changelog

v8.1
2010.08.21

corrected installer, now leaderhead packs can be installed separately
removed initial requirements from forest and jungle chop, so they should not show at stone age techs
no more creation warning for mythological creatures (they now have team limit instead of global)
added Slash and Burn actions to workers, and I hope the AI will prefer chop once available
bombard cost increased from 80 to 90, and trebuchets now upgrade to cannons only
microlith workshop strategy text corrected
lumbermill also provides Timber
Timber now obsoletes with Industrialism (was Mining)
mod version text corrected
added TXT_KEY_TECH_DOG_BREEDING_QUOTE
Lascaux paint reduced in culture (because of the 1000 years doubles culture effect)
Urban Tactics III now correctly requires Urban Tactics II
Logistics moved in tech window so now Communism is visible
KGB caused anarchy length reduced from golden age lenght / 2 + 1 to golden age length / 3 + 1
KGB warning text is now "Agents from Lubyanka are causing anarchy in foreign states!!"
added check for prototyping, now correctly notifies only of player's prototypes (edit after upload: probably not good still)
blood from fighting gorillas and orangutans reduced to normal proportions
increased Prehistoric Music significance for the AI (religion path included)
Ishtar Gate now has a chance to contact some not known civs, and increased in cost
Ron's maps now start at 100.000 BC, starting era is Prehistoric and techs, gameoptions corrected
RAZING_CULTURAL_PERCENT_THRESHOLD increased to 50 (from 25)
added tech strategy texts to Ancient Era techs (Sid's tips)

Spoiler :

Please share your ideas, error findings, etc. in this thread! Thanks!!!

Dale · Jan 29, 2008

Pst....... DCM v1.3 now has AIAutoPlay in it.

mamba · Jan 29, 2008

Nice selection of components

DCM, Influence Driven War and Bhruic (actually the Lt. Bob version) would also be my choices when it comes to adding .dll changes.

@Dale has 1.3 been released already ? the thread still refers to 1.2

Dale · Jan 29, 2008

mamba said:
@Dale has 1.3 been released already ? the thread still refers to 1.2

No not yet. CASA is being final tested, so will probably be out in the next 24 hours.

RPG · Jan 29, 2008

I agree with, mamba, very good choices! Will you consider adding the Unique Civ-Specific Great People component as well?

avain · Jan 30, 2008

Decided this should be a public beta, so

DOWNLOAD ADDED, SEE FIRST POST!

Zuul · Jan 30, 2008

You should make a one big file to download instead of 3 (+files to move/replace).

avain · Jan 30, 2008

Zuul said:
You should make a one big file to download instead of 3 (+files to move/replace).

Ok, to clarify this:

- you can use NextWar mod separately with ME VD.
- you can use Quot Capita base mod separately - i.e. without any VD, ME, or Nextwar
- you can use Quot Capita base mod in any combination with: VD, VD+ME, VD+ME+NextWar

But for the purposes of this beta testing, I kindly ask you to check the full package: so VD+ME+NextWar+Quot Capita base. Thanks.

So as long as I can, I'll try to keep this modular separation, so people with different tastes can benefit.

avain · Jan 30, 2008

Ok, as soon as I get home, I'll probably make a single merged download, too, for your convenience

Zuul · Jan 30, 2008

Thank you

. I think you will get more testers this way. Maybe make the parts optional like in BUG and PaP.

avain · Jan 30, 2008

stand-alone download added

avain · Jan 30, 2008

Ok, I'll try to spark a bit of a discussion here, so:

The following mods are the ones I'm considering to add:
- Dale's Combat mod - going in if version v1.3 is released
- a terraforming mod - need some good solution here, as I don't want the zillion modern workers being able to change terrain in a sec.
- Unique Civ-Specific Great People Names (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=199344) - if the savegame glitch gets corrected
- an inquisition mod- I'd like to have a bit more direct influence on religion spread - and also ... 'Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!!!'

- Enhanced Tech Conquest v0.6 - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=245593 - will probably need some balancing - I wouldn't want to make conquest/warmongering way overpowered
- [BTS] M.A.D Nukes Mod - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=239634 - I like the concept, although I never tried it in Civ

What do you think?

mamba · Jan 30, 2008

Just out of curiosity, are you moving to WoC format with VD ? if so, does this mean you will also incorporate these SDK changes into the WoC SDK ?

avain · Jan 30, 2008

mamba said:
Just out of curiosity, are you moving to WoC format with VD ? if so, does this mean you will also incorporate these SDK changes into the WoC SDK ?

Is WoC mature enough?

mamba · Jan 30, 2008

imo you should wait at least for version 1.0, so this is not something to do immediately, I was speaking of eventually / at all, not right away

otoh if the components you add are stable, you could probably merge your changes with the main tree and then it wouldn't be up to you to update the WoC changes in the dll.

avain · Jan 30, 2008

mamba said:
otoh if the components you add are stable, you could probably merge your changes with the main tree and then it wouldn't be up to you to update the WoC changes in the dll.

I'm not quite sure I understand this... which main branch are you talking about?

mamba · Jan 30, 2008

They have their files in SVN, if you were to add the components and check in your changes to the SVN, they would then be part of WoC.

So instead of you needing to incorporate all future WoC changes (which are pretty frequently so far) into your own dll, you could simply use the updated WoC dll, just like everybody else.

Of course this would require you to get write access to the SVN.

Sword_Of_Geddon · Jan 30, 2008

Please don't add Civ specific great people names, I like adding civs to VD, and by extension I will this mod eventually most likely once I've played a few games, and i believe that prevents you from doing so.

Just a small request.

BTW I'm playing as the Incans and I'm having loads of fun!

RPG · Jan 30, 2008

I think Dale's Combat mod is an absolute must have! I've played it, I like it & I think it would work very well in this mod.

I don't think a terraforming mod is all that realistic.

Unique Civ-Specific Great People Names, another great addition if the savegame glitch gets corrected. But I'd like to add civs as well so if that can't be done with this mod component, it won't break my heart if it's left out.

I haven't tried a mod with the inquisition mod included yet, so I can't comment on this one.

I'd like to see the Enhanced Tech Conquest mod make it in. It doesn't sound overpowered to me.

M.A.D Nukes Mod sounds good but I haven't tried it either.

avain · Jan 31, 2008

mamba said:
They have their files in SVN, if you were to add the components and check in your changes to the SVN, they would then be part of WoC.

So instead of you needing to incorporate all future WoC changes (which are pretty frequently so far) into your own dll, you could simply use the updated WoC dll, just like everybody else.

Of course this would require you to get write access to the SVN.

Still, I think that merging in stuff like influence driven war into the main branch of WoC would be discouraged... :confused:

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