Caravans II+ and Merchant Fleets II

TITLE: Caravans II+ for BTS 3.19
VERSION: v1.11
AUTHOR: patriachica
UPDATED: 30 MAY 2014
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=22823

DESCRIPTION: The Caravans II modcom adds three caravan units to move food, hammers, and culture, and to conduct trade missions. Caravans become available with the discovery of Currency and cost 50 hammers to build. That mod uses no Python or SDK changes.

The Caravans II+ modcom fork expands the modcom playability by restricting caravans to roads & railroads, and vessel-boarding to cities and forts. The fork also incorporates the Merchant Fleets II modcom, which awards maritime vessels for trade missions. This modcom use Python, but no SDK.

Converting caravans to hammers and culture is done using the Great Works function from Great Engineers and Great Artists. Food is rushed by building a temporary 'Farmers Market' building, which a non-random event will convert to food the following turn. Route restriction is done using Python and can be changed or disabled with the "zRoutes Config.ini". Merchant Fleets II uses random events weighted by harbors, lighthouses and marketplaces multipliers.

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VERSION HISTORY
* v.1.11 FEATURE UPDATE/30 MAY 2014: updated zRoutes with isenchine's CvGameUtils.py and CvPediaUnit.py revisions
* v.1.1 FORK/28 MAY 2014: Caravans II+ fork incorporates zRoutes Python code, and the Merchant Marines II modcom.
* v.1.0 BUGFIX/27 MAY 2014: required a BUILDING_MARKET to build caravans. Because Romans have BUILDING_FORUM instead, they couldn't build caravans. Caravans can now be built with the discovery of TECH_CURRENCY.

BUGFIX - 27 MAY 2014
* v.1.0 required a BUILDING_MARKET to build caravans. Because Romans have BUILDING_FORUM instead, they couldn't build caravans. Caravans can now be built with the discovery of TECH_CURRENCY.[/SPOILER]

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TITLE: Merchant Fleets II for BTS 3.19
VERSION: v1.0
AUTHOR: patriachica
UPDATED: 28 MAY 2014
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=22822

DESCRIPTION: The Merchant Fleets II modcom adds a new maritime unit to conduct trade missions (like a Great Merchant), and random events code to spawn them. The vessels have adds three caravan units to move food, hammers, and culture, and to conduct trade missions. The units have four era-dependent graphics styles.

Merchant Fleets may spawn in cities with at two or more marine commerce buildings (lighthouses, harbors and/or customs houses). When the event triggers, the player will be offered the opportunity to help finance a merchant fleet and enjoy both the risk and profit of commercial voyages.

UNITS
ANCIENT: EE2_PapyrusBoat
CLASSICAL: EE2_AncientMerchant
MEDIEVAL: EE2_Holk
RENAISSANCE: EE2_Cogge
INDUSTRIAL: CargoShip


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Great! Looks fun!

For the Merchants Fleets, have a look at OrionVeteran's The Navy Mod. It has 5 Merchant Ships, one for each of the major eras: The Cog, the Carrack, the Clipper, the Liberty and the Cargo ship.

isenchine said:

Great! Looks fun!

For the Merchants Fleets, have a look at OrionVeteran's The Navy Mod. It has 5 Merchant Ships, one for each of the major eras: The Cog, the Carrack, the Clipper, the Liberty and the Cargo ship.

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Merchant Fleets II has 5 merchant ships too (updated with better pics). I'll have to check if The Navy Mod has better ones.

I'm very curious how Navy's ROI for merchant ships looks and if/how the AI uses them. I don't think I have that worked out, which is why I didn't make merchants build-able.

I'm kinda building up to a full economy mod and releasing components as I go along. If the AI uses Navy's pirates, I'll definately pilfer them.

Pirates the AI will use, but I've seen it many times using the merchant ships for exploring rather than for trade missions...

There is an UNITAI_PIRATE_SEA but the UNITAI_MERCHANT probably does not apply to ships.

Hi guys! Just a question. How can I apply this magnificent mod to another? I'm playing to RFC - Dawn of civilization and I would like to add this mod to, but I don't know how. Is it possible or it is a standalone only?

Tnx!

It's possible but RFC - Dawn of Civilization is a complex mod and you should seek assistance there rather than here.

Also, there are tutorials to get started on merging mods.