Cultural Capital Mod

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

Cultural Capitals
v16 for Brave New World (updated on Jul. 28th, 2013)
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Or download here
Link to old G&K compatible version 15 here
Link to old vanilla compatible version 10 here
(Just extract the downloaded zip file into your MODS folder of Civ5)

Description
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This Mod adds the Concept of Cultural Capitals to the game, allowing a player to choose from different Bonuses("Themes") with city- or even empirewide effects. This mod is intended to give more power to players using culture- or builderbased playstyles.

Some ingame Pictures:

Spoiler :

Known Compatibility Issues
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None

About
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Well, first I started this mod as a basis to learn xml- and lua scripting. But as time passed, I realized that the first ideas I had had potential for more - thus this mod was born.

The Rules
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This Single Player Mod adds the Concept of Cultural Capitals to the game, allowing a player to choose from a set of "Themes" giving a variety of different bonuses with city- or even empirewide effects. This mod is intended to give more power to players using culture- or builderbased playstyles. The AI fully uses all concepts offered in this mod.
NOTE:
This Mod requires the Brave New World addon since Version 16.
This Mod requires the Gods and Kings addon since Version 10.

============================================= GAMEPLAY========================================== ==
*** Forming the Cultural Committee
The first civilization to build 2 wonders forms the Cultural Committee in its capital and starts the electorial race for the Cultural Capitals for all players. The bonus for having the Cultural Committee in your empire is that it enables you to see the progress of the election of all other players as well as a free Delegate.

*** The Electoral Race
Once someone has formed the Cultural Committee in the world, all players race to win the Cultural Capital election. Every turn you will gain election points depending on your cultural ouput, the number of wonders you have, allied cultural city states, the number of cities you have and other factors.

*** Winning the Cultural Capital
If you have accumulated enough election points, your civilization will win the Cultural Capital in a city - choosen randomly from any of your original cities. Cities with higher culture output/population have a higher chance to be picked. Becoming the owner of the Cultural Capital enables you to choose from different Themes giving various bonuses. The Cultural Capital lasts only for a few turns, in which you can pick your Theme. Depending on the Theme, the bonuses can be temporary or may last for the entire game. Caution: Temporary bonuses lasts only as long the city is Cultural Capital!

*** Continuing the Race
Once the Cultural Capital wears off, the race for it starts again for all players. If you were the lucky one to win last time, you will receive less election points until the next race.All accumulated election points carry over to the next race.

*** Bribing
Once the race is in progress, the Cultural Committee may be bribed. The bribing amount will increase over time. If you have bribed it, you gain a boost to your election point output for a fixed amount of time. After that, you will have to wait some turns until you can bribe again.

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If there are problems with the mod, delete all data in your user/my games/civilization5/cache and /moduserdata folder. If there are still problems with it, contact me.

Credits To:
- Whys and Onni for providing Tools and Insights into Civ5 Modding.
- Wutz for the German translations.
- yche2990 for the Chinese translations.
- skodkim for extensive testing.
- rapsynrev and AndreP.
- Gilgamesch for his support.
- And of course all ideas and testers from civfanatics.com!

This mod has been updated for Brave New World.
You are welcome to tell me if there are any bugs.

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

ChangeLog:
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Spoiler :

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

TODO List and Ideas for next version(s):

Spoiler :

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

These are the themes of version 0.4. Currently they are most probably imbalanced. So far this is more of a list of feasible themes.

Since it takes a lot of time to update this list manually, I'd advise to check the Themes ingame, or if you need more details, in the xml files

Spoiler :

Effect values in parenthesis (2base, 0.5era, 0.25election) mean that the base value of the effect is 2, increases per era by 0.5 and per election by 0.25.

Cultural Capital of ..
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Kings:
## Requirements:
- None
## Effects:
- Culture (2.0base, +0.5era)
- Population (2.0base, +0.25era)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Idols:
## Requirements:
- None
## Effects:
- Memorial Building (+15XP for all units, +15% melee units, +20% culture)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Sacrifice:
## Requirements:
- City of Size 4
- City must produce building/unit
## Effects:
- City loses 3 Population
- City gains Production (100base, +20election) (scales with game speed)
- City gains Culture (100base, +25election) (scales with game speed)
## Obsoletes:
- Renaissance
======================
Trophies:
## Requirements:
- Policy Discipline
## Effects:
- Temporary Effect: City gains Culture/Production/Food when enemy unit gets killed within borders
-> gains 100% from enemy unit strength (scales with game speed)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Faith:
## Requirements:
- Policy Organized Religion
## Effects:
- Imperial Cathedral (+5 Happiness, +3 Culture)
## Obsoletes:
- Tech Scientific Theory
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Architecture:
## Requirements:
- Policy Aristocracy
- Tech Engineering
## Effects:
- Temporary Effect: +100% Wonderproduction
- Production (0.5base, +0.5era)
- Culture (2.0base, +0.5era)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Horizon:
## Requirements:
- Policy Collective Rule
## Effects:
- 2 Settlers
- Food (1.0base, +1.0era)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Construction:
## Requirements:
- Requires a building that can employ Engineers
## Effects:
- Construction Hall Building (+20% production, +20% siegeunits, +1 city heal rate)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Trade:
## Requirements:
- Requires a building that can employ Merchants
## Effects:
- Trading House Building (+1 Gold from bonus health resources, +2 gold, +15% food kept)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Philosophy:
## Requirements:
- Tech Education
## Effects:
- Think Tank Building (+50% great people birth, +25% science)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
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Controversy:
## Requirements:
- Era Renaissance
- At least 4 original Cities (scales with mapsize)
## Effects:
- Temporary Effect: Exhibition of Controversy (empirewide effects: +100% unhappiness from no. of cities, +100% great person birth rate, +100% culture)
## Obsoletes:
- Tech Scientific Theory
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Defense:
## Requirements:
- Tech Masonry
## Effects:
- Heals City
- Palisade Building (+6 Defense, +2 Happiness)
## Obsoletes:
- Tech Electricity
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Adv. Defense:
## Requirements:
- Tech Electricity
## Effects:
- Heals City
- Bunker Building (+13.5 Defense, +33% Science)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Technology:
## Requirements:
- Tech Scientific Theory
- Oxford University built in empire
## Effects:
- Ars Technica (Artist Specialists +2 gold in empire, +1 Culture and +25% Culture in city)
## Obsoletes:
- Never!
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Servitude:
## Requirements:
- Building Military Academy
- Garrison in City
## Effects:
- +100 Exp for Garrison
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Empowerment:
## Requirements:
- Policy Populism
## Effects:
- Receive a Free Policy
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================
Benevolence:
## Requirements:
- Policy Protectionism
- Era Industrial
## Effects:
- Receive a Great Artist
## Obsoletes:
- Never
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Exchange:
## Requirements:
- Tech Economics
- Building Bank
## Effects:
- Temporary Effect: Exchange Market (+100% income from trade routes)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
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Ecology:
## Requirements:
- Tech Ecology
## Effects:
- Ecological Center Building (+1Food/+1Gold from forests/jungles, +2food/+2gold from oasis, +1 science from water tiles)
## Obsoletes:
- Never
======================

TanisX · Feb 4, 2011

Looks promising but left click doesn't do anything for me when trying to bring up the themes popup.

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

So far the popup only opens when you have won the election - i'll add it to the todo list!

TanisX · Feb 4, 2011

I've won several times all left click does is move to the city that won.

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

Hm.. weird. I just checked myself if i made some errors while cleaning up the code, and it seems to works as intended.

It only works when you click on it when it looks like this:

Did you save/load the game? (because save/loading isnt really tested properly so far)

TanisX · Feb 4, 2011

Moaf said:
Hm.. weird. I just checked myself if i made some errors while cleaning up the code, and it seems to works as intended.

It only works when you click on it when it looks like this:

Did you save/load the game? (because save/loading isnt really tested properly so far)

No save loads, I tried left-clicking the box with the nation icon just how that picture is but nothing happens.

Moaf · Feb 4, 2011

Sorry for the late reply...
Do you have any other mods installed?

And what are the settings you play on?

And.. thanks for testing out the mod

TanisX · Feb 4, 2011

Moaf said:
Sorry for the late reply...
Do you have any other mods installed?

And what are the settings you play on?

And.. thanks for testing out the mod

Yep that's the problem its another mod. Do you change something to socialpolicy popup?

Moaf · Feb 5, 2011

Actually i change nothing in other mods and i don't override any vanilla files.
Hm, could also have something to do with the import into vfs property;

I'll check that out;

edit: Oh and can you tell me which mod you use?

edit2: version 0.2 is now live (fixed save/load crashes)

TanisX · Feb 5, 2011

I use Procylon's Call to Power mod.

I get this error msg when I left click your button:

Runtime Error: [string "C:\Users\test\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier'..."]:266: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

Sorry it cuts off the full filename path.

Looks like in XmlData.lua

function FailsPolicyCheck(player, ccType)
return (ccType.PolicyRequired ~= nil) and (not player:HasPolicy(GameInfo.Policies[ccType.PolicyRequired].ID));
end

Call to Power changes the policies so that's the conflict.

Moaf · Feb 5, 2011

great, thanks for testing :goodjob:

i'll fix it asap

TanisX · Feb 5, 2011

Should only the capital city be selected as the cultural captial? When I win it seems to be random which one of my cities is selected.

Moaf · Feb 6, 2011

I updated the rules section in the OP. So far it is random, but the cities must fulfill specific requirements to become the cultural capital.

Seek · Feb 6, 2011

This mod looks intriguing! A couple questions/suggestions:

What are the themes? It might be worth discussing them individually here and listing them with their effects in the first post would make it easier to do so.

One thing that seems problematic is a civ winning the election over and over and - depending on the power of the themes - becoming a runaway civ, so should there be a cooldown to prevent a winner from getting the election two times in a row?

If possible, I'd suggest adding negative points toward the election from puppets. The "build two cities, puppet the world and win by culture" strategy is already quite powerful, and this mod may exacerbate that.

But I'll load this up with my next game and report after playing. :goodjob:

Moaf · Feb 6, 2011

Thanks for posting your great ideas!

What are the themes? It might be worth discussing them individually here and listing them with their effects in the first post would make it easier to do so.

I'll post a list of Themes later on in the OP.

One thing that seems problematic is a civ winning the election over and over and - depending on the power of the themes - becoming a runaway civ, so should there be a cooldown to prevent a winner from getting the election two times in a row?

Yeah, I already thought about that; as it is now, the overflow of the last election gets carried over so other non-winning civs have more time to catch up. But if it is still too powerful I'll definitely implement that. Or better I'll implement it anyways and make it changeable via xml.

If possible, I'd suggest adding negative points toward the election from puppets. The "build two cities, puppet the world and win by culture" strategy is already quite powerful, and this mod may exacerbate that.

Cool idea, I will definitely look into that. :goodjob:

edit: Ah, actually i already give malus points from every city(include puppetted ones)! (Stupid me)

But I'll load this up with my next game and report after playing.

That would be really great! As it is now, I'm sure it is imbalanced as hell, so don't be surprised if you win in 100 turns by Cultural Victory. :crazyeye:

Oh, and by the way I've released v0.3-beta.
- Improved mod to work better with other mods
- Added two new Themes
- Some minor Crash fixes
- Added more functionality for Modding the XML-Files

I hope it's now possible to play it with the ctp mod (but I don't know if it's recommended to do so, since the numbers in the ctp mod seem to be waaay different).

edit:
D'oh! I just uploaded a version with debug variables on!
0.4-beta uploaded.

Seek · Feb 6, 2011

Moaf said:
That would be really great! As it is now, I'm sure it is imbalanced as hell, so don't be surprised if you win in 100 turns by Cultural Victory.

Oh, and by the way I've released v0.3-beta.
- Improved mod to work better with other mods
- Added two new Themes
- Some minor Crash fixes
- Added more functionality for Modding the XML-Files
...
0.4-beta uploaded.

At first glance the themes do seem *very* OP, at least for the early game. Can there be different themes for each era? That would go a long way towards easier balancing.

Just started a new game playing with Thal's Balance Mods and version .03 of this, and I won the election on turn one :confused:

(it could be he adds "dummy" buildings/wonders that are invisible but count as a world wonder by your mod) - but I'll give the .04 release a try.

EDIT: Seems to be working properly in v.04

Moaf · Feb 6, 2011

Thanks for replying, I added now a list of current themes with corresponding values to the OPs.

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