How to make the AI prioritze a (buffed) building

Tomice said:

Thank you! You both helped me a lot!

@Gilgamesh:

How to give this building to every civ? I'd like to make it a general rule that all civs get 1 TR per city as incentive to go wide.

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1. Add a <FreeBuilding> column to Palaces.
   • Any Building, National Wonder, or World Wonder that has a <FreeBuilding> column statement will give the specified building in all cities of that player, and will continue to do so throughout the remainder of the game. So in this case all civs' palaces would give the building for free to every city of that empire.
   • The flaw in this method is that when a capital city is captured, the Palace goes *poof*, and will take all the Free Buildings with it. This would mean that all the extra trade routes will likely go *poof* as well.
2. Use an lua program to add the building to every city of a major player whenever they found a city.
   • In XML, the building would need to have a <ConquestProb>100</ConquestProb> so that it is always captured along with the city. This would be put in place of the <NeverCapture>true</NeverCapture> in Gilgamesch's example.
   • In this method you would also need to eliminate the <Civilization_FreeBuildingClasses> table shown in Gilgamesch's example.

Gilgamesch said:

You would need to create a entry for every civ, like the example shows for venice.

Example

Spoiler :

<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_VENICE</CivilizationType>
<BuildingClassType>BUILDINGCLASS_CCTPDUMMY1</BuildingClassType>
</Row>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_POLYNESIA</CivilizationType>
<BuildingClassType>BUILDINGCLASS_CCTPDUMMY1</BuildingClassType>
</Row>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_BRAZIL</CivilizationType>
<BuildingClassType>BUILDINGCLASS_CCTPDUMMY1</BuildingClassType>
</Row>

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PawelS said:

3. Set its FreeStartEra to ERA_ANCIENT - it's the simplest method, I learned it from the Nights mod

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<GameData>
	<Buildings>
		<Row>
			<Type>BUILDING_CCTPDUMMY1</Type>
			<BuildingClass>BUILDINGCLASS_CCTPDUMMY1</BuildingClass>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_CCTPDUMMY1</Description>
			<FreeStartEra>ERA_ANCIENT</FreeStartEra>
			<!--hide this building-->
			<PrereqTech>NULL</PrereqTech>
			<Cost>-1</Cost>
			<FaithCost>-1</FaithCost>
			<GreatWorkCount>-1</GreatWorkCount>
			<!--hide this building-->
			<NumTradeRouteBonus>1</NumTradeRouteBonus>
			<ConquestProb>100</ConquestProb>
			<NukeImmune>true</NukeImmune>
			<IconAtlas>BW_ATLAS_1</IconAtlas>
			<PortraitIndex>19</PortraitIndex>
		</Row>
	</Buildings>	

	<BuildingClasses>
		<Row>
			<Type>BUILDINGCLASS_CCTPDUMMY1</Type>
			<DefaultBuilding>BUILDING_CCTPDUMMY1</DefaultBuilding>
			<Description>TXT_KEY_CCTPDUMMY1</Description>
		</Row>
	</BuildingClasses>

	<Language_en_US>
		<Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CCTPDUMMY1">
			<Text>Trade Routes</Text>
		</Row>
	</Language_en_US>
</GameData>

• I also advocate getting in the habit of creating a valid <Description> tag set-up even for hidden buildings because there a few conditions where if it is omitted can cause game lock-ups or CTD or other game-ending errors. This is the only reason I specifically added the <Language_en_US> to the example.
• You might also want to change all the CCTPDUMMY1 to something more unique to you. Remember that ALL CAPS (and/or numbers) is best practice for TXT_KEYS and the XML building and building-class names. (IE, all the TXT_KEY_SOMETHING, BUILDING_SOMETHING, and BUILDINGCLASS_SOMETHING statements).

Tomice said:

That's awesome! So basically, the above code would work as it stands, I just need to change the "name"?

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1. LuvToBuild's The Newbie’s Guide to Modding Civilization 5
2. whoward69's what ModBuddy setting for what file types tutorial
3. whoward69's enable error logging tutorial