[DOTO] Dawn Of The OverLords

Introduction

This mod is a ModMod to Advanced Civ mod by f1rpo that strive to achieve greatness of AI programming based of where Karadoc from Kmod left the CF community.

the mod introduces new additions while conserving simplicity and not an over buffed addition mod - which is great for memory issues.
A lot of love and countless years was put into this mod in its many versions.

I hope there are still Civ4 players that will enjoy this.
Any feed back is most welcomed, along with a thank you note in Advanced Civ mod thread

Advanced Civ mod : https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/advanced-civ.614217/

github development: https://github.com/keldath/kmod-adv-Doto.git

Keldath modding Platform : https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/kelmodplatform.663999/

So whats in this mod ?

(pic is from un published 109)


New civic Screen:


based of Advc 1.010 version with Kmod 1.46b .

• 5 unique units per nations..
• 1 new improvement.
• 7 new religions.
• Civic Government Dependency system with 8 civic total categories.
• Forbidden religion - each civ has 1 religion it cannot convert to [GameOption].
• Ranged Immunity [GameOption]
• New resources.
• New terrain And art - swamp and marsh.
• Expanded sea levels map options.
• Static Leaderheads art - for better memory usage.
• Smaller sized units - for memory usage.
• Minor additions - Unitclass some buildings.
• Inactive Religion Buildings - religion Prereq. [GameOption].
• City pre require size for buildings for some buildings..
• Population Limit mod - limited city size - growth from buildings. [GameOption]
• Blockade mod - unit have zone of control. [GameOptions]
• Usable mountains - movement , resources and cities. [GameOption]
• Influence driven war - culture can spread though war and more. [GameOption] x 4.
• Tech diffusion. [GameOption]
• Cultural Golden Age - [GameOption]
• Revdcm extended Unit tags.
• Civics Enhanced tags (religion and specialists).
• RevDcm building Prereq options.
• Specialist Enhancement - health and Happiness.
• Same plot start location for all units.
• start with 2 settlers
• Wonder Limit. [2 GameOptions]
• Culture Control [GameOption]
• Limited Religion. [GameOption]
• City States [GameOption] -> Single Play only!
• hated civics for civilizations.
• Improvement Decay [GameOption]
• Improvement Obsolete by tech [GameOption] (functional but not yet applied to improvements - soon i hope)
• Civ4 Art Remaster - manual patch install - see within game files the how to apply.
• Governor Great People alike with Promotions [GameOption] -> thanks to @<Nexus> -> Single Play only!
• Improved new Capital choice after Capital is lost. -> thanks to @<Nexus>

Exists in the code but unused for now:

• free unit from project.
• damage from terrain.
• Paratroop usable for all units.
• Civic Prereq for units.
• Fresh water from improvement .

disabled code:
resource vicinity mod

Game Option Explanation:

Governor:
when a city is created / conquered , a unit will be generated on the City Plot. that unit is a Governor.
The unit move or perform any action. It can Only get xp and be promoted in a specific new Promotion Tree.
the Promotions will be applied on the city to an Great People unit, Governor that can be seen on the city screen.
that unit will manifest the promotions chosen to the city perks.
XP is given to the Governor from city size growth marks (set in the DLL, for example on city size 3 -> 1 XP).
Also XP can be given by cottages that the city works. this woks over time by a specially crafted XP progress bar ( not visible i think...).
once the progress is done, an XP will be given to the Governor.
the method is optimized around 4 cottages can provide 1 XP every 90 turns or so, game speed dependent.
when the City is lost, either reason, the Governor dies or reborn to the owner if any.
AI is trained to choose the promotions and will not move or do unwanted actions with it.
Credit to @<Nexus> for providing the Idea, tweaks and the beautiful Promotion buttons.

City States:
Unique to Doto, City states are similar to CIVV+.
the cities will abide to several key rules. a player can have special unique trade agreement with each city to receive unique city perks along with a unique resource.
read more in the readme file of city states in the mods files or in this post:
City States Rules overview

Ranged Immunity/Retaliate/Random hit damage:
no more suicidal ranged units.
siege land units will be able to inflict one time damage without the risk of being hit back by the defender.
the damage will be a percentage up to the combat limit (each unit has one).
hit and/or damage can be randomized.
if the defender is also a siege unit, it will attack back e.g. -> retaliate.
AI code was added , seems that ai use it well.
this is based off VIP mod and inspired by civ4 Reimagined.
Doto 112 changes:


Civic Dependency:
New Unique Government Civic system.
each gov civic has 2 dependent civic options with each has 2 civics to choose from.
on any given time, dependent civics can only be chosen by the parent government civic.
new AI logic New civic screen.
reworked all civics.
new civic tags with new features.

Unit Blockade:
Enemy units block direction of 45 degrees . meaning the player must confront and attack, or go around in a longer path.

Influence Driven war:
winning battle and/or pillaging can change the target tile culture in the player favor.

Mountains Back to service:
Units can walk over mountains (not all units).
also bonuses can appear on peaks.

Forbidden Religion:
each civ has one religion it cannot found nor it can convert to.

Limited Religion:
Each civ can only found a limited number of religions.
default is 1 per civ. later on ill make it that some civ;s can found more.

Culture Control and Improvement Limits:
Forts now spread culture around them.
Some improvements cannot be built near each other.

Cultural Golden Age:
after a certain threshold , from Culture, a golden Age will be triggered.

Wonder Limit (along with Wonder build 1:1 obsolete):
each city can build wonders limited by its culture size.
if combined with wonder obsolete game options -> if a city has an obsolete wonder which is included in the wonder count,
it will ignore it and open a new wonder slot -> meaning for example culture limit is 5, city has 5 wonders which 1 is obsolete -> the option will allow the construction of the 6th
wonder in that case.

Improvements Decay:
if set , some improvements, if not worked for a period of turns, can be destroyed.

Improvement Obsolete by tech:
Obsolete Improvements by tech ->
each improvement (and its build command) can go obsolete by a tech (new xml tags).
if obsolete. the improvement is deleted from the plot.

Credits

This part is the most important in my opinion, countless people share this mods credits, ill try to name all i could remember. If I missed one - please by all means - tell me!

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i wish to extend my un ending gratefulness to my dear ->
*** f1rpo ***
for giving me guidance and teachings of C++ Modding and much more.
i cant even begin to describe the help given to me by you.
my deepest appreciations to you dear one.
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To all the Modders [that i remember] helping out during my last 17 years of Modding:
f1rpo/VAfforess/glider/vIincentz/PLATPING/pilotis/grave/ripple/johny smith/shqype/Vanchelon/mylon/strategyonly/zappara/dale/bug team/
Civmansam/gir/fexfx/fanatic demon/arlborn/net55/Afforess/Koshling
Minor Annoyance/UncutDragon/denev/Pep/Arri/marnz/jdog5000
Fuyu/the bug mod team/alerum/lemon merchant/glider/jeckel
Snafusmith/mechaerik/The Capo/achilleszero/Bakuel/Xenomorph
KrugerPritz/nudden /The_Coyote/Walter Hawkwood/Wolfshanze
asioasioasio/Servius/zappara/pef/asaf/topsecret/DavidB1111/dale

To all art makers - for providing us with amazing eye candies.

To all the mod components that gave something extra for civ and my mod.

Please play the mod, report any feed back, and most of all have fun !


Keldath.


this is how the legacy thread used to look like :
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Looks good so far, this is what i am going to do with my MOD also, but PLS get rid of that "stupid" Blue flag for America, thx.

hey, thanks,
i know your busy strategyonly.....with your promissing projects..

yeah i know.....i forgot bout that one...if its any comfort - the israeli flag (im an israeli...) has opposite colurls,

besides,
most of bts new civs have really similar colurs, that confuses,
i intend to make a new set of distinct colurs for all nations.

but, first i wanna know my mod is playble to the end

great mod, i havent played it all the way through yet.

thanks ,

keep me posted when you finished


****edit****
damn, the marathon speed is badly done, all the build costs are really cheap.....

ill edit it more.

I've downloaded your mod, and plan to play and give feedback, but it being the work week I really haven't had a chance yet, but I do like what you've done already, just glancing through. I do want to say thanks here for all the work you've already done for the community, I know you've helped lot's of people out and helped on other mods

you have not added any music for Austria Diplomancy... I don't know about Isreal. Try to find a good song from Austria and add it to the game.

hi guys,

thanks for th feed,

i indeed got involved in several mods hehe...

and yeah, ill add an austria music to my todo list (i simley merged it from my old version for now.

and i sugest you play normal speeds and not marathon cause is kinda poorly done...you can buid anything in just few turns.....

Hi, Coffee appears to not work, in the game I mean . It does not need an improvement but does not give +1

ok, good to know, d hoskuld,

ill set it right.

keep feed backing

Hello keldath,

How's it going?

here are the partisan files you asked for: (it's a rar, not a zip)

I've looked at the Civics effects and I must say their frankly a mess, way too many modifiers on many Civics. I think 3 modifiers should be the max for simplicity and clarity. Arbitrary Guys work in this area is a good example to follow for what I consider good design on Civics, their both original, simple and understandable.

hey impaler,
i agree bout the civics,
the added stuff ha too much attributes, i call this mod vertion a beta, cause, through people suggestions ill be able to know more what is a good balance for the mod, the civics is an very imp thing, i intend to indeed simply each civic i added as the vanilla civics.

and my goal is 8 catagories with 10 civic options.

this mod i invested all my effort on unit gamplay balance, as i said, much diversity in the units play

but yeah ill do much stuff for bnext version.


and my dear gir......

once again, thank you for you help, my game is incomplete without the partisan mod (wish i could have more of your uniqu promotions mod...(hint hint)

thanks


****mini patch released****

fixes speeds of the game for normal build of buildings, units and income rate. 5 versions to test

Can you post some screenshots?

Enjoying this thus far - granted, I'm on a larger than huge map, marathon speed, so things are moving sloooowly.

I guess I'll check when I get home from work, but does this have a .dll file for it? If not, I suppose I can use it with Solver's unofficial patch?

Oh yeah, any chance of getting Solver's patch merged with Dale's bombardment and getting that set up for this? I can do my own .xml and minor python fixes, but getting into doing the .dll files is a bit out of my experience.

PS - What about Great Generals from Barbarian Combat?

yeah i just played all the way through, there wasnt really any problems. great mod.

Keldath,
Do you plan the revolutions mod as an optional choice at the start of the game ?
The casium mod did it this way and i like the rev.mod and your mod.

hey guys,

im really glad you like my work :0 thanks for the feedback.

ERLoft,
you can play with the solver dll. no problem, you can add the files.

i have now a version thats includes dales r b.
and the partisan mod.

i havnt checked the solver fix, what is it? if its important, ill merge it if you think its a worthi one

i can do sdk merging and dll.

wrchamp14,
you just made one modder, a happy one.

cha dawn,
can you explain more the suggestion youve made?
im not really sure what is rev mod for start of a game.
be happy yo here bout this.

anyway,
id like sme more feedback on,
what speed is better for the game play?
i might integrate the new fexfx speed and map mod, might be the best thing to do.

also need more feed on civic balancing.

thanks in advance for all the people playing

A couple of questions

Why are Universal Suffrage and Federalism different Civics?
Same with Free Speech and Civil Rights,
............. Forced Labor and Slavery,
Why have emancipation as a civic if there are labor civics other than it?

Also, you're not exactly right to put Fascism as the required tech for Communism, for historically Socialism evolved for several hundred years before the Italian and German Fascist movements sprung up. Socialism is more the idea of building an equal society, so it's required techs would be more likely scientific method and Liberalism and maybe another production tech [maybe steel].

Fascism on the other hand evolved as the reaction to Socialism, the ruling and powerful classes in society afraid of the power being taken away from them. So it's a merger of corporate, state, and military power, so it's place right after assembly line would indeed make sense.

Gl and keep up the good work.

Here's a rundown on Solver's unofficial patch:

* Fixing a possible infinite loop problem with unit movement.
* AI now more likely to promote siege units with Accuracy to better handle the changes to bombardment in BtS
* AI understanding of what is an "early Wonder" now correct for non-Normal game speeds.
* AI civs that are close to reaching a Domination victory recognize that and are more likely to declare war, in particular with Aggressive AI.
* "Dead unitgroup walking" crash fix as per Dale
* No-conscript colony crash fix as per Gyathaar
* Another colony crash fix as per myself
* Fixed the bug allowing Forts in foreign territory, which would result in Forts overrunning useful rival improvements.
* AIs close to domination population will have a high priority for health buildings in cities that are unhealthy.
* AIs close to domination population will put a high priority on researching Genetics and will like other health techs better.
* The AI will be less reluctant to raze cities that have its state religion if it doesn't have the shrine for that religion.
* Corporation maintenance is now exempt from inflation, so the costs don't blow up so much.
* Added possible workaround for a crash bug.
* Fixed an infinite loop problem with city attackers (thanks Gyathaar)
* Blockade code rewritten so that blockading is now much faster, as per Gyathaar
* Fixed Quick-speed crash (whoops)
* Auto-explore change per Bhruic.
* Auto-explorers will heal when wounded.
* Advanced start population selling fixed per Gyathaar
* Fixed the AP-conversion hammer bug
* AI will use espionage to destroy non-resource terrain improvements - such as Towns.
* AI may destroy improvements through espionage just because it hates you, with no war plan
* Increased likelihood of the AI stealing techs - hopefully it will do so now
* Poison Water and Foment Unhappiness missions now have the same effect, duration and cost on all game speeds, to mirror the official patch.
* Fixed AI airstrike bug
* AI now only capitulates to the team which has done them a majority of the damage.
* On non-aggressive AI, the AI's are more aggressive early in the game.
* AI trains more units early in the game.
* AI SHOULD do a better job of bribing other AI's (this may or may not work)
* The cost to Bribe AI's into war now uses a new algorithm, it better reflects the impact of the bribe (ie a large AI charges a lot more to be ordered around). Generally bribing will be more expensive, especially cases where it used to be excessively cheap.
* AI's tell you to sod off if you try to bribe them onto a victim with an intact nuclear arsenal.
* AI brags about it's nukes more.
* Always Peace now suppresses AI militarism (with some barb awareness).
* AI spends less on Espionage.
* AI trains spies with lower priority.
* AI better aware of Free Market / Environmentalism corporation impact.
* Exploring units should now heal.
* Possibly fixed exploring "YoYo" issue.
* Fixed a puppet strings exploit related to naval invasions.
* Fixed some issues which hampered or stalled AI early game expansion.
* Tweaks to Governor, particularly "Emphasize Food"
* Fixed an undefended cities issues.


Link to the thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=235067