Bane_'s Civilizations

Crusader States, led by Pope Urban II

Uniques



[[ The AI is already programmed to use the Units to their fullest, do not act surprise when you see powerful Crusaders coming your way! ]]


Screenshots



To Do
- Art upgrade (from Idvhl)

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Tibetan Empire, led by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama:

Uniques



NEW WORLD WONDERS!




To Do
- More balanced Rewards.
- Enable the AI to use the Mission (working on it!)
- Exclusive Icon for the Sherpa

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Edo Period Japan, led by Hattori Hanzo, servant of the Divine Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu:

Uniques


Missions (updated 8/1)


Screenshots

(Information on this page may be contrary to the images. Take what's written on this page as truth. Not everything, of course, this is not a crazy cult or something.)

Changelog
v1.0 - Released.

Future
- Balancing...
- Flag and SV icon for the Shinobi.
- The two other Missions that are not yet functional.
- Get a better Leader Scene.
- Make it AI-friendly.


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Zande People, led by Okike, aspect of Chukwu, giver of Laws:


Uniques


The first and proud city:



A few screenshots:



Changelog
v1.0 - Release.
v2.0 - Removed a few useless lines and added a notification for when your city is attacked and triggers the Grove. Also, Steam version is up.

Future
- Exclusive Wolrd-Wonder for African Civs.
- Lua code to replace the aforementioned lack of in the <Building_YieldChangesPerPop> table.
- Find an appropriate icon for the cassava luxury resource.
- Better art (sorry about the low graphic level).

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Thanks to
ViceVirtuoso - For coding advices, bits of codes and modifying the UnitPanel.lua made by whoward that is being used in most of these civs.
Pazyryk - For his patience and much needed teachings on Lua tables.
whoward69 - For help with coding and for the disponibilization of such a great tool that is his modified DLL, and for making the UnitPanel.lua being used in most of these Civs.
Bobert13 - For helping with coding for the Azande.
Skaz881 - For the Resource icons used in the Azande Civilization.
Jamforce - For the Information Resource icon used in Tokugawa's Japan.
JTitan - For the Niam-Niam unit model (Zulu Javelineer).
danrell - For the Shinobi unit model (Ninja Japan).
Kiang - Most of the Art for Tibet (the DiploScene, the original Yak Resource Image - not the font-icon - which I modified, the Tashilhunpo Monastery's Icon and Wonder Splash, Potala's Palace Wonder Splash and Gyatso's icon!)
Crashade - For beta testing Tokugawa's Japan.
AggressiveWimp - For letting me use his Tibet icon, since he won't be making such a Civ anymore.
Harasar - For the wonderful Map used in the Tibetan Empire.
zwei833 - For the Crusader's (don't remember where it is ) and Mounted Crusader's models.
CivFanatics Community - For being so good for newbie coders.

Interesting concepts!

What does it mean 'failing while attacking a city'?

Please provide few screenshoots

When an attack fails, the enemy inflicts 0 damage!
I'll make some screenshots, should've thought of that before posting.

I've had to resubmit the file, there were a few text strings missing. Sorry (and thanks) for ALL the 6 people who downloaded it.

Will you be uploading it to Steam?

Okay, this is really cool, great job! When Zambezi gets back on track, we may look at including this in it with a bit of an art upgrade, if that's all okay with you. Proper credit would be given, of course.

Also, I noticed the faith per pop on your 'future' list - I've had experience with three separate Lua codes all trying to accomplish that, none of them have worked. So you may be out of luck in that department, although a fresh pair of eyes never hurts

ldvhl said:

Will you be uploading it to Steam?

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As soon as I get the whole thing working (with better art and the aforementioned Wonder). As much as I can avoid dealing with Steam, I will - permanent offline mode is the way to go in my experience. haha
Or I could upload this first version, but any updates would have to wait until the 'final' version.

Pouakai said:

Okay, this is really cool, great job! When Zambezi gets back on track, we may look at including this in it with a bit of an art upgrade, if that's all okay with you. Proper credit would be given, of course.

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Of course you can! I would be honored.
And for the art part, it can't get any worse, so do as you please!

Also, I noticed the faith per pop on your 'future' list - I've had experience with three separate Lua codes all trying to accomplish that, none of them have worked. So you may be out of luck in that department, although a fresh pair of eyes never hurts

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Dammit.
I'm working on another Civilization (led by Hattori Hanzo, with a new resource called 'Information') right now, but will try some ideas about this while the next Civ is being tested.


EDIT: Another Screenshot added:

nice civ. However I wonder if the colors are too dark? Right now it looks like a city state. Maybe the black should be lightened up a bit?

ubergeneral said:

nice civ. However I wonder if the colors are too dark? Right now it looks like a city state. Maybe the black should be lightened up a bit?

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Hmmm, if this causes some problems with the colors I'll change it, but Ethiopia has a similar color and is an official Civ.
If you experience some kind of weirdness because of this, let me know and I'll change it. Thanks!

Ethiopia is dark green as its base. I can't tell from the pictures, did you use that or black for Azande?

I used black.

That's the issue - universally, black backgrounds are reserved for city-states and barbarians.

ldvhl said:

That's the issue - universally, black backgrounds are reserved for city-states and barbarians.

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And Buccaneers.

I maintain it's not that much of an issue, personally

You should add TSL Support

Pouakai said:

And Buccaneers.

I maintain it's not that much of an issue, personally

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I meant more the default Firaxis civs (re: Ethiopia mainly). My eyes are less than stellar and the more help I can get differentiating territory the better.

I think buccaneers are an exception. They are more of a joke civ and the black and white just fit too perfectly. I think that black is a no go.

My suggestion. Make the black dark gray, just enough to make it different for a city state. The final decision is up to you.

DZastr22 said:

You should add TSL Support

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Good idea. I'll do that!

ubergeneral said:

My suggestion. Make the black dark gray, just enough to make it different for a city state. The final decision is up to you.

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Your voice was heard!
I'll change the background, will try dark green (different than Ethiopia, of course) and a gray darker than Germany.

ubergeneral said:

I think buccaneers are an exception. They are more of a joke civ and the black and white just fit too perfectly. I think that black is a no go.

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Huh. See, I don't personally mind that, since City-States tend to have a patterned border and Civs, er, don't. I agree that a dark green would probably be a better choice, but banning black outright is obvious rot. What if, for example, you wanted to make a Brittany Civ? If you used anything other than the colours of the flag - which, btw, are black and white - you'd look ridiculous. The Cornish too.

tl;dr: I'm with Pooky on this.

Scapegrace said:

Huh. See, I don't personally mind that, since City-States tend to have a patterned border and Civs, er, don't. I agree that a dark green would probably be a better choice, but banning black outright is obvious rot. What if, for example, you wanted to make a Brittany Civ? If you used anything other than the colours of the flag - which, btw, are black and white - you'd look ridiculous. The Cornish too.

tl;dr: I'm with Pooky on this.

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Hiram did a Celtic split (Iceni, Ireland, Picts, Wales, and Cornwall), in which his Cornish use the same Black and White as the Buccaneers.

I'm aware of that; it comes from the Cornish flag, which is a white cross on a black background.