Un Autre Monde: Before And After Science
This mod requires the Brave New World Expansion and the Polynesian Scenario. It won't be compatible with any other mods that alter the dll or some UI elements.
English and French versions.
Un autre monde (« another world ») is a serialized mod, and Before and After Science will be the first release of it. The ambition here is simply to bring my own vision of Civilization 5 to life, now that it seems that the official development has ended.
So what about Before and After Science ?
At its name suggests, this first episode mostly focuses on rebalancing the science part of the game. Science has been king since the first days of the vanilla release ; but it is also a very inertial mechanism, with its heavy dependency to your population growth.
In addition to this, the tech tree has also been too linear, and many mods have alreary tried to correct this issue.
Scientific curiosity and scientific tradition bonuses:
In Before and After Science, every tech belongs to a category : Military, Production, Society or Knowledge. You get a bonus on their cost according to the way you string them together.
When you link techs from different categories, you get the scientific curiosity bonus; it starts quite strong at 25% but decays slowly down to 10% while you continue to switch to another category.
Now if you link techs of the same category (Military advancements for example), you receive the scientific tradition bonus. This one starts only at 10% but can increase up to 50%!
As you have figured, you can only have one of these bonus at a time, but you will always have one of them. Nice!.....? Well, that's because science will be harder to gain now...
Buildings and Population:
In Before And After Science, you no longer get free science from your population as a general rule. If the palace will actually grant you 1Science per citizen in your capitol, no other building will have this effect before the industrial era and the constructions of the first public schools.
The science buildings have now more diverse abilities: the library provides you science per great works (and another stealth bonus..), the university grants you science for the specialists working in your city, the national college a research agreement modifier, laboratories give you beakers for the most advanced strategic resources... See the features list below for all the changes about buildings.
In passing:
Before And After Science also comes with a few changes concerning policies and 3 “new” techs.
The most notable change to social policies is the new opener of exploration: in addition to a free admiral, it now gives 2 points of science each time you are discovering new sea tiles.
Regarding the 3 new techs, they are actually coming from the polynesian scenario and were introduced because I felt that the classical era was definitely coming too soon.
I hope you will enjoy my mods, voilà !
Features :
Download :
Civfanatics
Steam
Pictures :
Science in city
Techtree
Science with exploration
Special thanks to whoward69 for his awesome tutorials.
This mod requires the Brave New World Expansion and the Polynesian Scenario. It won't be compatible with any other mods that alter the dll or some UI elements.
English and French versions.
Un autre monde (« another world ») is a serialized mod, and Before and After Science will be the first release of it. The ambition here is simply to bring my own vision of Civilization 5 to life, now that it seems that the official development has ended.
So what about Before and After Science ?
At its name suggests, this first episode mostly focuses on rebalancing the science part of the game. Science has been king since the first days of the vanilla release ; but it is also a very inertial mechanism, with its heavy dependency to your population growth.
In addition to this, the tech tree has also been too linear, and many mods have alreary tried to correct this issue.
Scientific curiosity and scientific tradition bonuses:
In Before and After Science, every tech belongs to a category : Military, Production, Society or Knowledge. You get a bonus on their cost according to the way you string them together.
When you link techs from different categories, you get the scientific curiosity bonus; it starts quite strong at 25% but decays slowly down to 10% while you continue to switch to another category.
Now if you link techs of the same category (Military advancements for example), you receive the scientific tradition bonus. This one starts only at 10% but can increase up to 50%!
As you have figured, you can only have one of these bonus at a time, but you will always have one of them. Nice!.....? Well, that's because science will be harder to gain now...
Buildings and Population:
In Before And After Science, you no longer get free science from your population as a general rule. If the palace will actually grant you 1Science per citizen in your capitol, no other building will have this effect before the industrial era and the constructions of the first public schools.
The science buildings have now more diverse abilities: the library provides you science per great works (and another stealth bonus..), the university grants you science for the specialists working in your city, the national college a research agreement modifier, laboratories give you beakers for the most advanced strategic resources... See the features list below for all the changes about buildings.
In passing:
Before And After Science also comes with a few changes concerning policies and 3 “new” techs.
The most notable change to social policies is the new opener of exploration: in addition to a free admiral, it now gives 2 points of science each time you are discovering new sea tiles.
Regarding the 3 new techs, they are actually coming from the polynesian scenario and were introduced because I felt that the classical era was definitely coming too soon.
I hope you will enjoy my mods, voilà !
Features :
Spoiler :
Download :
Civfanatics
Steam
Pictures :
Science in city
Techtree
Science with exploration
Special thanks to whoward69 for his awesome tutorials.
