Avahz Darkwood
Emperor
This one has been added to, updated, and moved to a new thread:
The New Hippus and Khazad Flavor Mod Thread
The New Hippus and Khazad Flavor Mod Thread
Sorry, that last post came off as being entirely critical. I do love the idea, and think it adds a lot to the flavor of the Hippus (really, I think they should have something like this in the main FfH).
Thanks for the info on where to find the changes as well
Very cool idea.
Re: losing mana/horses from the palace: A new building could be added that grants the Contracts rather than using up palace "slots."
Yea the AI will buy it I set the value just below that of a mana node and they do build the units. The good thing is they dont spam it either I usually only see about 3 Merc units. And if you want the horse bonus back all you have to do is use windows notepad and open the civ4buildinginfofile, find the Hippus palace and change one of them from BONUS_CONTRACT to BONUS_HORSE. It wont take 2 minutes =) to do.
You could also have the Hippus start with an unresearchable "Equestrian" tech doesn't do anything by itself, but also change all mounted units to require either Horse resources or the Equestrian tech to build.