Thank you for your response, EmperorFool.
And thank you for your work. It's absolutely huge and many people here including myself can not imagine themselves play CIV without BUG and BULL.
Now I said that because that's what I am really thinking. I really do appreciate your efforts and don't want look like ungrateful pig.
But here is the situation:
To significant part of civfanatics population BUG and BULL are known as interface improvements without altering gameplay.
From here
....1. INTRODUCTION
BULL is an unaltered-gameplay mod for Civ4:BTS....
That's how BULL were introduced to me by civfanatics friends and that's how I do introduce and recommend it to newcomers today.
"Get it! It's excellent, it gives tons of useful info without changing gameplay whatsoever!"
Now I suddenly discover that I actually lie to these people!
I search through
changelog and don't find any trail of the fact that BULL 1.2, I currently use, contains:
- Unofficial 3.19 Patch v1.50
- AI AutoPlay (What is that btw?)
That info I obtain when hover mouse over empire flag in game (did not know about that option). I think it should be stated in mod description in the first place and BULL should not state itself as unaltered gameplay.
Unofficial Patch contains many essential fixes etc. But it also contains some gameplay changes and I want to be aware when I install it. Some of these changes may have serious impact, like this overflow into gold thing.
If I want unofficial patch I download and install it. And I am aware of what I've done.
Many people here still using vanilla 3.19 BTS, many just use BUG without BULL. I can't be sure, but running unofficial patch can create multiplayer issues with these who does not?
And what about concurrent games, so popular here? We play same map and compare results without been aware that we are actually playing different versions of game! Saves are compatible so no problem!
Personally I discovered all this by accident from
this thread. One poster points on some differences with BULL and I claim that it's impossible since BULL is unaltered gameplay etc. Then I check myself and realize that I was wrong.
I think it should be stated clearly in mod description that BULL is NOT unaltered gameplay.
Thank you for your time and best regards.