Hydromancerx
C2C Modder
The Alternate Timeline components are held in the Assets/Modules/Alt_Timelines folder of this mod.
You can turn each part of these mods on or off by editing the MLF_CIV4ModularLoadingControls.xml file in this folder. A 1 in the bLoad tag turns on the mod named in the directory tag. A zero turns it off. See here for a tutorial on this file.
Note also: There is a sub folder Dangers_Of_the_Deep which contains some fantasy units like the leviathan and mermaids which are used to represent the mysteries that cause ships to sink. It also has a MLF file in it so you can turn on and off these units.
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Post your alternative timeline ideas in this thread.
Here are some old posts I hd on the subject ...
I have been thinking about unique techs and hidden techs. Perhaps you should have era specific techs that will disappear if you go to the next era. Thus players who streamline to the next era will not get all the benefits of that era.
As for hidden or civ specific I have some ideas for those such as ...
(Concept Drawing by Hydromancerx)
This would be an alternative timeline where the South American mega-fauna never went extinct and Inca and other South American civs domesticated ground sloths and terror birds to be their mounts since they don't have horses in South America.
Other ideas would be "Steam Punk" tech, "Da Vinci" tech, no dark ages tech and other alternative timeline situations where existing history takes a slightly diffrent path. For instance in the no dark ages tech you would jump right to the Renaissance and not loose old ancient techs that say the Romans once had. Or "Steam Punk" tech expands upon industrial age technology without going into the modern age yet.
It would also be neat if you could have even diffrent era trees where your not always going down the same linage era path. This could be more interesting for future eras too since history for that is not written yet.
Here is a chart i quickly drew up to show what I mean.
As you can see with the blue that's our normal timeline. The green ones are like the Aztecs where they went into an Obsidian Age and then were conquered and hurled forward to the Imperial Age. Likewise I have ones that go backwards such as Atomic Age to Post-Apocalyptic and then back to like Dark Ages. I think it would be really cool if you not only could take a diffrent era path but possibly have to redo eras because of apocalypses.
"Punk" Types ...
- Prehistoric Era = Stonepunk
- Ancient Era = ?
- Classical Era = ?
- Medieval Era = Cogpunk
- Renaissance Era = Clockpunk
- Industrial Era = Steampunk
- Modern Era = Dieselpunk
- Trans-Human Era = Cyberpunk / Biopunk / Nanopunk
- Galactic Eras = ?