[BTS Module] Slaves

Gurra09 · Apr 9, 2009

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This mod component adds a Slave unit that is available only when the Slavery civic is adopted. They are extremely cheap workers, with a cost of only 5 :hammers:

but once they complete a work they dies.

Because of added build actions the civilopedia for Workers and Slaves will say Can Build a Farm, Build a Mine, Build a Cottage, Remove a Jungle etc. instead of Can Improve Tiles.

ripple01 · Apr 9, 2009

What happens to the slaves when you switch out of slavery?

Cheers,
ripple01

Gurra09 · Apr 9, 2009

Nothing happens to them and that's something I would like to improve but I can't find out how to do that.

xmen510 · Apr 9, 2009

Looks amazing. The Arda Mod might just want to use this.

strategyonly · Apr 9, 2009

What you need to do is find out how from a python person, to get Slaves from units that you defeat, like FfH has.

Gurra09 · Apr 9, 2009

Something I would like to implement is that when you change from Slavery to another Labor civic, 6 slaves form 1 worker. That's because 6 slaves cost as much production as 1 worker. And if you have less than 6 slaves they turn into extra production when you build a worker next time.

strategyonly · Apr 9, 2009

Gurra09 said:
Something I would like to implement is that when you change from Slavery to another Labor civic, 6 slaves form 1 worker. That's because 6 slaves cost as much production as 1 worker. And if you have less than 6 slaves they turn into extra production when you build a worker next time.

I had a mod that worked in Warlords, that once you defeated an enemy unit it was a slave, then you could turn it into either a Warrior, Swordsman, Archer, or Worker once you got it back to a town, and i think even a Specialist Citizen, that was my WarMongor mod.
I dont know how to use python so i never transferred any of my Warlords mod, otherwise i would have like five mods right now.

Edgecrusher · Apr 9, 2009

Do you think every unit should have a chance to enslave a unit? or just a specific unit(s), like in civ3, the Mayan UU could enslave units.

Maybe a new unit that can only be constructed w/ Slavery. I mean slavery still exists, even in areas without government endorced slavery, which is what I interperate the Slavery civic as.

The entire system could expire with Constitution, or some other renaissance era tech?

Dancing Hoskuld · Apr 10, 2009

The zEnslavement mod allowed capturing units but you got what you beat up

. I am using it as the basis my next python learning challenge - capturing and converting to another unit. I wanted to capture units as slaves or prisoners not as warriors or archers.

strategyonly · Apr 10, 2009

Dancing Hoskuld said:
The zEnslavement mod allowed capturing units but you got what you beat up . I am using it as the basis my next python learning challenge - capturing and converting to another unit. I wanted to capture units as slaves or prisoners not as warriors or archers.

I used that also, but Zebra9 never updated to BtS.

Edgecrusher · Apr 10, 2009

Tsentom, had some code for his Trafalger Square wonder, The code's basic function was if you had Tragalfer square, Privateers had a X% Chance to "capture" defeated units as a new Privateer.

Anyway, I assume the code could be changed to check for the Slavery Civic, instead of the Trafalger Square wonder.

Then rig it to have a unit "capture" defeated units as slaves.

Gurra09 · Apr 28, 2009

I've found a way to make the slaves to not last forever. I can make the Slaves to die after finishing a work.

Edit: If I do that I'll increase the worker rate so that they work as fast as a worker.

Edgecrusher · Apr 28, 2009

If your interested, I have some code at home that I have been playing around with that assigns a unit (in my testing, I assigned it to a "Slaver"),

I am rarely home to test it, for some reason there is a CTD that I am trying to isolate.

Anyway the Basic Mechanic is:

If the player has the Slaver, and they are running a labor civic that is NOT emancipation. then the unit has a 10% chance to capture the defeated unit as a slave.

The Unit, Civic and Percent are all adjustable. I set it up that way because, Slavery exists is Serfdoms and Caste Systems. That and Emancipation (to me) is the symbolzation of "outlawing slavery and everyone is equal".

However, for the Slavery civic (for the Slaver), I thought it could be set up like the Organized Religion civic (for the Missionary). i.e. if in the Slavery civic, one can build the Slaver (which will be a national unit) without the need of a building.

Anyway thats that.

Melendor · May 12, 2009

strategyonly said:
What you need to do is find out how from a python person, to get Slaves from units that you defeat, like FfH has.

That's the point!

Duuk · May 18, 2009

Gurra09 said:
I've found a way to make the slaves to not last forever. I can make the Slaves to die after finishing a work.

Edit: If I do that I'll increase the worker rate so that they work as fast as a worker.

You know, THIS isn't a bad plan.

Cheap, 1-shot workers. I'd make them cheaper than 1/6th though.

Gurra09 · May 18, 2009

Maybe a cost of 5 :hammers:

? That would be 1/12th.

Gurra09 · May 23, 2009

This mod component is now updated. See the first post or the download page for details.

frekk · May 24, 2009

Dancing Hoskuld said:
The zEnslavement mod allowed capturing units but you got what you beat up . I am using it as the basis my next python learning challenge - capturing and converting to another unit. I wanted to capture units as slaves or prisoners not as warriors or archers.

No, zEnslavement could be easily altered to give you any kind of unit you wanted. You could set what sort of unit would be produced when any given unit won a battle, and what the percentage chance was for producing that unit. In the Custom Event Manager you could go:

self.addUnitType("UNIT_AXEMAN", "UNIT_WORKER", 10)

And that would give an axeman a 10% chance to capture a worker whenever it won a battle.

I had it working just fine, but not for BTS and it didn't give me what I really wanted which was the ability to sacrifice the slaves for culture points like in Civ3. The only way to do that was to give them the ability to do a Great Work like an artist. It was easy to give them a lesser amount of culture bonus than the Great Artist, but they had to use the same graphic and button. The guy who wrote zEnslavement told me that you'd need to design a new Mission (which includes Python I think) to do it.

Cybah · May 24, 2009

Those 5 hammer slaves should not have any support costs right?

Gurra09 · May 24, 2009

I think that they maybe have support costs. I can find the tag <bMilitarySupport> which means if it is supported as a Military Unit. The Slave has that tag set to 0 but the worker to so I think that the slave has the same support cost as the worker.

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