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Unofficial Expansion Project​

The Goal of Legends of Revolution is to simulate a "commercially viable" expansion pack. What makes LoR unique is the attention to detail throughout the mod, and it's unprecedented stability.

Legends of Revolutions is built around the RevolutionDCM core (the core component used in most "expansion" themed mods), and I have been a RevolutionDCM team member for a couple years now. RevolutionDCM adds the following optional concepts and improvements (all of which the AI has been made aware of):

• Revolutions: Cities that become disenchanted with their empire's rule for various reasons (religious, economic, distance from your capitol -effected by communication technologies and trade networks) can rebel; spawning new civilizations and bringing about civil wars.
  
• Barbarian Civ: Barbarian cities that develop high culture or get large may settle down, spawning entire new civilizations.
  
• DCM battle mechanics: Ranged bombarding, fighter engaging, building bombing, among others.
  
• Inquisitions: After discovering Theology, certain civics will allow the training of inquisitor units which can purge unwanted religions from an empire's cities, and their vassals (if the vassal as well is running the proper civics and has the same state religion as it's master).
  
• Super Spies: Spies may gain promotions to become more successful conducting espionage.
  
• Tech Diffusion: Civilizations (particularly those that trade and are far behind) get beakers diffused to them from more advanced civilizations for technologies the more advanced civilization has researched.
  
• Start as Minor Tribes: Simulates the chaos of early history. All civs are treated by the game as barbarian (Unit color, flags and borders still show, you are aware of who is around you, they just cannot be peacefully interacted with) until they discover the technology of Writing, and may engage in diplomacy with other civilizations that have discovered writing.
  
• Influence Driven War: Battles have an effect on the cultural depth of tiles. This means that in war the borders of empires become dynamic, and will shift according to those who succeed in their war.
  
• Limited Religions: Turning this game option on makes it so that a civilization may not found a new religion if they already control a holy city. Allowing other civilizations to found these religions.
  
• Better Unaltered Gamplay (BUG): The BUG mod is fully incorporated into the RevolutionDCM core. The enhancements to the interface are too numerous to count. If you haven't tried BUG you will be blown away by how much easier it is to get information, and how well everything is displayed.
  
• Better AI: The current version of BBAI has been fully incorporated into the RevDCM core, and the AI is much smarter.
  
• Ruthless AI: This game option is similar to "Aggressive AI" but is more extreme and attempts to remove most role playing from the AI's gameplay, making it play to win at all costs.
  
• All new features optional: In keeping with the Civilization experience as produced by Firaxis all features in this mod (except BetterAI) can be toggled on and off to your preferences, so that you can set up the game to play as you like.

Legends of Revolution expands on the RevolutionDCM gamecore by adding the following features:

• Legendary units: Legendary Units are special units much like world wonders. Use these to spearhead an attack, or be a stonewall defender, perfect for warmongering, or even defending for a builder type player. Legends can be turned off in the game options.
  
• Enhanced Unit and Tech Progression: Legends of Revolution is designed to play as an expansion pack, it adds about as many units and technologies as BtS did to vanilla Civilization IV. All added units are coherent, have unique buttons and art, and fit in the game seamlessly. It simply makes more sense to go from Wooden ships to the Ironclad Cruisers of the 19th century, instead of the jump from 16th Century sailing vessels to WWII style destroyers as occurred in BtS.
  
• Ethnic Unit and City art: Much of the Ethnic art from Avain's Variates Delectat mod, and Geomodders Ethnic City scapes has been incorporated in Legends of Revolution, the game simply looks much prettier. AchillesZero, the art director for this project worked tirelessly to assure all unit models are in line with Firaxis's performance standards, meaning this art has been added with Form and Function in mind.
  
• Dynamic Religious Spreading: This option, toggled in the RevDCM tab in the BUG interface supercedes the basic Religious spreading logic in BtS, allowing newer religions a chance to catch up in the world, and keeping the early religions like Hinduism and Buddism from dominating as occurs in base BtS.
  
• New Leaders and Civilizations: New leaders have been added, all using high quality leaderhead art, as well as the civilizations of Vietnam, the Iroquois, and Sioux. All new leaders have their own unique diplomacy text and diplomatic music, as would occur with Firaxis released content.
  
• Attention to detail through all parts of the mod: Legends of Revolution is designed to look and play like a commercially viable expansion pack. As such I have devoted much time and energy to ensure all added content comes with it's unique art, such as unique buttons and models. To this day Legends of Revolution is the only mod with a 3D title screen, and this type of detail is found throughout all parts of the mod. All languages are supported, and Finish has been added, German and Spanish are nearly fully translated (If you want to help out this project translations for French and Italian would be awesome). All art is high quality and looks professionally done, thanks to the various artists here on Civfanatics (see credits below), and all units have been checked and optimize to ensure that they are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also function performance wise (many large mods add very system demanding models and art, which is a common cause of reported MAF crashes).

Installation is easy, simply download and install. If the installer refuses to install and tells you that your copy of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is not up to date, then you need to download and install the official Firaxis 3.19 patch (the in game automatic updater usually does not work with this patch as it is too large, must users need to install it manually). The Official 3.19 patch for Beyond the Sword can be found here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12576


Thanks for checking out Legends of Revolution. Feel free to provide any feedback. If you enjoy this mod, please rate it and let your friends who play Civilization IV know about it. I taught myself how to Code C++, and much more in order to produce it and have spent thousands of hours on this project as well as the RevolutionDCM core. It is my hobby, and I am happy sharing this work with other civfanatics, my only hope is that players enjoy it.

Feel free to use anything in Legends of Revolution on your own projects. When installing you can set the installer to also install the source code to work with. My only request is that if you use my work, please give me credit.

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words​

Unit Upgrade Chart:


ACO:


Leonardo's Workshop:


Revolutions!!!:


Legends:


More Civilopedia shots

FAQ​

Q: I know I patched BtS, why wol't the installer let me install this mod?
A: The installer is correct, your copy of BtS is not patched to 3.19. Probably what has happened is you have used the in game automatic updater; this thing often fails, then lies to the user and tells them that BtS has been patched when it has not! You need to install the patch manually; you can find the patch here on Civfanatics in the downloads section, also the installer gives you a link that will automatically download the patch from Firaxis's website.


Q: Can I play LoR in multiplayer?
A: LoR 0.9.9 works in MP. However we the RevDCM team are not able to put in as much work on Multiplayer as we'd like. While the game runs flawlessly in Single Player, and we have fixed all known issues with Multiplayer in the last update to the RevDCM core, there may be some sync issues that occur. If you play Multiplayer, and experience issues, please let us know in the RevolutionDCM development thread, with a description of what occurs and give us a save file to check out. There simply has not been enough feedback, and I am unable to test RevolutionDCM or LoR in multiplayer to know if it is fully functional, though I know it is functional. One major note though, to play Multiplayer games, you must have your custom assets folder cleared of all files, otherwise it will break.


Q: Why do you call this an unofficial expansion pack, aren't there a lot of those?
A: Sort of. The goal of this mod is not to add content for contents sake. Most of the expansion based mods are filled with lots of things, dozens of new leaders, civs, units, etc. This Mod definitively adds a couple of these things, but they are tempered. The additions are in line with what you'd see in a commercially available expansion pack. Further this mod is very stable, there are no known bugs in it. And finally it includes all the known common sense modcomps that have been created by the community, such as BUG, and Better AI.


Q: I downloaded this mod before, and saw there was an update, so I downloaded it and installed. When I updated to the new version diplomacy texts stop working, I can't interact with other civs at all (or any other bug noticed right after updating to a new version)?
A: You have windows 7, and the security settings are set to be crazy and overprotective. Not much I can do here from my end, and having your Windows 7 security protocols set that high is going to break other software on your computer when you update. Basically alot of software, including this mod, is set up so that it's installer checks for any previous versions of itself when running, if a previous version is detected the installer will execute the uninstaller for the software so that the old version is completely removed and there are no errant files left over that cause issues with the update. Unfortunately if Windows 7 has it's security settings selected to be a fascist it blocks the uninstaller from actually doing anything, yet it allows it to execute, basically lying to the user and making them think everything is working right. Then when the installer runs and installs the files from the new version, all the old errant files that aren't directly overwritten are still around and breaks the update. This will definitely happen with LoR and will occur for other software applications. For LoR you can get around this by running LoR's uninstaller manually before updating, so that the old version is completely removed, rather then relying on the installer to auto-execute it. Also you should consider toning down your Windows 7 security settings to be more sane.


Q: The art looks all messed up, I mean really bad, there are multiple unit models, and they switch to new ones, and the buttons are all blurry, and even though I run the game in frozen animations mode some models like the worker still animate. What's a matter with the unit art?
A: The main mod cannot be run in frozen animation mode. The Ethnic art just wol't work in the frozen mode. You must turn animations on for this mod to work correctly in the full mod.


Q: Does this mod run slower then standard BtS, I hear that happens with alot of big mods?
A: Firstly, this mod has been built around performance. I have taken great care to only use reasonably sized textured and poly count models, more so then any other modpack available, bar none. Poly count and texture size is the #1 cause of slowdown and MAF crashes (memory allocation failures), in fact the model standards for Legends of Revolution isn't that much different then BtS.

In previous version of LoR there were some other attributes that would cause slow down. Mainly the betterAI component, a smarter AI has more to think about, and if the computer resources are already being overloaded, this can cause the game to stall longer in between turns. However since LoR 0.9.6, and higher, the CAR mod has been incorporated in BBAI, no significant slow down has been noted in the new versions of BBAI (testing showed somewhere around a 4% increase in turn time, which is negligible and not noticeable for humans). BUG does introduce a feature which can cause slow down: Plot List Enhancements. These can be used to more quickly gain information from unit stacks, etc. Unfortunately the code for them is all in python, and is a bit overloaded, IMHO, that said alot of people will only play with the PLE. If you are noticing slow down and reduced performance accessing the BUG options (press Ctrl + Alt + O), and disabling the Plot List Enhancements (or PLE) options will definitely improve things. Lastly because this is meant to simulate an expansion pack and has come out more then 2 years after BtS, the poly count and texture size limit is slightly larger then Stock BtS. All of these combined really don't add to much, but it is still slightly more resource intensive then Beyond the Sword is. The main ways to improve performance are to reduce your map size, or get more RAM for your computer.


Q: Why does the Perfect World map script freeze, isn't this a critical bug?
A: Perfect World takes about 5 minutes to generate a Standard Size map on my computer (My computer is old though, it only takes about a minute to build a Huge map on a modern computer, I think I timed it once and it took about 100 minutes to build a huge map on this old thing I use ). It basically runs a tectonics and then a meteorological simulation to generate a realistic looking map; this takes a while. My guess is it's not freezing, you're just not giving it enough time to finish.

Here is a link to to the Perfect World map script thread if you want to read more information on it:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=310891


Q: Is there anyway I can help out the project?
A: There are quite a few ways, for sure. Just downloading it and playing it good; those of us who built this mod just like knowing it gets played. If you enjoy it, please also rate it The biggest help in my mind would be to spread the word, let people know about the mod. LoR has been released considerably later then most mods, and as such doesn't have a very large fanbase. Getting it more exposure would help quite a bit. Word of mouth and just telling people about the mod is good, and there are other ways to improve it's exposure; such as starting a succession game, I'd personally love to read one; writing down a story in an interesting format in the stories and tales forum would be cool also. If you're a fan of civilization these are interesting to read sometimes, especially the succession games which can have very novel approaches to playing civ; the succession games and stories and tales forums can be found here:

Civilization IV: Succession Games Forum
Civilization IV: Stories and Tales Forum

GoodGame's LoR Screenshot Album​

CREDITS​

The main developers of Legends of Revolution are:
phungus420 and achilleszero

Other moders or team members have helped in the development, by either being part of the Legends of Revolution Team, and helping with civilopedia entries, translations, etc, or are modders themselves and have helped build the core components of the mod:
Alsark, Merri, jdog5000, glider1, EmperorFool, PieceOfMind

Legends of Revolution would not have been possible without the work of other moders. Many thanks to:

EmperorFool, Good Game, and Snarko. These three have made it possible to expand the mod beyond it's humble begginings in WolfRevolution. EF for all his help in the Python SDK forum, Good Game for making it possible to clean up the Wolfshanze high poly units, and Snarko for helping me on IRC late night when I was coding things above my level (self taught C++ and Python here). Also PieceOfMind deserves a shoutout for his Advanced Combat Modcomp, a great modcomp incorporated here (and the modcomp that actually motivated me enough to learn some C++). I also greatly appreciate the help and feedback from nudden, The Capo, Refar, Zebra9, Dresden and others for providing me with useful feedback and help essential to the building of Legends of Revolution.
Edgecrusher for his compilation of Heros Units (though I did have to abandon his code, and write my own for it, I still stole utilized alot of his art). Oh and smeagolheart's Examine City on Conquest modcomp is great too; mechaerik for getting the parradrop animations working on the SF units, along with making some Ethnic variants. Avain for Varietas Delectat unit art, Geomodder for his ethnic city styles, Bakuel, bernie, the Capo, The Coyote, Ekmek, Arian and his movies, and tons of other artists I have ripped off incorporated art from
Let me know if I am leaving anyone else out...

Legends of Revolution was originally built out of WolfRevolution, a merge of the Wolfshanze mod and Revolution DCM. To get more in depth information on the mods that Legends of Revolution was built from, check out these links:
Wolfshanze's Revolution thread
Wolfshanze mod thread
RevolutionDCM thread
Those who created RevolutionDCM and the Wolfshanze mod also deserve credit, without them Legends of Revolution would not have been possible:

Wolfshanze
And those who he credits in his mod:
Refar, Elhoim, kodzi, Danrell, Hadrean, Snafusmith, Bernie, GeneralMatt, Houman, Zerver, asio, The Coyote and others

glider1 & jdog5000:
And those who he credits in his mod:
Moctezuma--creater or IDW, Ruff_Hi, Dale, Trojan Sheep, Solver, Dresden, Orion Veteran and others.

Changelog:
0.9.9b

• Fixed Major Bug that was causing Wonders to not be properly processed

0.9.9a

• Updated RevDCM core to 2.82
  
  Spoiler :

  • Bug fixes to autoplay and changeplayer found by Snake_b and Keldath
  • Added missing Finnish tags
  • Added multiplayer enforcer code
  • Aesthetic fixes to the Civilopedia unit section
  • Holy City Respawn code fixed and tested
  • Tweak to the AI pushReligious victory logic
  • Fixed nagging asserts in Civilopedia
  • PerfectWorld2g update
• Fixed Organized leader trait so that it's Revolution bonus is actually a bonus instead of a penalty
• Rewrote multiple Civilopedia strategy sections so that they were correct
• Added and updated Jeelen's 300AD scenario
• Added Events with Images modcomp (togglable in the BUG interface)

0.9.9

• Updated to RevolutionDCM 2.81 core
  
  Spoiler :

  
  

  • Limited Religion game option added to RevolutionInit screen
  • New RevDCM Perfect World map scrip added
  • Fix for Limited Religion founding
  • Fix for missionary logic selection and Inquisitions and Religious Victory AI behavior
  • Massive changes to Revolutions loading into BUG, all Revolutions options now accessible in the RevDCM tab (most are hidden, and are only revealed in debug mode)
  • Most unit spawning in BarbarianCiv and Revolutions changed to soft coded unit selection based on UnitAI types, rather then selecting a hardcoded unit type based on an XML string
  • Added Limited Religions Exceptions option in the RevDCM tab accessed in the BUG menu
  • BarbarianCiv new world logic fixes
  • RevEvents revCultureModifier bug fix
  • Gamespeed scaling fix for Global Warming
  • RevDCM now tracks Fuyu's Better BUG AI as well as Jdog5000's Better BTS AI.
  • Added documentation for modmakers explaining the UserSettings folder
  • Fixed Rev Trait Effects so that they are actually applied
  • Fix xml tech tag
  • Added Rev Building Effects
  • Fixed syntax issue in MovieMod module
  • Ranged bombard fix
  • Added Afforess's Battle Effects code cleanup
  • Added new doc RevolutionDCM_ModderInfo.txt
  • Added some minor optimizations to base BtS source code
  • Limited religion reimplemented in 2.8, in the SDK as a proper game option
  • Spanish translations added
  • Religious victory code optimized and debugged
  • Added ThomasSG trait code
  • Turned on World of Civilization Modular Loading
  • Unofficial patch Spy Random event and No Espionage Game Option fix
  • Added in RuthlessAI game option
  • Added New Global Define MP System
  • Fixed Rogue Popups with AI Autoplay Enabled
  • Set up code to successfully remove all Trait effects on leader changes
  • Added some new Great General AI logic
  • Fix for Civ4lerts with changePlayer
  • AIAutoPlay and Revolution.py changes needed to get "Defect and Lead Rebels" and "Accept Leader Changer" Revolution events to work.
  • Fixes to deal with religion founding weirdness in later era start games
  • Changed Dynamic Civ Names from a GameOption to a BUG option
  • Reapplied UP fix requiring a spy unit for spy unit event
  • RevDCM Options Correctly Initiate with new games, or when loading saves
  • Removed unnecessary and buggy Naval Bombard DCM component, now entirely handled by DCM Ranged Bombard
  • Hide unsupported DCM options: DCM Attack Support only visible as a toggleable option when in debug mode.
  • Fixed check in CvGameInterface.cpp for Archer Bombard, was checking if was ranged bombard
  • Performance improvements
  • Code cleanup - Ensured values in CvDefinesModTools.h actually points to something.
  • Code cleanup - All RevDCM GlobalDefineAlt values loaded into CvGlobals and exposed to python.
  • Removed DCM accuracy from Horse Archers.
  • Fixed a few more asserts being thrown by the debug dll
  • Fixed unresponsive ACO and other BULL options
  • Fix animal upgrade check bug
  • Fix free techs after forming PA late in game
  • Fix for no "Disband city?" popup when city flips and Revolution is not on
  • Fix Afforess's reported setNumRealBuilding to -1 fix in DCM bombing missions
  • Reapply fix for double disband city popup with no revolution
  • Updated Makefile to DannyDaemonic's faster makefile.
  • Fixed World of Civilization Modular Loading when the Mod Folder is not in Program Files Directory
  • Memory Leak Fix (Thanks Afforess)
  • AI no longer tips it's hand except to civs it is friendly toward
  • WHEOOHRN is still supposed to be shown if there are actual wars ongoing, hidden only if all there is is plans.
  • Tweak to WHEOOHRN trade denial and Ruthless AI
  • Corrected error reported in BBAI forums with worker logic and bDanger
  • ThomasSG's diplo display fix
  • Added AI awareness of Limited Religions Game Option
  • Fix for double religion founding with choose religions game option
  • Tech Cost modifier improved to account for Start as Minors and Tech Trading game options
  • Multiplayer mode now supported but not yet fully tested for games with more than two players.
  • Autoplay also works in MP mode.
  • Spanish translations added
  • Fully extricated Religion options from RevDCM 2.72 build ready for reimplementation in 2.8
  • Fixed issue with XML Tech tag
  • Added new doc RevolutionDCM_ModderInfo.txt
  • Fixed all nagging asserts in the debug DLL
  • Fixes to improve BUG options responsiveness
  • Fix bug in RevDCM where accepting AI takeover in an empire wide revolt results in python exception
  • Permanent alliance research bug fixed
  • Fix interface issue where BULL was not responding to BUG
  • Fix broken Religious victory bug in the Victory screen display
• Added Multiplayer enforcement code to keep games from going out of synch from different users having different RevDCM and BULL actions settings
• Added Dynamic Religion Spread option (in Bug menu option RevDCM tab)
• Overhauled units, All civs now have a single UU and UB
• Complete Diplomacy text for all leaders
• Tech tree opened up and less restrictive and reverted early tech tree to base BtS
• Fixed some text issues that were messing with Finish language, all languages supported (German and Spanish are nearly totally translated)

Version History

Full list of Download Mirrors:

• For BtS 3.19
  
  
• 1.0 Development Version
  
  
• LoR 0.9.9b (current version)
  • LoR 0.9.9b File Front Download
  • LoR 0.9.9b Strategy Informer Download
  • LoR 0.9.9 Mod DB Download
  
  
  
• LoR 0.9.8d+
  • Full Version
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ Strategy Informer Download
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ Mod DB Download
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ File Front Download
      LoR 0.9.8d+ Atom Gamer Download
      
  • Light Version (ethnic art, scenarios, blue marble add on removed)
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ (light) Strategy Informer Download
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ (light) Mod DB Download
    • LoR 0.9.8d+ (light) File Front Download
      LoR 0.9.8d+ (light) Atom Gamer Download
  
  
  
• LoR 0.9.7c
  • Full Version
    • LoR 0.9.7c -Filefront download mirror
    • LoR 0.9.7c -AtomicGamer download mirror
      
  • Light Version (ethnic art, scenarios, blue marble add on removed)
    • LoR 0.9.7c (light) -FileFront Download mirror
    • LoR 0.9.7c (light) -AtomicGamer download mirror
  
  
  
• Legends of Revolution 0.9.6c*
  • Full Version
    • LoR 0.9.6c* -FileFront Download Mirror
    • LoR 0.9.6c* -AtomicGamer download mirror
    • LoR 0.0.6c* -Strategy Informer Download Mirror
      
  • 0.9.6c, Light Version (ethnic art, scenarios, blue marble add on removed)
    • LoR 0.9.6c (light) -StrategyInformer download mirror
    • LoR 0.9.6c (light) -AtomicGamer download mirror
    • LoR 0.9.6c (light) -FileFront Download mirror
  
  
• Legends-of-Revolution-light-test-v0.9.5-Setup.exe
  
  
• Legends of Revolution v0.9.4b
  • Filefront LoR 0.9.4b Download
  
  
• Legends of Revolution v0.9.x3 Test Build (not stable, couple of critical art bugs)
  • Atomic Gamer LoRtest 0.9.x3 download

• For BtS 3.17
  
  
  • LoRtest 0.9.x2 (most advanced BtS 3.17 stable version)
    • Filefront 0.9.x2 download
    
    
  • LoR 0.8.2 (Last official version for BtS 3.17)
    • Strategy Informer LoR 0.8.2 download
    • FileFront LoR 0.8.2 download
    
    
  • Bronze Steam and Tears Alpha Builds
    • Atomic Gamer BST 0.6.0 download
    • Atomic Gamer BST 0.4 download
  
  
  
  
• WolfRevolution
  
  
  • For BtS 3.19
    • WolfRevolution 1.6.1 Strategy Informer download
    • WolfRevolution 1.6.1 Atomic Gamer Download
    • WolfRevolution 1.5.0 Atomic Gamer Download
    
    
  • For BtS 3.17
    • WolfRevolution 1.4.0 Atomic Gamer Download
    • WolfRevolution 1.4.0 File Front download
    • WolfRevolution 1.3.2 Strategy Informer Download
    • WolfRevolution 1.3.2 Atomic Gamer Download
    • WolfRevolution 1.3.2 File Front download

If you have any comments, suggestions, or issues, please post in a relevant thread in this forum, or start a new thread on it. I'd like to keep the main download thread clean.

Thank you.

0.9.6 official version released:

updated 13 Aug 2009:

See 2nd post for changelog

Legends of Revolution is now available again. Achilleszero has slaved away for hours and days fixing the art bugs in 0.9.6b, some of which were critical, and was why I removed the download for the last couple of weeks. *hopefully* these are all fixed now, if you do experience any issues, please report them in the bug reporting thread.


Legends beta: 0.9.6c Download Released 3 Sep 09:

• Many Art Fixes in full version
  • Includes multiple critical art bugs (This is why LoR was made unavailable for a while)
  • Includes various minor tweaks to ethnic art
  • Includes new optomizations, and expansion of the Expanded Graphics optional add on
• Minor Tweaks to traits, to remove any redundant trait combos
• Enlightened set back to +10% as per user requests

All 0.9.6 LoR versions, light, full, a,b,c are all save game compatible. So you can update from 0.9.6b and play on fine, or switch from light to the full version, swap saves for succession games with people using light and full versions; all such options will play on fine. However 0.9.6 versions are not backwards compatible, so LoR 0.9.6 is not save game compatible with 0.9.5 or below saves (so if you're in the middle of a 0.9.4b game, you should finish it before updating).

Torrent currently down.

New version released. This is a significant improvement (the known bugs list is nearly empty now ), nearly all issues with Single Player have now been fixed. Now we just have MP to deal with, and some art additions, and the mod will be out of beta.

Version 0.9.7 Released 22 Oct 09

• Updated RevDCM component to 2.6
  • Includes BetterAI 0.81M, significantly improves AI and performance as CAR mod components are incorporated
  • Super spy AI adjustments - AI chooses useful promotions including logistics
  • Updated to BUG 4.1.1, and BULL 1.0
  • Added the Global Warming mod by Minor Annoyance
  • Show Hidden Attitude mod merged and made a controllable interface option
  • The AI now is more Revolution aware and will keep its cities happier to avoid revolts
  • domestic advisor liberate city fix
  • Re-balanced BarbarianCiv for early barb settling as well as Barbarian World option
  • Improved German and Spanish translations, nearly fully translated and fully playable in German and Spanish
  • Fixed issue with "X have chosen to give up their independence" text
  • RevolutionDCM options can no longer be changed in a multiplayer game session
  • RevolutionDCM options from the options screen now update immediately (no longer required to reload when adjusting options in the RevDCM tab, accessible by pressing ctrl + alt + o in game)
  • Revolution watch advisor always shows national effects, and national effects are displayed in the city screen rev bar mouseover
  • Various BUG 4.1 fixes to civlerts and autolog to work with Revolutions
  • Modmodder & Scenario maker update notes
    
    Spoiler :

    
    

    • Fixed "Start as Minors" option in scenarios, this option now works as intended with no adverse consequences in a WBS file (scenario)
    • Interdependent random event fix woc
    • RevolutionDCM "debug" option becomes obsolete
    • Limited religion and choose religion code ported to BUG 4.1 standard
    • Revolution Inquisitions code ported to BUG 4.1 standard
    • Inquisition code adjustments to Revolutions mod and non-revolution mod effects
• Minor changes to LoR leaders
• Repacked Art
• Minor adjustments to some units

Legends of Revolution has been updated to version 0.9.8. It is not prior version save game compatible. The main notable changes are that you should no longer need to launch as an administrator on Vista and Windows 7, you may now disable Legend Units, and the AI will now no longer announce that it is preparing for war (WHEOOHRN diplo denial) unless all other diplomatic denials have been overcome. So don't expect that Orange fist to warn you about Stalin preparing for war if he hates you already, his diplo denial wol't change from "We just don't like you enough", so there will be no prior warning to invasion.


Changelog:

V 0.9.8 changelist:

• Fully updated to RevDCM 1.61 + current SVN changes
  • Updates betterAI version to .82j
  • Updates BUG component to 4.2
  • Eliminates Python Callbacks (should improve peformance)
  • Barbarian Civ settling now scales better with game speed
• Fully normalized LoR with BtS, so no crucial strings are missing (should make things easier on scenario makers)
  • Set back Civilizations (Austria reverted to the HRE, other changes are under the hood, such as changing the civilizations info string for Sioux to CIVILIZATION_NATIVE_AMERICA)
  • LSystem Files
  • Added back in missing unit strings such as UNIT_HORSE_ARCHER
• Add new game options, No Legends and No Wonders
• Updated installer. Removes need for "Launch as Admin" for Vista Users
• Removed Protected Cruiser and rebalanced Industrial Era Navy
• Art updates (Model for Babylonian Longbowman, Ethnic Spy and Achilleszero's General's models, Button for Roman Heavy Footman)
• Normalized Light and Full versions
• Set up GameSpeedInfos file so that LoR ends in 2100 AD with a 10% increase in default number of turns
• Add diplo text for all LoR leaders
• Update Scenarios to 0.9.8 build, and fixed all bugs in scenarios
• Changed order of DENIAL_TOO_MANY_WARS code in CvTeamAI.cpp
• More Translations; specifically German should be eniterely translated

Apologies to all Steam Users and people who's BtS copies had signed themselves into the current user registry rather then the local machine, as the LoR 0.9.8 installer messed up and said your copy wasn't updated and aborted. This is fixed now in the new installer. Legends of Revolution 0.9.8b released, mainly to fix the installer issue, but a couple of other bugs that were reported in the 0.9.8 build were also squashed in this updated as well.

This is a minor update to 0.9.8, so 0.9.8b is save game compatible with 0.9.8. Since 0.9.8 was not save game compatible with prior versions (0.9.7c and below), obviously 0.9.8b will not be either, so it is recommended you finish your 0.9.7 games before updating.


0.9.8b changelist:

• Fixed installer to correctly find BtS version on Steam and Current User installs (searches Global Defines file for 3.19 entry instead of checking the registry)
• Added Vietnam unit sounds
• Fixed broken Religious Victory
• Fixed Enhanced Graphics AddOn
• Fixed rare bug where Rebels were gifted Legendary Units as reinforcements

-0.9.8a

• Added Gaplus's Italian translations
• Added Snophru's German translations

Download Legends of Revolution 0.9.8b

LoR version 0.9.8c released:

Download Legends of Revolution 0.9.8c full version

Download LoR 0.9.8c (light) -aesthetic components like ethnic unit and city art removed

LoR 0.9.8b had a major bug in it where Victories did not work correctly. This is adressed in the 0.9.8c build. Currently other then the noted failure of multiplayer, Legends of Revolution version 0.9.8c is completely bug free. So it is recommended you update to the current version. I do realize downloading a large file is a problem for some people, and because there are nearly a 1000 users who have downloaded LoR versions 0.9.8 and 0.9.8b I will try to release a more reasonably sized patch for easy updating soon. However I must write new install scripting code for the patch to install correctly for different versions (such as light and full), and have it delete old files that have been removed in 0.9.8c that were present in other 0.9.8 versions. Thus it may take a few days for me to release a patch.

Edit adendum:
Minor update to the 0.9.8c release, as there was a bug found in the installer that raised a couple of red flags. If you installed LoR 0.9.8c and it dumped start menu shortcuts directly into your Star Menu Shortcuts folder, without separating them into their own section, I recommend you delete the uninstaller in LoR, and reinstall, rather then running the uninstaller. There were only 80 downloads of LoR 0.9.8c, and only a few of these could have experienced this bug, but it is worth noting.

0.9.8c+ changelist:
-Fixed installation issue with the start menu shortcuts on Complete installs
-Added Afforess's Python Callbacks
-More translations

0.9.8c changelog:

• Fixed broken victories
• Moved all Revolution.ini loading code into a standardized BUG format (under the hood for most users, but should eliminate the rare user specific cases of a Loss of Interface)
• Updated BUG UI to latest SVN (adds tech era information to tech screen)
• Added Snophru's German translations.

Legends of Revolution 0.9.8d released 9 March 10

0.9.8d changelist:

• Updated to a modified RevDCM 2.7 gamecore (modified to maintain save game compatibility with other 0.9.8 versions)
  • Fixes some MP issues, MP should be playable for most players, however it still will not connect for some.
  • Updated BUG and BULL components to 4.3 and 1.1 respetively
  • Updates BBAI component to 0.84+
  • Allows playing of any scenario that is compatible with BtS

yeah, have been waiting for this announcement.

phungus420 said:

I am no longer involved with this mod.

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What? Why not? Has the mod been abandoned?

StMikael said:

What? Why not? Has the mod been abandoned?

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I was going to stop with the release of 0.9.8d, yes. However I will finish up version 0.9.9 and release that. Multiplayer should be totally functional by then, at least I plan on supporting LoR until that is done. Without AchillesZero it is impossible to finish this mod though, and I am getting bogged down by art issues I simply cannot deal with and am not inclined to work on. Working on this project is no longer fun, it is more of a chore; I'll finish what I can, but I would like to quit relatively soon.

do you plan on modding again in the future?

Sorry to hear, I really enjoy your modding work. Best of luck in whatever you do next. What is in version 0.9.9, if you don't mind me asking?

Phungus: Sorry to hear this. When did Achilleszero leave the project, and why?

Has anybody made any scenarios for LoR?

I prefer its handling of revolutions more than Ancient Med, but I like playing a (somewhat) historically accurate scenario. I think I may have read somewhere that regular BtS scenarios will work with LoR. Is this correct?