Sea Harvest [Modular] 2.7

First of all : Thanks to Sarkyn for the great ideas

This minimod is focused on the oceans. It consists of 3 small mods :

Offshore Wind Farms gives a build option for workboats on coast after Modern Seismology. It will give : +1 and +1 (Environmental Economics +1 and +1 ). Cost 20 , takes a couple of turns and consumes the workboat.

Fish Farms works much the same way as fishing boats (+1 ) with the exception it can be build both on resources and coastal areas. It also gives a small chance of discovering ocean resources the same way the farm do. Cost : 15 , takes a couple of turns and consumes the workboat. Available after Ecology.

Chart Sealanes gives the workboat (for now, maybe I add more) the abillity to chart sealanes after Cartography. In basics this will give increased trade (+1 ) and provide faster movement for ships (x2). It doesnt cost anything and will not consume the workboat. For now it is illustrated by a sunken fishing boat, but I will eventually replace it with an anchor. (When I learn how to make .nif's).



Download moved to Vincentz Mods

Simple as that

Hello,

Fortunately, I caught your comment in main RoM forum to someone else about this but I propose that you always write update post in addition to updating your first post because the forum mechanics don't recognize inner post editing, just additional posts.

Thanks!

I'm just about to start another (probably quite long) game, so I thought I'd give this a quick bump and see if anyone can point me/Vincenz in the direction of the BUOY graphic in the original Firaxis files?

Just go ahead Sarkyn Any replacement will be savegame compatible. By the time you'll get to carthography I'll (hopefully) have a replacement. I made a request for an anchor at the graphic request thread a week ago, and hopefully someone will pick it up soon.

Vincentz, I noticed on advanced start that the AI would be able to build "Charted Sealanes" over land. Could you fix this?

How advanced was the start? Did it include cartography or is it before?

Edit : Nevermind. Fixed Will be uploaded in Vincentz Mods after the 2.71 update.
If you cant wait just change : Seaharvest_CIV4RouteInfos.xml

<iAdvancedStartCost>10</iAdvancedStartCost> to
<iAdvancedStartCost>-1</iAdvancedStartCost>

I don't know if this works or if you care, but I found a bouy graphic. I don't know who originally made it, I found it when I was looking through some older modcomps.

View attachment Genetic_buoy.zip

Nice. Thanks It will definately work as a latemodel.

Afforess said:

I don't know if this works or if you care, but I found a bouy graphic. I don't know who originally made it, I found it when I was looking through some older modcomps.

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That looks very cool

When I said Buoy, I meant one of those tiny little red/orange high visibility plastic things, maybe the size of a large football. But that's a seriously hardcore Buoy, definitely for the Modern era and beyond.

I noticed that roads on land change to connect to sealanes when they're built adjacent to land. For example, because there're sealanes next to paved roads along the coast, the paved roads occasionally form a lemming path out to sea.
I also noticed another bug that made much less sense to me. When I captured an enemy's city and razed it, instead of a road or path being put down, a sealane was placed along with the dead city.

the first is a feature, not a bug

the second will be fixed in a update soon. Its because of the priority of the route.

vincentz said:

the first is a feature, not a bug

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Hmm, I guess I can see how a sealane might represent a port, but if you build them in the middle of nowhere like I do it starts looking a little strange.

can you take a screen shot. IMO its strange that roads dont lead down to the sea before the sealanes

Well it's not weird they lead TO the sea, it's weird they lead INTO it...

Would there be any way to make charted sealanes not pillage-able?

It doesn't make sense, as it stands. The AI loves to pillage it's little heart out, and if it's (as we've called it) a chart of sea lanes allowing faster movement (and more efficient commerce), then it can't be pillaged.

If it can't, maybe we should use the Buoy graphic and rename it "Navigation Buoys" or something instead...

I dont think that routes can be made permanent unfortunately. However I think that somehow charted sea lanes can be interrupted/pillaged. Just look at the coast of Somalia

I like these. Could you ever add a "wave power plant" for coastal cities only to this mod?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power