Mod Preview: The Epic Mod

Originally I started this with the intention of just making a few changes to civ trying to make it a little more fun for me to play, but slowly over the last month has grown far larger then I ever imagined. I was going to release this a while ago but decided to hold off and have since decided to delay it and see if we cant create some competition for DyP

Im looking for any help I can get on this, expecially with building/wonder graphics and unique "tribe" units. Right now its just me and el justo working on it.

Now about the mod.
This is being designed as a replacement for the vanilla rules, so whenever you start a new game civ 3 will use this mod and generate a new map.

So far.....

Civs
No new civs added yet
Possibilities:
Brazil: I love the new leaderhead that was created and will have to add this civ
Israel (sp?)
Goths
Trojans
-any suggestions?-


UNITS
104 new units ( thanx to all the great unit creators)
These units include around 40 flavor units, 20 near future units, and 60 additional units for ancient-modern ages. With the main goal of the new units being to add an additional layer of strategy and realism

TECHS
Around 40 new techs
with new additions to all ages and extension of modern age into the near future. I will try to get some previews up soon.

GOVERNMENTS: 12 (In order of research)
tribal
monarchy
military state (spartan)
republic
feudalism
oligarchy
theocracy
democracy
totaliarism
communist
fascist
Socialist

SPECIALISTS

Four new specialists:
banker
beurocrat
alchemist
philosopher

RESOURCES

10 new
including titanium and stone

IMPROVEMENTS/WONDERS

2 uniques for each type of government
plus an additional 20 or so for all

TERRAIN

A few values have been changed with the goal being slightly larger population sizes

RULES

There have been quite a few rule changes. Including the addition of enslave and added impact of technology. The power spread from modern units to ancient units is 50% larger now.

Well theres your summary. So please if this peaks any of your interest and you think you might be interested in getting involved or helping out go ahead and pm me.

PS Comments and Suggestions are also welcome

i like the looks of it. off the top of my head, i can think of the following civs...not sure if you want ancient civs in place of modern civs or vice versa...
australia, canada, indonesia, poland, cuba, venezuela, colombia, argentina, maybe chile and peru. s america is vastly underpopulated in regular civ3. philippines, vietnam, pakistan, afghanistan to name a few more.
it'll be impossible to get all of them in the game. but these are a few that could be added.
resources: opium, buffalo, silver, natural gas, wheat, citrus fruits, bronze, clay, lumber/timber, rice
i like the govts and the added specialists. how will they affect gameplay?
there could be hundreds of new buildings and techs. what is the size of the map?

Any size map you want

Ive played quite a few games with this, I stopped using vanilla rules a long time ago, and the game balance seems really good. Ive seen the AI use all the governments, though for some reason they seem to be a little addicted to Theocracy. Ive only just added the specialists so ill have to wait see how that works out.
As far as the units go, I know players are a lot better at using stategy than the AI so I did change some rules in favor of them. But for the most part they use the new units pretty well. They especially love the attack choppers. They just love to do hit and run attacks into your territory.

EDIT: As far as civs go, I want to limit it only to civs that have had a large impact on history. The Goths were a ancient tribe from the area that is now russia. They fled to Europe because of the mongols. Were treated like Sh@% by the Romans and ended up rebelling against them.

i would have to use a world map w/ starting locations. no?
let me know if i could work on any one specific thing like buildings or tech advances or civilopedia entries for certain eras. if i know what to look for i can narrow it down better.

I have it set up so when you want to use the mod instead of loading it, you just click new game. Select what size map you want, temperature, wetness etc etc yadda yadda......

The buildings are really stumping me right now. Just not enough imagination I guess. I still need unique buildings for democracy, republic, monarchy and oligarchy. So I guess thats the first area I could really use your help in.

I think im done with the tech tree. Maybe just a little tweeking here and there. A few of the techs still need original icons. I had to reuse several of them. If I can figure out how to get a pic of it Ill save it and put it on here.

EDIT: speeking of techs, I forgot to mention those in the original post. Can I upload the .biq file onto xdrive so you can take a look at it?

ok. i'll brainstorm some about ancient buildings. i guess i'll try and think govt specific. which govt types are available during the ancient era anyway?

Do you want me to send you all the files? I think that would probally be the easiest, instead of trying to explain everything

There have been 41 views doesnt anyone have any comments??? suggestions??? critisicms???

how big is it? i say zip it up and put it on xdrive.

Ill upload everything but the units. Thats the biggest part. Excluding units its about 10 mb.

ok. i'll check it out later

So, what Techs have you added? Do you need Icons? I'll be happy to make some myself, if you'd like.

haven't DL'ed that stuff yet osu, just finished my finals yesterday. so i should have some time in the next few days

Heres a list of all techs added to the game

Modern Era
SuperComputers --might change this--
Advanced Agriculture
Human Genome Project
Quantum Physics
Nanomachines
Genetic Engineering
Fusion
Magnetic Field Containment
Advanced Synthetic Fibers

Industrial Age
Socialism
Mass Media
Advanced Production
Computers

Medieval Age
Espionage transfered to this age
Theocracy
Advanced Siege Engines (better name?)
Totaliarism

Ancient Age
Mining
Domestication (Probally will be changed)
Military State
Olympics
Wood Working

Non researchable tech
tribal

I do have icons for all techs, though some of them dont make a lot of sense. I could use better icons for-
Military State
tribal government
Magnetic Field Containment

PS Thanx again to all the great unit, building, and Icon creators. Alot of this work is really amazing!

am i missing something? is there a download for this one? It looks interesting to me...

--mj
arkiver

no. there's no DL b/c it's a preview thread. comments and suggestions are nice though

-What are the new units?
-How many turns?
-Playable in world map?

Heres the list of units copied out of my pediaicons text. Sorry didnt feel like typing them all out. Ive got 6 more to add, then im done.

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_AH64D
AH64D
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_ModernInfantry
ModernInfantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Siege_Cannon
Siege Cannon
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_FT17
FT17
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_T62h1
T62h1
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_M1A2Desert
M1A2Desert
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Dora-Gun
Dora-Gun
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Leopard1
Leopard1
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_T90
T90
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_B52
B52
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Scimitar
Scimitar
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Spy
Spy
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Grand_Battery
Grand_Battery
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Guard_Infantry
Guard_Infantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Nap_Infantry
Nap_Infantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Ship_of_the_line
Ship_of_the_line
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_halberdier
halberdier
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Marder
Marder
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Gladiator
Gladiator
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_FrenchTiger
FrenchTiger
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_GermanTiger
GermanTiger
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_SAS
SAS
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_BlackGhost
BlackGhost
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Ninja
Ninja
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_C47
C47
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Challenger2
Challenger2
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Throwing_Axeman
Throwing_Axeman
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Humvee
Humvee
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_APC
APC
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Sniper
Sniper
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Blackhawk
Blackhawk
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Pavehawk
Pavehawk
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Mujahidin
Mujahidin
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Native_American_Rifleman
Native_American_Rifleman
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_SuicideBomber
SuicideBomber
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Type_90
Type_90
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_MobileInfantry
MobileInfantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_F22Raptor
F22Raptor
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Indian_Rifleman
Indian_Rifleman
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Horse_Archer
Horse_Archer
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_RenaissanceAssassin
RenaissanceAssassin
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Peacekeeper
Peacekeeper
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Parachutiste
Parachutiste
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Green_Beret
Green_Beret
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Delta_Force
Delta_Force
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Ariete
Ariete
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Crusader_Knight
Crusader_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Norman_Knight
Norman_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Teutonic_Knight
Teutonic_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_English_Knight
English_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_French_Knight
French_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Spanish_Knight
Spanish_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Cataphract
Cataphract
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Lord
Lord
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Hessish_Infantry
Hessish_Infantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Trireme
Trireme
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Typhoon
Typhoon
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Jomon_Warrior
Jomon_Warrior
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_SS
SS
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Anti-Ship-Missle
Anti-Ship-Missle
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Hospitaler
Hospitaler
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_German_Knight
German_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Roman_Knight
Roman_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Legionarii_Fulminata
Legionarii_Fulminata
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Mozarab
Mozarab
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Auxilia
Auxilia
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Roman_Spearman
Roman_Spearman
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Imperial_Legion
Imperial_Legion
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Babylonian_Horseman
Babylonian_Horseman
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_U2
U2
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Arab_Knight
Arab_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Celtic_Knight
Celtic_Knight
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Mortar
Mortar
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_WW2_Battleship
WW2_Battleship
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_WW2_Carrier
WW2_Carrier
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Advanced_Submarine
Advanced_Submarine
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Advanced_Cruiser
Advanced_Cruiser
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Self_Propelled_Artillery
Self_Propelled_Artillery
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Nurse
Nurse
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Advanced_Tank
Advanced_Tank
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_VX_Gas_Launcher
VX_Gas_Launcer
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Guided_Missle_Frigate
Guided_Missle_Frigate
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Arjun
Arjun
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Naval_Mine
Naval_Mine
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_MKIV
MKIV
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Ironclad_Galley
Ironclad_Galley
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Huey
Huey
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Mechanized_Engineer
Mechanized_Engineer
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Cobra
Cobra
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Stealth_Attack_Boat
Stealth_Attack_Boat
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Hind
Hind
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Transport_Ship
Transport_Ship
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Advanced_Infantry
Advanced_Infantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_M60
M60
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_T55
T55
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_GI
GI
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Boomer
Boomer
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Advanced_Cruise_Missle
Advanced_Cruise_Missle
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_T28
T28
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Crusader_Tank
Crusader_Tank
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Heavy_Infantry
Heavy_Infantry
#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Napalm_Bomber
Napalm_Bomber

I could really use some help with ideas on unique buildings for governments.
Especially-----
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Republic
Democracy

But of course I also welcome Ideas on any of the governments.

ok. i've done some preliminary searches for ancient era/govt specific buildings...the best i could suggest at this point is to go into the graphics/modpack forum, sort by thread starter and check out these two creators in particular: Rufus T. Firefly and Ukas. Both have created a good share of buildings for all eras. The DyP govt specific buildings are nice, too. here's a link
Kal El's DyP Govt Specific buildings

I have a ton of the building graphics downloaded, I just dont have any idea what to call them or what to make them do.