[Development Thread] Fictionalization IV

[Moogi]

I don't have BtS yet (I have a Mac... ) but once they release a Mac version, I'll definitely download this mod. It looks wonderful.

Just an odd suggestion, would Steven Colbert work as a leader? Sure, he's a real person, but he also plays a fictional version of himself on his show. Just a thought. I've been trying to find a Colbert leaderhead for a while.

 

[cfkane]

I don't have BtS yet (I have a Mac... ) but once they release a Mac version, I'll definitely download this mod. It looks wonderful.

Just an odd suggestion, would Steven Colbert work as a leader? Sure, he's a real person, but he also plays a fictional version of himself on his show. Just a thought. I've been trying to find a Colbert leaderhead for a while.

Well, he did run for president in Marvel comics, but lost to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, Colbert has never been a head of state either in real life or in fiction, so I can't use him as a leader.

 

[Moogi]

Well, he did run for president in Marvel comics, but lost to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, Colbert has never been a head of state either in real life or in fiction, so I can't use him as a leader.

Good point. Maybe you can add him to Fictionalization V after Colbert wins in 2012...

On a more serious note, have you ever considered adding Jim Hacker from the British TV series Yes, Minister in as an English leader? If you haven't heard of that show, you might want to check it out some time.

 

[cfkane]

Good point. Maybe you can add him to Fictionalization V after Colbert wins in 2012...

On a more serious note, have you ever considered adding Jim Hacker from the British TV series Yes, Minister in as an English leader? If you haven't heard of that show, you might want to check it out some time.

Oh, I know the show. And Hacker would be an interesting leader to use. I'm just a bit hesitant about giving England (or any civ for that matter) four leaders. I could ditch one of the current English leaders, but I'm too attached to the current lineup right now.

 

[cfkane]

Version 2.4 is now up.

Here's a link to the patch:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=11256

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

I posted this in the wrong thread... I recommend Achmed the Dead Terrorist for Arabia.

 

[LonZeR]

how about for a new religion "the illuminados" from resident evil 4.

I think i spelled illuminados wrong.

or or you could make it as a whole new civilization.

you could use Spain as your starting point because they are Spaniards and Saddler as the Leader. that would be cool.

 

[LonZeR]

oh yeah and for corporations "Sky Tech" from the Terminator movies

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

I just got an idea... President Camacho from Idiocracy.

 

[cfkane]

I'm probably not going to add any more leaders to America or Britain, they each already have three.

What I could really use are ideas for wonders and random events. If I'm going to add any more leaders, civs, or heroes, I'd like them to be from non-western sources. I don't want the mod to be too eurocentric or amerocentric.

 

[cfkane]

oh yeah and for corporations "Sky Tech" from the Terminator movies

Well, Cyberdyne is already in there...

 

[Moogi]

An idea for a random event could be the rise of organized crime. Crime syndicates (such as SPECTRE or Team Rocket- Pokemon supposedly takes place in an alternate version of Earth, after all) could suddenly appear in your cities and do things like sabotage your projects or steal money. Just a thought.

A (somewhat better) random event idea would be reincarnation, where a Great Person that you used earlier in the game returns to you.

 

[cfkane]

An idea for a random event could be the rise of organized crime. Crime syndicates (such as SPECTRE or Team Rocket- Pokemon supposedly takes place in an alternate version of Earth, after all) could suddenly appear in your cities and do things like sabotage your projects or steal money. Just a thought.

A (somewhat better) random event idea would be reincarnation, where a Great Person that you used earlier in the game returns to you.

Interesting...

I already have a recurring supervillain event where a villain appears in a city and raises maintenance costs and spreads unhappiness (I also have a superhero event which gives the opposite effect). I suppose I could work in some more crime-related events. I've been thinking about one where the mafia demand that a relative of theirs be in a Hollywood movie, and you can either comply with their demands and potentially receive a Great Artist, or wake up with a horse's head in your bed.

I don't know about reincarnation, just because it would be too hard to program, especially with the way Great People's Unique names work. Although I do want some hero units to reincarnate after they die.

 

[Moogi]

Interesting...

I already have a recurring supervillain event where a villain appears in a city and raises maintenance costs and spreads unhappiness (I also have a superhero event which gives the opposite effect). I suppose I could work in some more crime-related events. I've been thinking about one where the mafia demand that a relative of theirs be in a Hollywood movie, and you can either comply with their demands and potentially receive a Great Artist, or wake up with a horse's head in your bed.

I'm surprised that you liked my idea. It was really just a last-second thought, but I'm glad that you think it worth considering. Of course, if you do add more crime events, Team Rocket'll need to be there somewhere, methinks.

BTW, do you have the artwork for all the leaders in this thing posted somewhere? I'm interested to see your interpretations of the various characters in the mod.

 

[cfkane]

I'm surprised that you liked my idea. It was really just a last-second thought, but I'm glad that you think it worth considering. Of course, if you do add more crime events, Team Rocket'll need to be there somewhere, methinks.

BTW, do you have the artwork for all the leaders in this thing posted somewhere? I'm interested to see your interpretations of the various characters in the mod.

I've sketched together a few basic unit models and some custom buildings. I've yet to get a proper artist to help me on this, so I've been doing this all myself.

However, I have done a few custom leaderheads. I've released four and two more should be on the way soon. You can see them in the downloads archive.

 

[Prebral]

I have tried the MOD and like it, but it crashes too much to be playable at this moment. I know, that it is beta and do not understand this modding stuff, so - is there some way I can record some info about those crashes you can use for debugging? The crashes can not be repeated if the game is loaded again, so posting a save game is probably useless...

 

[cfkane]

Just tell me what you were doing when the mod crashed and I'll try to find the problem.

 

[Rorybob]

Dude, you kick ass.
But wasn't Big Brother the leader of Oceania?
Otherwise, keep up the rocket sauce.

 

[Prebral]

Just tell me what you were doing when the mod crashed and I'll try to find the problem.

As far, as I remember, it never happened on my turn - or at least not as a reaction to something I did :-(. It also seemed to come quite randomly, I suppose something AIs were doing triggered it. But I did not detect any pattern in news I have seen - could be anything - combat, GP generation, usage of some strange effect.
It seemed to be more common as the game progressed, I have had no crash during ancient times and crash abput every 10 turns at renaissance.

 

[cfkane]

Dude, you kick ass.
But wasn't Big Brother the leader of Oceania?
Otherwise, keep up the rocket sauce.

Yes, but the story takes places in London, and the ruling party is IngSoc, English socialism. Besides, it's implied in the book that America is the more dominant force in Oceanic policy, since the British Isles are renamed to simply Airstrip One, no more than a base for American forces.

As far, as I remember, it never happened on my turn - or at least not as a reaction to something I did :-(. It also seemed to come quite randomly, I suppose something AIs were doing triggered it. But I did not detect any pattern in news I have seen - could be anything - combat, GP generation, usage of some strange effect.
It seemed to be more common as the game progressed, I have had no crash during ancient times and crash abput every 10 turns at renaissance.

Okay, I'll start an advanced start game in the renaissance and see what comes up.