IndieStone D.U.C.K.S mod
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Psycadelic_Magi
Hippie/Philosopher/Peanut
How is the AI going to handle founding religions, with regard to the names? Will you use real world religions (and if so will different civs have a preference for anything in particular)? Or create your own imaginary names, or even have a function that creates random names on the fly?
Also, will different civs have different preferences with regards to how their religions progress? I.e. will they have a 'favourite' feature(s), or something like that (arabs prefer monotheism, indians polytheism, aztecs like sacrificial themes etc), or simply customise the religion based upon the advantages that it would bring according to their situation? (this feature gives me more of X, which I am currently lacking etc.).
Also, will different civs have different preferences with regards to how their religions progress? I.e. will they have a 'favourite' feature(s), or something like that (arabs prefer monotheism, indians polytheism, aztecs like sacrificial themes etc), or simply customise the religion based upon the advantages that it would bring according to their situation? (this feature gives me more of X, which I am currently lacking etc.).
Garett20
Prince
That's precisely why they're waiting for the DLL.
Psycadelic_Magi
Hippie/Philosopher/Peanut
What I mean is, which of those things are you aiming for, not *how* they can be done. What is it they want to make the AI do when they do have the DLL?
Psycadelic_Magi
Hippie/Philosopher/Peanut
I understand that lol. I'm just asking what, ideally the AI will do when it comes to making a religion. What you'd LIKE them to do, I understand that getting them to know the system will be difficult, but assuming you manage it, what then? I'm sure you know what I mean
iRule
Warlord
Any news on this? I would love to have this mod... hopefully it would enrich the gameplay much more, as for now Civilization V is kinda bland.
Ryan F. Mercer
Whys
There have been moments in my online life when I've found myself wondering if I witnessed a death, and didn't know it.
CaptainBinky would have had to been in the car with him.
I think they just decided to bounce to another project for the time being. Hopefully anyway. Anyone have a link to their blog?
DragonBlood87
Chieftain
http://theindiestone.com/theblog/
Most recent post was by CaptainBinky on March 1st, so they're still around.
Ryan F. Mercer
Whys
{HUGS} 
Don't scare us like that. Was about to start praying for you.
Don't scare us like that. Was about to start praying for you.
Perhaps this mod could eventually incorporate a linguistics system, allowing you to choose the general sound palate, syntax, writing system, and other factors of your language, making diplomacy with those whose languages are similar easier, and harder with those whose language differs vastly, although it probably wouldn't affect late-game diplomacy too much.
for example, with writing, you could have:
The basic CAVE ART, which leads to IDEOGRAPHS, which splits into CUNEIFORM and HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT, and HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT can split into PURE SYLLABARY and HALF-HANZI (Like Japanese), and CUNEIFORM could have a single follow-up, LATINESQUE.
All this could go hand-in-hand with an espionage system, too. for example:
Use the previous example, Espionage is more difficult to conduct on a nation with HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT if the spy is from a nation that uses LATINESQUE.
for example, with writing, you could have:
The basic CAVE ART, which leads to IDEOGRAPHS, which splits into CUNEIFORM and HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT, and HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT can split into PURE SYLLABARY and HALF-HANZI (Like Japanese), and CUNEIFORM could have a single follow-up, LATINESQUE.
All this could go hand-in-hand with an espionage system, too. for example:
Use the previous example, Espionage is more difficult to conduct on a nation with HANZI-LIKE SCRIPT if the spy is from a nation that uses LATINESQUE.
TheChanger
Warlord
im not a fan of this idea, it seems unnecessarily complicated for too little gain. besides, thats what translators are for
DragonBlood87
Chieftain
I don't know that that would be even worthwhile, from a historical perspective, to implement. In all of the first-time cultural contacts I'm familiar with, it did not take long at all for the different cultures to be able to communicate with each other. Can you name any examples where communication was a long-standing barrier to diplomacy?
Wow, awesome idea! I see you've put a lot of thought into this!
I would definitely like to help you out with this mod. And I dare say that it can be done without the DLL (some features may be easier to do with it, but I'm sure we can do it anyhow).
Let me know what you have already and I can apply my work to adding some lua scripting to bring it all together!
I would definitely like to help you out with this mod. And I dare say that it can be done without the DLL (some features may be easier to do with it, but I'm sure we can do it anyhow).
Let me know what you have already and I can apply my work to adding some lua scripting to bring it all together!
Valkrionn
The Hamster King
Actually, you can't.
Not if you want the AI to use it intelligently, that is.
Not if you want the AI to use it intelligently, that is.
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