Mod that lowers city population when a unit is created?

[sman1975]

Does anyone know of a mod that reduces the city's population when a unit is trained and/or purchased in a city?

I'm working on a mod that needs this kind of capability. I've referred to @Machiavelli24's snippet here (as well as several other posts that reference this mod):

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/unit-created-event.547441/

Overall, the functions work quite well. However it relies on a "dummy promotion" to mark units that were just created. My problem with that, is the dummy promotion appears in the Unit Panel in the lower left-side of the game screen, and also in the Civilopedia - reusing the "Blitz" promotion icon. For those a***-retentive types such as myself, these artifacts harm the immersive quality of the mod.

So, if anyone knows of a mod that actually has already solved this problem (removing pop by 1 for each unit created/purchased), or a way to hide the dummy promotion from the Unit Panel UI and Civilopedia (a solution that doesn't require replacing the UIs), please let me know.

Thanks!

 

[whoward69]

CityTrained - see here https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/bnw-patch-version-1-0-3-276-new-lua-hooks.537056/ (assuming you're trying to this in Civ5 and not Civ:BE)

 

[sman1975]

Thanks, @whoward69 - I found the answer about 2 "oh-no seconds" after I posted this. Sent a report to the moderators to delete the post entirely.

The best method to use was found, ironically, at that link you sent, specifically this one:

GameEvents.CityTrained(ownerId, cityId, unitId, bGold, bFaithOrCulture)

It provides exactly the functionality I needed, plus reminded me that I can't simply rely on the Modiki for everything.

This particular method fires any time a unit is trained or bought (via gold, faith, or culture), which easily allowed me to know when I should test to see if that city's (cityId) population should be dropped.

Thanks, and sorry for the interruption...

 

[whoward69]

This particular method fires ...

I know, I wrote the code

Everyone of those events were taken from my DLL mod and added to the base game

 

[sman1975]

Firaxis took your code and added it? Man, talking about stretching the Modiquette to the limit!

Dare I ask if they threw a bob or two your way for the effort?

Seriously, that's quite a reference. I'm amazed (even moreso today) at your contributions to this game, and to making my mods what they are. I don't think any modder on the forum would have made even half their contributions if not for you.

So thanks, again!

 

[whoward69]

Read the small print of the game you're playing and you'll see that Firaxis have the rights to use anything players develop for it - no remuneration required.