Warlords: Epic -mod
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1. Info
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This mod is my attempt to enhance Civilization 4 to a whole new level. Ever since Civilization 1 I've liked this series a lot but during Civ 3 I found mods Double Your Pleasure and bit later Rise and Rule which made the game be so much more fun than before that when finally Civ 4 was released, I felt disappointed as it didn't offer as much as did DYP or RAR. Civ 4 had some new elements like religion and civic system (like in Alpha Centauri) but I wanted more techs, more units, more complexicity so I began working on my own mod. I started by going through most of the popular mods and check what's been done already and then by using those mods loosely as my guide, I created this mod.
This mod is specifically designed for myself and I continue to make changes to the direction that I feel like is correct and which make me like more this game. Aim of the mod is to be more accurate historically which is why the whole tech tree has been redone and many new techs has been added. Some tech changes are still in consideration. New techs meant much more room for new buildings and for new units and adding those was my next step. Once I had added most techs, units and buildings it came clear to me that I need to redo unit categories, promotions and change many unit abilities so that more modern units are really superior to older unit types. I limited the maximum amount of World Wonders to 3 per city as in real life all the great wonders are scattered around the globe. Player has to choose more carefully what to build where and because of new limit, the wonders spread out more and don't pile up into few big cities.
I used most of my freetime past six months to make this mod so there are numerous changes compared to original game but I didn't keep record of every little change. I use Civilopedia all the time to keep up with the changes, though civilopedia is lacking pedia, help and strategy info for almost all new things but at least the basic info is informative enough.
There are still many balancing issues left - I just haven't had enough time to test my mod more than couple times since the whole game takes so long on marathon mode.
There are some things still on my to-do list but many of them require SDK skills which I don't have so it may take some time before I can add those changes. If you got good SDK modding skills and want to help me, please let me know.
Near future techs also require some attention, that is the part of tech tree that I'm not 100% done yet as it's been bit difficult to do research on what might be really discovered during the next 100 years. In this part I used Galactic Civilization and Alpha Centauri games as guides so if you've played those games you'll notices similarities in techs names. To keep it bit more realistic, I've gone through dozens of science articles and science websites to look info about near future techs. At this point these techs are mostly empty but that'll change in later versions.
I always play my mod on Marathon game speed and on huge map so the changes are aimed for these settings. I prefer making custom game and use Smartmap mapscript for making good continental maps.
No other language support than English at the moment.
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2. Features
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* 132 New techs
* 65 New buildings
* 33 New Wonders
* 48 New unit classes
* Ethnically Diverse Units
* 3 new religions
* 2 New Map sizes: Giant (54% bigger than Huge), Gigantic (50% bigger than Giant ie. 134% bigger than Huge)
* 3 New Projects
* New Civics with 3 new categories (Education, Healthcare, Cultural Values)
* New Improvements
* New resources
* New promotions
* New unit categories, modern units are superior to ancient units
* Sevopedia
* Upgradeable improvements
I have working 1.0beta version ready but I'm not uploading it just yet to internet. I'd like to get some comments from all of you before I make it public.
Current zipped size is around 35megs and unzipped size around 100 megs.
So what's been added to the mod (Version 1.0beta):
New Techs
Some near future techs are still missing new button graphics.
New Buildings
I've reused existing building graphics for most new buildings as there's only a limited amount of community made building graphics available.
New Wonders
New Units
I think the total amount of new units with new graphics is somewhere around 170-200 at the moment.
New unit categories
New Projects
New Resources
New Religions
I have plans to add many more new religions once I have time to learn to edit gamefont.tga files.
New Civics
Civics probably receive few more additions later...
New worker actions
New citizens
Global define changes
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Start year set to 6000BC
Commerce Percent change increment 5% instead of 10%
Initial trade routes in cities 0 until tech Trade is discovered.
Food comsumption per population 3 (orig. was 2), farms produce more food to compensate this
Max trade routes per city increased from 8 to 12
Rivers can be closer to each other
Barbarians can get 20 experience (orig. was 10)
Max World Wonders per city has been set to 3 (was unlimited)
Max Team Wonders per city has been set to 3 (was unlimited)
Base city food requirement for growth increased from 20 to 22 (cities grow bit slower)
Fresh water gives now 1 health (orig. was 2)
Dirty power gives -4 health penalty to city (orig. was -2)
Other Changes
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Mine +2 prod -> +1 prod, +1 prod with roads and railroads, +1 prod with modern seismology, +1 commerce with railroads
Lumbermill +1 commerce with ecology, +1 prod with railroad, ecology and mass transit
Barricaded fort +30% def, +1 prod, +1 commerce with usury
Fortress +40% def (think medieval castle), 1 commerce with tech usury and civic vassalage, +1 prod with hereditary rule
Farm, +1 food with biology, agricultural engineering, gene manipulation and machine tools
Fishing Boats, +1 commerce and food with tech sonar
Offshore platform +1 prod and commerce with modern seismology
Pasture +2 commerce with gene manipulation, +1 commerce with refrigeration
Plantation +1 commerce with agricultural engineering, +2 commerce with gene manipulation
Well +1 prod and commerce with modern seismology
Winery +1 food and commerce with agricultural engineering
Farm basic food prod 1 -> 2
City plot food 2 -> 3
cottage and Town food prod +1
Oil and Coal health -1
Market +25% commerce -> +20% commerce
Harbor +50 commerce -> +25% commerce, moved to Seafaring
Jungle movement 2 -> 3
Jungle growth 16 -> 20
Jungle cut time 400 -> 800
Jungle cut production 0 -> 50
Forest growth 8 -> 16
Forest cut time 300 -> 500
Oasis appearance 500 -> 1000
Road Build time 200 -> 300
Railroad build time 300 -> 400
Desert move cost +1
Tundra move cost+1
Snow move cost +1
Elephant units are able to build some improvements like roads and forts and clear out forests
Roman Swordsman unit is able to build roads and forts. This unit starts with promotion March (heals unit while moving)
Arabia builds Ansar warriors instead of Crusader. Note that while crusader is melee unit, ansar warriors are mounted and Ansar warriors don't need all the same resources as crusaders need.
China has Ancient Cannon unit instead of Catapult. Unit abilities are the same for both units.
Most resources no longer give +1 happiness when improvement built on to them. Instead you need to have a building in your city that makes use of those resources and then you get happiness from them.
Stealth is a hidden TECH, can be found only by building certain building.
Christianity can have 6 missionarys instead of 3.
Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism do not receive missionary when founded
All Gunpowder units are Troop units that can be transported on certain armored vehicles on land (unit has text: Carries Troops).
Game turn amounts changed for all game speeds (mod designed for marathon game)
Unit XP giving buildings are now:
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3. Things to do (some will just stay as ideas)
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- ranged bombardment: missiles, better artillery
- disasters: plague, volcano, hurricanes, earthquake
- ecology system: sea currents that affect ship movement, drought, floods, deserts that expand over time, moving sea food resources
- Leader civics -> government divided to 2 different groups, leader and advisors
- properly working helicopters (fly over lakes, coast)
- buildings that need electricity (power) as requirement for any production, including science, health, food, hammer, culture, happiness, commerce
- production lines
- civil war that divides your empire to 2 different civilization
- more resources: saltpeter, rubber, tea, tar, perfumes, jewellery, plastic, olives
- more religions
- near future tech tree
- air unit promotions
- roman units: scorpio, onageri, ballista
- ancient steam power, romans had flamethrowers, secret tech maybe?
- more diverse terrain
- add shrines to new religions, make great prophets build them
- add religion specific crusader units
- immigration
- local resources (food gets spoiled on long trade trips, needs techs like refrigeration to expand trade distance for food resources)
- include techs: cement, brick making, seismology (was found at medieval age), vaccination, concrete, federalism, social democracy, ergonomics etc...
- civic specific buildings
- sieges, having troops near enemy city prevents enemy units exiting city and enemy units entering the city outside, only way is to fight through siege units, sort of zone-of-control.
- angry city after x turns adds angry citizen unit to one of the city plots. This unit is barbarian unit so it would pillage your improvements and/or attack their previous city. Simulates rioting citizens.
- add new resource/religion icons to gamefont.tga (don't know yet how to edit those files)
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4. Mods combined fully or partially
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Ethnically Diverse units
Modern Warfare
Nautil's air units mod
Greenmod 2.10
Sevopedia 2.2
Total Realism 2.1
Caravan mod
Civics'n'Stuff
Civ4 Community Core Project
Techwindow
Improved Leaders & Civics
Visa (some graphics and promotions)
SDK changes from Civ4 Community Core Project are included, SDK changes from any other mod have not been included. I have no skills or tools to make SDK changes to this mod on my own so I decided to use CCCP.
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5. Mods that I have used as a guide when making my own mod
=======================================
RAR 1.04 for Civilization 3
Sevomod
Visa
Eusubius World Religion - Revival mod
SD-Religion
So, here we are finally in the end. How this mod sounds so far? I'm open for suggestions, criticism and comments. I'm kind of waiting the next expansion and was hoping to convert this mod to it once the new expansion is on sale (I really would like to add corporation system to this mod) but since I have this warlords version almost ready, I figure I could release this soon.
If you have name suggestion for this mod please share it, I don't know if Epic is already taken and to me it sounds bit dull. I just used it as it kind of describes this mod...
========================
1. Info
========================
This mod is my attempt to enhance Civilization 4 to a whole new level. Ever since Civilization 1 I've liked this series a lot but during Civ 3 I found mods Double Your Pleasure and bit later Rise and Rule which made the game be so much more fun than before that when finally Civ 4 was released, I felt disappointed as it didn't offer as much as did DYP or RAR. Civ 4 had some new elements like religion and civic system (like in Alpha Centauri) but I wanted more techs, more units, more complexicity so I began working on my own mod. I started by going through most of the popular mods and check what's been done already and then by using those mods loosely as my guide, I created this mod.
This mod is specifically designed for myself and I continue to make changes to the direction that I feel like is correct and which make me like more this game. Aim of the mod is to be more accurate historically which is why the whole tech tree has been redone and many new techs has been added. Some tech changes are still in consideration. New techs meant much more room for new buildings and for new units and adding those was my next step. Once I had added most techs, units and buildings it came clear to me that I need to redo unit categories, promotions and change many unit abilities so that more modern units are really superior to older unit types. I limited the maximum amount of World Wonders to 3 per city as in real life all the great wonders are scattered around the globe. Player has to choose more carefully what to build where and because of new limit, the wonders spread out more and don't pile up into few big cities.
I used most of my freetime past six months to make this mod so there are numerous changes compared to original game but I didn't keep record of every little change. I use Civilopedia all the time to keep up with the changes, though civilopedia is lacking pedia, help and strategy info for almost all new things but at least the basic info is informative enough.
There are still many balancing issues left - I just haven't had enough time to test my mod more than couple times since the whole game takes so long on marathon mode.
There are some things still on my to-do list but many of them require SDK skills which I don't have so it may take some time before I can add those changes. If you got good SDK modding skills and want to help me, please let me know.
Near future techs also require some attention, that is the part of tech tree that I'm not 100% done yet as it's been bit difficult to do research on what might be really discovered during the next 100 years. In this part I used Galactic Civilization and Alpha Centauri games as guides so if you've played those games you'll notices similarities in techs names. To keep it bit more realistic, I've gone through dozens of science articles and science websites to look info about near future techs. At this point these techs are mostly empty but that'll change in later versions.
I always play my mod on Marathon game speed and on huge map so the changes are aimed for these settings. I prefer making custom game and use Smartmap mapscript for making good continental maps.
No other language support than English at the moment.
========================
2. Features
========================
* 132 New techs
* 65 New buildings
* 33 New Wonders
* 48 New unit classes
* Ethnically Diverse Units
* 3 new religions
* 2 New Map sizes: Giant (54% bigger than Huge), Gigantic (50% bigger than Giant ie. 134% bigger than Huge)
* 3 New Projects
* New Civics with 3 new categories (Education, Healthcare, Cultural Values)
* New Improvements
* New resources
* New promotions
* New unit categories, modern units are superior to ancient units
* Sevopedia
* Upgradeable improvements
I have working 1.0beta version ready but I'm not uploading it just yet to internet. I'd like to get some comments from all of you before I make it public.
Current zipped size is around 35megs and unzipped size around 100 megs.So what's been added to the mod (Version 1.0beta):
New Techs
Spoiler :
New Buildings
Spoiler :
New Wonders
Spoiler :
New Units
Spoiler :
I think the total amount of new units with new graphics is somewhere around 170-200 at the moment.
New unit categories
Spoiler :
New Projects
Spoiler :
New Resources
Spoiler :
New Religions
Spoiler :
New Civics
Spoiler :
New worker actions
Spoiler :
New citizens
Spoiler :
Global define changes
---------------------
Start year set to 6000BC
Commerce Percent change increment 5% instead of 10%
Initial trade routes in cities 0 until tech Trade is discovered.
Food comsumption per population 3 (orig. was 2), farms produce more food to compensate this
Max trade routes per city increased from 8 to 12
Rivers can be closer to each other
Barbarians can get 20 experience (orig. was 10)
Max World Wonders per city has been set to 3 (was unlimited)
Max Team Wonders per city has been set to 3 (was unlimited)
Base city food requirement for growth increased from 20 to 22 (cities grow bit slower)
Fresh water gives now 1 health (orig. was 2)
Dirty power gives -4 health penalty to city (orig. was -2)
Other Changes
----------------
Mine +2 prod -> +1 prod, +1 prod with roads and railroads, +1 prod with modern seismology, +1 commerce with railroads
Lumbermill +1 commerce with ecology, +1 prod with railroad, ecology and mass transit
Barricaded fort +30% def, +1 prod, +1 commerce with usury
Fortress +40% def (think medieval castle), 1 commerce with tech usury and civic vassalage, +1 prod with hereditary rule
Farm, +1 food with biology, agricultural engineering, gene manipulation and machine tools
Fishing Boats, +1 commerce and food with tech sonar
Offshore platform +1 prod and commerce with modern seismology
Pasture +2 commerce with gene manipulation, +1 commerce with refrigeration
Plantation +1 commerce with agricultural engineering, +2 commerce with gene manipulation
Well +1 prod and commerce with modern seismology
Winery +1 food and commerce with agricultural engineering
Farm basic food prod 1 -> 2
City plot food 2 -> 3
cottage and Town food prod +1
Oil and Coal health -1
Market +25% commerce -> +20% commerce
Harbor +50 commerce -> +25% commerce, moved to Seafaring
Jungle movement 2 -> 3
Jungle growth 16 -> 20
Jungle cut time 400 -> 800
Jungle cut production 0 -> 50
Forest growth 8 -> 16
Forest cut time 300 -> 500
Oasis appearance 500 -> 1000
Road Build time 200 -> 300
Railroad build time 300 -> 400
Desert move cost +1
Tundra move cost+1
Snow move cost +1
Elephant units are able to build some improvements like roads and forts and clear out forests
Roman Swordsman unit is able to build roads and forts. This unit starts with promotion March (heals unit while moving)
Arabia builds Ansar warriors instead of Crusader. Note that while crusader is melee unit, ansar warriors are mounted and Ansar warriors don't need all the same resources as crusaders need.
China has Ancient Cannon unit instead of Catapult. Unit abilities are the same for both units.
Most resources no longer give +1 happiness when improvement built on to them. Instead you need to have a building in your city that makes use of those resources and then you get happiness from them.
Stealth is a hidden TECH, can be found only by building certain building.
Christianity can have 6 missionarys instead of 3.
Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism do not receive missionary when founded
All Gunpowder units are Troop units that can be transported on certain armored vehicles on land (unit has text: Carries Troops).
Game turn amounts changed for all game speeds (mod designed for marathon game)
Unit XP giving buildings are now:
Spoiler :
===========================================
3. Things to do (some will just stay as ideas)
===========================================
- ranged bombardment: missiles, better artillery
- disasters: plague, volcano, hurricanes, earthquake
- ecology system: sea currents that affect ship movement, drought, floods, deserts that expand over time, moving sea food resources
- Leader civics -> government divided to 2 different groups, leader and advisors
- properly working helicopters (fly over lakes, coast)
- buildings that need electricity (power) as requirement for any production, including science, health, food, hammer, culture, happiness, commerce
- production lines
- civil war that divides your empire to 2 different civilization
- more resources: saltpeter, rubber, tea, tar, perfumes, jewellery, plastic, olives
- more religions
- near future tech tree
- air unit promotions
- roman units: scorpio, onageri, ballista
- ancient steam power, romans had flamethrowers, secret tech maybe?
- more diverse terrain
- add shrines to new religions, make great prophets build them
- add religion specific crusader units
- immigration
- local resources (food gets spoiled on long trade trips, needs techs like refrigeration to expand trade distance for food resources)
- include techs: cement, brick making, seismology (was found at medieval age), vaccination, concrete, federalism, social democracy, ergonomics etc...
- civic specific buildings
- sieges, having troops near enemy city prevents enemy units exiting city and enemy units entering the city outside, only way is to fight through siege units, sort of zone-of-control.
- angry city after x turns adds angry citizen unit to one of the city plots. This unit is barbarian unit so it would pillage your improvements and/or attack their previous city. Simulates rioting citizens.
- add new resource/religion icons to gamefont.tga (don't know yet how to edit those files)
=======================================
4. Mods combined fully or partially
=======================================
Ethnically Diverse units
Modern Warfare
Nautil's air units mod
Greenmod 2.10
Sevopedia 2.2
Total Realism 2.1
Caravan mod
Civics'n'Stuff
Civ4 Community Core Project
Techwindow
Improved Leaders & Civics
Visa (some graphics and promotions)
SDK changes from Civ4 Community Core Project are included, SDK changes from any other mod have not been included. I have no skills or tools to make SDK changes to this mod on my own so I decided to use CCCP.
=======================================
5. Mods that I have used as a guide when making my own mod
=======================================
RAR 1.04 for Civilization 3
Sevomod
Visa
Eusubius World Religion - Revival mod
SD-Religion
So, here we are finally in the end. How this mod sounds so far? I'm open for suggestions, criticism and comments. I'm kind of waiting the next expansion and was hoping to convert this mod to it once the new expansion is on sale (I really would like to add corporation system to this mod) but since I have this warlords version almost ready, I figure I could release this soon.
If you have name suggestion for this mod please share it, I don't know if Epic is already taken and to me it sounds bit dull. I just used it as it kind of describes this mod...
![Impaler[WrG]](https://civfanatics-data.community.forum/avatars/m/73/73222.jpg?1475248346){kind=avatar}
It's not ready ? 
