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Is it possible to edit the xml's to assign the capacity to move units through another civ's territory to defense pact or vassal relationships, rather than open borders?

I've read a few things that touch upon the subject. Diamond argues in Guns, Germs and Steel that farming allowed food surpluses, which brought about classes of people not engaged in non-food activities such as crafts, administration and invention. The reason why people sustained themselves on...

So what you're saying is that it's telling me there's a global separatism effect but it isn't actually happening? I could live with that.

Would that normally be in another python file?

I have another request that's probably weird: does anyone knowledgeable in python know how to disable the part of the revolution component that causes separatism to increase with being ahead in score or military power? I had a look in Revolutions.py and I suspect it's the code between lines 625...

Perhaps I was a bit unclear here. I'm asking whether it's possible to change the difficulty setting of an existing save (and not of a new game). I vaguely remember the world builder allowed you to do this, but perhaps I'm confusing RI with another mod in this. Other suggestions to raise the...

Didn't this mod have an option in the world builder that allowed you to change the difficulty setting? I'm currently enjoying a save but I realised that I should have picked a higher difficulty.

Are saves from 3.55 meant to compatible for 3.57? I installed the latest version from (what I assume to be) 3.55, but I get a CTD when I try to load an old save. (Also, how do you see what version you're in? I think I was in 3.55 but I'm not absolutely sure). On another note: @Walter Hawkwood...

Graphic image: Torched family of 5-6 in Bucha: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tw0gov/another_shocking_russian_war_crime_in_bucha/ https://www.google.com/maps/@50.5477088,30.2488489,3a,75y,178.12h,81.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_bNlWZ4Arz9yhvcYOZH6ag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 [edit] Had another...

A number of witness reports collected by HRW: Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas Summary Executions, Other Grave Abuses by Russian Forces Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the city of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. © 2022 ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via...

I can confirm there unfortunately are hipsters outside of the US.

The Economist's analysis of the latest round of financial sanctions:

The way this war is going we'll soon be hearing from certain quarters that Putin is actually a plant installed by the West to ruin Russia.

Charred column of vehicles (no bodies as far as I've seen) : https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t240v6/russia_is_suffering_from_heavy_losses_while_the/ Shades of The Highway of Death during the Gulf War. Makes you hope Ukraine might actually pull through.

Here's a page that documents confimed equipment losses based on pictures https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html Looks like Ukraine really is giving them hell.