Recent content by Cracatau

Hi! I'm not a modder, but since nobody else replied... I was interested in changing the behavior of barbarians and found that the code to modify is in barbarians.cpp (therefore you would need to compile the dll). It is interesting to read all the code in there, and yes, spawning more camps could...

unlimited xp from fighting barbarians is interesting on huge maps with few players and raging barbarians (i never knew units have so many upgrades). another very interesting experience is with the ironman mod, which offers 2 slower than marathon speeds (use it with no advanced start mod on...

what a relief...nobody proposed civ FPS :)

The company probably makes more money from selling a full game than from dlcs, and we'll lose interest at some point in playing this version - some issues i find minor now will become a show stopper later, inevitably. Besides, there are ways to improve and change some things in the game -...

nope, i'm farming them for culture :)

I'm actually looking to increase the rate of barbarian unit spawning..therefore it's clear the game should have more options in the advanced setup - now, the issue will be that we really need to have the standard set of settings so that people get to play a 'standard' game (or the 'same' game as...

Yes, that would be nice, choose the destination and the route (there might have been a discussion about this already). The option would still work - the player selects a route to change, but only gets the re-assign window when the route 'matures'.

Does anybody find the re-assignment of trade routes a bit too tedious? That screen is appearing way too often in a game, and most of the time I'm choosing the previous route anyway. Maybe the Trade Route Info window should have a check box for each route <automatic re-assign>, default value On...

On Marathon speed every decision matters more, and you get to promote military units; yes, the game lasts a long time, but it is intense (since i play anyway long hours, one game on marathon is better than 3 games on standard). Even better, for you marathon guys, try the ironman 2 mod -...