Recent content by king_dean

Here's the bottom line, if the Strategy Guide commits no trademark or copyright infringement then it's 100% legal to sell and there's absolutely no legal action the game publisher can do about it.

Sure, for smaller "mods" that aren't that grande and deserving of a Strategy Guide that could be a viable option.

Okay, maybe you didn't read or something. They wouldn't be making money from the mod. They would be making money from a text document called a Strategy Guide that never mentions the name of the vanilla game. Pretty easy to understand, right? I can try to explain it in a different way if you...

I'm going to check with some attorneys to verify the legality, I'm thinking about creating a website where modders can sell strategy guides to their mods. That way their fans can support them, and they can get compensated for the hundreds of hours they put into their creations. To me it...

I'm working on what may become a very controversial and politically incorrect, yet highly believable and realistic, mod/scenario of a civil war in America in the year 2020. The basic premise is that the weight of the U.S. National Debt and a number of other economical factors trigger a...

Thanks brother, I'll give it a shot.................and, when are you getting on the Firaxis payroll?

Hi Whoward. Currently, on the menu screen it has random map as the default pre-selected button and the player needs to actually click below on 'scenario' to play the scenario. I'd like to flip that around where the scenario is pre-selected and if they want to play a random map to have to click...

It would be better if the scenario was auto-selected and random map was displayed below (instead of vice versa). What changes to the code would I have to make to do that?

This is pretty cool and I have successfully implemented it into CivRome, but it desperately needs 'random seed' in both the random map and the scenario. How do we put 'random seed' into the Lua script?

I guess I'll have to rip into that Lord of the Rings mod and see how he did it.

edit: sorry, wrong forum category...meant it for the Mod Category. I have my hands full with CivRome at the moment, but I think a really cool mod would be an epic 1000 or 2000 turn mod scenario of the World Map with 100 technologies, with dozens of buildings and units, that begins in 1776...

How would I enable Hot Seat multiplayer for my mod?

Thanks, that gives me hope. I'll look into it. :)

There's a promotion parameter called GreatGeneralCombatModifier in Civ5UnitPromotions.xml. I need a techy to dive into the source code and see if it's legit and operational or if it's just another dead pseudo-parameter that doesn't work. It doesn't seem to do anything for me.

You can hide any building or unit simply by creating an off-grid technology, lock the technology, and then place whatever you want in that technology. It's nice because you can give specific technologies to specific civilizations to unlock whatever might be in that technology.