Recent content by Maestro_3295

I think you may have uncovered what was wrong with my original experiment. The Warlords info was overwriting my info. Furthermore, I think there was some sort of schema change between the base game and Warlords, because the original xml file caused errors, even when unchanged. I found a...

I created a mod folder. At first I copied the whole assets folder from BtS in. That pissed the game off when I tried to load my mod. Then I copied just the terrain xml files, and added in the bonusinfos file from the base game. It didn't like that either. Some sort of schema error. As a...

After years and years, I've come back to Civ 4, and this time, Ima take a crack at modding. So, I do some research, and dig into some stuff, and I figure I start small. I want to change the resource value of a bonus. I go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's...

You're such a smartass Dairuka! I thought you were sort of annoying at first, but the more I've read, the funnier you seem to be. The forums are better from your comments.

I love these forums. I get to read for HOURS about peoples hatred toward Firaxis for a game that I know they love. I get to hear all these oddball arguments defending or deriding the game and its creators. Then, when I get bored, I go into the multiplayer arena and get my ass kicked by...

If you've built nuclear plants, they explode eventually, forcing you to rebuild a bunch of buildings. This happened to me. Also, if you run out of money I think you lose buildings and units because you are forced to sell them. I don't know for sure about this though, because this has not...

I'm pretty sure the Firaxians are on these boards. When the "random map" bug was reported, it was addressed directly by one of them. If one is reading this message right now, I want to express encouragement to fix the bugs that we report. Most of us who are on these boards are not here to...

I was wondering about that myself. But I noticed that the bar over a unit gets longer every time you award this promotion. Is it HP? I'm not sure if this bar is always there, or if you have to turn it on in options. But it gets longer with each use of the Combat promotions.

All the small wonders that require a certain number of other improvements also require that they be built in a city with the required improvement. I agree, it could be considered a bit ambiguous, but think of it this way: if the small wonder required an improvement to build, wouldn't it be...

If you can wait, then wait. The game is very buggy at this time. If you really have the itch to play Civ though, the game is still lots of fun, and very entertaining. I couldn't wait to play it, so I pre-ordered. The same things happened when civ III came out (well, maybe not quite so many...

I think this is a part of the same documented bug as listed in the sticky. You could have probably gotten ALL of Bismark's cities and ALL his gold and ALL his techs if you added them all into your "step 4." Obviously, this isn't supposed to happen, and since it breaks the game, this will...

The fresh water bonus is a single +2 health bonus for the whole city. Whether it borders one river tile, ar is surrounded in river tiles, it is still just a +2 health bonus. On one of the difficulty levels between noble and diety (not sure which), you are granted 2 free health points. These...

Its a world builder problem afterall. When a city is built, the game makes a one time check for fresh water. If it is present, the city has the fresh water property. If no fresh water is present, then no fresh water bonus. After a city is built, this can't be changed from within the world...

Ah yes, I see. My methodology was wrong. I was testing with the world builder. Aparently, the game makes a one time check when you build a city for fresh water. After that, as far as I know, it never checks again. This does cause a problem though, if you want to modify the map at a later...

I've been working to quantify terrain values to better pick a site to build a city. During this process, I found a few discrepencies between the manual and the game. Jungle is listed as -1 food In reality it is -1 food -1 commerce (or maybe just cancels out commerce from rivers)...