Recent content by MikeC

Looking at the Civ 4 modding wiki on Apolyton: StateReligion - means the building can only be built if that is the current State Religion. bPreregReligion - if 'ON', building can be built if any religion is present in the city.

There is a mod that lets you raze buildings from inside the city view, although I didn't look closely at it. No idea if the AI would raze buildings, or understand the effects, but I'd think they would... after all, it has to "know" to build things to reduce unhappiness, etc. You'd also have...

True, you can indeed swap State Religions, build the specials, then switch again; it's only a part of a possible solution. I think what you're looking at is anarchy - I think the game lumps Civic & Religion changes together. If you change Civics, going into anarchy, then try to change your...

Assets\XML\Buildings\CIV4BuildingInfos.xml <HolyCity>NONE</HolyCity> <ReligionType>NONE</ReligionType> <StateReligion>NONE</StateReligion> <PrereqReligion>NONE</PrereqReligion> I didn't see any with a StateReligion prereq used, but the shrine required HolyCity, and the standard religious...

Durr, one other thing I meant to mention - it'd be very limited, but you could design a special worker or building, that would allow certain UU's, and give it to the founder of a religion. It'd give some incentive to racing the religious techs, though, so that'd probably need some tweaking.

Crusaders - How about Cathedral & Castle req? That'd require Music & Engineering techs, both fairly advanced for the early game. Plus the Cathedral would require at least 3 cities with Temples, so a bit of expansion would be required as well. Monk - could simply add build options (if able)...

Looking good so far, on the game I'm playing. Noticed that religious missionaries are still the old types (and structures), only with the description saying they spread the new type - Hindu Missionary, spreads Protestantism. Although I did find it funny when the Tech Advisor recommended...

I've been contemplating unit designs lately. Instead of specific units like Warriors, Spearsmen, Axemen, Swordsmen, etc, I was looking at generalizing to Light Infantry, Heavy Infantry, etc. Since I'd be taking away the unit-specific bonuses vs unit types, I was also looking at revamping the...

Of course it's a game, and of course it has to make sense. Even if you're playing tag with a gaggle of small children, there are certain rules that must be there to make the game function. As for how real must a game be to be fun, that varies from individual to individual. One idea, I...

Not quite true. ;) F-117A Nighthawk The stealth fighter emerged from the classified world while stationed at Tonapah Airfield with an announcement by the Pentagon in November 1988 and was first shown publicly at Nellis in April 1990.

I was thinking about something today, about how tech makes the world smaller - not really in size, but that technology enables us to reach further. For example, take the drive from Kansas City to Denver - today, it'd be around 15 hours, give or take a few hours. 200 years ago, however, that...

Agreed, but within the games ruleset, modders don't seem to have a lot of options - no idea what the SDK will bring about. But, looking at it one way, an A-10 could be compared to a land unit - other than basing & ranges. Hmm, guess you could copy the jet fighter unit, limit it to recon/attack...

Other than things like letting choppers use roads/rail or landing on various types of ships, I'd think it is more of a land unit than an air unit. Mainly because of the uses & capabilities of the varying systems. Found a random link that you might like to dig into - Federation of American...

Something like this, maybe? :p Snaitf's Great General

There haven't been any posts on the thread for a bit, but you might look here.