Recent content by Red Ant

Ok, so that's the second part of my question out the window; what about the first part, though? :p I don't want to strangle my vassal civilizations. :(

In late game, I'm usually a cultural juggernaut that progressively pushes back my neighboring civilizations' borders to the point where it cripples them. While I don't mind doing that to my rivals, it would be nice if there was a way to prevent this from happening to friendly civilizations /...

szNewDescription ... Hungarian notation in Python code? :) sz used to stand for "string - zero-terminated" ... makes sense when using C-style strings in C or C++, but in Python?

I finally managed to found my own religion 4000 years into the game. Guess the other civs just beat me to all the previous techs. I got to say, I quite like how the mod has improved ... seems the AI is a lot more competitive now. :)

Writing iID &= 0x7F is equivalent to iID = iID & 0x7F, which means compute the new value of iID by taking the old value of iID and performing a bitwise AND with 0x7F.

Nightinggale already explained what it does. I'll just add that this a ? b : c thingy is usually called the ternary operator.

Oh ok ... guess I haven't looked closely enough then. Thanks for helping. :) I'm on a totally fresh install here ... downloaded the latest version last night.

Sorry for the dumb question, but I've been out of the loop for a long time. Last time I played, there were certain techs one could research, and the first civ to get them would found a new religion, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. What do I have to do to make my people "see the...

The A-10 is in the Close Air Support (CAS) category. I didn't make that term up, by the way. ;) P.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_air_support and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II

I make heavy use of them to rush projects / buildings. I've literally never used them for their intended purpose, which is trade. :p

IMHO it's the Cavalry unit that should be renamed. Roman equites, Medieval knights, Persian cataphracts, etc. are technically all cavalry units. Terms like Light Cavalry, Heavy Cavalry and Cavalry are much too generic. For instance, the unit that is presently named Cavalry is really an evolution...

Maybe they should be different units altogether? As opposed to "Workboat" being upgradeable to "Modern workboat". I've always wondered why fishing boats suddenly become 3 times as hard to produce just because I've gained access to a new technology.

Also, in the military, fighters like the F-16, the F-15, the Su-27, the MiG-29, etc. are often referred to as 4th-generation aircraft, whereas the F-22 and the F-35 are 5th-generation aircraft, and planes like the Eurofighter and the Rafale are sometimes called 4.5th-gen aircraft.

The F-16 (the model used for the current jet fighter) is also a multi-role fighter, so that doesn't really set it apart.

The F-35 is a stealth (technically, the correct term is "low-observable") fighter. Why not go with that?