- Author isau
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This edition should be called the "tried it and failed" version based on the sheer number of abilities, tweaks, and changes I tried out that failed to make it into the final version due to some issue or other. In the end though I'm mostly happy with how this turned out.
Changes to Spheres
Again this time the changes are extreme enough that its easiest for me to just show screenshots. Three main spheres are affected. This took me roughly 12 hours of solid coding to test, fail, test,fail, and finally arrive at something. Though I admit I still don't like the Nordic malus that much.
Note that 2 spheres have been renamed based on feedback from geography experts:
- Arabesque is now Middle East
- Scandinavia is now Nordic
Other Changes
In general you will notice I have removed a number of changes that were part of the very early versions of this mod when it was intended as a game balance fix and not a sort-of expansion pack like it later became.
- Air units now once again require Aerodromes. This is to stave off the possibility of crashes in Rising Storm
- Musketmen now once again require Niter
- The Ranged Combat strength of Anti Cavalry when QUO_OPTION_ARE_ANTI_CAV_RANGED is set to is now equal to base Combat +5 (increased from +0)
- All code that was previously part of the Quo_Oceans_Code.sql file has been commented out since it is no longer needed as of RS. This eliminates all the city center bonuses to settling along a shore that were part of this mod 2 years ago when this was necessary to make coastal cities worthwhile
- Something I changed somewhere changed the willingness of barbarian spearmen to stab you on their turn even if they are wounded. Not sure what it was, but watch out
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Nubia did not receive the African districts as part of its sphere
- Fixed a bug where a fan-made mod civ were provided the ability to build Sphinxes as their friendship gift instead of +1 trade route as intended
- Fixed a bug that caused Russia to lose its bonuses on Tundra due to a conflict with old Biome
So, there's a lot in here. I had the day off and had my first chance to try to apply some of the new features from Gathering Storm.
In general, the theme of the changes is:
- Try to make each sphere unique in disregarding or subverting rules, and/or packing some "what the heck was that" aspects that can appear suddenly on the game board to great effect
- Cleaning up old code from the early days when the main function of this mod was just to fix Vanilla civ 6
I am a little short on time so forgive abbreviated descriptions below.
Changes to Biomes
For these it is easier for me to just post pictures of the new text.
Quick notes on other stuff. There's a lot. May have missed some things.
- Reintroduced the +1 culture to tiles adjacent to volcanoes bonus of God of the Forge pantheon removed in previous patch with corrections that should make it actually function
- Removed changes to Hanging Gardens world wonder. In general, this mod will no longer make edits to World Wonders.
- Restored the Zwiennder melee promotion, which increased Melee combat vs Anti Cavalry, back to defaults
- Removed bonus Science to Iron added in early patches. No longer needed as of GS
- Removed bonus science/food/culture on sea resources since Firaxis buffed these
- New World civilizations can now recruit Great Prophets again in order to prevent too-easy religious victories when multiple New World civs are in game
- Africa now can build any district that is African for a price 33% higher than a normal district
- Updated Hellenic sphere
- Asian pacific sphere no longer gets extra appeal from Volcanoes. Thematic as this is, the text was too wordy.
- Asian pacific sphere now earns 150 gold on earning 3 deep water ocean tiles (down from 250)
- Arabesque sphere redesigned
- Scandinavia sphere redesigned (still deciding about the Tundra/Desert tile thing)
- Removed radial fresh water housing effect from Roman Aqueducts
- Removed the "Mysterium" resource and associated effects for Scythia
Keep in mind this is an alpha release. I didn't get to test much of this as much as I'd like to. It's very hard for example to test natural disasters at this time.
I welcome feedback.
Happy Mardi Gras (you won't hear from me for the next 24 hours)
This release is intended to fix issues introduced in v7.0.6 and 7.0.7.
New Features
- The friendship gifts introduced for new civilizations in the Gathering Storm expansion should now actually work
- Friendship gifts are now listed on the character select screen (this was added in v7.0.6, but that release was pulled due to crashes to desktop)
Changes
- Hungary's friendship gift is now "+5% production to districts." Changed from "+10% production to districts and buildings across a river from a city center." It seems that ability may not be reliable as a friendship gift and caused crashes to desktop, so it was changed.
- Brazil's friendship gift is now "+50% production toward Entertainment Complexes." Changed because Pedro's original gift could conflict with other mods and get players stuck on the Great People screen due to the UI not being able to process multiple copies of the "refund upon purchasing or earning a great person" ability.
Please report any issues. A copy of Database.log is also helpful to post if you have crashes back to the main menu.
Only change is to the UI (although this took a lot of time to implement).
- Friendship gifts are now listed on the character select screen
I could probably do better to improve the icon. For now its just the war cart icon, since it kind of looked like a wheel barrow of someone wheeling a gift (I guess). May update it again later.