2.8/ModMod Suggestion - "Require Roads"

[2ndimpression]

I like the idea of this and have done a bit of searching.

There are some units already for CIV 4 that have been done for this:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=322716

Hope this helps

 

[Afforess]

As per popular request, I have merged Shqype's route restricter with Jooyo and my SDK. I have other projects I'm busy on, so I felt that I would leave the actual modding to other capable hands.

Here's a demo of what it can do, the CoreDLL and Schemas. If you want to modify/create other units that are restricted to routes, use the unitinfoschema I provided, along with the CoreDLL. The CoreDll is the latest version, meaning it also includes all of jooyo's changes (1.18) and all of mine, even the mountains mod.

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Have fun modding.

 

[Hodi]

As for the water routes, I was thinking about this the other day as well. Is it at all possible to manually place where your culture expands? I was thinking about using expanding culture to create sea lines. So when London created its next culture increase, you could create a line going to the New World that would give added movement bonuses to ships.
As for the manual placement of culture, I felt that if you were placing them manually there should be a penalty. Perhaps of every five squares of culture you would have received, you are only allowed to manually place one expanding territory culture square.

 

[Sarkyn]

I am unfortunately, having no luck implementing this to my satisfaction.

The problem is:

If you set "Requires Route" to a unit, it then requires that route for all terrain/features.

This doesn't make sense, and what I really wanted was a setting that specified a route required for a SPECIFIC terrain.

For example:

What I wanted:
- All Cavalry needed a cart path to enter a forest or jungle
- Cavalry do not need any route to enter a "flat" terrain (plains, desert)

What this can do:
- All Cavalry need a cart path to enter any tile

The granularity just isn't there to give any realism to the differences between the units. I could still do some semblance of it, but it makes no sense for, for another example, modern tanks to need a road of any kind to cross an open desert.


I'll keep trying to find a solution. Might be able to work something out by modifying terrain info as well as units...

Any ideas anyone has would be appreciated.