8 Ages of Pace v2.1.0 Release

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/years-time-x.25977/
This appears usefull, as you can simply activate the calender x range to suit the map size, without effecting anything else.

 

You made this post in 8AoW, and I wanted to know whether you think 8AoP will break as well, and it does, would it be possible to remove some files and leave some to at least have the slower eras (with possible adjustments depending on what feels right) left?

 

It looks to me like 8AoP is safe to use with Rise and Fall.

 

Is it balanced though? I can think of a few potential issues:
1) science per pop has been reduced, do the tech rate could be too slow now
2) global era is calculated differently, do slowing down tech could make it super weird
3) eras being slower make it too easy to get enough points for golden ages

 

My experience without 8AoP:

Late game techs still too cheap, additionally all eras (except, it seems, Modern Era, which is the next one) have come almost as early as possible. This is on Emperor.

Suggestions (if you intend to update it for R&F, otherwise I'm gonna try figure out how to do it myself):

1. A bit of a lighter version of 8AoP to slow down techs. I already tweaked my own 8AoP file to do this because I felt it was too heavy in the base game, but I think I would have to tweak it a bit further. (I also removed the faster road movement and slower city growth but that's unrelated)
2. If Golden Ages are too easy (independent of eras getting longer because of 8AoP or not), increase base threshold from 12 to 15 for both Normal and Golden Age, maybe increase change in required score after Dark/Golden age from 5 to 6.

I would note though, that the era score seems fine at least for the early era's. I felt like I was doing pretty well in the classical era, but didn't manage to get a Golden Age. After that I started snowballing out of control though, and I'm now like 15 above the threshold with more than 10 turns to go still, and this will be my third Golden Age in a row. Then again, I did get 6 French cities from conquering + loyalty flipping.

 

This is going to be really tricky to balance, for exactly your experience of getting many golden ages. The difficulty in balancing era score points is that they accumulate throughout the game, so a few extra points per era can really add up.

 

I'm now playing a game with Tamar (great for stacking Golden Ages on top of one another) and I got a GA in the medieval era, which I used for Exodus of the Evangelists, but even with the superpowered missionaries and apostles and era score for every converted city I only got the required era score for another Golden Age in the LAST turn, and that was because I chopped my first UU.

So I think it's much better balanced if you're not totally snowballing out of control. But yeah, maybe it should be something like a base of 8 or 10 required (instead of 12), -5 for every Dark Age, +8 (instead of +5) for every Golden Age and then most importantly +2 (instead of +1) for every city you have, because simply having more cities to build things and everything seems to be a good era score generator.

Edit: And the very next era I am far, far ahead of the points required for a Golden Age, but then again I did convert several civilizations with my wave of Proseletyzers (+ a bunch of Debaters for stray apostles from others)

 

As for being balanced... I'm not sure. I feel like I'm getting way ahead of the game era, which suggests to me teching isn't too slow, but there is something else going on that is making the game eras pass too slowly. I'm honestly not sure if it's related to 8AoP or not, because I know Firaxis implemented a "minimum" period of X turns per era, and it could be that I'm simply teching too fast for that.

 

RE: Ballance

Perhaps? Rather I guess one would say, it depends.

This is pretty unscientific and "feels like" type observations so take it with a grain of salt. I also play with Magil's wonderous wonders so that has it's own effects as well.

With all that pre-amble out of the way, I think that Rise and Fall have made the game even more map dependant. So much so that luck of the draw / map layout is going to have a pretty hearty effect as to whether one snowballs or not.

I feel like 8AoP has a synergizing effect based on the other prevalant conditions. Kind of like a multiplier of extant forces. When you're snowballing 8AoP won't stop you at all, but when you're struggling or in the hole, 8AoP is very noticable then.

Like I said tho that's all kinda gut reaction however, so what the hell do I know...

 

My experience playing with 8AoP in Rise and Fall on Marathon settings is that I no longer have that old 8AoP feeling of getting to spend a lot of time in each era. I used to play and have many turns when cities had no additional buildings they could create - this is not the case in my R&F game. I'm once again struggling to keep my development abreast of my technology advancement.

 

Thanks for the thoughts. I still don't have R&F (no time to play it) but I've been getting feedback here and lots on steam. Here are my thoughts:

1) No changes to the calendar, I want to keep it at historical era starting dates every 50 turns.

2) In R&F, the science per pop was reduced from 0.7 to 0.5. The patch notes for Vanilla said they also did this, but apparently they did not. To keep the version of the mod unified, I'd reduce science per pop to 0.5 for Vanilla too. In order to stop science grinding to a halt, I'd also change the extra cost of techs according to (current value->new value)
ERA_ANCIENT 0 -> 0
ERA_CLASSICAL 25 -> 15
ERA_MEDIEVAL 50 -> 35
ERA_RENAISSANCE 80 -> 65
ERA_INDUSTRIAL 120 -> 105
ERA_MODERN 160 -> 145
ERA_ATOMIC 210 -> 190
ERA_INFORMATION 260 -> 240

3) The era thresholds need to change, to make it somewhat harder to avoid dark ages, and much harder to get consecutive golden ages. The formula is:
limit_in_next_era_dark = previous_score + DARK_AGE_SCORE_BASE_THRESHOLD + city_num + (DARK/GOLD_AGE_THRESHOLD_SHIFT * number of dark/gold ages you had)
and presumably equivalent for the next golden age.
and the values are:
"DARK_AGE_SCORE_BASE_THRESHOLD" = 12
"GOLDEN_AGE_SCORE_BASE_THRESHOLD" = 24
"THRESHOLD_SHIFT_PER_PAST_DARK_AGE" = -5
"THRESHOLD_SHIFT_PER_PAST_GOLDEN_AGE" = +5

From what I've heard, in the first few eras it's only a little too easy to get a golden age and avoid a dark one. So I'd raise 12->14 and 24->28. The bigger probably seems to be chaining golden ages together. So I'd change the -5/+5 to -10/+10. Doubling it might seem harsh, but it might be needed, both to fix the base game, and to adapt it to the longer eras.

I've got a few questions:
Did the cost of techs change with the patch or R&F? If so, then 2) should be adjusted.
Is the formula for the era thresholds above correct? Or at least consistent with peoples experience.
Does the minimum/maximum length of game eras also need to be adjusted?
How do the numbers I've got above sound to people?

 

>Does the minimum/maximum length of game eras also need to be adjusted?

I don't think so, too long and you always get a golden age, too short and you'll get too many dark ages.

 

(1) No, but boosts were reduced to 40% instead of 50%, in Rise and Fall at least. In addition, techs behind the current game era are reduced in cost by 20%, while techs ahead of the current game era are increased in cost by 20%.
(2) Looks like your numbers are accurate to me. Based on GlobalParameters.xml.
(3) My experience is that they should probably be a bit shorter. But, that may be based on my playstyle.
(4) My opinion would be that your numbers at the top-level are probably good, but I might hold off on lowering the cost of the techs for the first few eras. I feel those are in a good place, like, Medieval-Industrial all seems good.

 

Maybe the requirements for golden ages should be slightly easier than you got right now, though I think you're on the right track. In my last game (peaceful culture victory) I was doing great from the Modern Era on (which was a Heroic Age) but with 3 Golden and 2 Dark ages in the past I was unable to secure a Golden Age in either Atomic Era or Information Era, while I kind of feel like I was doing well enough for that to be fair. I believe I missed 8 and 5 points respectively.

It might be different for warmonger games, however, as conquering and getting promotions on units often allows for more era points, so maybe instead some peaceful history moments should be added or increased.

 

Okay, thanks for all the comments. How about this instead:

Everything from the post above except:
Eureka also reduced to 40% for Vanilla. That should give complete parity between it and R&F, making the earlier eras a bit longer.
THRESHOLD_SHIFT_PER_PAST_GOLD/DARK_AGE raised from 5 to 8 instead of 5 to 10.

Hopefully I'll have time in the coming week to do this, then will ask someone to test it on R&F for me.

 

Hello All. I just downloaded this mod and started using it. It looks like it has a lot of good stuff in here. I'm about 50 turns in and I have noticed something strange. When I use a builder to make improvements. All tiles around the builder is added to the cities territories. I even had one game where it took a tile from another leaders city and gave it to my city. Here is a screen shot of before and after the builder upgrades. 8AoP is the only mod I have installed at the moment. I hope you might know whats going on.

 

Civ ability - Land Down Under
+3 Housing in coastal cities. Building a Pasture triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. Campuses, Commercial Hubs, Holy Sites, and Theater Squares gain +1 to their yields in tiles with Charming Appeal, and +3 with Breathtaking Appeal.

 

Oh, I feel really dumb. Thanks for that. Lol

 

My brother and I have been trying to play multiplayer with this mod and a few others, and have been having constant desync problems around turn 20, resulting in a loading screen every turn or two. We did some extensive testing and isolating every mod, we have found that this mod is the one causing the problem. We find it very hard to play without a pace mmo like this due to our style. Any help or suggestions?

 

That sounds perplexing, I know the base game isn't very reliable with MP, but its possible the mod makes it worse. Can you upload you're logs (they're in [USERNAME]/Documents/My Games/Sid Meiers Civilization VI/Log) here? The main ones are Database, Modding and (if it exists) Multiplayer. You should be able to just upload the files, if the forum doesn't let you, rename them to .txt first.