A few suggestions and a question

[Yard1]

Hi,

I've been playing VEM for few months, and I gotta say, it's great, fun mod. But I've always found it's lacking some things. As I'm not a modder, I will post them here. Tell me what do you think about them?

1. World Wonder called World Wide Web - with it you would get 1 happines and 1 social policy + maybe 1 free tech? It would require Globalization.

2. There was a mod that added a marine unit from Civ4, would it be possible to ask for a permission and add that unit as a light infantry?

3. A new building called refinery - it would work like a factory, only it would require oil instead of coal and it would be a bit better.

I have more of those ideas in my head, but let me know what do you think about it guys. And now it's time for question!

I'm using a mod User Events (I belive it's the name) that adds new, user created events. But when I'm using it with VEM, VEM's decisions has weird TXT_UNKNOWN_PLAYER and etc. instead of, for example cost in gold. Is it possible to make it work again without disabling that mod?

Thanks!

 

[albie_123]

1. - I think adding techs for no particular reason is a bit odd, but, the idea of the WWW wonder - doing what it did in Civ IV (Free access to any tech that 2 other Civs have) would be great. You should suggest it in the More Wonders thread.

2. - Marines are being added in G&K, supposedly, available at pennicilin (Who knows why).

 

[Yard1]

1. I was aiming at more realistic approach to the Internet - a connection between Globalization and Computers.

2. I mean to make light infantry look like marines, you know, a graphic mod.

 

[Seek]

VEM has events, the other mod is probably conflicting with it.

 

[Yard1]

I disabled it and everything is ok. BTW. I edited my first post, I forgot that Globalization require Computers, so WWW goes under it.

 

[Thalassicus]

The user events mod was added to vem and improved, so running both at once would be redundant.

Changing the light infantry graphics is on the todo list for anyone with a talent for creating unit skins.

 

[Yard1]

I will see what can I do. I had some experience with other games (GTA IV, Men Of War, Empire Earth II), maybe it won't be so hard to swap a model

And also, the tech tree makes no sense - why doesn't advenced balistic require rocketry? Or why you can build mechanized infantry without combustion, but with electronic? Enginnering doesn't require construction. The list goes on...

 

[Thalassicus]

Too many connections on the tech tree would reduce the flexibility of our choices.

 

[Yard1]

I haven't tought about it! Well, thanks for pointing this out.

BTW (again?) Is it possible to make Balanced Sniper Mod compatible with VEM? When I use it, VEM units dissapear...

 

[Thalassicus]

The expansion will obsolete most mods, so I'm not worried about incompatibilities at this point.