A question about colonies

[nokmirt]

I am wondering how I can make it so the game has vassals, but I want to reduce the cost of maintenance for cities I own on another continent. How can I mod the game to do that. For instance, I am playing as Venice and I am trying to build up several cities in Africa and I want to keep the maintenance cost for this overseas empire at a minimum, so I don't have to give in and have those cities form their own seperate empire, because I cannot afford to keep those cities in my own empire. Thanks for any help. I know this goes against the way BTS was designed but I want to keep control of all my cities if I can. I want it to be like the British empire for example.

 

[Padma]

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[BeBro]

I am wondering how I can make it so the game has vassals, but I want to reduce the cost of maintenance for cities I own on another continent. How can I mod the game to do that. For instance, I am playing as Venice and I am trying to build up several cities in Africa and I want to keep the maintenance cost for this overseas empire at a minimum, so I don't have to give in and have those cities form their own seperate empire, because I cannot afford to keep those cities in my own empire. Thanks for any help. I know this goes against the way BTS was designed but I want to keep control of all my cities if I can. I want it to be like the British empire for example.

Never tried it myself, but it seems you can just mod the xml file Civ4HandicapInfo under Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GameInfo\ which has entries like:

<iColonyMaintenancePercent>60</iColonyMaintenancePercent>

...for each difficulty level (with higher values in the higher levels).

Of course, back up any file you change before you edit anything or better create a mod to be sure you can easily go back the the original.

 

[nokmirt]

Thank you I have changed handicap and world info in BTS. I appreciate your help