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.

 

[The_J]

For the maintenance look into the GameInfo\Civ4HandicapInfo for

<iColonyMaintenancePercent>60</iColonyMaintenancePercent>

and in the GameInfo\Civ4WorldInfo.xml for

<iColonyMaintenancePercent>67</iColonyMaintenancePercent>

.

Set both to 0, so there will be no colony maintenance.

 

[NwabudikeMorgan]

same as above.