A Thousand Ages of Gold: RFC India
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just wanted to let people know I am still working on this and development has changed a little. I stopped working on it at a point when RFCCW needed major investigation and balancing and I just didn't have time for both.
a while ago I got curious about K-mod, read the development thread and played a few games. right away I loved it and didn't want to go back to regular AI so I decided to try to do a K-mod/RFC mod. I picked this one because its the mod I most feel like working on right now. I'd love to re-do RFCCW as well, and I may start working on it concurrently, but I'm starting here.
so far I have adapted the xml from the old RFC India mod to the K-mod DLL and adapted the K-mod DLL to the number of players. I have also succeeded in adding some basic RFC python, so far city names and barb spawns. late starts can be handled by K-mod's built-in autoplay feature.
I have also given some thought to the huge number of civs and unique assets and come up with some compromises I think I can live with. the key one is that not all civs will be playable. this means there can be more than 52 unique civs (there is a limit of 52 options in the WBS civ selection screen, but the game will actually run 62 civs) and also that the number of unique assets is a bit less. I am also thinking of giving each playable civ a UU or a UB, but not both.
my development plan right now is to work on the starting Mahajanapanda civs until that era is complete, balanced and fun on its own. my thoughts for the playable civs are:
Magadha: axeman UU, conquest goals
Vrijji: market UB, trade goals
Kashi: cistren UB, religious goals
Kosala: archery range UB, Buddhist goals
Kuru: archer UU, military/culture goals
Gandhara: chariot UU, Buddhist and survival (Persian and Greek invasions) goals
Matsya: horseman UU, survival (Persian and Greek invasions) goals
Avanti: walls UB
Surasena: blacksmith UB, trade and cultural goals
this leaves Malla, Vatsa and Panchala unplayable, all in the central Ganges. I think I'd like to make one of them playable, probably Pancahala. there's also the possibility of adding non-playable Anga (Bengal)
I will post the starting scenario soon, playable up to the Nanda spawn. I think all the Mahajanapandas goals should be within this timeframe. I will post it when I have the UUs and UBs in.
I'm curious to know how much interest there is for this. It would be great to have some testers. All suggestions welcome. I'm especially curious to hear people's thoughts about stability.
a while ago I got curious about K-mod, read the development thread and played a few games. right away I loved it and didn't want to go back to regular AI so I decided to try to do a K-mod/RFC mod. I picked this one because its the mod I most feel like working on right now. I'd love to re-do RFCCW as well, and I may start working on it concurrently, but I'm starting here.
so far I have adapted the xml from the old RFC India mod to the K-mod DLL and adapted the K-mod DLL to the number of players. I have also succeeded in adding some basic RFC python, so far city names and barb spawns. late starts can be handled by K-mod's built-in autoplay feature.
I have also given some thought to the huge number of civs and unique assets and come up with some compromises I think I can live with. the key one is that not all civs will be playable. this means there can be more than 52 unique civs (there is a limit of 52 options in the WBS civ selection screen, but the game will actually run 62 civs) and also that the number of unique assets is a bit less. I am also thinking of giving each playable civ a UU or a UB, but not both.
my development plan right now is to work on the starting Mahajanapanda civs until that era is complete, balanced and fun on its own. my thoughts for the playable civs are:
Magadha: axeman UU, conquest goals
Vrijji: market UB, trade goals
Kashi: cistren UB, religious goals
Kosala: archery range UB, Buddhist goals
Kuru: archer UU, military/culture goals
Gandhara: chariot UU, Buddhist and survival (Persian and Greek invasions) goals
Matsya: horseman UU, survival (Persian and Greek invasions) goals
Avanti: walls UB
Surasena: blacksmith UB, trade and cultural goals
this leaves Malla, Vatsa and Panchala unplayable, all in the central Ganges. I think I'd like to make one of them playable, probably Pancahala. there's also the possibility of adding non-playable Anga (Bengal)
I will post the starting scenario soon, playable up to the Nanda spawn. I think all the Mahajanapandas goals should be within this timeframe. I will post it when I have the UUs and UBs in.
I'm curious to know how much interest there is for this. It would be great to have some testers. All suggestions welcome. I'm especially curious to hear people's thoughts about stability.
DC123456789
Deity
Sounds great. Just make sure that K-Mod doesn't introduce too much weird stuff... (looks at RFCE++)
stolenrays
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Sounds like fun.
DC123456789
Deity
Indeed. Sounds like a good plan.
I've added some UUs and UBs and played a few games, only as far as 450bc, which is when the Nandas will appear. everything seems fine. I've adjusted the leaderhead xmls a lot to create more early wars. all 3 religions are being founded in a relatively timely manner.
here are my UHV ideas for the early civs:
the main AI deficiency right now is great people not building the great works they are supposed to. the AI prefers to bulb techs or settle them.
here are my UHV ideas for the early civs:
Spoiler :
the main AI deficiency right now is great people not building the great works they are supposed to. the AI prefers to bulb techs or settle them.
DC123456789
Deity
So you've decided to do UHVs after all. 
some pictures of my last game. I tried to get as much land as I could while building the Mahabharata and founding a religion:
what does everyone think about stability, ie which system to start with? what should stability be accomplishing? should it work the same for human and non-human civs etc.
I just noticed an interesting fact, at least to me: this mod kind of represents a full circle for me. the very first thing I ever tried to mod was the start date for India in vanilla Rhye's.
also, the first 150 turns of this mod runs in 1 minute, 10 secs in autoplay.
Spoiler :
what does everyone think about stability, ie which system to start with? what should stability be accomplishing? should it work the same for human and non-human civs etc.
I just noticed an interesting fact, at least to me: this mod kind of represents a full circle for me. the very first thing I ever tried to mod was the start date for India in vanilla Rhye's.
also, the first 150 turns of this mod runs in 1 minute, 10 secs in autoplay.
DC123456789
Deity
By the way, what does K-Mod do other than improve AI and game efficiency in general?
StarfoxWiiU
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Is the mod dead?
NoShameD
Warlord
Hi everyone ! First, I'd like to congratulate you, for all your work, it looks amazing.
I wanted to try this mod, so I picked the first available civ, aka the Kashi. I played peacefuly, just to dicover the mod, and successfully founded both Hinduism and Buddhism in my capital, Varanasi. But when a new civ popped, the Nandis, they flipped my only city without even asking, making me loose instantly ! Is that intented ? (If I read well, it is not, but I still ask)
I wanted to try this mod, so I picked the first available civ, aka the Kashi. I played peacefuly, just to dicover the mod, and successfully founded both Hinduism and Buddhism in my capital, Varanasi. But when a new civ popped, the Nandis, they flipped my only city without even asking, making me loose instantly ! Is that intented ? (If I read well, it is not, but I still ask)
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Srpt's last activity was in October.
NoShameD
Warlord
Oh. OK then. I will play another mod, waiting for any improvement here ! Thanks !
finally found some time to get back to this in the last few days. I'm trying to keep the project from getting too big so I've decided to reduce the number of civs and number of playable civs, so this is the list I'm going with now:
currently only the six starting Mahajanapandas are playable. I want to get this period right before moving on. I might make Jainism and Buddhism founded by great people rather than techs. I also might change the starting number of cities for the starting civs, possibly only for the AI ie start Magadha with all three starting cities in its core rather than spawning the others as barb like it is now.
anyway there is a new svn, # 23, and I'll put up a new regular download today, and I'm open to all ideas.
Spoiler :
currently only the six starting Mahajanapandas are playable. I want to get this period right before moving on. I might make Jainism and Buddhism founded by great people rather than techs. I also might change the starting number of cities for the starting civs, possibly only for the AI ie start Magadha with all three starting cities in its core rather than spawning the others as barb like it is now.
anyway there is a new svn, # 23, and I'll put up a new regular download today, and I'm open to all ideas.
svn 26
the auto-play up to 450BC is working well. all religions are being founded and almost always all the first 4 epics are being built in this time by the AI.
so far I have tried Kashi:
so close. I think the balance is good on the religions. shrine goal may need adjustment.
the auto-play up to 450BC is working well. all religions are being founded and almost always all the first 4 epics are being built in this time by the AI.
so far I have tried Kashi:
Spoiler :
so close. I think the balance is good on the religions. shrine goal may need adjustment.
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