Abandoning colonies
- Thread starter Midgetskydiver
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So
a) there is nowhere I can put a copy of 'abandon col' so that it is available in mods? Just for info .... I can do it quickly enough with World Bldr.
b) Can I whisper this in your ear .... I don't know what vanilla means. I see it all over the place in posts ... what does it mean?
BobTheBull
Warlord
Or, vanilla is the game as it is installed right out of the box; uses the original gamecore and assets files.
Just to be sure I have it right: When you load vanilla, either by the desktop icon or from a public map, vanilla checks custom assets and if it finds a file there it loads that file instead of the file in Civ4Col\Assests\subdir until all python, xml and art files have been loaded; it then starts the game.
If you load a mod, the mods folder, \mods\mymod\assets is searched through all its subdirs and any files there are are substituted for the vanilla file as well as any unique files to that mod until everything is loaded, then the game starts. If the mod has modified the gamecore, then the recompiled gamecore.dll is put in \mods\mymod\assets folder.
In short, the process is read first dir\subdir of custom assets OR mod assets(but never both), then read default install dir\subdir until everything is loaded. This distinction is why many newbies write in about not being able to get a mod or mod component working. They put something in the wrong set of folders.
Just to note, the files in \CVGameCoreDll are not used at all. They are the files used to compile the gamecore.dll, thoughtfully provided for any one who wants to modify the gamecore.
If there is anything wrong with what I have said please post a correction.
Just to be sure I have it right: When you load vanilla, either by the desktop icon or from a public map, vanilla checks custom assets and if it finds a file there it loads that file instead of the file in Civ4Col\Assests\subdir until all python, xml and art files have been loaded; it then starts the game.
If you load a mod, the mods folder, \mods\mymod\assets is searched through all its subdirs and any files there are are substituted for the vanilla file as well as any unique files to that mod until everything is loaded, then the game starts. If the mod has modified the gamecore, then the recompiled gamecore.dll is put in \mods\mymod\assets folder.
In short, the process is read first dir\subdir of custom assets OR mod assets(but never both), then read default install dir\subdir until everything is loaded. This distinction is why many newbies write in about not being able to get a mod or mod component working. They put something in the wrong set of folders.
Just to note, the files in \CVGameCoreDll are not used at all. They are the files used to compile the gamecore.dll, thoughtfully provided for any one who wants to modify the gamecore.
If there is anything wrong with what I have said please post a correction.
Jabie
Wanted in Monte Carlo...
...as in Vanilla ice cream. It's the "plain" flavour of ice cream.
Personally, I'm still waiting for the world to adopt Marmite as term for something that you either love or hate.
Thanks Bob, that's brilliant and clear.
And I will go along with Marmite, though not perhaps as a flavour for ice cream. But try persuading the French that Marmite is edible, they are difficult enough about suet.
Yes, I get your point Jabie - a good one...work on it.
And I will go along with Marmite, though not perhaps as a flavour for ice cream. But try persuading the French that Marmite is edible, they are difficult enough about suet.
Yes, I get your point Jabie - a good one...work on it.
AncientPlayer
Warlord
You think convincing the French about marmite is hard.
I'm an Aussie who loves vegemite. Try explaining that to anyone in the World!
There are very, very few times when I'll use the word "impossible". This, however, would be one of them
As a Yank who's been 'down under' a few times (loved what I saw by the way), I just plain don't get it when it comes to that stuff.
Dick
Jimbrock
Chieftain
Hehehe, personally I love the stuff and have it with quite nearly everything but a lot of people hate it! I think that is a good term! Also, thanks for describing vanilla as I never knew what it meant but was too embaressed to ask!
More on topic, I think it should be possible to abandon colonies but you lose that last person. In other words you evacuate and that last person u leave dies with the city. If thats moddable.
JB
Hehehe, personally I love the stuff and have it with quite nearly everything but a lot of people hate it! I think that is a good term! Also, thanks for describing vanilla as I never knew what it meant but was too embaressed to ask!
More on topic, I think it should be possible to abandon colonies but you lose that last person. In other words you evacuate and that last person u leave dies with the city. If thats moddable.
JB
How's about vanilla flavoured marmite. The mind boggles.
For abandoned colonies, if you make a note of who was in there, you can go into world builder and plonk him back on the spot
BobTheBull
Warlord
OK. I am going to give all of this a shot.
First, when it comes to ice cream, there definitely is vanilla and then there is vanilla.
Compare generic vanilla ice cream to my homemade ice cream with real vanilla beans (and real cream, of course). In fact, why is vanilla used to describe anything bland? Real vanilla is anything but bland.
Now, about the vegemite. Vegemite is a byproduct food from the leftover brewer's yeast in beer making. Now, mates, I don't know if you have heard, but aussie's take their beer very seriously. And they are very good at it. For them, it's not so much how much beer you drink as how good is the beer you drink. So it's not surprising they would have an affinity for the taste of brewer's yeast, and malt.
But the best way to explain it is: Vegemite is aussie peanut butter.
If you don't dig or understand it, just keep passin' right on by.
And vanilla vegemite, or marmite, is either a non sequiter or an oxymoron. I'm not sure which.
First, when it comes to ice cream, there definitely is vanilla and then there is vanilla.
Compare generic vanilla ice cream to my homemade ice cream with real vanilla beans (and real cream, of course). In fact, why is vanilla used to describe anything bland? Real vanilla is anything but bland.
Now, about the vegemite. Vegemite is a byproduct food from the leftover brewer's yeast in beer making. Now, mates, I don't know if you have heard, but aussie's take their beer very seriously. And they are very good at it. For them, it's not so much how much beer you drink as how good is the beer you drink. So it's not surprising they would have an affinity for the taste of brewer's yeast, and malt.
But the best way to explain it is: Vegemite is aussie peanut butter.
If you don't dig or understand it, just keep passin' right on by.
And vanilla vegemite, or marmite, is either a non sequiter or an oxymoron. I'm not sure which.
Skell Jell
HistoryHermann
Ctrl +x does not work! I tried this mod to death! Can someone please help me with this!
NeverMind
Proud to be Russian
Where did you unpack the file?
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