air unit limit in cities for BTS

[DoubleRD77]

Does anyone know a way to get around the limit for 4 aircraft in a city, unless it has an airport which allows 8 aircraft. I really hate that they put this in the game. Yes you can build fortress's, but I would rather have unlimited room for airplanes. Now the only real plan you can build is fighters. No point in building bombers as you can not get enough of them into combat, because you have to save room for the fighters. I am not sure why they did this. They should have made it an option, not a mandate. Does anyone know how to get around this stupid rule, or create some patch to fix this stupid new rule?

 

[77alex77]

In the file
...\Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GlobalDefines.xml
search for the value named CITY_AIR_UNIT_CAPACITY (see below) and change it to any value you want. This should do the job. I guess an airport just doubles this, so there is no other value to change, but you will have to try it out.

<Define>
<DefineName>CITY_AIR_UNIT_CAPACITY</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>4</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>

 

[DoubleRD77]

Took me awhile, but I changed it. I will see if it works. I like to have large air wars and BTS TOOK THAT AWAY FROM ME ^O^ !

 

[DoubleRD77]

I went into the file and tried to change it. I raised the number, but it had no effect on the game. Is there a certain program I have to open the file with, or a certain number I have to put in?

 

[Balderstrom]

If yer trying that with a saveGame you will need to clear the cache first.

Delete all files in <USER>\Application Data\My Games\Beyond the Sword\cache\

 

[DoubleRD77]

I can't find the cache file thingy your talking about. If I play a new game will this work now? How do I find that file your talking about.

 

[Balderstrom]

I forget people use windows explorer, since I've been with TotalCommander for so many years.
The location I posted was slightly wrong too:
C:\Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\My Games\Beyond the Sword\cache\

You'd have to enable show hidden files, in folder options
Or open up a command prompt,

RUN CMD
CD "C:\Documents*\Administrator\Local*\Applic*\My Games\Beyond*\cache"
DEL *.*

NOTE: Replace "Administrator" with your userName.

But yes it should take effect in a new game, not sure if you need to delete the cache in that case.

 

[DoubleRD77]

I went back into the land of dos. I found custom assets, but could not find a thingy called cacsh. So I went into the save files and deleted them. I'll start a new game. Should this fix the problem, and I can always have unlimited aircraft now? I don't see why the makers of the game forced this upon me. I think they should also have an option which allows bombers to kill a unit completly or artillery taking a city. But the air thing really makes me angry. That kind of ruined the game.

 

[DoubleRD77]

I had to start a new game, but it is working now ^==========^ This is great news.

 

[3iff]

<Define>
<DefineName>CITY_AIR_UNIT_CAPACITY</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>4</iDefineIntVal>
</Define

This doesn't seem to be in Civ4 vanilla. Is there any other way to change this value? or is there no limit set...

 

[Balderstrom]

Believe it was a change in BTS.

 

[3iff]

Thanks for that.

 

[J-man]

To load uncached XML you can also hold down the shift-key while loading Civ 4.
(Hold it down and double click civ 4 and keep holding until the game starts)

 

[3iff]

Thanks. I did sus out how to unload the cache. I do like to mess around with settings once I understand what I'm doing...

Busy reading most of the threads learning when I'm not able to play the game.

 

[DoubleRD77]

I guess I was not the only one who hated that knew 4 rule feature to the air units per city?

 

[Yeekim]

Can anyone imagine reasoning behind this limit on air units per city?
It seems to make little sense both RL terms and gamewise. But then, I've rarely fought air wars, so I might miss smth...?

 

[Rockefella]

I suppose it's the same thing as the catapult stack of doom in Civ 3. You could just rebase your entire fleet into one city and bomb the city you're attacking into oblivion, wipe up using your ground units, keep that city and use it as a launchpad and base for your fleet to conquer the next city.

 

[Balderstrom]

@Rockefella, pretty much yeah. And there was still a minor bug in that - which apparently 3.17 fixed, limiting your airUnits in friendly cities hehe. I hadn't noticed that one. I guess you could load up your Planes into neighbouring cities to bomb your opponents from.