Anno Domini: Rise of Cities edition (latest version dated November 9th 2016) 27

Bear in mind Rob isn't paid to do this and its Christmas! If his life is anything like as busy as mine right now I'm amazed he has any time to code at all!

 

Dropbox worked for me today, maybe it's temporary, maybe it's permanent

 

at least 30 people download the mod each day? :O
This is great news for you man, I'm happy for it's success!

 

Hello, I just downed this mod and I'm looking to try it out, but starting up I'm seeing fewer civs available than you list on your site. Is the site just tracking WIP civs? Or is there something else I need to dl? I downloaded v18 this morning.

For examples of the civs I am not seeing I am not seeing Ilyria, Vietnam or Han.

 

Yeah, most Civs are distributed in packs rather than alongside the base game, so you'll need to download them individually.

 

Ah cool! Thank you for clearing that up and for your hard work on the mod. Hope your work doesn't kill you and you can enjoy your holidays.

 

If you're looking for some more Chinese civs to add, as well as a better version of the Qin, I'd recommend the Warring States of China civs, by Antagonise - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=552008 Do you need any help with the current stuff?

 

Well having done a test game as Song, on very easy/standard, a few things. Stone seems impossible to ever have enough of, as stone on the map only gives you 1. The other alternative resources have a few other ways to get them, so they don't feel that bad (and I had a bad habit of just spamming wonders which eat them up) but stone seems impossible to get. A bigger problem is that once I unlocked the ability to make galleys...I couldn't build them in any of my cities. I had two ships already but that was it. And I just crashed after upgrading my ancient infantry to an axe man, but that might've been a memory leak on my end, so I can't say for sure what the cause of that was.

 

I actually like how stone works. It makes me have to choose whether to place cities on hills to get stone or rivers to get clay! Also means that its used with more care. Like only building walls on cities that need them.

 

Yup, I agree. Stone is a scarce resource because many buildings require them, so I don't gun for the weaker early wonders anymore. Those +2 Happiness or +3 Faith don't really make that much of a difference in the long run; better save that Stone to get the Temple of Artemis. I really like how you now have to THINK and plan in which cities you want resource-dependent buildings. In the unmodded game (and previous versions of AD), resource requirements were pretty pointless because everything was so abundant that you'd never run out anyway.

The only downside (in my opinion) is that city states and puppeted cities don't have as many buildings available, so puppeted cities often don't build anything (until you get access to Wealth - maybe make that available from the start or an era or two earlier), and city states have huge happiness problems now that they can have 2 or even 3 cities. In my current game, there are at least two city state allies of mine (those with 3 cities) where rebels spawn every 4-5 turns in their territory. The unhappiness combat penalty, together with the fact that city states cannot build any defensive buildings (because they all require resources, which is a good thing), makes conquering city states relatively easy. Suits my playstyle though because I won't conquer them and the way it is, the AI has less difficulty doing that if they choose to.

 

Dropbox link is down

 

If you want formidible city states... in my mod, I have modified Gedemon's city state units such that they have their own unique units... for example, when a swordsman is produced by a city state, I often have it replaced by a culturally themed unit with similar stats but no iron restricton. I find that the city state will produce many more units. Cultural units can also be made much stronger than vanilla equivalents should one wish.

 

In terms of other mods, is this mod compatible with the Enhanced UI Mod or Barbarians Enhanced? Particularly Barbarians Enhanced, or I guess anything that makes the other AI's more bloodthirsty.