Barbarian Camps... 300 Gold !!

[Sarpedon99]

When I take a barbarian camp it pays 300 gold, way too excessive. I am on huge map and marathon game speed. If I try standard map and speed same thing. Is there a way I can dial that back?? I have about 9 other mods included, are they messing things up.

 

[mystikx21]

It's supposed to be 100 gold on standard speed, not 300. 300 is correct for marathon I believe.

In the Barbarians directory, there's a GEBEnd.sql which has barbarian camp values set in it (at 100), change that for all difficulties to some desired setting.

 

[Tomice]

Maybe you should post which other mods you have before changing anything with GEM. The bug you describe could only be the first of many to come if you have incompatible mods installed.

 

[Sarpedon99]

Thanks Mystikx21 and Tomice. I tried deleting the cache and user data folders and running with just G&K enhanced 2.5.2 and Civ up 1.13.4 only, no other mods...did this twice to different leaders, marathon, immortal....same thing 300 gold. I was able to find a file called AIhandicaps, in it the 'barbcampgold was set at 25. I changed that to 10...no effect. Found that file in 'Steam Apps/commom/Civ5.

Mystikx21
Can you tell me where to find the "In the Barbarians directory, there's a GEBEnd.sql " file. What utility would I need to edit it.

I like to play with 'Raging Barbarians' to slow AI empire development, but at 300 gold barb camps are just like gold mines and make things very lopsised for me.
Many Thanks !!

 

[mystikx21]

Notepad should suffice to edit. Notepad++ is better if you do a lot of modification, and free.

AI Handicaps is a different beast that you don't want to mess with for this purpose. Sets what the AI gets, not what you get.

You really don't want to be editing that file in the steam directory, as that's the base game, not the mod. The mod will overwrite whatever you set in there anyway (assuming the mod edits the values you change, which in this case it does). Plus when/if the game is patched or updated, your changes would be overridden as well.

C:\Users\XXX\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\g_k_enhanced_mod__v1_13_4\GEM\Barbarians would be the directory. GEB_End.sql would be the file.

Right at the top, there's a line of code starting like this.

UPDATE HandicapInfos SET EarliestBarbarianReleaseTurn = 100, BarbCampGold = 100,

All you'd need to do is replace the "100" after BarbCampGold, for each difficulty to whatever preferred value. I could definitely see how with raging barbs and honor going, it's an overkill button early on.

Keep in mind whatever you set it to do, it will be 3x that amount on marathon. Marathon 3xs many ruins/camps rewards; did you try it on a different speed as well to see if it was lower?

 

[Sarpedon99]

Found it.....worked like a charm.....Thanks again for the help.

 

[jbmoll]

Maybe you should post which other mods you have before changing anything with GEM. The bug you describe could only be the first of many to come if you have incompatible mods installed.

Thanks Brainy Smurf

 

[TurboJ]

I would also like to set the barbarian camp rewards to the default level. I can understand the info above on how to do that basically, but I don't remember seeing 100 gold rewards on my standard speed games, I see 25. So what would be the correct amount for each difficulty and how are the difficulty levels differentiated on those files you guys are referring to?