BETA: 1.25

[Xyth]

Well, this one took a lot longer than I expected. Given the the length of development time (and the amount of interruptions therein) I'm expecting there to be a fair number of uncaught bugs and incomplete additions, despite my best efforts. Any time you can spend playtesting this beta would be massively appreciated.



Download

http://www.moddb.com/mods/history-rewritten/downloads/history-rewritten-125-beta

IMPORTANT: After installation, you'll need to install this patch that fixes some critical issues.

MAC USERS: After installing the patch, you will also need to download the file attached to this post, unzip it and replace the file of the same name in /History Rewritten/Assets/XML/Civilizations/. It fixes a crash on launch.
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Known Issues

• Armenians: Argishti (3rd leader) not in yet
• Scythians: citylist needs work
• New Diplomacy mechanics need a lot of adjusting still
• New UN votes might show up on Mac despite only functioning on Windows
• Foreign and Victory Advisors not updated yet
• Pedia not updated with many new mechanics yet

Changes

Civilizations​

• New Civilization: Armenia (Tigranes, Ashot)
• New Civilization: Scythia (Tomyris, Ateas)
• Hungarians: Vegvar (UB) grants free Cover promotion
• Mongols: new UW (Ulugh Beg Observatory)
• Polish: new leader (Pilsudski)
• Romans: Legionary (UU) can also build Encampments, death animation fixed
• Zulu: new Leader (Mandela)

Leaders​

• Cyrus: new art
• Gajah Mada: improved art
• Rahiri: improved art, reverted to Te Rauparaha
• Shammuramat: removed
• Numerous trait reassignments

Traits​

• Aggressive: fixed a bug that could leave a player with negative wealth
• Defensive: improved AI handling of pillage immunity (Windows only)
  
• Expansive: renamed Expansionist, grants free Granary instead of extra population
• Tactical: now reduces military unit upgrade cost by 50% (was 100%)

Civics​

• Chiefdom: redesigned (+50% culture in capital, +1 happiness from Barracks)
• Industrialism: upkeep lowered to Medium
• Monarchy: grants +1 happiness from Palace instead of Barracks
• Theocracy: no longer grants +50% culture in capital
• Tribalism: 100% free unit upkeep instead of pillage/capture bonus

Religion​

• AI more likely to found religions appropriate to their region

Tenets​

• Enlightenment: faith from settled Great People reduced to +3 (previously +5)
• Idolatry: now also increases cost of constructing Wonders by 25%
• Preservation: now +1 faith from Wonders (previously +2)
• Salvation: faith earned from combat is now based on the defeated unit's experience
• Revelation Tenets that improve Monasteries should now work correctly

Organizations​

• Fixed incorrect expansion costs
• Fixed a rare bug that could destroy Headquarters
• Several tweaks and fixes to AI share trading

Technology​

• Geography: no longer grants free trade routes

Buildings​

• New Building: Telephone Exchange
• Airport: now also requires Radio
• Bunker: redesigned and unlocks earlier (at Explosives)
• Castle: also reduces bombard damage, no longer allows 1 spy
• Customs House: foreign trade yield bonus reduced to 50%, also grants +50% defense vs espionage
• Recycling Centre: should now clear existing pollution when constructed
• Sewer: now grants +3 health, no longer allows 1 spy
• Solar Plant: latitude requirement tightened to 30°
• Defense bonuses no longer ineffective against many gunpowder units
• Numerous adjustments to likelihood of destruction when city is captured
• Numerous improvements/replacements for building art
• City artstyle now determined by highest culture present (Windows only)
• New construction sounds for many buildings

National Wonders​

• Refinery: provides Scientist GPP (formerly Merchant GPP)
• Telephone Network: redesigned as Silicon Valley

Wonders​

• Cristo Redentor: should now work properly
• Jetavanaramaya: cost lowered to 500

Units​

• Labourer: can no longer settle as citizens
• Grenadier: also does up to 75% collateral damage to 3 units
• Musketman: strength increased to 10
• Transport Ship: now unlocks at Combustion
• Many units that used to ignore building defense no longer do
• Siege Units separated into Siege and Artillery categories
• Fixed resource and tech requirements of several naval UUs
• Various fixes and changes to unit art

Forts​

• Variants: Encampment, Fort, Fortress
• Can be bombarded to reduce defenses (Windows only)
• Generate culture for the occupier (Windows only)
• Enable stationed units to see further (Windows only)
• Better art

Improvements​

• AI should now be more careful about building polluting improvements
• Offshore Platform: now unlocked at Infrastructure

Natural Wonders​

• New Natural Wonders: Eye of the Sahara, Salar de Uyuni
• Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis
• Several adjustments/changes to bonuses
• Now indicated on the map when resource labels are enabled

Music​

• New music for many leaders and eras, courtesy of @IanMusic
• Several existing pieces repurposed or reintroduced (from Vanilla and Warlords)

Interface​

• City Screen: Dissent Bar will now always show dissent rate (unless it is 0)
• City Screen: fixed a bug preventing assignment of specialists when land is unworked
• Financial Advisor: now shows how many trade routes you have with each player
• Settings: fixed an error when adjusting Field of View

Diplomacy (Windows Only)​

• New Agreements: Embassies, Right of Passage, Trading Pact, Non-Aggression Pact
• New Negotiations: Cease Relations, War Preparations, War Reparations, Secretary General Vote
• New Trades: Contact, Workers, Military Hardware
• New UN Votes: Barbarian Peace, Denounce Aggression, No City Razing, Fixed Borders
• New UN Votes: Map Exchange, Civic Condemnation, Resource Prohibition
• Various smaller Diplomacy adjustments

Balance​

• Increased culture required to reach Refined and higher levels
• Dissent from civics now scales more reasonably with number of cities

Misc​

• Regenerating the map should no longer mess up certain tile yields (Windows only)
• Numerous minor bugfixes and tweaks

 

[Zorro777]

Thanks so much!!!

 

[Zorro777]

I have three hours into a regular game and I am blocked. (I save after every turn and sometimes more). The game freezes after I end the turn and the spinning planet comes on saying the other players are taking their turn. The music continues playing. No keystrokes work so I had to force quit. I tried going back to the end of the previous move and load it and go foreward selecting the other science item to research and it can go foreward one move and after that it freezes the game the same way. <update> After going back about 3 saves and trying different choices I have moved forward about six turns and am stuck again. Its a small map and only 3-4 other AI's in the game. I've been able to get to CE-0560. No problems other than this one so far.

 

[Xyth]

I have three hours into a regular game and I am blocked. (I save after every turn and sometimes more). The game freezes after I end the turn and the spinning planet comes on saying the other players are taking their turn. The music continues playing. No keystrokes work so I had to force quit. I tried going back to the end of the previous move and load it and go foreward selecting the other science item to research and it can go foreward one move and after that it freezes the game the same way. <update> After going back about 3 saves and trying different choices I have moved forward about six turns and am stuck again. Its a small map and only 3-4 other AI's in the game. I've been able to get to CE-0560. No problems other than this one so far.

When it gets stuck, try pressing CTRL-C (Windows) or CMD-C (Mac). If that doesn't help, please post the saved game.

 

[keldath]

magnificent Xyth,
happy to see beta 125.
looking forward to give it a spin.

advanced diplomacy - very nice that you managed to merge it into kmod! well done!
last time i looked at AD , there were some bugs in it ? i reckon that fixed these? and have you checked it in multiplayer?
Also, id love to use the AD to my Doto mod - is it ok i use the sdk(is it in the release files?)

anyway! your mod is one of the more innovative here, i hope ill play it on Friday and let the Egyptian (their my new favorites ) people rise !

 

[Xyth]

advanced diplomacy - very nice that you managed to merge it into kmod! well done!

I haven't merged all of it, only the parts that I thought would work well in HR. And some aren't in use yet (e.g. Active Senate).

last time i looked at AD , there were some bugs in it ? i reckon that fixed these?

There were a few bugs that I fixed or found fixes for. Hopefully beta testing will reveal if there are any others.

and have you checked it in multiplayer?

Only briefly.

Also, id love to use the AD to my Doto mod - is it ok i use the sdk(is it in the release files?)

Of course. Source files are not in the current download though. I figured I'd make them available closer to actual release, once any obvious bugs are ironed out. I can post them earlier if you want though.

anyway! your mod is one of the more innovative here, i hope ill play it on Friday and let the Egyptian (their my new favorites ) people rise !

Thank you! I look forward to your feedback.

 

[keldath]

cool,
thanks for addressing all,

i have a habit of browsing through source codes of mods, just to see stuff for later use (if you can pass it privately even, that will be sweet).

i do hope the AD will be fine.


ofc, i provide whatever feed i can .

 

[Xyth]

Attached the DLL Source code for those interested. For reference, the parts of Advanced Diplomacy 2 that I didn't merge are:

• Corporate HQ Trading
• POW Trading
• Favourite Wonder
• UN Vote: Prisoner Rights
• UN Vote: Military Medicine Rights
• UN Vote: Victim Rights
• UN Vote: No Capital Punishment
• UN Vote: Prohibited Weapons (wasn't actually any code to merge)

Everything else should be in there, though it seems the Nuclear Dissuasion code was never completed, at least in the version I merged (2.8). Other features have been merged but aren't currently enabled:

• Active Senate
• Shared Civic Attitude

Super Forts was merged completely, but again, not every feature has been used. In particular, I haven't made it so that forts can upgrade over time when garrisoned (but I may revisit this mechanic later).

 

[keldath]

cool mr X,

thanks a lot.

super forts, this is quite popular, i use a more ancient variation of it, which called jculture improvement mod, i prefer it to s forts.

also, i think there was a 2.9 version of ad, but stability and mp is more important i think.

as i told you one time ago, there are other nice codes i can give you which are very useful

cheers !

 

[evilcoward]

Switching to new version made civilopedia broken a bit for me - it does not display bottom buttons (so i can't click 'back') and one last item in a list (so in civics folder i can't select multiculturalism, for example). Tried changing resolution, but it didn't help.

 

[Xyth]

Switching to new version made civilopedia broken a bit for me - it does not display bottom buttons (so i can't click 'back') and one last item in a list (so in civics folder i can't select multiculturalism, for example). Tried changing resolution, but it didn't help.

Do you mean that the bottom of the pedia is offscreen so you can't view them, or that it is onscreen but these things just aren't appearing where they should be? If the latter, it implies a Python error. Please enable Python Exceptions, recreate the problem and see if any error messages popup. If so, post a screenshot or your PythonErr.log.

 

[Little Faith]

It's the former. The bottom of the pedia screen is cut off and inaccessible.

 

[Xyth]

EDIT: file removed, didn't work.

 

[Zorro777]

Had another freezeup, this time in a custom game. Copied this from the console.
Apr 10 17:41:42 xxxxxxxs-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[1533]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
Apr 10 17:41:48 xxxxxxxs-iMac Civilization IV Beyond the Sword[628]: Civilization IV Beyond the Sword(628,0xa99d81c0) malloc: *** error for object 0xbb2bf624: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Apr 10 17:41:51 --- last message repeated 336 times ---

tried again and here's the new report:
Apr 10 18:26:39 174-082-199-137 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.aspyr.civ4bts.10360.284AF800-3E6C-4699-BA06-C24A9E0E4565[6532]): Service exited due to signal: Terminated: 15 sent by loginwindow[90]
Apr 10 18:26:39 174-082-199-137 systemstats[51]: assertion failed: 17E199: systemstats + 914800 [D1E75C38-62CE-3D77-9ED3-5F6D38EF0676]: 0x40

 

[Xyth]

Had another freezeup, this time in a custom game. Copied this from the console.
Apr 10 17:41:42 xxxxxxxs-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[1533]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
Apr 10 17:41:48 xxxxxxxs-iMac Civilization IV Beyond the Sword[628]: Civilization IV Beyond the Sword(628,0xa99d81c0) malloc: *** error for object 0xbb2bf624: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Apr 10 17:41:51 --- last message repeated 336 times ---

tried again and here's the new report:
Apr 10 18:26:39 174-082-199-137 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.aspyr.civ4bts.10360.284AF800-3E6C-4699-BA06-C24A9E0E4565[6532]): Service exited due to signal: Terminated: 15 sent by loginwindow[90]
Apr 10 18:26:39 174-082-199-137 systemstats[51]: assertion failed: 17E199: systemstats + 914800 [D1E75C38-62CE-3D77-9ED3-5F6D38EF0676]: 0x40

Does pressing 'CMD-C' do anything? Please post a saved game from 1-2 turns before the freeze.

 

[Zorro777]

I tried the new screen replacement for CvPedia with no change to the size. Bottom is still off the screen somewhere.

 

[Zorro777]

Does pressing 'CMD-C' do anything? Please post a saved game from 1-2 turns before the freeze.

No. (And I just learned you have to wait several minutes on this board between posts.)

Attached are the three last saves.

 

[Xyth]

I tried the new screen replacement for CvPedia with no change to the size. Bottom is still off the screen somewhere.

Hmm. What resolution are you running Civ at? Does the pedia fill the full height of the screen or is it partway down?

Attached are the three last saves.

Thanks. I'll see if I can reproduce the issue.

 

[Zorro777]

1024x768

Full height.

 

[Xyth]

Attached a fix for the Pedia truncation issue. Replace the file of the same name in /History Rewritten/Assets/Python/Pedia/. No need to install this if you're not experiencing this problem, it only affects people with a vertical resolution shorter than 854.