[BNW] Any way to mod max trade route distance?

[skodkim]

Hi

After my first few games with BNW I've got the feeling that the default max trade route distance is too low. Even though I had other civs/city states relatively close by my Capital couldn't trade with them.

I know I can influence this by e.g. building buildings, but is there any way of modding it?

\Skodkim

 

[snarko]

The base range is hardcoded in the DLL. They didn't even bother making defines for it.

If you don't want to use buildings to change the range then I would suggest using Technology_TradeRouteDomainExtraRange on techs you feel are in a good place to increase the range.

If it's the base range you want to increase then I suggest using Technology_TradeRouteDomainExtraRange to increase the range for TECH_AGRICULTURE. Since you always have that tech you will always get the increase.

 

[ls612]

The base range is hardcoded in the DLL. They didn't even bother making defines for it.

If you don't want to use buildings to change the range then I would suggest using Technology_TradeRouteDomainExtraRange on techs you feel are in a good place to increase the range.

If it's the base range you want to increase then I suggest using Technology_TradeRouteDomainExtraRange to increase the range for TECH_AGRICULTURE. Since you always have that tech you will always get the increase.

That's unfortunate, it would be nice to allow changing trade route ranges without making a custom DLL.

 

[skodkim]

Thanks for the reply. I always hate when values are hardcoded since it limits modding possibilities. Think I might experiment with adding a distance boost to agriculture then (since it's the base distance I - for now - would like to change).

Does anyone know if I can find the values anywhere and whether they're scaled by map size?

\Skodkim

 

[snarko]

They do not scale with map size.

Base value is 20 range for naval trade routes and 10 for land. The code for it is in CvPlayerTrade::GetTradeRouteRange.

 

[skodkim]

They do not scale with map size.

Base value is 20 range for naval trade routes and 10 for land. The code for it is in CvPlayerTrade::GetTradeRouteRange.

That's crazy I know larger maps will/can have more players but you'd still expect that there would be some kind of increased distance between civs.

\Skodkim