[BtS] "Mars, Now!"

[glider1]

Man thanks for this mod! My wife plays this mod and likes it because it reminds her of Outpost (if you ever heard of that game from the dim distant past)...She is essentially a builder, explorer and terraformer and that aspect is what she most encourages.
Cheers

 

[Sir Falstaff]

Any idea when the next bugfixes/patch will be released?

 

[The_J]

Man thanks for this mod! My wife plays this mod and likes it because it reminds her of Outpost (if you ever heard of that game from the dim distant past)...She is essentially a builder, explorer and terraformer and that aspect is what she most encourages.
Cheers

Thanks for mentioning it .
It's always good to get some feedback.

Any idea when the next bugfixes/patch will be released?

Sorry, no idea .
The semester has started right now, i have another (small) mod in work, and probably the worst of all, today i've started to play Drakensang.
No idea, from where i should get the time :/.

 

[diegomedgra]

Hi, this mod looks very good but I can't play it. When I try to run it, a window shows "An error has ocurred and Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword must to be closed". Please, help me. I really want to play this mod. I don't know much about modding (I only did a mod with Kael's videos and it isn't very good).

PD: I don't speak native english, so, sorry if I say something bad.

 

[The_J]

I'm also not a native speaker, so i'll probably not notice when you say something bad .

@your problem: It looks like you don't have the latest BtS patch 3.19 installed.
If you don't know, what patch is installed, please try this first. And don't trust the ingame updater, you can't rely on it.

 

[diegomedgra]

Thank you very much and congratulations for your mod.

 

[Challs]

Wow, this is huge! Great concept!

 

[kirklar]

freaking mother a sweet man mu mum loves civ 4 and im getting this mod for her!

 

[Eagle_eye]

So, can we have a hint as to when the next update will be out?

 

[The_J]

First: Thanks for all the nice words .

So, can we have a hint as to when the next update will be out?

No, sorry .
And i will not patch, i would release a new version, when i have the time to, the patches are already to big.

Depending on how studying is going on, i might be able to upload a new version in 3 weeks, but that's completly not sure.

 

[Nordus]

Excuse me, The_J. How about a terraforming in this version? Any terrain still become water?

 

[The_J]

It definetly should.
I've set the rate a bit up in the last patch, because it has been reported, that it wasn't really enough.
If you have the last patch...well...then i have to change it to more.
Can't really say, if it's enough or not, i do not have the time to play it long enough :/.

 

[gyrobot]

For life 2.0, the thing you are missing should be Genetic society. Where through superior Eugenics and gene therapy, humanity has found a way to biologically evolve. This improves the health of the people off course but also reduces hammers produced due to the reduced reliancy on mechanical technology

 

[The_J]

mmhh...that's a good idea.
It's contrary to cybernetics and robotics, also completly different to esoteric.
I think less production for mines could be to much .
have to think about the possible effect a bit more.

 

[gyrobot]

Of course, I could help out with the flavour text of the game. Many of your wonders, units and buildings lack Civlopedia text

 

[The_J]

That would be really nice .
The lack of civilopedia text is really a problem.
If you want to write something, you're welcome .

I've thought, i could use for the space agencies just the wikipedia text (sure with mentioning it), but not sure if that would really fit.


I've worked yesterday a bit on the mod, exchanged some graphics and stats, and tried to fix the problem with not being able to build improvements on water tiles without water roads. This sound easy, but in fact every unit which can use water roads has to be changed for that, and it didn't work. I tried an alternate approach of the curently implemented one, and it just crashs to desktop . Tried to debug the problem, lasted 2 hours, and result is still nothing .
Will try to change it a bit today, it will hopefully work like intended...but i don't really expect it :/.
I sure have a backup, but sad for the invested time.

 

[gyrobot]

Here is the Martian Colonies and Jail Rock Inc civilization's flavor text. I will get Private Space Explorers and NASA up soon

 

[The_J]

great texts, they fit perfectly to my imagination, to how i thought about the background...no, the part of Jail Rock Inc. is even better.



To my progress:
Still he above mentioned problems with the crashes :/.

Tried also another thing, which ended not good: Adding a city style for the aliens. Also directly resulted in some crashes, so i've reverted it.

Today i've made mainly smaller things, like a bunch of better flavored buttons and some balancing things.

I'll have to see when i'll be able to do the other bigger things, like changing the corporations.
Cyberdyne (Terminator) and OCP (Robocop) should be in, i think.
Will probably take the Blackwater Interplanter and Plants&Animlas 24 out for them.

 

[gyrobot]

I will try to get a few more technology ideas for the civlopedia

 

[The_J]

Suggestions are always welcome .


Haven't done that much today.
I've spent a hour for searching great person names, was at some points relativly successfull (the scientists), at some points less, where the list is very short or very weird mixed :/.