[BTS] [Mod Pack] Composite XL - 2.0.01

[Ket]

Ok, I am locking down the changes to 2.0.2.3 and will be releasing soon after test. 1-2 Days... I'd like to get all my final changes in tonight and test a bit tomorrow and then release.

This release is light XML changes and MAJOR flavor, UU, Formation Changes.

This teaser should be very close to what will be in the release....

Spoiler :

2.0.2.3
[Global Define Changes]
Quick Game Handicap Set To Noble
Commerce Percent Change Set to 5% Increments
Barbarian Max XP 25
Global Warming Chance Reduced
Globe Circumnavigate +2 Moves
Non State Religion -1
Base Religion Anarchy Length 2
WW Hit By Nuke Changed to 10
WW Attacked With Nuke Changed to 15
Max Withdrawal Probability 95
Combat Experience In Borders 110


[Technology]
Tech Traiding At Guilds
Map Traiding At Astronomy
Free ICBM At Fission
Robotics Requeres Plastics


[Bonus's - Land - Worker Builds]
Horse +1 Commerce Added (0/1/1)
Oil +1 Commerce Added (0/1/1)
Coastal Oil Possible
Wine Trades At Pottery
Whale +1 Production +1 Commerce (1/1/1)
Coastal Whale Possible
Whale Boats +1 Production (0/2/2)
Workshop At Machinery
Workshop +1 Production With Gunpowder
Pasturizing Sheep Now 1/1/1
Road In Forest Requires Bronze Working
Winery Build At Pottery
Cottage Build At Monarchy
Deer +1 Commerce (1/0/1)
Aluminum Trades At Metal Working
Aluminum +1 Commerce (0/1/1)
Stone Trades At The Wheel
Insense +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Ivory Obsoletes Plastics
Silk +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Spices +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Jungle +1 Production (-1/1/0)
River Jungle (0/0/1)

[Building Changes]
Bunker @ Refrigeration
Obelisk Obsolete @ Calendar
Observatory Also Requires Liberalism
Labratory @ Computers
Broadcast Tower @ Radio
Market Health -1
Great Library @ Alphabet
Hagia Sophia @ Engineering
Sistine Chapel @ Theology
Notre Dame @ Music
UN @ Fission

[Units]
BTS 2UU Included
-----------------------
Zulu Ibutho
Viking Longboat
Sumerian Chariot
Spanish Treasure Fleet
Russian T-54
Roman Cavalry
Portugese Blazer
Persion Tremor
Ottoman Sipahi
Native American Brule
Mongolian Bataar
Mayan Plumed
Malinese Vavalry
Korean Kobukson
Khmer Phakak
Japanese Zero
Indian Elephant
Incan Elite Quechua
Holy Roman Arquebusier
Greek Companion
German Teutonic
French Dragon
Ethopian RPG7
English Spitfire
Egyptian Crawler
Dutch Mercenary
Chinease Junk
Celtic Chariot
Carthaginian Elephant
Byzantine Dromon
Babylonian Swordsman
Aztec Elite Jaguar
Arabian Ansar
American Minuteman

Air Forces Mod Flavor Units
---------------------------
A6M-Green
A-10
Amiot350
B17g
B25
Campini Caproni
De Havilland Vampire
Dewo520
Eurofighter
F4
F5E
F5Even
F15
F18
F86
F117
FlatG55
FockeWulf190a
G4m3
G4m3 Japan
Hurricane
IL2-Shturmovik
JA-37
JU87
JU88
LA-7
Macchi_MC 2002 Folgore
Me262
Mig3
Mig15
Mig15r
Mig21
Mig25
Mig29
Morane Saulnier 406
Nakajima Kikka
Ouragan
p40-China
p47
P51 Mustang
p59
Rafale
Rafale A
Savoia 79
Su7B
Su25
Su25 Russian
Su37 Blue
Su37 Desert
Su37 Russian
Su47
t-50 Sukhoi
Tu95
Tu95r
Tu-22m
Tu-160
Tupolev TB3
Val
Vickers Wellington




AA Gun Unit

[Promotions]
Air Force Promotions
--------------------

[Mods Added Or Updated]
Gedemon Regiments Version .01
Updated to Version 1.02 Avians Keymod
Unaltered Version .11
BTS Flag Mod - Thorn 1.0
2nd UU Compilation
Air Forces Module .02 Gedemon








[Temp Removed]

[Game Speeds]
Game Speed Year Adjustments for Flow Of Game (----------
***IMPORTANT*** MARATHON (1170 turns) speed is SHORTER than EPIC (1865 turns) AND NEW BALANCE (1196 turns) speed, as I have not mooded that speed. Again, the speed this mod is DESIGNED for is NEW BALANCE- make SURE YOU SELECT IT!
----------)
Major date changes. Begin game at 10,000 BC with 250 year advances. This more accurately reflects when Pottery/Hunting/Agriculture and stuff like that was first used, as far as we know. The years quickly (at 4000 BC) begin to flow the way you expect.









2.0.2.0
- All Changes Backed Out Fresh Release
Merged In .10 Unaltered Gameplay [CTRL-ALT-O For In Game Menu]
Merged In Keymod 1.1
Merged In Fix's of Keymod from Ethnic Art Style 1.1
Merged In Actual Quotes V4.00
Merged In Solver and Crew's SDK Fixes
Skytale/saw192837/Tweedledee Small Europe Map 64x40
Synterra 15 Civ 52x32 Terra Earth






Detailed Change List
[SOLVER AND CREW SDK]
* Fixing a possible infinite loop problem with unit movement.
* Poison Water and Foment Unhappiness missions now have the same effect, duration and cost on all game speeds, to mirror the official patch.
* AI now more likely to promote siege units with Accuracy to better handle the changes to bombardment in BtS
* AI understanding of what is an "early Wonder" now correct for non-Normal game speeds.
* AI civs that are close to reaching a Domination victory recognize that and are more likely to declare war, in particular with Aggressive AI.
* "Dead unitgroup walking" crash fix as per Dale
* No-conscript colony crash fix as per Gyathaar
* Another colony crash fix as per myself
* Fixed the bug allowing Forts in foreign territory, which would result in Forts overrunning useful rival improvements.
* AIs close to domination population will have a high priority for health buildings in cities that are unhealthy.
* AIs close to domination population will put a high priority on researching Genetics and will like other health techs better.
* The AI will be less reluctant to raze cities that have its state religion if it doesn't have the shrine for that religion.
* Corporation maintenance is now exempt from inflation, so the costs don't blow up so much.
* Added possible workaround for a crash bug.
* Fixed an infinite loop problem with city attackers (thanks Gyathaar)
* Blockade code rewritten so that blockading is now much faster, as per Gyathaar
* Fixed Quick-speed crash (whoops)
* Auto-explore change per Bhruic.
* Auto-explorers will heal when wounded.
* Advanced start population selling fixed per Gyathaar
* Fixed the AP-conversion hammer bug
* AI will use espionage to destroy non-resource terrain improvements - such as Towns.
* AI may destroy improvements through espionage just because it hates you, with no war plan
* Increased likelihood of the AI stealing techs - hopefully it will do so now
* Fixed AI airstrike bug
* AI now only capitulates to the team which has done them a majority of the damage.
* On non-aggressive AI, the AI's are more aggressive early in the game.
* AI trains more units early in the game.
* AI SHOULD do a better job of bribing other AI's (this may or may not work)
* The cost to Bribe AI's into war now uses a new algorithm, it better reflects the impact of the bribe (ie a large AI charges a lot more to be ordered around). Generally bribing will be more expensive, especially cases where it used to be excessively cheap.
* AI's tell you to sod off if you try to bribe them onto a victim with an intact nuclear arsenal.
* AI brags about it's nukes more.
* Always Peace now suppresses AI militarism (with some barb awareness).
* AI spends less on Espionage.
* AI trains spies with lower priority.
* AI better aware of Free Market / Environmentalism corporation impact.
* Exploring units should now heal.
* Possibly fixed exploring "YoYo" issue.
* Fixed a puppet strings exploit related to naval invasions.
* Fixed some issues which hampered or stalled AI early game expansion.
* Tweaks to Governor, particularly "Emphasize Food"
* Fixed an undefended cities issues.
* Destroying Towns through espionage will turn them into Villages, etc.
* Slight tweak to the AI selection of HQ city when founding a corp
* Splitting off a colony no longer tends to create the same civilization

[INTERFACE]
CTRL-ALT-O Brings Up Interface Menu!!!!!!!
•Option Switching Core by ruff_hi and EmperorFool.

•Main Screen Interface
*Not Just Another Game Clock TheLopez
*Remove Dead Civs from Score by TheLopez
*Power rating in Score by EmperorFool
*Attitude Icons by Porges

•Pop-up Game Messages
*Civ4lerts by Dr. Elmer Jiggle
*Reminders by Eotinb

•Advisor Screens
*Better Espionage Screen by Almightix
*Sevopedia by Sevo
*Great Person Tech Preferences by ruff_hi

•City Screen
*Specialist Stacker by TheLopez
*Raw Commerce by Sevo

•Unit Modifications:
*Unit Renaming by TheLopez
i.Roman Numeral Naming by sen2000
ii.City Naming by Porges
iii.Random Names by TheLopez
iv.City Naming and Numbering Porges
v.Borg Naming by ruff_hi

[GRAPHICS]
EDU/CITY Styles Civ Flavor Units


[Partial Credits]
[Mod COmps Borged]
Chiyu - Extra/Expanded Mod
Dearmad - New Balance Mod
Ganarts - Extended Mod
Gir - Sevo Mod Add Ons
Sevo - Sevo Mod
Houman - Total Realisim
GRM - Nyomod
Zappara - Epic Mod
Hephaistion - HephMod

[SDK Borged]
Solver - Multiple SDK Fix's
Dale - Ranged Bombardment (2.0.3.0)
The Lopez - Route Pillage Mod (2.0.3.0)

[Graphics Borged]
Rabbit White - EDU
GeoModder - CityArt
Avain - Keymod
Regiments - A whole host of people (Gedemon)
BTS Flag Mod - Thorn 1.0
Airforces Mod - A whole Host OF People (Gedemon)

 

[Kaenash]

Install Notes:
You Must Have Modular Loading For This Mod To Work Correctly
To Turn On Modular Loading Go to
\My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword
Edit The File CivilizationIV.ini
Make Sure The Section For Modular Loading Is Set Correctly

; Modular XML Loading
ModularLoading = 1

Do I need to turn modular loading back OFF for other mods?

What does modular loading do?

I once had a start icon that cleared my cache so that I could try different mods. (I've since lost it). I am wondering if you can provide one that sets this to 1 for us, and back to 0 again or something along with the mod, so we don't forget?

Also, what is .7z format? I renamed it to lhz but it would not open.

 

[Ket]

There is no reason to set it back to 0...... As far as I can tell.

7z is 7-Zip It compresses much better than .ZIP
http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[Tunch Khan]

Ok, I am locking down the changes to 2.0.2.3 and will be releasing soon after test. 1-2 Days... I'd like to get all my final changes in tonight and test a bit tomorrow and then release.

This release is light XML changes and MAJOR flavor, UU, Formation Changes.

This teaser should be very close to what will be in the release....

The Keymod v.1.2 is out. Will you add that one too?

 

[Ket]

Yes the features of keymod 1.2 will be in it...

I'm having issues with the modular system with files over stepping other files. So I'm merging all the modules back into the main mod i think...or at least some of the modules....

Yay!!!!... Err... boring tedious work.

 

[Kaenash]

There is no reason to set it back to 0...... As far as I can tell.

7z is 7-Zip It compresses much better than .ZIP
http://www.7-zip.org/

I registered my zip program though. ;(

not sure I want another zipper. So I guess I will wait and see if this gets posted with zip or lhz or something.

thanks for the explanation.

 

[Ket]

Its freeware... No need to register it.

 

[Ket]

B.T.W. the reason we use 7zip is its free and it compresses better. But it has issues with compatibility on a mac. I could consider a streight zip of it at this stage, but the pre-release version of the old composite was over 150megs...

I expect we will get there soon....

 

[Ket]

For 2.0.2.4 Adding In Elements Of The Modern Warfare Mod From
-Snafusmith
-Asioasioasio
-Baal_Isidro
-Jamesmcnamara

This is more just a note to myself

 

[Tunch Khan]

Do you have any good news for the weekend?

 

[Gedemon]

Yes the features of keymod 1.2 will be in it...

I'm having issues with the modular system with files over stepping other files. So I'm merging all the modules back into the main mod i think...or at least some of the modules....

Yay!!!!... Err... boring tedious work.

same here, trying to keep regiments & ethnicity modular won't be easy

 

[Ket]

Right now the biggest issue is the modular system, trying to get all of Gedemon's Air Force changes in with everything else is requiring that for sake of simpleness I need to remerge all the mods back into the main system. Which is fine, but updates are gonna be a . .. .. .. .. ....

Possibly tonight....

 

[upstart]

Sweet....can't wait till this mod combines all the greats....especially ranged bombardment and solver's. Great going!

 

[Ket]

Ok where we are...

Gedemon just updated regiments and airforces so I was waiting on that, now I need to get that working with the second UU then I need to do a .dll complile of the latest solver fix's... Of course then I need to sync up to the latest version of unaltered as i'm about 5 versions behind.

So thats what I'm working on... I'm thinking sunday night release if not...monday night.

2.0.2.4 will be out shortly after I finaly get .3 out and it will be a sdk update with...

Ranged Bombardment
Route Pillage
Solvers Events
M.A.D.

Im thinking wednesday on this one.

 

[Ket]

Final Changelog 2.0.2.3

I'm in testing now...

Spoiler :

2.0.2.3

[Interface Changes]
Updated Base Inferface To Unaltered .15 (CTRL+ALT+O For Options)
Tech Window 1.g1 Roamty
Modern Flags - Roamty
America --> Flag of USA
China --> Flag of China
Egypt --> Flag of Egypt
England --> Flag of England
Germany --> Flag of Germany
Greece --> Flag of Greece
India --> Flag of India
Mali --> Flag of Mali
Mongol --> Flag of Mongolia
Russia --> Flag of Russia
Spain --> Flag of Spain


[Global Define Changes]
Quick Game Handicap Set To Noble
Commerce Percent Change Set to 5% Increments
Barbarian Max XP 25
Global Warming Chance Reduced
Globe Circumnavigate +2 Moves
Non State Religion -1
Base Religion Anarchy Length 2
WW Hit By Nuke Changed to 10
WW Attacked With Nuke Changed to 15
Max Withdrawal Probability 95
Combat Experience In Borders 110


[Technology]
Tech Traiding At Guilds
Map Traiding At Astronomy
Free ICBM At Fission
Robotics Requeres Plastics


[Bonus's - Land - Worker Builds]
Horse +1 Commerce Added (0/1/1)
Oil +1 Commerce Added (0/1/1)
Coastal Oil Possible
Wine Trades At Pottery
Whale +1 Production +1 Commerce (1/1/1)
Coastal Whale Possible
Whale Boats +1 Production (0/2/2)
Workshop At Machinery
Workshop +1 Production With Gunpowder
Pasturizing Sheep Now 1/1/1
Road In Forest Requires Bronze Working
Winery Build At Pottery
Cottage Build At Monarchy
Deer +1 Commerce (1/0/1)
Aluminum Trades At Metal Working
Aluminum +1 Commerce (0/1/1)
Stone Trades At The Wheel
Insense +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Ivory Obsoletes Plastics
Silk +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Spices +1 Commerce (0/0/2)
Jungle +1 Production (-1/1/0)
River Jungle (0/0/1)

[Building Changes]
Bunker @ Refrigeration
Obelisk Obsolete @ Calendar
Observatory Also Requires Liberalism
Labratory @ Computers
Broadcast Tower @ Radio
Market Health -1
Great Library @ Alphabet
Hagia Sophia @ Engineering
Sistine Chapel @ Theology
Notre Dame @ Music
UN @ Fission

[Units]
BTS 2UU Included
-----------------------
Zulu Ibutho
Viking Longboat
Sumerian Chariot
Spanish Treasure Fleet
Russian T-54
Roman Cavalry
Portugese Blazer
Persion Tremor
Ottoman Sipahi
Native American Brule
Mongolian Bataar
Mayan Plumed
Malinese Vavalry
Korean Kobukson
Khmer Phakak
Japanese Zero
Indian Elephant
Incan Elite Quechua
Holy Roman Arquebusier
Greek Companion
German Teutonic
French Dragon
Ethopian RPG7
English Spitfire
Egyptian Crawler
Dutch Mercenary
Chinease Junk
Celtic Chariot
Carthaginian Elephant
Byzantine Dromon
Babylonian Swordsman
Aztec Elite Jaguar
Arabian Ansar
American Minuteman

Air Forces Mod Flavor Units
---------------------------
A6M-Green
A-10
Amiot350
B17g
B25
Campini Caproni
De Havilland Vampire
Dewo520
Eurofighter
F4
F5E
F5Even
F15
F18
F86
F117
FlatG55
FockeWulf190a
G4m3
G4m3 Japan
Hurricane
IL2-Shturmovik
JA-37
JU87
JU88
LA-7
Macchi_MC 2002 Folgore
Me262
Mig3
Mig15
Mig15r
Mig21
Mig25
Mig29
Morane Saulnier 406
Nakajima Kikka
Ouragan
p40-China
p47
P51 Mustang
p59
Rafale
Rafale A
Savoia 79
Su7B
Su25
Su25 Russian
Su37 Blue
Su37 Desert
Su37 Russian
Su47
t-50 Sukhoi
Tu95
Tu95r
Tu-22m
Tu-160
Tupolev TB3
Val
Vickers Wellington




AA Gun Unit

[Promotions]
Air Force Promotions
--------------------
Ace
Air To Air Missle 1
Air To Air Missle 2
Air To Air Missle 3
Chaff
Improved Radar
Interception I
Interception II
Strafing
Multiple Target Acquisition 1
Multiple Target Acquisition 2
Multiple Target Acquisition 3
ECM
Range 1
Range 2
Range 3
Torpedoes




[Mods Added Or Updated]
Gedemon Regiments Version 1.01
Updated to Version 1.02 Avians Keymod
Unaltered Version .15
BTS Flag Mod - Thorn 1.0
2nd UU Compilation
Updated To Latest Solvers Fix's

Solvers BTS Unofficial Fix's List OF Changes
--------------------------------------------
* Fixing a possible infinite loop problem with unit movement.
* AI now more likely to promote siege units with Accuracy to better handle the changes to bombardment in BtS
* AI understanding of what is an "early Wonder" now correct for non-Normal game speeds.
* AI civs that are close to reaching a Domination victory recognize that and are more likely to declare war, in particular with Aggressive AI.
* "Dead unitgroup walking" crash fix as per Dale
* No-conscript colony crash fix as per Gyathaar
* Another colony crash fix as per myself
* Fixed the bug allowing Forts in foreign territory, which would result in Forts overrunning useful rival improvements.
* AIs close to domination population will have a high priority for health buildings in cities that are unhealthy.
* AIs close to domination population will put a high priority on researching Genetics and will like other health techs better.
* The AI will be less reluctant to raze cities that have its state religion if it doesn't have the shrine for that religion.
* Corporation maintenance is now exempt from inflation, so the costs don't blow up so much.
* Added possible workaround for a crash bug.
* Fixed an infinite loop problem with city attackers (thanks Gyathaar)
* Blockade code rewritten so that blockading is now much faster, as per Gyathaar
* Fixed Quick-speed crash (whoops)
* Auto-explore change per Bhruic.
* Auto-explorers will heal when wounded.
* Advanced start population selling fixed per Gyathaar
* Fixed the AP-conversion hammer bug
* AI will use espionage to destroy non-resource terrain improvements - such as Towns.
* AI may destroy improvements through espionage just because it hates you, with no war plan
* Increased likelihood of the AI stealing techs - hopefully it will do so now
* Poison Water and Foment Unhappiness missions now have the same effect, duration and cost on all game speeds, to mirror the official patch.
* Fixed AI airstrike bug
* AI now only capitulates to the team which has done them a majority of the damage.
* On non-aggressive AI, the AI's are more aggressive early in the game.
* AI trains more units early in the game.
* AI SHOULD do a better job of bribing other AI's (this may or may not work)
* The cost to Bribe AI's into war now uses a new algorithm, it better reflects the impact of the bribe (ie a large AI charges a lot more to be ordered around). Generally bribing will be more expensive, especially cases where it used to be excessively cheap.
* AI's tell you to sod off if you try to bribe them onto a victim with an intact nuclear arsenal.
* AI brags about it's nukes more.
* Always Peace now suppresses AI militarism (with some barb awareness).
* AI spends less on Espionage.
* AI trains spies with lower priority.
* AI better aware of Free Market / Environmentalism corporation impact.
* Exploring units should now heal.
* Possibly fixed exploring "YoYo" issue.
* Fixed a puppet strings exploit related to naval invasions.
* Fixed some issues which hampered or stalled AI early game expansion.
* Tweaks to Governor, particularly "Emphasize Food"
* Fixed an undefended cities issues.
* Destroying Towns through espionage will turn them into Villages, etc.
* Slight tweak to the AI selection of HQ city when founding a corp
* Splitting off a colony no longer tends to create the same civilization
* Governor fills the food bar better.
* Governor should work hamlets over cottages.
* AI offers larger bribes to other AI's, and doesn't care how much it "overpays" to bring another party into war.
* The vassalizing thing should work now.
* Fixed bug where defensive units idle.
* Hamlets WILL be preferred over cottages.
* Fixed independence-loving colonies
* AI will prefer to run Foment Unhappiness in cities that have been hit with Poison Water and vice-versa









[Temp Removed]

[Game Speeds]
Game Speed Year Adjustments for Flow Of Game (----------
***IMPORTANT*** MARATHON (1170 turns) speed is SHORTER than EPIC (1865 turns) AND NEW BALANCE (1196 turns) speed, as I have not mooded that speed. Again, the speed this mod is DESIGNED for is NEW BALANCE- make SURE YOU SELECT IT!
----------)
Major date changes. Begin game at 10,000 BC with 250 year advances. This more accurately reflects when Pottery/Hunting/Agriculture and stuff like that was first used, as far as we know. The years quickly (at 4000 BC) begin to flow the way you expect.

 

[Ket]

2.0.2.3 Is Live and available for download see first message for the link.

 

[WGW]

when i try to use ctrl + alt + o i get in the Additional Options Menu.
but when i try to exit it, it wont work!
i can press exit as much as i can but it wont do a thing.

the only way i can get to the game again is use ctrl + alt + delete and quit the program and start it up again!

please help

 

[Ket]

I can not duplicate this issuse on my side. What I sugest is to delete the old install if you used it and then re-install the mod.

 

[avain]

2.0.2.3 Is Live and available for download see first message for the link.

Cool!! I'll download as soon as I get home!
Great success!

 

[moverred]

This is probably not relevant to the development of this mod as it is probably just a personal taste issue for me, but the unit scales seem to be too small. It is probably because of the formations, which I did not play long enough to see. Everything else was/is beautifully done and I look forward to playing a full game!