[BTS] Specialist Enhancements

[Supercheese]

Specialist Enhancements​

This (mini)mod adds <iHealth> and <iHappiness> tags to CIV4SpecialistInfos.xml, and naturally, allows specialists to affect a city's Health and Happiness.

This mod has essentially been done before, but I could no longer find an up-to-date mod that accomplishes the same thing.

Screenshots:

Spoiler :

Note that I was playing the Rise of Mankind mod when I took these screenshots; this does not mean this mod is restricted to RoM. It works fine in vanilla BtS, and in theory, with any mod.

It makes a world of sense to use this in conjunction with a custom Doctor (or Great Doctor) specialist that increases a city's health -- indeed, that was the main reason I wrote this mod in the first place (the happiness part is just an added bonus! ).

This is not a standalone mod, obviously... it is meant to be used as a part of a larger mod; please feel free to do just that.

Anyways, to the download links! I have uploaded it to the database: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=13434


Note: Updated to v1.1: Added AI code (as suggested by Afforess)
Please re-download & re-compile the sources to update -- the XML has not changed.


The download contains the relevant sources, the required SpecialistEnhancements_CIV4GameText.xml file, and the altered CIV4GameInfoSchema.xml and CIV4SpecialistInfos.xml files. Note that in the included SpecialistInfos, no specialists have actually been set to alter health or happiness, just the <iHealth> and <iHappiness> tags have been added.

[Of course, adding the two clearly commented "SPECIALIST ENHANCEMENTS" lines to your existing CIV4GameInfoSchema file, and adding the <iHealth> and <iHappiness> tags in the correct locations to your existing CIV4SpecialistInfos file will work just as well.]


Anyway, that's about it. I do not plan on releasing a Doctor/Great Doctor mod myself. But as I said, feel free to use this code if you desire to make one of your own.

-Supercheese

 

[strategyonly]

Heres an older Great Doctor one.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=273555

In my mod i have the GD already plus Statesman etc.

 

[Afforess]

Heres an older Great Doctor one.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=273555

In my mod i have the GD already plus Statesman etc.

But those Doctors don't actually add health, they add food. This modcomp seems much more useful, IMO. Nice work SuperCheese.

 

[strategyonly]

But those Doctors don't actually add health, they add food. This modcomp seems much more useful, IMO. Nice work SuperCheese.

I know that, but at least its a place to start with stuff already there for you to change, is all.

 

[NBAfan]

This is not a standalone mod, obviously... it is meant to be used as a part of a larger mod

Does this mean Rom?

 

[The_J]

That means every larger mod .


ontopic: Good work .

 

[TheLadiesOgre]

Good work .

I second that

 

[Supercheese]

Does this mean RoM?

I have submitted this mod to Afforess; he will be releasing it along with his next batch of modmods for RoM 2.8 (in fact, you can already find it within his most recently posted experimental sources).

ontopic: Good work .

I second that

Thanks, it was fun working on it, and more fun knowing that others will enjoy it as well.

 

[Afforess]

I have a suggestion. I think this modcomp would be a lot more valuable if you would add AI logic in CvCityAI. As it stands now, the AI don't see the bonuses.

 

[Supercheese]

I have a suggestion. I think this modcomp would be a lot more valuable if you would add AI logic in CvCityAI. As it stands now, the AI don't see the bonuses.

Are you sure? I did not see any code from Jooyo's Improvement Health mod in CvCityAI, and when I played a game of RoM where I set artists to give +1 Happiness for test purposes, my city's Auto-Citizen-Manager seemed very aware of the happiness change, as it would max out artist specialists when the city was unhappy. Presumably, the AI's citizen-manager would also be aware of this, though I did not test it out with the AI.

However, the AI might not value buildings that give specialist slots that give the new bonuses properly, I realize. I may look into coding some AI logic, but no promises...

 

[Afforess]

Are you sure? I did not see any code from Jooyo's Improvement Health mod in CvCityAI, and when I played a game of RoM where I set artists to give +1 Happiness for test purposes, my city's Auto-Citizen-Manager seemed very aware of the happiness change, as it would max out artist specialists when the city was unhappy. Presumably, the AI's citizen-manager would also be aware of this, though I did not test it out with the AI.

However, the AI might not value buildings that give specialist slots that give the new bonuses properly, I realize. I may look into coding some AI logic, but no promises...

I just saw no CvCityAI changes and assumed...

I suppose that the way the logic was coded could allow for this. I guess it just means I'll have to create an empty specialist except for happy changes and see if the AI uses it.

 

[Supercheese]

I guess it just means I'll have to create an empty specialist except for happy changes and see if the AI uses it.

Yes, that would be a better test.

EDIT: In retrospect, the auto-citizen-manager likely was valuing the artist specialist for their culture values, rather than their happiness values...

Looking at the code in AI_specialistValue, it does appear to be rather lacking in evaluating health/happiness values for specialists. I have written some code that likely fixes this, but now I must test to see if it produces the desired results...

EDIT2: Wrote some code, seems to work, first post updated!

 

[Opera]

Great mod! Instant stealing!

 

[Valkrionn]

Very nice... Think I'll be stealing it as well.

 

[Lib.Spi't]

just merging it now I hope, I am really glad you had the happiness tag! I needed that :-D

 

[FiSkirata]

I downloaded this and tried to install it, but for some reason it doesn't show up. I copied the Asset files into their respective areas and put the Source files in the CvGameCoreDLL file.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[isenchine]

@ FiSkirata: you just overwrote the original files?!

Did you merge and compile the source files?

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to this tutorial by Asaf: A simple guide to compiling the DLL.

 

[FiSkirata]

@ FiSkirata: you just overwrote the original files?!

Did you merge and compile the source files?

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to this tutorial by Asaf: A simple guide to compiling the DLL.

I copied the DLL folder (the originals) and put it in my mod, putting the new DLL files into that.

I used the tutorial and that seems to have helped (as far as how they look in the pedia). I still need to test them in game though.

Thanks for the help!

 

[FiSkirata]

Okay, now the Doctor works on the city screen, but for some reason it has disabled the spy. It's icon still appears but I cannot add or subtract from it and it also won't show any information when I scroll over it. I'm assuming I need to change something in Python, but what do I need to do to fix this?

 

[The_J]

Try this here.