fertiliser
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I have a reasonable amount of experience with modding Civ5, but have always avoided the DLL due to compatibility issues.
This time around. there's an ambitious project on the horizon. It involves bugfixes and QoL, that may or may not have been done in the past. I'd like to make sure before I commit to the upheaval reinventing the wheel, that there aren't any open-source solutions already in circulation. Optimised & playtested solutions definitely exist for at least some of these, and I'm sure there'll be more elegant and efficient than whatever I could produce with my mediocre programming skills. Here are the relevant topics:
Thanks in advance for anyone willing to share.
Alternatively, I'd also be grateful if you could point me towards other threads in case the thread itself - had been done before
This time around. there's an ambitious project on the horizon. It involves bugfixes and QoL, that may or may not have been done in the past. I'd like to make sure before I commit to the upheaval reinventing the wheel, that there aren't any open-source solutions already in circulation. Optimised & playtested solutions definitely exist for at least some of these, and I'm sure there'll be more elegant and efficient than whatever I could produce with my mediocre programming skills. Here are the relevant topics:
- Scholars in residence AKA science overflow: has anyone in history ever managed to fix this? Seems all you'd need is to reduce these techs' global science cost across all players, but I don't know how. Especially since you need to remove the effect once scholars is repealed.
- Citadels deal damage to units inside cities: beginning of each turn, every unit checks if it is adjacent to an enemy citadel. There is no clause to check if that unit is inside a friendly city.
- Same-turn growth & production focus: on the turn that a new citizen is born, that citizen can produce hammers, but cannot produce food (?). This introduces tedious, unnecessary & counterintuitive micromanagement. High level players are forced to set all of their cities to production focus, and manually control all tiles. I would like to remove the necessity for this either via removing the reward (same turn hammers), or by making it automatic (new citizen only works hammers on its' birth turn). Has anyone done this before?
- Prebuilding units: cheesy players will build 99% of a unit, then switch to something else. They can finish building them in one turn, pay no maintenance on this unit, not have it show up in soldier demographics, and use it as a way to build production overflow. Has anyone managed to introduce prebuild-attrition? Or to charge fractions of maintenance and add fractions of demographics for incomplete units?
- Production overflow: piety doubles production when building shrines. Once the shrine is finished, the excess of this doubled production is rolled over 1:1 towards normal production on the next turn. This also applies to stables giving +15% production to cavalry, and so on. Gamebreaking, infinite gain, production feedback loop is possible. Has anyone come up with a solution/workaround?
- Bonus vs mounted: In the mod, ranged horse units become "mounted ranged". Is there an elegant way to making pikemen not get the 50% combat strength when defending against a ranged attack from MOUNTED_RANGED unit type, but still get the bonus if defending against a melee attack from MOUNTED_RANGED unit type?
- Abombs/nukes destroy marsh - hurts extra bad for William players.
- Miscellaneous optimisation changes: playtested bits of code that optimise the gameplay/netcode or fix visual glitches. Most interested in stuff at the DLL level, since XML and LUA tend to be plug and play, whereas the DLL needs to be appended manually for compatibility.
Thanks in advance for anyone willing to share.
Alternatively, I'd also be grateful if you could point me towards other threads in case the thread itself - had been done before
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