C3X: Civ/Trait Specific Resources

[Arexander]

It's used in the Conquests of Might and Magic III mod, IIRC. Can't check since I haven't setup my new PC with Civ3 yet, and I'm dealing with other issues right now.

 

[sylkachan]

Oh, so that is what it does, the : Default Money Resource.

 

[robotlincoln]

I made Default Money Resource into a strategic resource called Minor Tribe and used it as a way to produce barbarian-flavor units in cities that are adjacent to that resource using unit-generating improvements that replace each other the way different kinds of power plants do. Some improvements produce workers (ancient slavery), some produce a strategic resource called "Slaves" (commercialized/late medieval slavery), some produce a "Mercenary" unit that can be upgraded to Swordsman, some produce a "Barbarian Conscript" unit that can be upgraded to Phalanx, etc. In the industrial era the only improvement you can build with it is "Reservation" so these barb improvements don't compete with power plants.

Btw, does anyone know how to make a tech that can be traded but not researched? I'm thinking about how to give distinct civs access to distinct organic resources (wheat, rice, potatoes, etc.) that could spread across the map once traded.

 

[robotlincoln]

(This has the added bonus of making Expansionist civs pretty powerful throughout the first two game eras)

 

[Civinator]

Btw, does anyone know how to make a tech that can be traded but not researched? I'm thinking about how to give distinct civs access to distinct organic resources (wheat, rice, potatoes, etc.) that could spread across the map once traded.

Simply tie those resources (rice, potatoes, etc.) to an era none tech, assign that tech to certain civs (maybe southamerican crops to the Aztecs, Inca, etc.) and allow that this tech can be traded.

 

[robotlincoln]

Perfect, thank you!

 

[robotlincoln]

Simply tie those resources (rice, potatoes, etc.) to an era none tech, assign that tech to certain civs (maybe southamerican crops to the Aztecs, Inca, etc.) and allow that this tech can be traded.

I've done a decent job with this and am testing, but I'm not able to trade the None-era techs that I created for different civs (for convenience, I've called them Mediterranean Domesticates, Asian Domesticates, American Domesticates, etc.)

 

[robotlincoln]

Simply tie those resources (rice, potatoes, etc.) to an era none tech, assign that tech to certain civs (maybe southamerican crops to the Aztecs, Inca, etc.) and allow that this tech can be traded.

Do you have any advice on how to enable the trading of these none-era techs?