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IIRC, this bug only occurs in multiplayer, though?
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You think so?. Let's run a little experiment then.
I set up a scenario where an AI has 4 cities. If I declare war, they get -30 WW. Losing size 1 cities generates 16 WW, so taking 2 cities should cancel their war happiness.
There probably is a way of checking WW in game with debug, but as I don't know how I'll use civ3multitool save editor to do so.
First test: 4 unguarded AI cities, I take 2.
Result: AI has -30 WW, rather than the expected 2.
Second test: 4 guarded AI cities, I take 2. Then, I wait a turn.
Result: AI has -30 WW, rather than the expected 6. Also, now I have 1 WW (as expected).
Now, let's try a test that doesn't rely on 3rd party tools. When a Civ on a government with high WW reaches level 3, it falls into anarchy. You need 91 points for level 3, and losing 6 cities generates 96-102 points (depending on population). So, if 2 civs on democracy were at war and one were to lose 6 cities, the expected result would be that the one losing said cities would fall to anarchy. Setting permanent war between civs removes the need to account for "war happiness"
With that in mind, let's create a scenario with 6 civs:
- Player 1 is the human.
- Player 2 is ready to take 8 human cities. Either I'll declare war, or make the AI do so. It doesn't matter.
- Player 3 Babylon and Player 4 Germany locked at war. Babylon set to lose 6 cities.
- Player 5 Russia and Player 6 Japan locked at war. Japan set to lose 6 cities.
- All civilizations are democracies and in the industrial era.
- AI civs have an extra city somewhere else to ensure survival.
- Player is in industrial era.
Results:
- Surprising to me, no civ fell to anarchy: There must be a minimum wait. So, i decided to check the save file.
Spain(human)-America(player2): 97-127
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 214-214.
Something's off. I repeat it, at chieftian level this time.
1st turn, cities are taken.
end turn, I raze a city of Player 2. All but one of my pops in my extra city are unhappy now. However, no matter how many turns I wait no one falls to anarchy.
State at the beginning of the second turn.
Spain(human)-Portugal(player2) 127-97 [I attacked this time]
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 215-215
Just to be sure I'm not forgetting something, I repeat a last time in debug.
Beginning 2nd turn:
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 215-215
Beginning 3rd turn:
Spain(human)-Arabia: 97-127
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 214-214
4th turn (I killed 2 enemy units and lost 1 attack on the 3rd turn)
Spain(human)-Arabia: 98-128 (consistent with having +2 from failed attack, -1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory.)
Babylon-Germany: 117-117 (-1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory)
Russia-Japan: 213-213 (-1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory)
Conclusion:
The WW is bugged somewhere.
According to the result, in the Human-AI war WW increased by 16 per city. (16*8-1=127)
In the Babylon-Germany war, WW increased by 20 per city.
In the Russia-Japan war, WW increased by 36 per city. I suspect is counting it twice.
I attach the last test case, and the saves from where I got my results.
I rest my case.
I set up a scenario where an AI has 4 cities. If I declare war, they get -30 WW. Losing size 1 cities generates 16 WW, so taking 2 cities should cancel their war happiness.
There probably is a way of checking WW in game with debug, but as I don't know how I'll use civ3multitool save editor to do so.
First test: 4 unguarded AI cities, I take 2.
Result: AI has -30 WW, rather than the expected 2.
Second test: 4 guarded AI cities, I take 2. Then, I wait a turn.
Result: AI has -30 WW, rather than the expected 6. Also, now I have 1 WW (as expected).
Now, let's try a test that doesn't rely on 3rd party tools. When a Civ on a government with high WW reaches level 3, it falls into anarchy. You need 91 points for level 3, and losing 6 cities generates 96-102 points (depending on population). So, if 2 civs on democracy were at war and one were to lose 6 cities, the expected result would be that the one losing said cities would fall to anarchy. Setting permanent war between civs removes the need to account for "war happiness"
With that in mind, let's create a scenario with 6 civs:
- Player 1 is the human.
- Player 2 is ready to take 8 human cities. Either I'll declare war, or make the AI do so. It doesn't matter.
- Player 3 Babylon and Player 4 Germany locked at war. Babylon set to lose 6 cities.
- Player 5 Russia and Player 6 Japan locked at war. Japan set to lose 6 cities.
- All civilizations are democracies and in the industrial era.
- AI civs have an extra city somewhere else to ensure survival.
- Player is in industrial era.
Results:
- Surprising to me, no civ fell to anarchy: There must be a minimum wait. So, i decided to check the save file.
Spain(human)-America(player2): 97-127
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 214-214.
Something's off. I repeat it, at chieftian level this time.
1st turn, cities are taken.
end turn, I raze a city of Player 2. All but one of my pops in my extra city are unhappy now. However, no matter how many turns I wait no one falls to anarchy.
State at the beginning of the second turn.
Spain(human)-Portugal(player2) 127-97 [I attacked this time]
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 215-215
Just to be sure I'm not forgetting something, I repeat a last time in debug.
Beginning 2nd turn:
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 215-215
Beginning 3rd turn:
Spain(human)-Arabia: 97-127
Babylon-Germany: 118-118
Russia-Japan: 214-214
4th turn (I killed 2 enemy units and lost 1 attack on the 3rd turn)
Spain(human)-Arabia: 98-128 (consistent with having +2 from failed attack, -1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory.)
Babylon-Germany: 117-117 (-1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory)
Russia-Japan: 213-213 (-1 for ending the turn with no units on enemy territory)
Conclusion:
The WW is bugged somewhere.
According to the result, in the Human-AI war WW increased by 16 per city. (16*8-1=127)
In the Babylon-Germany war, WW increased by 20 per city.
In the Russia-Japan war, WW increased by 36 per city. I suspect is counting it twice.
I attach the last test case, and the saves from where I got my results.
I rest my case.
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I spent a couple of hours today looking into war weariness but sadly I don't have much to say about it other than it's a lot more vexing than it has any right to be. I'll have to continue investigating, I haven't even found yet where WW points get added on loss of a city, and I suspect the bug is helping obscure it. Here's an oddity: I found the point in the interturn update code where a player gets kicked into anarchy if their WW is over 90. The odd thing is that it doesn't check against the highest WW for any ongoing war, total WW across all wars, or even average across all wars, instead it checks against total WW divided by the number of contacts the player has. That would explain why you aren't seeing the AIs get kicked into anarchy when you expect, but I wonder if I'm mistaken since I find it hard to believe that no one has noticed this before.
About the hypertext link limit issue, I'll add it to the list for now. It looks like it's easy to at least remove the popups but I'd have to look into it in detail to know if it's plausible to do a better fix, like increase the limit.
About the hypertext link limit issue, I'll add it to the list for now. It looks like it's easy to at least remove the popups but I'd have to look into it in detail to know if it's plausible to do a better fix, like increase the limit.
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Flintlock, may be the following can help in fixing the hyperlink bug:
Some years ago by accident it was found out in Anthony Boscia´s Worldwide thread, that the hyperlink bug is eliminated, when the first of the three prerequisite slots for a unit is left empty (or the first of two resource slots for a building). In that case the entry with the linked resource icons is dissapearing completely. Since that time I used these settings for the mods CCM 2 and RARR and there is no more trouble with that bug. The player must be pointed in the textbox of the civilopedia to the needed resources.
I think eliminating the popups would be sufficient. If there is found a way to achieve this without sacrificing the first resource slot and the icons entry in the civilopedia this would be nice. If increasing the limit this must be done in factors of many thousands (per example the next version of CCM will hold more than 4,000 different units and many of them are needing the same resources, p.e. oil).
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Hello everyone. Since I'm very enthused about the enabling of land-sea intersections, I modified Sn00py's greener terrain to make the land-sea intersections have water rather than land. This enables "coast rivers" like those in the image below. You can download the terrain here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/sn00pys-g-terrain-with-coast-rivers.29555/ -- Thanks again to Flintlock, and Merry Christmas!
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Yes these land-sea intersections are really great and a lot of interesting innovative modding ideas can now becoming true with them. 
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Here are some early screenshots from the new settings of the supply shipping from Canada to Britain in the next version of the WW2 scenario SOE. The battle in the Atlantic will become much more severe.
Convoy path uncovered:
Land-sea-intersections covered:
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I’m gonna have to use that new snoopy terrain. Now how does this work for areas like the Panama Canal or is it still going to be blocked off or is it going to allow passage of land units and and sea Units?
Civinator I’m not sure what I’m looking at with your screenshots .
The top I gather with the volcanoes, you’re just putting the volcanoes in there to show some type of path. The bottom screenshot shows some of these volcanoes removed and there is river terrain in the ocean? And how is this supposed to be helpful with the convoys if you don’t mind me asking, it is a river terrain traversable by land units in which case the convoys are land units?
Civinator I’m not sure what I’m looking at with your screenshots .
The top I gather with the volcanoes, you’re just putting the volcanoes in there to show some type of path. The bottom screenshot shows some of these volcanoes removed and there is river terrain in the ocean? And how is this supposed to be helpful with the convoys if you don’t mind me asking, it is a river terrain traversable by land units in which case the convoys are land units?
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SteamCiv, the terrain used in those screenshots above is old Ares terrain, that Ares de Borg gave to the former SOE team many years ago and in my eyes is better suited for scenarios like SOE, as sometimes in his current terrain the units in it cannot be detected as well.
SOE is a WW 2 scenario without any settler units. Nearly 10 years ago I explained how the massive "amphibious" invasions are working in SOE: In reality they are not "amphibious", but are using small landbridges: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/storm-over-europe-soe.454785/page-11#post-16012557
These landbridges are covered by ruin graphics, as these big graphics can hide the land terrain under those graphics. For its use, the terrain, that should be covered, must allow cities, but no other terrain improvements, that would trigger away the ruin graphics. In the SOE scenario there are no settlers and therefore no new cities can be founded "in the water", destroying the ruin graphics. There is no river terrain used. For the screenshots I used the old SOE ruin graphics covering coastal terrain, now graphics covering seaterrain would look a little bit better.
Along the "volcano path" land units can be moved, across the "edges" between the volcano terrain rhombes, sea units can cross the "volcanoe path" (in the same manner the Panama- and the Suez Canal are working). I used volcanoes for that path, as it is a WW2 scenario and there is an additional danger by mines and abstract submarine attacks for the land units on that path (the graphics for volcanoe eruptions can be changed to other graphics).
The part I like the most about the new land connections between America, Africa and Europe is the following:
America is not on the SOE map. There are only a few cities with transparent city graphics, containing special strategic resources, symbolizing the convoys from Canada and the US during WW2.
This allows using different ship graphics for land units that are produced in those "convoy cities". Per example a "transported" Sherman tank can use other freighter graphics than a shipped Grant tank. These ship graphics are "fitting", as all movement is looking to be "on water" (so in reality it is on land).
These transported "convoy" units only have very weak unit stats and can be easily destroyed by Axis naval units with lethal land bombardment (what even German submarines will have - but cannot use in most other situations) if these attacking units achieve to come close to the "volcano path". If such a transported land unit is destroyed, a ship is sinking. SOE uses a special "programmed" map with many zones of different and partly unique combinations of resources, I have named "microzones" many years ago. One such microzone per example is the city of Glasgow. Here the AI (and the human player) can upgrade their transported units with ship graphics to the correct land unit graphics with the adequate stats (p.e. in Glasgow the freighter symbolizing the transported Sexton from Canada becomes the real Sexton that cannot use the "volcanoe path" any longer. This graphical setting can only work for landunits that can only move in one direction (here from Canada to Britain). It will not work for Axis units. Per example if an Axis player really wants to conquer the city "Convoys from Canada", this can be done, but the graphics while moving along the "volcano trial" will always be the normal graphics and stats of those landunits (it would be crazy trying to conquer Russia with freighters in this scenario).
These settings still need some testing, especially I have to look if the pollution by the volcanoes will destroy the ruin graphics. In that case I have to use a different terrain for the "volcano path".
SOE is a WW 2 scenario without any settler units. Nearly 10 years ago I explained how the massive "amphibious" invasions are working in SOE: In reality they are not "amphibious", but are using small landbridges: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/storm-over-europe-soe.454785/page-11#post-16012557
These landbridges are covered by ruin graphics, as these big graphics can hide the land terrain under those graphics. For its use, the terrain, that should be covered, must allow cities, but no other terrain improvements, that would trigger away the ruin graphics. In the SOE scenario there are no settlers and therefore no new cities can be founded "in the water", destroying the ruin graphics. There is no river terrain used. For the screenshots I used the old SOE ruin graphics covering coastal terrain, now graphics covering seaterrain would look a little bit better.
Along the "volcano path" land units can be moved, across the "edges" between the volcano terrain rhombes, sea units can cross the "volcanoe path" (in the same manner the Panama- and the Suez Canal are working). I used volcanoes for that path, as it is a WW2 scenario and there is an additional danger by mines and abstract submarine attacks for the land units on that path (the graphics for volcanoe eruptions can be changed to other graphics).
The part I like the most about the new land connections between America, Africa and Europe is the following:
America is not on the SOE map. There are only a few cities with transparent city graphics, containing special strategic resources, symbolizing the convoys from Canada and the US during WW2.
This allows using different ship graphics for land units that are produced in those "convoy cities". Per example a "transported" Sherman tank can use other freighter graphics than a shipped Grant tank. These ship graphics are "fitting", as all movement is looking to be "on water" (so in reality it is on land).
These transported "convoy" units only have very weak unit stats and can be easily destroyed by Axis naval units with lethal land bombardment (what even German submarines will have - but cannot use in most other situations) if these attacking units achieve to come close to the "volcano path". If such a transported land unit is destroyed, a ship is sinking. SOE uses a special "programmed" map with many zones of different and partly unique combinations of resources, I have named "microzones" many years ago. One such microzone per example is the city of Glasgow. Here the AI (and the human player) can upgrade their transported units with ship graphics to the correct land unit graphics with the adequate stats (p.e. in Glasgow the freighter symbolizing the transported Sexton from Canada becomes the real Sexton that cannot use the "volcanoe path" any longer. This graphical setting can only work for landunits that can only move in one direction (here from Canada to Britain). It will not work for Axis units. Per example if an Axis player really wants to conquer the city "Convoys from Canada", this can be done, but the graphics while moving along the "volcano trial" will always be the normal graphics and stats of those landunits (it would be crazy trying to conquer Russia with freighters in this scenario).
These settings still need some testing, especially I have to look if the pollution by the volcanoes will destroy the ruin graphics. In that case I have to use a different terrain for the "volcano path".
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Thank you for that explanation Civinator. I now understand better how that works. Outside of cleverly designed scenarios, the terrain has limited use, certainly no random maps, and if settlers are in the scenario, as you indicate settlers will create cities "in the water(among the ruin graphics)," and their accompanying improvements which would be kind of strange .
It should not be too hard to come up with a volcano pollution graphic that would work for both land and sea, ie volcano lava can be transformed into a blackish ash which might be taken for ship debris or something on the ocean. Such a dual purpose graphic is probably what you are working on already.
It should not be too hard to come up with a volcano pollution graphic that would work for both land and sea, ie volcano lava can be transformed into a blackish ash which might be taken for ship debris or something on the ocean. Such a dual purpose graphic is probably what you are working on already.
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Ares, the patched exe can work with a CD version of Civ 3 Complete, if the pc is still able to run it without the patched exe. At least it does with my CD Chronicles version of Civ 3 Complete. The problem seems to be, that the Flintlock patch cannot find the normal CD C3C exe for boosting it with the new code. So -as tjs282 posted - you need a (separate) installing of the GOG version of Civ 3 Complete (in the GOG sale every some weeks for € 1,29). It is possible to install several versions of Civ 3 Complete on the same pc (but this is not necessary for this operation). Per example, for modding reasons, I have on my win 10, 64 bit pc, three independent operable versions of Civ 3 Complete: One version in the C/GOG directory, one in the Programme (x86) directory (the CD version) and one in the C/Programme directory.
Now boost the exe of the GOG Civ3 Complete version with the flintlock patch. Rename the Civ3Conquests exe in your CD version to Civ3Conquests-orig (or something like that) and than copy the Civ3Conquests exe, boosted with the Flintlock patch, to your CD installation. It is important that the other parts of the flintlock patch are copied to the C3C mainfolder of your Civ 3 Complete CD version, too, otherwise the boosted exe will not work. I was able to draw even different shortcut links from my Civ Chronicles CD version exes of Civ 3 Complete to the desktop for starting those different exes.
I cannot say if this procedure will work with CD versions of C3C older than Civ 3 Complete, but in this case you should have at least a working separate installing of the GOG version, patched with the Flintlock path. I was able to transfer my CCM 2.50 mod (more than 6 GB) without any problems to the GOG installation, too, but of course - as always - before doing these operations, please make a safety copy of your mod on a separate hard disk.
This procedure does not work with the original version of the game on my computer. I am still running the game from the original three discs, and so it seems there are differences between the Conquests disc and the Civ III Complete version. I have both the Gog and Steam version now. It seems I can choose one of those to play from now on, as it's safe to say the original discs provided their money's worth. Transferring 105 gb of mod data from the current folder, however, is another matter...
It would be nice to know how many people are playing each type of release, such as CD, gog, and steam. It may actually be worth making the Steam version the default on newer mods (please pray for my soul), as I suspect the majority of current Civ III players are using this version. The CFC regulars probably aren't, but we're a different breed.
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Hello there! I came across this project a couple of days ago, in the midst of a game of Civ 3. Well, since then I haven't resumed it, and instead spent my evenings catching up on this complete thread and anything related/linked. Exciting stuff!
Thank you so much for these fixes, Flintlock! It's crazy how after all these years, the dreams came true. I looked into asm (for other games) in the past, but could never find the time and dedication (esp. without a sufficient IT background) to pull through. So you have my utmost respect.
I've collected a couple of quotes across the pages that I'd like to reply to:
I can't test my old CD-version Civ 3 complete, since it complains about lacking a CD drive (which is correct, I currently don't have my CD/DVD drive plugged into the MB due to needing a SATA cable the other day), despite running without a CD in the first place... guess they didn't do the job quite right when shipping a no-CD Civ3 Complete DVD. My original Civ3 Conquests (seperate, not from Complete) certainly works fine on Windows 10. Now I also bought the GOG version, so I guess I own this game three times now. Oh well.
I can 100% confirm this, and it is entirely unrelated to C3X. Whenever I start up the GOG-exe, I get massive initial lag (For a good 2 minutes or so, I hadn't yet tracked it) when starting or loading a game. Which is extremely painful when you frequently reload for whatever reason like I sometimes do. When I start the original exe on the same computer (Windows 10), the game runs flawlessly.
I originally bought the GOG version so that I could play Civ3 again on my newly installed operating system. Simply copying over all my game installation files from my previous OS did not work, since Civ3 requires some registry keys to be set before it likes to launch. I didn't know what these were and didn't find sufficient info online, so I just got the version on GOG, thinking to just use that instead. However, due to the issue above, this quickly turned out to be very uncomfortable, while I also noticed that my old files would run now - without any such issues!. So after getting the GOG install to fix my registry keys, I ditched it again... for about two weeks, because that's when I found this patch.
), I still dream of getting a patched original exe at some point.
There must definitely be something different about the GOG-exe due to the aforementioned issues. :/
Maybe the disbanding-due-to-money logic didn't always trigger due to difficulty-induced free unit support?
I am 99% sure the Civ3 (pre-PTW or pre-Conquests, I never played PTW myself, just a ton of vanilla) worker AI knew how to chain irrigation from some far away river (possibly many tiles outside of the civ border!) to irrigate a nearby town. But maybe that was just for automated human-owned workers, and not for the AI.
I was actually about to post this suggestion as well, and while reading through the thread I was wondering how nobody else had suggested it, but then you got it two pages before the last This would be amazing to have. Then finally paratroopers could be used for something, as a commando of some sorts or a "blitzkrieg" role of swifty seizing enemy unguarded or weakly guarded radio towers or airfields behind the lines, or even just workers. Hell, even fortifying in place would help. And it would give them a solid distinction from other helicopter-dropped foot units.
Thank you so much for these fixes, Flintlock! It's crazy how after all these years, the dreams came true. I looked into asm (for other games) in the past, but could never find the time and dedication (esp. without a sufficient IT background) to pull through. So you have my utmost respect.
I've collected a couple of quotes across the pages that I'd like to reply to:
I can't test my old CD-version Civ 3 complete, since it complains about lacking a CD drive (which is correct, I currently don't have my CD/DVD drive plugged into the MB due to needing a SATA cable the other day), despite running without a CD in the first place... guess they didn't do the job quite right when shipping a no-CD Civ3 Complete DVD. My original Civ3 Conquests (seperate, not from Complete) certainly works fine on Windows 10. Now I also bought the GOG version, so I guess I own this game three times now. Oh well.
I can 100% confirm this, and it is entirely unrelated to C3X. Whenever I start up the GOG-exe, I get massive initial lag (For a good 2 minutes or so, I hadn't yet tracked it) when starting or loading a game. Which is extremely painful when you frequently reload for whatever reason like I sometimes do. When I start the original exe on the same computer (Windows 10), the game runs flawlessly.
I originally bought the GOG version so that I could play Civ3 again on my newly installed operating system. Simply copying over all my game installation files from my previous OS did not work, since Civ3 requires some registry keys to be set before it likes to launch. I didn't know what these were and didn't find sufficient info online, so I just got the version on GOG, thinking to just use that instead. However, due to the issue above, this quickly turned out to be very uncomfortable, while I also noticed that my old files would run now - without any such issues!. So after getting the GOG install to fix my registry keys, I ditched it again... for about two weeks, because that's when I found this patch.
As said above, it's 100% unrelated to C3X. I've seen similar issues mentioned online in a few places, including here by Civinator and I think at least 1 other person, but I don't know what could be the cause. So while I will now use the GOG version for your patch (the positives of C3X make me endure the problems of the GOG-exe
), I still dream of getting a patched original exe at some point. There must definitely be something different about the GOG-exe due to the aforementioned issues. :/
Maybe the disbanding-due-to-money logic didn't always trigger due to difficulty-induced free unit support?
I am 99% sure the Civ3 (pre-PTW or pre-Conquests, I never played PTW myself, just a ton of vanilla) worker AI knew how to chain irrigation from some far away river (possibly many tiles outside of the civ border!) to irrigate a nearby town. But maybe that was just for automated human-owned workers, and not for the AI.
I was actually about to post this suggestion as well, and while reading through the thread I was wondering how nobody else had suggested it, but then you got it two pages before the last
This would be amazing to have. Then finally paratroopers could be used for something, as a commando of some sorts or a "blitzkrieg" role of swifty seizing enemy unguarded or weakly guarded radio towers or airfields behind the lines, or even just workers. Hell, even fortifying in place would help. And it would give them a solid distinction from other helicopter-dropped foot units.
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Here are other ideas I also had, for "the list". 
Putting them in a seperate post so they're a bit seperate from my quote-wall up there.
- Workers on remove pollution job stay on the job even after all pollution is gone, staying on stand-by for new pollution to appear, at which point they resume the removal.
- Having shield, food and science overflow would be amazing, and remove one of the most tedious and micromanagement-intensive aspects of Civ3 min-max optimisation.
- When a city is settled on top of a resource, its bonus shields and commerce apply to the base city square. The same does not happen with a food resource. A city square will only ever yield 2 food (3 if agri and near fresh water), even if it contains something like grassland cattle, which would give 4. Fixing this would be nice, since it actively penalises settling on food resources - but not the others.
- The "anti-air defense" value of units such as flak, mobile SAM and many ships causes an animation of a vertical missile to play when an aircraft unit is shot down by it. This however isn't always very fitting, especially for the flak. Switching it out to a flak explosion graphic like it's done in Age of Imperialism on the other hand looks out of place with SAM units. Would it be possible to instead of playing the generic animation, have the unit whose defense value triggered the shootdown play its attack animation a single time? Playing it in the direction the air unit came from would be perfect, but any angle would work and be a massive improvement over the generic SAM.
The base game's animation would still play a role for the SAM battery city improvement.
Putting them in a seperate post so they're a bit seperate from my quote-wall up there.- Workers on remove pollution job stay on the job even after all pollution is gone, staying on stand-by for new pollution to appear, at which point they resume the removal.
- Having shield, food and science overflow would be amazing, and remove one of the most tedious and micromanagement-intensive aspects of Civ3 min-max optimisation.
- When a city is settled on top of a resource, its bonus shields and commerce apply to the base city square. The same does not happen with a food resource. A city square will only ever yield 2 food (3 if agri and near fresh water), even if it contains something like grassland cattle, which would give 4. Fixing this would be nice, since it actively penalises settling on food resources - but not the others.
- The "anti-air defense" value of units such as flak, mobile SAM and many ships causes an animation of a vertical missile to play when an aircraft unit is shot down by it. This however isn't always very fitting, especially for the flak. Switching it out to a flak explosion graphic like it's done in Age of Imperialism on the other hand looks out of place with SAM units. Would it be possible to instead of playing the generic animation, have the unit whose defense value triggered the shootdown play its attack animation a single time? Playing it in the direction the air unit came from would be perfect, but any angle would work and be a massive improvement over the generic SAM.
The base game's animation would still play a role for the SAM battery city improvement.
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Thanks! By the way, C3X doesn't involve much ASM, so if you're interested in this stuff don't let the threat of ASM scare you off from looking deeper into the mod. It works instead by compiling C and patching it into the executable. The patcher must work with ASM but above that the large majority of the mod is written in C. Even complex features like stack bombard don't involve any custom ASM, it's written entirely in C and patched in automatically.I looked into asm (for other games) in the past, but could never find the time and dedication (esp. without a sufficient IT background) to pull through. So you have my utmost respect.
It's good to know the bug isn't caused by C3X. I wonder if this is a bug I could fix. If it were caused by C3X that would make it easier to track down since I could start by removing things until the bug disappeared. As it is, I wouldn't know where to start. This is such a strange bug too. It used to affect me very badly, sometimes making the game unplayable, but it mysteriously subsided some time last summer. Since then I rarely see it and when I do it's mild. I can't think of anything I did that would affect it. Very strange.
I don't think unit support is related, just based on where in the code the crash occurs. It's in the unit AI logic, as in the code that moves AI units, not in the economy logic.
All added. I'll look into letting paratroopers move after landing, that should be easy and when multiple people request something I usually give it more priority. Changing the anti-air animations is interesting. I've never tried modifying the game's animations but I decoded parts of the animation code recently in connection with the sound code (I was investigating how AMB files work). Replacing that missile animation with a unit attack anim is maybe doable. It's hard to say since I've never tried anything like that before, but then that's what makes it interesting.
Edit: You also mentioned compatibility with the CD Complete version. Personally I've given up on getting a lucky free compatibility with any other Civ version due to a matching executable. The GOG Complete executable is probably unique. If you want to check compatibility you don't need to actually run the program, just investigate Civ3Conquests.exe. If the size doesn't match the one from GOG then the mod is definitely not compatible, and if it does match then it almost certainly is.
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Two things to consider:
It was mentioned earlier but there is a bug with air superiority mission where it takes two turns to activate instead of the turn immediately after you assign it.
Would it be possible to fix the bug where culture can't expand past 100000 in terms of controlled area? This would help with scenario generation for very large maps.
It was mentioned earlier but there is a bug with air superiority mission where it takes two turns to activate instead of the turn immediately after you assign it.
Would it be possible to fix the bug where culture can't expand past 100000 in terms of controlled area? This would help with scenario generation for very large maps.
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adz1061, the limitations for cultural victory still can be overcome with the Quintillus editor. For CCM 2.50, I set the one city cultural victory to 180000 and the culture civ victory to 500000. Both victory settings were achieved in the the succession games with this mod:
One city cultural victory of 180000: https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...cm-2-5-180k-goal.649583/page-18#post-15693359
Cultural civ victory of 500000: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/lk162-japan-500k-culture.655873/page-15#post-15861402
Of course, if the restrictions in the C3C biq for cultural victories could be overcome directly in the starting settings of a C3C game could be overcome, this would be nice, too.
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I think he is referring to the city's culture radius not expanding any further.
Hopefully I can get it do disappear somehow as well...
I think he is referring to the city's culture radius not expanding any further.
Good to know, I will take a look at your files when I have time.
It's really strange, but good to hear that you at least know what I'm referring to.
Hopefully I can get it do disappear somehow as well...Thanks!
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I compared the two exe files I have present. I noticed a few things:
- Size is different (Complete slightly larger)
- Product version number was incremented between Conquests and Complete
- Complete looks for different file names when playing the intro video and showing the main menu background, so you can have the files for either version in place and the launched exe will pick which ones it uses. See the "title screen" screenshot, where one can see how Complete looks for files starting with "civ3complete_TITLE" and Conquests for files starting with "x_title".
Sorry for the German screenshots btw, that's my OS' language, but I guess the file properties are familiar enough to not need to understand the language to understand which field is what.
- Size is different (Complete slightly larger)
- Product version number was incremented between Conquests and Complete
- Complete looks for different file names when playing the intro video and showing the main menu background, so you can have the files for either version in place and the launched exe will pick which ones it uses. See the "title screen" screenshot, where one can see how Complete looks for files starting with "civ3complete_TITLE" and Conquests for files starting with "x_title".
Sorry for the German screenshots btw, that's my OS' language, but I guess the file properties are familiar enough to not need to understand the language to understand which field is what.
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I enabled paratroopers to move after airdropping. As expected that was an easy change, I just had to block a tiny bit of code that removed all their remaining movement after the airdrop. I could make it so that airdropping costs one move, and that's what I was planning to do at first, but I decided instead to make airdropping free. The reason is that if airdropping costs one move and you want paratroopers to move after landing, you have to make them into two-move infantry, and I figured that they really shouldn't be able to move faster than normal infantry on land. But if you guys want airdropping to cost one move, just say so, that's a trivial change to make. By the way, like all features that change the game rules, this one won't be applied unless the config INI is edited to enable it.
I'll get this done next. It's very easy, actually it's the same issue as with paratroopers. There's a bit of code that removes all of a unit's moves after it's set to intercept, and I just have to block that out. About letting cities expand borders beyond 100k culture, I'll add that to the list. I don't expect that to be hard but I can't say for sure without looking into it.
Do you have the CD Complete version? I'm curious to know its EXE's size. Also I'm surprised to see the size of the Conquests EXE is very similar to GOG Complete, which means porting the mod over might be possible without too much work. Somehow I had gotten it into my head that the sizes were very different.
Ruin
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As a former modern paratrooper, I thank and salute you for your service
