Can I make war elephant to require ivory resource?

[xxhe]

As the title says, can I make all war elephant units in the game use ivory resource as a pre-request? It seems that, since ivory is a luxury resource, no quantity is given. Can I switch ivory to a strategy resource and also let it +4 happiness?

Thank you in advance

xxhe

 

[Hulfgar]

I've done in my mod with this solution :

-1 make a new strategic resource named "elephant", this resource is not placed on the map.
-2 make a new building called "elephant stable", this building requires ivory and will give x units of the resource elephants.
-3 make this resource a requirements for all war elephants.

Just using ivory as requirement for the unit didn't work, probably because it is a luxury resource.

 

[KnelRivendare]

afaik you can just add "Ivory" or every other resource as requirment to a Unit and it makes automaticly a Strategic resource out of it which can given a quantity, just dont know if it works that it is a luxury resource at the same time.

 

[xxhe]

I've done in my mod with this solution :

-1 make a new strategic resource named "elephant", this resource is not placed on the map.
-2 make a new building called "elephant stable", this building requires ivory and will give x units of the resource elephants.
-3 make this resource a requirements for all war elephants.

Just using ivory as requirement for the unit didn't work, probably because it is a luxury resource.

Sounds a good idea. Thank you!

 

[Hulfgar]

Hello KnelRivendare,

That's what I though, so at first I just gave ivory as requirement for the war elephant.
Then I launch the game with IGE, put a war elephant on the map but I had no mention of a deficit in ivory. With any other required resource when I put a unit whithout it's resource there is a message to warn of the deficit.

So my first guess was that it doesn't work with a luxury.

 

[xxhe]

Hi Hulfgar and KnelRivendare:

Actually I tried KnelRivendare's method too. Changing on ivory doesn't work as intended - but strangely, it works on incense. I don't know why, maybe ivory is unique?

xxhe