Can I remove/hide Global Politics info in my mod

[GrumboMumbo]

Hi, I have been working on my own mod, mainly balancing social policies using ideas from the NQ / Lek mod with success so far.

However, recently I have wondered if it is possible to hide/delete information in the Diplomacy Overview section of the game. Specifically information under the 'Global Politics' screen. This tells you the policies/wonders that players have taken. My playgroup wants me to edit this out of the game, so that information about other players chosen policies and wonders built is hidden. I suppose they want this change so that players choices and strategy are not telegraphed so much.

Does anyone know if it is possible to hide or change this?

 

[LeeS]

The only way I think you would be able to do this is to rewrite the pertinent UI lua pop-up file. I believe the file you would need to rewrite is DiploGlobalRelationships.lua in folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\assets\DLC\Expansion2\UI\InGame\Popups

It may be necessary to also rewrite other lua files that control what and how info is diplayed in the pop-up panels.

For wonders that have been constructed and/or an AI is angry about I am not sure if that is also in the same file (at this point I cannot remember whether that even shows to the player when using the game's stock code since I hardly bother with any of that info anymore when I play since the AI is always diplo bug-nuts anyway).

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All the players in a MP match-up would need the same rewritten file(s). I'm not sure if the MP NQMOD has any example on how to set this up within a "fake dlc" so that players would not have to copy-paste this alterred file over the existing Firaxis-supplied version of the file(s).

 

[GrumboMumbo]

Ok thanks, I tried just deleting that file and it does get rid of the global politics in-game, which is what I wanted. However, it would be great if there is a bit of xml code that would just disable the global politics info, so i could add that to my mod and then other players wouldn't have to dig around and edit or remove files.