Caravans Build Roads

[Gedemon]

Hi everyone,

I've been away of modding and civilization for a while, I may come back full time for civ6 (and will try to deal with a bit of unfinished business for civ5 if I can, I'm really sorry about that ), but before I've made a very quick mod with a few lines of code to warm me up and I'm wondering if someone already made it so that I don't post a duplicate...

So, has anyone already made a mod to make the civ5 caravans build roads on their path ?


edit: seems not, so here's the mod:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=25370
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=772185479

 

[Klisz]

I certainly haven't heard of any such mod, and given that caravans don't trigger UnitSetXY I'd be very interested to see how you implemented it.

 

[Gedemon]

Well, it does in my quick test, I'm also using a custom DLL but I don't remember modifying something related to that event, so it should work alone

Here's the mod: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=25370

 

[LeeS]

Works just fine for me. I'm not using a custom dll.

You may have to address the road maintenance gold-cost per plot.

Apparently the Caravans (probably Cargo Ship as well) do trigger UnitSetXY.

 

[Kesler]

Welcome back! It's always a pleasure to see one of the old fabled modders return

 

[Danmacsch]

The return of the prophesied hero Gedemon - truly, a sign of the coming end of the fifth era.

Anyways, it's great to see you're back .

 

[Gedemon]

Works just fine for me. I'm not using a custom dll.

You may have to address the road maintenance gold-cost per plot.

Apparently the Caravans (probably Cargo Ship as well) do trigger UnitSetXY.

Thanks, posting on steam too and
Moderator Action: moving to mods component


PS: I've missed you too

 

[whoward69]

You may have to address the road maintenance gold-cost per plot.

Yes. Interesting exploit to bankrupt an AI ... build a city on their border, send a caravan from it to their furthest city, and laugh as their economy takes the hit of 1 gold per turn per road segment for the rest of the game. After approx. 30 turns redirect the caravan somewhere else for even more economic warfare!

 

[Gedemon]

It would require a custom DLL to tune that (like making it unowned on another civ's territory) as SetPlayerResponsibleForRoute() isn't accessible from Lua.

 

[shaglio]

It would require a custom DLL to tune that (like making it unowned on another civ's territory) as SetPlayerResponsibleForRoute() isn't accessible from Lua.

How about just removing the maintenance cost for roads altogether, road-spam be damned?

 

[thunderbird_14]

Thank you Gedemon. Also welcome back (though it is sad you won't stay modding for Civ5 but alas walang forever e )