Change to modding with R&F

Gedemon · Feb 7, 2018

Let's make our own patch notes, again...

Starting with a diff of the xml, artdef, lua files changes to the base civ6, attached to this post

Gedemon · Feb 8, 2018

Anyone know why they had to use a ruleset for activating R&F ?

raen · Feb 8, 2018

Gedemon said:
Anyone know why they had to use a ruleset for activating R&F ?

Probably to make it "cleaner". When updated to R&F I was trying to put my mod to work when I discovered that in standard rules (=base game) it still worked. So you can play both versions changing the rule set at your will.

heinous_hat · Feb 8, 2018

Lua hotloading still work? I tried a few changes to worldinput, and had to save/reload to get it updated.

Gedemon · Feb 8, 2018

raen said:
Probably to make it "cleaner". When updated to R&F I was trying to put my mod to work when I discovered that in standard rules (=base game) it still worked. So you can play both versions changing the rule set at your will.

Just an update: it seems that we'll have to add the expansion as a domain for each map we create to make them available with R&F.

AwokenDragon · Feb 8, 2018

How would one go about adding the expansion ruleset to a mod? I have a custom civ mod that still appears in the Standard Rules ruleset, but I can't figure out how to make it compatible with R&F. I'm assuming the reference would go in .modinfo, but can anyone provide clarity as to how and what to add via ModBuddy?

Deliverator · Feb 8, 2018

It looks like the main thing to fix modded Civs is to add rows to Players and PlayerItems with the Domain column set to "Players:Expansion1_Players".

Code:

<GameInfo>    
<!-- Base Game -->    
<Players>        
<Row CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...         
<!-- Expansion 1 Support -->         
<Row Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...    
</Players>    
<PlayerItems>        
<Row CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...         
<!-- Expansion 1 Support -->         
<Row Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...    
</PlayerItems>
</GameInfo>

You can basically just duplicate but with the Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" to enable the leader when R&F is enabled. Look at one of the older DLC Civilizations such as Australia if you want an example.

Gedemon · Feb 8, 2018

Thanks, could be a one-line mod in SQL, I'll have a look.

JFD · Feb 8, 2018

Female leaders will also need the 'Sex' column set to 'Female', to support the new Flirtatious hidden agenda. Seems to default to male otherwise.

robincox · Feb 8, 2018

Gedemon said:
Let's make our own patch notes, again...

Starting with a diff of the xml, artdef, lua files changes to the base civ6, attached to this post

What shall I do with this patch, place it somewhere?
Thanks for all your great work by the way!

raen · Feb 8, 2018

Deliverator said:
It looks like the main thing to fix modded Civs is to add rows to Players and PlayerItems with the Domain column set to "Players:Expansion1_Players".

Code:

<GameInfo>  <Players> <Row CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...  <Row Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ... </Players> <PlayerItems> <Row CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ...  <Row Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" CivilizationType="CIVILIZATION_AUSTRALIA" LeaderType="LEADER_JOHN_CURTIN" ... </PlayerItems> </GameInfo>

You can basically just duplicate but with the Domain="Players:Expansion1_Players" to enable the leader when R&F is enabled. Look at one of the older DLC Civilizations such as Australia if you want an example.

Duplicating really makes it usable in both versions, thanks for the tip

Hajee · Feb 9, 2018

I think if you have a mod that is using a Ruleset based on Vallina Game play you need to add this line to your modinfo file

<ActionCriteria>
<Criteria id="Expansion1">
<GameCoreInUse>Expansion1</GameCoreInUse>
</Criteria>
</ActionCriteria>

Gedemon · Feb 9, 2018

Is YnAMP the only mod affected by this issue ?

Ewok-Bacon-Bits · Feb 9, 2018

Gedemon said:
Anyone know why they had to use a ruleset for activating R&F ?

This may not be the reason - perhaps one of the reasons, but for multiplayer it requires all people in the lobby to have the expansion. For the other DLC packs you can still play them in multiplayer with people that don't have them they just can't select that DLC's civilization but still have access to the content as long as the host has the DLC. (in my playthroughs)

heinous_hat · Feb 9, 2018

Gedemon said:
Is YnAMP the only mod affected by this issue ?

Presuming you don't have this on hand, here's expansion1.modinfo for reference. I'm not familiar enough with the schema/data properties to interpret, but maybe some insight here.

Spoiler :

Laurana Kanan · Feb 9, 2018

Gedemon said:
Is YnAMP the only mod affected by this issue ?

I had a few other mods that also seemed to have the same problem like Sukriact's Simple UI Adjustments. I'm still working on some of my own mods so I haven't had the chance to play-test very many turns yet, but it appears that changing the Load Order on all the DLCs to 2 has bypassed the problem. At the very least I can start a new game without getting thrown back to the start menu or error messages showing up in the logs.

FearSunn · Feb 10, 2018

I am almost 100% convinced that custom mods have nothing to do with this "back to the main menu issue". This is something wrong with additional content handling in new expansion. Looking at Database.log shows the culprits and this is only official content (previous DLCs). Disabling specific DLCs solves this back to main menu problem.

Gedemon · Feb 10, 2018

Confirmed then, see the link I've posted above for a workaround when it's the case. I've also posted a bug report.

Hanny · Feb 10, 2018

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1220843351&searchtext=sassanid

This civ still works, while all others do not, but i dont quite understand why that would be so. Any ideas?.

raen · Feb 10, 2018

Hanny said:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1220843351&searchtext=sassanid

This civ still works, while all others do not, but i dont quite understand why that would be so. Any ideas?.

Because it was modified to do so. If you want to run them, try the approach from Deliverator post above, editing config file and duplicating for R&F.

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