Nero Would
Chieftain
Here are the changes I have found in the rules file (Civ3mod.bic) for the new patch (1.17) compared to the previous one (1.16). Some of these are mentioned in the readme file, but some are not.
Buildings and Wonders
Buildings and Wonders
- Coastal Fortress maintenance is now 0 gold/turn (was 1).
- Great Lighthouse now costs 300 shields (was 400).
- Forbidden Palace now costs 200 shields (was 300).
- Wall Street now costs 300 shields (was 400).
- "Expose enemy mole" has been renamed "Expose enemy spy".
- Bonus resource "Game" gives +2 food (was +1).
- Oil and Aluminium can no longer appear on Plains tiles.
- Aluminium can now appear on Tundra tiles.
- Unhappiness from pop rush and draft now lasts 40 turns (was 20).
- Building and citizen defense against bombardment is now 16 (was 8).
- Barbarians are allowed build all units except civ unique units (before they were only allowed Warriers, Horsemen and Galleys).
According to Jeff Morris of Firaxis, this change is a bug that exists only in the version of the patch that was distributed on 14 Feb. It was removed from the version distributed on 15 Feb.
- Upgrade paths have been changed to allow upgrade to civ unique units, except that Americans cannot upgrade Fighters to F-15s.
- The Egyption War Chariot now upgrades to Horseman instead of to Knight.
- The Greeks can no longer build Pikemen.
- Army unit gets Blitz and Zone of Control abilities.
- Military tradition base cost is now 68 (was 60).
- Rocketry base cost is now 240 (was 260).
- Fission base cost is now 280 (was 300).
- Computing base cost is now 260 (was 280).
- Space Flight base cost is now 300 (was 320).
- Nuclear Power base cost is now 280 (was 300).
- Superconductor base cost is now 300 (was 320).
- Miniaturisation base cost is now 320 (was 340).
- Synthetic Fibres base cost is now 280 (was 300).
- Satellites base cost is now 260 (was 280).
- Laser base cost is now 280 (was 300).
- Genetics base cost is now 320 (was 360).
- Stealth base cost is now 300 (was 320).
- Smart Weapons base cost is now 280 (was 300).
- Robotics base cost is now 320 (was 360).
- Integrated Defense base cost is now 360 (was 380).