Changes you have made to RFC.

[Cethegus]

I don't know how to help you with that. I'm trying to figure out how to set the Egyptians to spawn one tile to the north with little luck. I'm sure it has something to do with the Python files but so far I've been short of luck figuring it out.

 

[smile286]

OK. I've tried some games without plagues and what can I say... it's more interesting!! More wars, more colonies, more interest. You should try it

 

[Cethegus]

OK. I've tried some games without plagues and what can I say... it's more interesting!! More wars, more colonies, more interest. You should try it

Sure thing. If it works that well, I'm installing it right away.

 

[Lone Wolf]

OK. I've tried some games without plagues and what can I say... it's more interesting!! More wars, more colonies, more interest.

Exactly. My main beef with plague that it kills AI units, and the more units AI has, the more are the chances that it will use them somewhat competently.

 

[Cethegus]

I can't figure out why my RFC no longer allows UU's with changed unit classes. The same goes for buildings. I noticed this when playing as the Japanese that the Mongols no longer produced any Keshiks but Knights, and now when I tried to change the Indian UB class from Jail to Courthouse, the game disowned any kind of relationship between the Indians and the Mausoleums just as much as they did so with the Mongols and the Keshiks.

<UnitInfo>
<!-- Rhye -->
<Class>UNITCLASS_KNIGHT</Class>
<Type>UNIT_MONGOL_KESHIK</Type>
<UniqueNames/>
<Special>NONE</Special>
<Capture>NONE</Capture>
<Combat>UNITCOMBAT_MOUNTED</Combat>
<Domain>DOMAIN_LAND</Domain>
<DefaultUnitAI>UNITAI_ATTACK</DefaultUnitAI>
<Invisible>NONE</Invisible>
<SeeInvisible>NONE</SeeInvisible>
<Description>TXT_KEY_UNIT_MONGOL_KESHIK</Description>
<Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_UNIT_MONGOL_KESHIK_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
<Strategy>TXT_KEY_UNIT_MONGOL_KESHIK_STRATEGY</Strategy>
<Advisor>ADVISOR_MILITARY</Advisor>

There's the first 15 lines of the Keshik data from Assets -> Units -> Civ4UnitInfos. It's left uneditted ever since the installment of the latest patch, I can't figure out what's preventing me from doing crossovers. The fact that I've been adding modcomps to my RFC might play a role in here, although I can't name any single scapegoat to blame for this.

The effects for all of this are that I can't edit the unit classes. If I do and go to Civilopedia, it says on the Civilizations Screen that Mongols' UU is Keshik (Horse Archer) and Keshiks themself replace Knights but aren't unique units for The Mongols anymore. Same thing for India and its Mausoleums.

 

[Cethegus]

The modcomps I've been using are...

- Inquisitor in RFC (XML)
- Protestantism in RFC (XML)
- Decipher Me Or I'll Devour You BTS (XML)

- ActualQuotes for BtS (Text)

- Older version of Varietas Delectat implemented to RFC (Unit graphics)

- RFC Optimized (Python)
- Arabian UP Fix (Python)
- Plague Fix (Python)

Mind you, otherwise the mod works perfectly; the only problem right now is that it ignores any changes made to the XML regarding unit or building classes. Any ideas what might affect or cause it? I'd try to fix the problem by myself if I only knew where to look.

 

[The_Stranger1]

You've not only got to change buildings and units in the regular mod xml file, but in the varietas delecat modcomp file also.

So, make your changes in xml-units, xml civ infos, etc, then go to-->assets->modules-->varietas delecat-->xml-->Unitartstyles&Civinfos-->in this folder find the file VD_CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml and) repeat the changes you made earlier.

Now you can see your altered units and buildings

 

[Cethegus]

Okay, thanks a lot for the help! This should make the game more interesting.

Cheers.

 

[Lone Wolf]

OK. I've tried some games without plagues and what can I say... it's more interesting!! More wars, more colonies,

Yes, I rolled an American start without plague and AI colonization is slightly more active.

 

[Rod]

The latest thing I did was to correct the caucasus.

Currently Baku is north of Caucausus and north is only desert.

So I shifted the mountains 1 tile north and changed the former mountain tiles into plains , named them Baku and Tbilissi and gave forest to Georgia.

I added an independent city Kazan. I was always annoyed that there are no Tartars in the game, so now at least there is Kazan.

Next thing I will do is to correct Chelyabinsk. Chelyabinsk is actually is pretty big industrial town (1.5 Mio inhabitants) south of Ekaterinburg. But currently the whole area is unsettleable.

Hence I want to nerf some areas in Central Sibiria (like Krasnoyarsk which gets way too big) and unnerf the Southern Urals. At the end there wont be more hospitable land than before but it will be distributed better.

 

[kairob]

Hey Rod, could I have a copy of your wb save so I could use these changes?

 

[Rod]

sure thing, pm me your email would be best or I could post the wb-file in code form here in the forum.

 

[Cethegus]

I would also be interested in the said WB file. Although I've done modifications of my own to my WB files too, so at least for me it would be more useful that way. There's always the spoiler prevention, even if people in the forum happen to come across it later. Might be more useful for them too?

 

[Rod]

I opened an thread for these files.

I tried to use spoiler feature , but both files together are 800.000 characters, hence I couldnt post it.

 

[pfried]

I modified CityNameManager.py so that whenever a civilization conquers a city it is renamed as if the civ had just founded the city rather than depending on its current name. This makes city names quite a bit more interesting... especially because I also modified some civ's grids to make each conquest more linguistically accurate and interesting. When Japan conquers London, for example, it is renamed "Rondon", and if the Romans manage to found or conquer New York, it is renamed "Nova Eburacum".

Also modified some settlermaps a little so that all civs attempt to colonize the Americas. Russia founds cities that are more spread out now and now it usually spreads all the way eastward to Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky, even occasionally founding Unalaska...

 

[Cethegus]

The Lone Wolf mentioned that he lessened the stability penalties for colonies and decreased the maintenance costs somewhere... could you tell which files you modified to do that and what are the values you're using?

 

[Lone Wolf]

Stability.py. Some parts of it are quite undestandable.

 

[Tibur753]

I don't know how to help you with that. I'm trying to figure out how to set the Egyptians to spawn one tile to the north with little luck. I'm sure it has something to do with the Python files but so far I've been short of luck figuring it out.

Considering this was posted several months ago you might have found the answer by now, but it should be in Consts.py. Find these lines:

Spoiler :

# starting locations coordinates
tCapitals = (
(69, 33), #tThebes
(90, 40), #tDelhi
(102, 47), #tBeijing
(76, 40), #tBabylon
(67, 41), #tAthens
(82, 39), #tPersepolis
(58, 39), #tCarthage
(60, 44), #tRome
(113, 45), #tKyoto
(72, 29), #tAksum
(22, 35), #tTikal
(61, 62), #tNidaros
(75, 33), #tMecca
(102, 34), #tAngkor
(52, 43), #tMadrid
(55, 50), #tParis
(53, 54), #tLondon
(62, 52), #tBerlin
(73, 54), #tMoskow
(57, 53), #tAmsterdam
(53, 31), #tTimbuktu
(49, 43), #tLisboa
(28, 22), #tCuzco
(99, 51), #tKarakorum
(18, 37), #tTenochtitlan
(70, 43), #tSogut ((72, 43), #tKonya  #71?)
(27, 46) #tWashington
)

The coordinates are from the bottom right with (horizontal, vertical). Just change Egypt's to (69, 34) and it should move them 1N.

 

[Cethegus]

Considering this was posted several months ago you might have found the answer by now, but it should be in Consts.py. Find these lines:

Spoiler :

# starting locations coordinates
tCapitals = (
(69, 33), #tThebes
(90, 40), #tDelhi
(102, 47), #tBeijing
(76, 40), #tBabylon
(67, 41), #tAthens
(82, 39), #tPersepolis
(58, 39), #tCarthage
(60, 44), #tRome
(113, 45), #tKyoto
(72, 29), #tAksum
(22, 35), #tTikal
(61, 62), #tNidaros
(75, 33), #tMecca
(102, 34), #tAngkor
(52, 43), #tMadrid
(55, 50), #tParis
(53, 54), #tLondon
(62, 52), #tBerlin
(73, 54), #tMoskow
(57, 53), #tAmsterdam
(53, 31), #tTimbuktu
(49, 43), #tLisboa
(28, 22), #tCuzco
(99, 51), #tKarakorum
(18, 37), #tTenochtitlan
(70, 43), #tSogut ((72, 43), #tKonya  #71?)
(27, 46) #tWashington
)

The coordinates are from the bottom right with (horizontal, vertical). Just change Egypt's to (69, 34) and it should move them 1N.

What, that's it? Thanks a lot for underlining it for me and those in need.

EDIT:
I actually gave up and forgot about it but now that I'm trying to turn the Vikings into the Swedish, the subject's topical again. Thanks again, I had totally overlooked that file.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Never mind so far, these files were for previous version of RFC.