Changing your own civ's leader?

[Genghis Khaiser]

I know most civs change leaderheads when meeting certain conditions but, is it possible to change your own civ's leader in-game?

AFAIK, you only get the leader on your starting menu or when you spawn.

For example, I don't think Frederick is suitable for building and conquering a big, fat, Nazi Europe, and I'd rather not use a Tsar to build a communist regime, and so on.

 

[Leoreth]

You could change it through the Python console.

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

What does that mean? Does that involve messing with the mod's files?

 

[Leoreth]

No, you can just do it in the game. Press Shift + ~. Then type for example:

from Consts import *
pRussia.setLeader(iStalin)

You can look up Consts.py for the variable names for various civs and leaders.

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

The ~ key is right to the left of the enter key? Because I pressed that combination and nothing happened.

Is there another key that could do that?

 

[Leoreth]

What keyboard layout are you using?

Edit: you are supossed to press shift AND the ~ key. Not the plus key.

 

[need my speed]

The ~ key is right to the left of the enter key? Because I pressed that combination and nothing happened.

Is there another key that could do that?

The one left of the 1 (not Numpad), above Tab, and below Esc.

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

The one left of the 1 (not Numpad), above Tab, and below Esc.

I tried that one. Nothing happened.

What keyboard layout are you using?

If that answers the question, a Mexican Spanish one.

 

[DarkLunaPhantom]

I tried that one. Nothing happened.

I think that you need to enable cheats to do this if you haven't already. Open CivilizationIV.ini (in ...\Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\ or through a link ...\Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword\Beyond the Sword\_Civ4Config) with a text editor and change "CheatCode = 0" to "CheatCode = chipotle".

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

Is that a joke? Because if it is, I think it's funny.

 

[DarkLunaPhantom]

Is that a joke? Because if it is, I think it's funny.

I'm not sure what you mean? The above will enable the Python console (and some other cheat hotkeys). As for the word "chipotle", I guess that Civ4 devs were making some kind of a joke, although I don't understand it.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

You don't have to understand it. Just reading the word chipotle is supposed to make you laugh yourself to annihilation. You need to get on Genghis' level of comedy.

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

I'll do that, but I thought he said "chipotle" because it sounds funny and because I mentioned having a Mexican keyboard layout.

 

[ozqar]

Haha, chipotle is the actual word. Glad to know there's a compatriot here!

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

I did the chipotle thing, and although nothing happened, I can now use the Alt + Z cheat.

 

[DarkLunaPhantom]

I did the chipotle thing, and although nothing happened, I can now use the Alt + Z cheat.

I played a little bit with "Spanish (Mexico) Latin American" keyboard layout in Windows and Shift + ñ opens the Python console.

 

[Genghis Khaiser]

I played a little bit with "Spanish (Mexico) Latin American" keyboard layout in Windows and Shift + ñ opens the Python console.

I tried that one and it worked. Thank you.

 

[Temüjin VIII]

To make things a little bit easier, you can omit the lines in DynamicCivs.py containing the method isHuman() (lines 579, 1936). That way, your own leaderhead will also change dynamically like the AI civs.

EDIT: Not really completely omit the lines (the method is used as a condition for if statements). Just edit the code such that it does not check if the player is human anymore.

 

[1SDANi]

To make things a little bit easier, you can omit the lines in DynamicCivs.py containing the method isHuman() (lines 579, 1936). That way, your own leaderhead will also change dynamically like the AI civs.

Ooh, I like this. @Leoreth is there a chance of side effects from such a change?

 

[merijn_v1]

The diplo music can change when you zoom in on your own cities.

I don't think it will cause any side effects. But you can easily test this. If it does provide any side effects simply revert the change.