City Founding requiring Improvements

[Jennar]

Is there a way to make it so that for a settler to be able to found a city a specific improvement be present on the tile?

What I would like to do is require that Keeps/Forts be required to found cities out side of the cultural borders of an empire until a certain point where an upgrade style settler can do so like it does normally.

Also is it possible to have a city gain a default building based upon era. I.e. if a city is founded in classical times it gains walls automatically. If a city is founded in medieval times it gains a castle automatically. If a city is founded in modern times it gains a Starbucks automatically. etc.

Thanks for the help.

-J

 

[CyberChrist]

Is there a way to make it so that for a settler to be able to found a city a specific improvement be present on the tile?
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If a city is founded in modern times it gains a Starbucks automatically. etc.

And yes you can - by using Python checks.

If you activate USE_CANNOT_FOUND_CITY_CALLBACK in GlobalDefines.xml you can then make any checks you feel would be required under cannotFoundCity in CvGameUtils.py.

 

[mechaerik]

The second part is completely possible, the Navy Seal made a Settlers MODCOMP, which allows you to make upgraded settlers that build cities with buildings in them. As for the first part, that's tricky;
how would you found our first city?
Although it could be worked around by givivg the upgraded settler at the beginning, then only letting them be built after a while.

 

[Willem]

Is there a way to make it so that for a settler to be able to found a city a specific improvement be present on the tile?

What I would like to do is require that Keeps/Forts be required to found cities out side of the cultural borders of an empire until a certain point where an upgrade style settler can do so like it does normally.

I suspect the AI will have a hard time dealing with that limitation if you do get it to work. It's not going to know how to build a Fort first, then a city later. You're essentially going to cripple the AI's early expansion by adding something like that, unless you also go into the DLL and change the AI's routines.