Civ 4 Scenarios & Unique Victory Conditions

[dafiden]

I've noticed that there aren't any scenarios for Civ 4 that have a unique victory condition like Civ 3 scenarios. For example, Civ 3 scenarios Escape from Zombie Island and Lord of the Rings have very specific and unique victory conditions.

Of course, there are several Civ 4 mods that have unique victory conditions like Rhye's of Civ (the mother of unique victory conditions) and FFH2. But, scenarios for Civ 4, like Jeelen's scenarios or Navy Sea's Rise of Islan, are very interesting in design, except the victory conditions (being the stock ones) are rather boring. No offense to the scenario creators, I'm just think with these specific scenarios, there should be specific victory conditions. For example, it would seem that to "win" the Rise of Islam, you'd have to do something with Islam rather than simply conquer the world, or build a spaceship, or have high-culture cities, etc.

Is this because unique victory conditions in Civ 4 require the knowledge of C, whereas Civ 3 had a user-friendly (but weaker) scenario editor?

P.S. If anyone can recommend a unique victory condition scenario for Civ 4, this would be appreciated.

 

[The_J]

The problem is, that scenarios are just maps with pre-defined things like cities and civilizations, and you can't add bigger things to it.
For unique victory conditions, you need a mod.

For the victories is not C requiered, they can also be done in python, but the AI will not really understand that.

 

[Agent327]

Actually, theoretically you can play any scenario as a Custom Scenario or Custom Game, selecting various Options and Victory Conditions.

 

[frekk]

I've noticed that there aren't any scenarios for Civ 4 that have a unique victory condition like Civ 3 scenarios. For example, Civ 3 scenarios Escape from Zombie Island and Lord of the Rings have very specific and unique victory conditions.

There's no real difference.

In a Custom Game, you can choose your victory conditions just like in Civ3. Then there are mods - scenarios, of a sort - with specific victory conditions, like the religious victory featured in the stock scenario "Gods of Old".

Rise of Islam could certainly feature the same sort of religious victory; the mod creator would just have to merge it with the Inquisition mod, which contains the same religious victory as Gods of Old. Not a difficult merge either.