Civ 4 - Staying in medieval age

[Stillwright]

Hello

My first post, and for wich i made the account for

Im terribly in trouble with this, i really need someone to help me
I really would like to stay in medieval age, without reaching tanks/guns/tech/future or any such things.

I REALLY hope there is a mod or a way how to prevent everyone (Me and Computer/AI) from advanceing on!

I really love the medieval age's and it would be great...

This is game lot's of fun, and just wonderful, and it could be even better.

Please let me know if there is a mod or a way to do this! I have searched everywhere!
Thank you, please respond!

 

[Funkyboy7]

i once downloaded a mod that did so, sadly i can't remember the name, just search for midevil mod

 

[Stillwright]

Thanks but I still cant find any, damn it . Anyone else, any clues ?

 

[Pembroke]

If you just want a casual mod that simply stops the tech advancement before the Renaissance era then how about simply multiplying the tech research cost values of Nationalism, Printing Press, Education, and Gunpowder by 100 or so? If I remember correctly those four are the bottleneck techs between Medieval and Renaissance eras so that would increase the research times to at least several hundred turns which ought to be "enough". Check from the Civilopedia, though, whether there are others. (Or if you wanted the "barrier" between Renaissance and Industrial e.g. to get a prolonged Age of Sail just pick the appropriate bottleneck techs.)

You can create the above casual mod simply by copying the CIV4TechInfos.xml to the directory "\Users\YourName\Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\CustomAssets\xml\technologies" and then searching for the techs (TECH_NATIONALISM etc.) and changing the field "iCost" from 1800 to something like 180000.

Everything else stays the same and since you used your own custom assets directory you don't have to specifically load mods or anything. Every standard game you start will use your changed version of the Civ4TechInfos.xml and essentially stop the advancement at those 4 techs. If you want to switch back to the original simply delete or rename your customized file.

 

[ahmedhadzi]

Don't they have some medieval scenarios with Civ Warlords and BTS? I think Charlemagne is one of those?

 

[mechaerik]

There is a modcomp that allows you to stay in a certain era, i'll look it up.


EDIT:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=287940

 

[TheMeInTeam]

You could just switch the tech costs for renaissance techs to a - value. Although you might want to allow astronomy at least, so you can move to other continents if need be.

 

[TeeDoubleYa]

You could try the European Middle Ages Mod for Vanilla Civ. This is one of my favorite Mods for Civilization and I tend to play this more than the original game itself since I also love being stuck in Medieval times.

Here is where you can get it. I also recommend downloading the music add-on because it really adds to the experience.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=222896

 

[Stillwright]

Superb! Thank you very much everyone, ill try it right away!

 

[ston]

Thanks for this thread, I'd been wondering if it were possible to 'era lock' Civ IV myself!