Clearing all existing Civs

[Bartonette]

I ran through the tutorial and adding new civs was all nice and easy...

But I wanted to create an entirely new set of Civs and get rid of the old ones...

So I tried creating some bare files with the bare minimum of what was needed to make "one" civ (which I could also copypaste from later).

This was great, left with just Alexander, I launch the game and get an error about needing Barbarians, which is fair enough, so I go ahead and add the barbs too and everything looks good now...

until I start the game...

It's the DiplomacyInfos file that's the problem at the moment... it has entries for leaders that don't exist anymore... It takes me a good ten minutes to remove leaders from just a few of the responses... So I thought to ask...

a) has anyone already done this and has a few bare files lying around I could steal (assuming there will be more files like this) or
b) am I missing a really easy way to completely wipe the slate of Civs and start again D:

Thanks
--B :3

EDIT:
Second question, far fom related, but I don't wanna keep making posts
Is there an updated tutorial like the Poison City mod that just takes you through the process of adding one new "mission", "unit", "land type", anything... I'm an experienced programmer, but it would all go a lot faster seeing how the process works once for CivIV...

 

[The_J]

Imho a negative answer is better than none:
No, as far as i know, there's no clean DiplomacyInfos.xml .

 

[Dumanios]

I ran through the tutorial and adding new civs was all nice and easy...

But I wanted to create an entirely new set of Civs and get rid of the old ones...

So I tried creating some bare files with the bare minimum of what was needed to make "one" civ (which I could also copypaste from later).

This was great, left with just Alexander, I launch the game and get an error about needing Barbarians, which is fair enough, so I go ahead and add the barbs too and everything looks good now...

until I start the game...

It's the DiplomacyInfos file that's the problem at the moment... it has entries for leaders that don't exist anymore... It takes me a good ten minutes to remove leaders from just a few of the responses... So I thought to ask...

a) has anyone already done this and has a few bare files lying around I could steal (assuming there will be more files like this) or
b) am I missing a really easy way to completely wipe the slate of Civs and start again D:

Thanks
--B :3

EDIT:
Second question, far fom related, but I don't wanna keep making posts
Is there an updated tutorial like the Poison City mod that just takes you through the process of adding one new "mission", "unit", "land type", anything... I'm an experienced programmer, but it would all go a lot faster seeing how the process works once for CivIV...

Why are you clearing the civs?

 

[Bartonette]

Why are you clearing the civs?

Partly 'cause I like clean files and code, but also because I don't want the player to be able to play as them, or the AI to select them...

 

[The_J]

Then you could just set bPlayable or bAIPlayable in the CivilizationInfos.xml to 0.

 

[strategyonly]

Then you could just set bPlayable or bAIPlayable in the CivilizationInfos.xml to 0.

Actually both. From what he wrote.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I have a similar problem.

How do you delete a civilization?

I want to delete Native America, as I made a new civ, which is basically Native America renamed as Sioux with a new citylist.

 

[The_J]

Deleting is, besides the DiplomacyInfos.xml.
Just delete the entry in the CivilizationInfos.xml, remove the leaders, the UU + UB and the entries in ArtDefines_Civilizations, _Leaderheads, _Units, and _buildings.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I'm keeping the leaders, UU, and UB though.

All I'm doing is renaming native america as Sioux and fixing the city list while keeping Sitting Bull, Totem Pole and Dog Soldier. But the problem is that in game, I now have to identical civs, Sioux and Native America.

I want to delete JUST the civ Native America, nothing else.

Also I do NOT want to delete it for my Vanilla game, but rather ONLY my mod. I don't want to mod my Vanilla as I play Multiplayer occasionally.

 

[The_J]

...err...okay...where's the problem? Just kick the natives out of the CivilizationInfos.xml, that should be enough.

 

[mechaerik]

Rename CIVILIZATION_NATIVE_AMERICA to CIVILIZATION_SIOUX and so on. Just replace all the Native America stuff. You don't need to delete it.