Conquest Request: De-hardcode cityview buildings

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

A Simple request: The option to add a certain number of buildings/improvements into the city view was already available when civIII was initially released, but apparently it was decided to leave that out in the last minute: Some files are still there:

Additional buildings;
Monuments one;
Swon Monuments;

Please give modders the possibility and data required to enhance the gaming experience by adding building into the city area view window!

Comment: There should be no problem when adding wonders and Small Wonders that only appear once per game or per civilization, as every single of these would only use a specific tile. The looks could easily be made culture-specific too. As I said: All the files are already there as they shipped with Civ3- please let us use them...




....and I just realized I am in the wrong forum *sigh*

Moderator Action: No problem, I just moved all your "Request" threads. --Padma
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Thank you Padma (had little sleep so I am a bit wuzzy)

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Hmm, no supporters for this little cosmetic effect ?

 

[EddyG17]

i certanly will like a better city view, there is only one avenue, were is the people, the road connections, for a city of 3 000,000 people it look pretty empty, were are they living... underground? And your idea of city improvements like air port to to be out the city tile is just great.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Well the thing is that Firaxis wanted to make everything "easy" to mod when they made the game. Everything is already there- but they didn't give us the means or the explanation of really modding certain things (given the bugs the game had when it shipped and the problems of players -not even modders- to cope with civ3 at first it is somewhat understandable).

But I think the time is ripe to give out some info and new modding traits for us- including the city view

 

[EddyG17]

I am afraid of ghost towns, especially if there are more than a million souls in it

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

W.i.n.t.e.r, it is pretty much inevitable that in C3C city-view buildings will be de-harcoded. IIRC, they've added new buildings and wonders, although whether or not to the main game remains to be seen.

 

[Winston]

It's possible to improve the city view screen so that it looks more populated by downloading a file located at GIDustin's Website, it won't allow you to add other images for city improvements though.

 

[yoshi]

...it is pretty much inevitable that in C3C city-view buildings will be de-harcoded.

How so? If they didn't 'de-hardcode' the city-view buildings in PTW (or Civ3 for that matter) why would they do so in Conquests? Unless, of course the developers actually pay attention to these threads (ha).

 

[fitchn]

I wouldn't get your hopes up... If you'll notice, in all of the Conquests screenshots of the city interface, the 'view city' button is missing...

 

[EddyG17]

missing???

BBBBBUUUUUUUAAAAAA!!!!!! BBBBBUUUUAAAAA!!!! BBBBBUUUUAAAA!!!!! How could they?!