Customizable Domestic Advisor - BUG Edition

[KMadCandy]

Anyway, just to remember (or to tell) it to everybody, inside BUG Mod Documentation folder, there is a file called BUG Structure.rtf with the complete structure of the BUG Mod. It is intended to be a list of the content of the zip, but is also useful because looking at it, everybody can know where all the files need to be placed.

yeah that didn't work in my case, since i'm so weird. i first put everything that way where my own custom assets go, and couldn't write to the .ini. then i put everything in My Games, and BUG didn't exist at all, since Civ4 never looks at My Games. the trick was to realize that BUG itself looks for the BUG mod.ini file, plus the CDA.ini inside its directory, but only those two things, specifically in My Games and doesn't ask Civ4 where to look. for the rest of the stuff, it does obey Civ4. the rest needs to go where Civ4 looks for your CustomAssets, which isn't necessarily in My Games if you're bizarre like me . once i realized that, i was good to go

the forum says a bunch of places to put it there, but it also says to have it as a sibling to CustomAssets, and for me those were different. i didn't realize which of those two conflicting (in my case, but not the normal case) instructions had priority at first. i sincerely doubt it'll come up often enough to rewrite the thing tho.

 

[Cammagno]

yeah that didn't work in my case, since i'm so weird. i first put everything that way where my own custom assets go, and couldn't write to the .ini. then i put everything in My Games, and BUG didn't exist at all, since Civ4 never looks at My Games. the trick was to realize that BUG itself looks for the BUG mod.ini file, plus the CDA.ini inside its directory, but only those two things, specifically in My Games and doesn't ask Civ4 where to look. for the rest of the stuff, it does obey Civ4. the rest needs to go where Civ4 looks for your CustomAssets, which isn't necessarily in My Games if you're bizarre like me . once i realized that, i was good to go

the forum says a bunch of places to put it there, but it also says to have it as a sibling to CustomAssets, and for me those were different. i didn't realize which of those two conflicting (in my case, but not the normal case) instructions had priority at first. i sincerely doubt it'll come up often enough to rewrite the thing tho.

Now I get it

 

[Balderstrom]

Very good, though I must say the <- -> & (+) (-) is a bit unintuitive.
Until I trial and errored my way thru, I really would of expected their functions to be reversed::

+/- to increase/decrease width, and the arrows to Add/Remove...

 

[Alonshow]

I know that this is a very old thread, but still it looks like the best place to ask. I have just started using BUG and I'm experimenting with the CDA. Most of the names of the columns are self explanatory, like GREATPEOPLE_RATE. However, in some cases it's no so clear, like in the case of LIBERATE. Sometimes the name is partially hidden, like NUM_SPECIALIST_... How can I find out what are the contents of these few mysterious columns?