[Development Thread] Fictionalization IV

[Prebral]

What were you doing when it crashed? Were you going from the main game to the menu? Unloading the mod?

I have attacked with my Miles Gloriosus testing the experience problem, lost him and reloaded a just-previous save from the small ingame menu. I did not return to main menu, as far as I remember, and I have surely not unloaded the mod.

 

[cfkane]

Hmm, your right. Can't say what's causing it.


Oh, and while I'm here, I've made a new thread at CivJunction where you can make requests for the mod.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

can you make a 'wizarding community' civ??? based of f harry potter

 

[cfkane]

Well, the magical community isn't really a nation, they're more like a very secretive subculture. If they were their own separate nation covering a specific geographical area, then I could have them as a separate civ I suppose.

Right now, the Witchcraft religion has elements of the Potter series in it; Hogwarts is the Witch shrine.

 

[cfkane]

A new version of the beta is now up.

 

[Kubo Caskett]

Why a Fictionalization Mod?

 

[cfkane]

Er, why not?

 

[Psycho_Ivan]

One word: Fantastic.

That's the only thing I get when I see this, it's a genuinely fantastic idea.

 

[cfkane]

I forgot to add a link to the updated file in this thread.

Version 2.3 here

patch A for version 2.3

 

[nuberus]

I played a couple games of your mod, and I think it's fantastic. One problem though is that adding a ton of stuff means that a lot of stuff never gets built. In particular, the heroes are way overpriced. They should be no more than 50% more expensive than a regular unit of the same power level. Otherwise they don't get built until they're obsolete anyway.

As for things I'd like to see, how about monster barbarian units like dragons, and giant squids?

 

[cfkane]

I played a couple games of your mod, and I think it's fantastic. One problem though is that adding a ton of stuff means that a lot of stuff never gets built. In particular, the heroes are way overpriced. They should be no more than 50% more expensive than a regular unit of the same power level. Otherwise they don't get built until they're obsolete anyway.

As for things I'd like to see, how about monster barbarian units like dragons, and giant squids?

Those are being planned. I just need to fix the coding to allow for that sort of thing.

Thanks for the advice on the heroes, I'll get right on that.

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

I got an idea for a leader. How about Richard Nixon's head?

 

[cfkane]

I got an idea for a leader. How about Richard Nixon's head?

Ha!

Sad to say, I'm a big Futurama fan, but that might be too far off into the future to be a viable leader.

 

[Methyl Orange]

What do you think about Jedi and Sith religions?

 

[cfkane]

I explained this in an earlier post I think.

I can't use anything from Star Wars because it wouldn't fit with the theme of the mod. I got the idea from things like the Wold Newton universe and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where fiction is fact. So I can use things like Arthurian legend or H.G. Wells novels, because they are set on Earth in history, well within the time frame and location that most Civ games use. Star Wars takes place in an entirely different galaxy with no interaction with our earth whatsoever.

You could look up "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" or "Wold Newton" on wikipedia if my explanation wasn't clear.

 

[Methyl Orange]

I explained this in an earlier post I think.

I can't use anything from Star Wars because it wouldn't fit with the theme of the mod. I got the idea from things like the Wold Newton universe and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where fiction is fact. So I can things like Arthurian legend or H.G. Wells novels, because they are set on Earth in history, well within the time frame and location that most Civ games use. Star Wars takes place in an entirely different galaxy with no interaction with our earth whatsoever.

You could look up "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" or "Wold Newton" on wikipedia if my explanation wasn't clear.

Yes, I understand. Maybe Illuminati?

 

[cfkane]

I should be able to do another update of the beta soon. A couple of changes:

- T'Challa is now a leader for the Zulu. He's from Marvel Comics and usually goes under the title of Black Panther

- Four more heroes have been added: Sun Wukong, G-8, D'Artagnan and CuChullain

- Three new wonders have been added: Greyfriar's School from the British Billy Bunter series, Iram of the Pillars which appears in Arabic myth, and Xanadu from the Coleridge poem of the same name.

- Religions now have special units. The units are: the Jewish Golem, the Christian Knight Templar, the Islamic Djinn, the Hindu Vimana, the Buddhist Shaolin Monk, the Taoist Xian, the Confucian Junzi, the Yuggoth Shoggoth, the Witch Broom Rider, and the Martian Grokker.

 

[cfkane]

I've been trying to think of fiction-based random events for the mod to add to the handful I already have. Some of the events I already have include a town turning into a source of pigs (like Circe did in The Odyssey), two feuding families building a Monument in honor of their dead children (a la Romeo & Juliet), and gaining a source of hit movies after paying a laboratory for a satellite launch (MST3K). So, anything along those lines.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

What about the Mushroom Kingdom as a civ?

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Alien Contact ala Close Encoutners of the third kind