Distance between cities

[jsweeney]

Hey everybody..... anyway i can change the game so i can have one plot difference between cities???? Much Obliged

 

[Dresden]

Change the following value in GlobalDefines.XML (or GlobalDefinesAlt.XML):

	<Define>
		<DefineName>MIN_CITY_RANGE</DefineName>
		<iDefineIntVal>2</iDefineIntVal>
	</Define>

Changing it to a 1 will allow cities to have just 1 plot between them and changing it to zero will allow cities right next to each other.

Standard modding caveats apply: backup the original file first and/or copy the file to CustomAssets before you make the change.

 

[Tholish]

If cities are on different continents you can have them separated by only one water tile. I have thought the reason for the spacing was to make bombardment simpler--if cities must be two piles apart, your artillery can only be adjacent to one city at a time. But a battleship between two cities separated by a one tile straights will randomly pick one when told to bombard.
In civ 3 Infinite City Sprawl was one of the main exploits. The AI spaced them out to optimize the entire fat x, which meant that for most of life they weren't using a lot of land. By packing cities tight (one per 9 squares) a human could do something unique and gain an advantage. In civ 4 the AI strategy is closer to an optimal strategy, so the limit is a good thing.

That being said, it's

<Define>
<DefineName>MIN_CITY_RANGE</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>2</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>

in GlobalDefines.xml, the xml file in the xml folder but not in any subfolder.

MicroMod attached, it works.

 

[Ultraworld]

i think im going to make that number bigger, something like 3 or 4

 

[jsweeney]

Thnks!

v

 

[jsweeney]

If cities are on different continents you can have them separated by only one water tile. I have thought the reason for the spacing was to make bombardment simpler--if cities must be two piles apart, your artillery can only be adjacent to one city at a time. But a battleship between two cities separated by a one tile straights will randomly pick one when told to bombard.
In civ 3 Infinite City Sprawl was one of the main exploits. The AI spaced them out to optimize the entire fat x, which meant that for most of life they weren't using a lot of land. By packing cities tight (one per 9 squares) a human could do something unique and gain an advantage. In civ 4 the AI strategy is closer to an optimal strategy, so the limit is a good thing.

That being said, it's

<Define>
<DefineName>MIN_CITY_RANGE</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>2</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>

in GlobalDefines.xml, the xml file in the xml folder but not in any subfolder.

MicroMod attached, it works.

Thanks alot but is their anywhere special where i put the file cause when i put in the xml folder and played there was no effect.

 

[jsweeney]

I found it it worked thanks alot!