I don't want it in my games, how do I get rid of it?
Also can I make sure that I never see Native Americans in my games? They piss me off becuase I hate their cities and having to fight Natives when they should just be tribes.
Does anybody else have a solution to adress this issuse? I am more concerned about getting rid of Protective then native Americans becuase I just stop playing if I see Natives but I want to be able to play Asians again without worrying about Protective trait.
I personally think they are fine, but if you want to know how to easily remove them, and never deal with them again, this is how:
Find the CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml it will be in the path C:...\Program Files\...\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML in the Civilizations folder (I don't know your specific computer's pathing structure, so the ... are names I don't know, mine is C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\civilizations). Right click on it and select copy. Go back to your main Beyond the Sword folder.
Now click on the shortcut to the Custom Assets folder. Go into the xml folder in custom assets, and continue into the civilzations folder. Paste the CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml file in there.
Open up the CivilizationInfos file using Notepad (or any codewriting utility, but you probably only have notepad, every computer has notepad and XML is fine with notepad, it just needs to be a simple text editor, Microsoft word or other word processesors wol't work).
Go to the edit header at the top of notepad, click it, and select Find. In the find box type out Native and click OK, it'll shoot you to the Native American civ and you should see this:
Code:
<CivilizationInfo>
<Type>CIVILIZATION_NATIVE_AMERICA</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_CIV_NATIVE_AMERICA_DESC</Description>
<ShortDescription>TXT_KEY_CIV_NATIVE_AMERICA_SHORT_DESC</ShortDescription>
<Adjective>TXT_KEY_CIV_NATIVE_AMERICA_ADJECTIVE</Adjective>
<Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_CIV_NATIVE_AMERICA_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
<DefaultPlayerColor>PLAYERCOLOR_LIGHT_BROWN</DefaultPlayerColor>
<ArtDefineTag>ART_DEF_CIVILIZATION_NATIVE_AMERICA</ArtDefineTag>
<ArtStyleType>ARTSTYLE_NATIVE_AMERICA</ArtStyleType>
<UnitArtStyleType>UNIT_ARTSTYLE_NATIVE</UnitArtStyleType>
[B]<bPlayable>1</bPlayable>
<bAIPlayable>1</bAIPlayable>[/B]
<Cities>
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_CAHOKIA</City>
...
The part you're interested in is the part I highlighted. Change the 1s to 0 and they will no longer be playable. If you want to be able to play them yourself, but just deny the AI them, then only change the 1 to a 0 in the AIPlayable tag.
If you want to go back to your normal game, just delete that file in your custom assets, and everything will go back to normal.
Hope that helps. And welcome to modding cIV, it really is that simple.
Edit: Oh, and if you want to remove the protective trait in general, you can follow the same steps for the CIV4LeaderHeadInfos.xml file, except in that case delete all instances of:
Code:
...
<FavoriteReligion>NONE</FavoriteReligion>
<Traits>
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_SOMETRAITNAME</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
[B]<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_PROTECTIVE</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>[/B]
</Traits>
<Flavors>
...
Of course doing so will nerf the leader, so you'd be better off replacing the TRAIT_PROTECTIVE with TRAIT_CREATIVE or something like it. You can also give yourself a super leader this way, by just copying all the leader traits into a leader head, lol.
Well, sometimes love to hate 'em..
