Editing Starting Policy Branches

[Equilin]

How can I edit the pre-set starting policy branches in the official scenario files, like Scramble for Africa? I tried looking through the files in the scenario folder but none turned up to mention it.

 

[Putmalk]

Hi Equilin (awesome name btw, is that from Age of Empires II Britons?)

If I had to guess, the social policy tree is configured in `RandomAfrica.Civ5Map` and thus can be editable in WorldBuilder rather than in code. I could not find any references to it in code.

The game disables the ability to adopt a Social Policy branch so if that have that starter policy in the map, they can only research policies in that tree.

 

[Equilin]

Hi Malk. Unfortunately i cannot find it there either (there is "Edit Policies" option in the Scenario Editor, but none of them are ticked so i'm not sure it's actually there).

 

[Putmalk]

Hmmm, I am not sure then. If you are feeling ambitious, one way would be to copy the files and debug the DLL with breakpoints where social policy branches get set so you can see exactly what is triggering it, but that will be an advanced setup if you haven't done something like that before.

I don't know if we have a way to view `.Civ5Map` files to know if we can just inspect that itself to see the settings. I hope so, but they may also just be in binary, it's been a long time since I've tried to do something like that.