First time playing with Cardith Lorda...

[Kael]

"Boilerplate" text can't have any returned values inside it, then? That's weak. It's not like the total number of map tiles isn't determined by that point, nor should it be the case that massive amounts of processing are still going on.

The Mod is awesome, and the vanilla game is quite pleasing as well. It just presses one of my buttons when a decision is made that lightens the load on developers but then turns that into a load on users. Of course there's a need for balancing those, and there is never enough time, talent, or testing. Still, in this case it strikes me as a weak choice.

Yeah, its not that anything can't be done. Its just that given the chance to sit down in the evening and spend an hour working on the mod, coding a special dawn of man screen for the kuriotates is pretty low on my list of things to do.

Keep in mind you are playtesting the beta build of a game.

 

[Gamestation]

Couldn't just do something like this?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/91967/CIV4GameText_FFH2.rar

 

[sixs_monkey]

I'm one of many playtesting the On-time Beta of a free Mod. I have no moral high ground from which to complain, and I didn't want to sound like I did. Knowing that it -can- be done is a big plus. It might mean that I get busy and back into programming, something I haven't done in decades now. What tools will I need at home to provide a proposed solutions to this problem and some others?

 

[Kael]

I'm one of many playtesting the On-time Beta of a free Mod. I have no moral high ground from which to complain, and I didn't want to sound like I did. Knowing that it -can- be done is a big plus. It might mean that I get busy and back into programming, something I haven't done in decades now. What tools will I need at home to provide a proposed solutions to this problem and some others?

Most of the things in Civ4 can be done with notepad. Personally I use Notepad++ for all of my python work and excel (with the editor) or Notepad++ to modify xml files.

Keep in mind when addressing documentation issues that its kind of like hitting a moving target. I hate to spend time docuementing things that may change (and then end up with wrong documentation). So I look for options that allow the documentation to be more dynamic (change with the feature). Not that that always possible, its just nice when it is.

You may also want to consider addressing documentation issues in the wiki, which is an awesome resource.

 

[Sureshot]

Couldn't just do something like this?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/91967/CIV4GameText_FFH2.rar

if you do that include that the adaptive trait scales to game speed too, i think its 80 turns on quick heh