Ok, lets run through some ideas on how to get the Bonus resources collected by forts gathered and into your cities...
1. The simplest way: It is automated and that each turn the amount collected is automaticly added to the city. You can mouse over a Good in the city management screen and if a Fort is supplying the city with a good it will be listed here.
Pros: Its Automated
Cons: The City that the fort delivers to would have to be assigned somehow if multiple cities are connected to the same fort. If not then the player has no control over where his goods go.
2. A Wagon train must be assigned to the fort. Once the Resource is being gathered it is added to the list of possible Trade Routes. Then a Wagon Train must be set to Fully Automate or set to Run that Trade Route. Or maybe a new Command called "Collect from Forts".
Pros: Allows more interaction with the game and more uses for Wagon Trains.
Cons: Goods not collected are lost.
3. A Goods Unit is created in the Fort. Wagon trains can be sent over to collect the Bonus. This can be all there is to it or it could be as number 2 above as well.
Pros: Allows more interaction with the game and even more uses for Wagon Trains. Goods not collected are added to the Unit to the max the unit can hold. Goods stored over the Max would just create a new unit so that no goods are lost.
Cons: The most complicated to code.
No! Please don't do so, that the fort appears instantly. Construction of the fort should require a quite long time and of course some materials (wood, stone, maybe muskets or tools).
I guess these distances between the Fort and the City could be possible to adjust for bigger city radius, too.
This is a very useful feature of your mods.
KJ Jansson's stonecutter already prepared a lot of stones for Kailric's Fort. And winemaker is ready to open a bottle of good old wine.
One of Guilds of my city is ready to propose some goods (Ammo, Gunpowder and Provision) for your Fort.
bool CvPlot::isRouteGroupConnectedToCity(PlayerTypes ePlayer, int MaxDistance, CvCity* pHomeCity) const
{
//int iPathTurns;
int iValue;
//int iBestValue = MAX_INT;
CvPlotGroup* pCityRouteGroup;
CvUnit* pFortCommander = getFortCommander();
//CvCity* pHomeCity;
if (pFortCommander != NULL && pHomeCity == NULL)
{
pHomeCity = pFortCommander->getHomeCity();
}
if (getPlotGroup(ePlayer) != NULL && pHomeCity != NULL)
{
pCityRouteGroup = pHomeCity->plot()->getPlotGroup(ePlayer);
if (pCityRouteGroup == getPlotGroup(ePlayer))
{
iValue = plotDistance(getX_INLINE(), getY_INLINE(), pHomeCity->getX_INLINE(), pHomeCity->getY_INLINE());
if (iValue <= MaxDistance)
{
if (pHomeCity->foodDifference() >= GC.getDefineINT("TK_FOOD_CONSUMED_FORTS"))
{
return true;
}
}
}
}
return false;
}There are at least two simplest techniques.
1. Copy screen from Civilopedia.
Then crop from the image and edit in GIMP.
Here there are two negative effects:
- colored background -> difficult to remove
- size of cropped image is too large and therefore you have to change it significantly to get the final resolution (64x128); as result - big distortions of the final image.
2. From the game. You open WorldBuilder, insert a required unit (here Great General) in the game on any empty tile, then "PrintScreen" => paste in any graphic editor => crop as in the previous case. Time required for all operations is about 10-20 sec.
Here there are two positive moments:
- black + uniform(!!!) background => very easy remove such background in GIMP
- smaller size after crop operation => smaller distortions of final image.
Last time I use only the second technique. There are other methods, but they are more complicated and time consuming.
KJ Jansson's stonecutter already prepared a lot of stones for Kailric's Fort. And winemaker is ready to open a bottle of good old wine.
One of Guilds of my city is ready to propose some goods (Ammo, Gunpowder and Provision) for your Fort.
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