Here's something I put together while I was trying to figure out how leaderheads work. It decouples leaders and civilizations: You and the AI can choose whatever leader you want for any civ. I thought it might be good for multiplayer games. Have fun.
Free Leaders Mod
- Thread starter Dracleath
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Wow! This is something that should have been already in the game when it shipped!
How does this work together with the leader/civ qualities (expansionist, scientific etc.)? I.e. is it just the graphics that change or do other qualities follow?
(no, I don't have the game yet)
How does this work together with the leader/civ qualities (expansionist, scientific etc.)? I.e. is it just the graphics that change or do other qualities follow?
(no, I don't have the game yet)
The starting techs are civ based I believe and the UU is definitely civ based, but looking at that file everything else a leader provides will carry over because each civ has the entire list of leaders listed as available so you would get their traits too.
Traits are leader based, behavior is leader based, technologies, civ color, city names, UU etc are civ based.
So yeah you can play as george washington of the aztecs and he'll still get organized and financial and like universal suffrage.
I mainly made it because I was sort of annoyed I couldn't play as kublai khan of china or saladin of egypt or other appropriate leaders that were connected with more than one civ.
So yeah you can play as george washington of the aztecs and he'll still get organized and financial and like universal suffrage.
I mainly made it because I was sort of annoyed I couldn't play as kublai khan of china or saladin of egypt or other appropriate leaders that were connected with more than one civ.
Oh also this works really well for custom and random games because the ai won't assign either leaders or civs twice as far as I can tell, so for a 18 civ game they'll all be randomly shuffled. Also it's really easy to select in the game because there are different tabs for civilization and leader - ie there's built in interface support for multiciv leaders.
I was also sort of thinking of doing a version with just 'appropriate' combinations like saladin for egypt and kublai khan for china. Doesn't really take that long to edit at all, the xml is really easy to work with.
I was also sort of thinking of doing a version with just 'appropriate' combinations like saladin for egypt and kublai khan for china. Doesn't really take that long to edit at all, the xml is really easy to work with.
WildWeazel
Going Dutch
Nice idea. 
what do you do with the download...I'm totally new to the mod thing. Where do I put the file...can I remove it after I try it out? Will it change the original game, does it replace file. Humor the idiot, please!! Thanks alot...egypt w/o Hapshepsut...I'm sooooo psyched!!!!
