HELP! how do i start?

[niffweed17]

i have thrown out the idea of making a mod which would eliminate the set religion format, i.e. you discover christianity at theology, buddhism at meditation, hinduism at polytheism, etc. what i have proposed instead is that there be a set list of religions. at each of the 7 appropriate technologies, one religion is randomly selected from the list to be the religion founded.

unfortunately, nobody has seemed to have any interest, so i am undertaking the project myself.


however, upon doing so, it occurs to me that there will be two main parts to starting this mod. the first is to create a new set of religions. that will require some graphical experimentation, but i think that i can do that over some time.

however, i am flummoxed when it comes to telling the game how to accept that religion A need not be founded by technology X, religion B by technology Y, and so on. a quick review of XML files on religion and technology shows that the religions seem to be dependent on this format that each one is discovered by a specific technology.


so, my question is the following: how can i create a system so that specific religions are not necessarily founded by specific technologies, and instead have that any religion can be founded after the discovery of an appropriate, religion-creating technology?

 

[Kenric af Grashen]

an interesting project i'm not sure such a thing can be done without writing a mile of code because it is a new concept to the game having multiple religion foundable at the same point on the tech tree without founding all of them at the same time

 

[niffweed17]

i know, it will require a lot of coding. i just don't quite know where to begin in terms of coding it; i don't think it can be done by XML alone.

 

[niffweed17]

bump. if anyone knows how this could be done, please indicate as such.

 

[snarko]

No it can't be done with xml alone. You can make the current religions unfoundable (a tech which noone can research, or perhaps setting the tech required to none) and then write a python function which founds a random religion when any of the technologies you want to found a religion is discovered.