History in the Making II: Brave New World Edition 2016-10-05

Grave · Jan 13, 2011

HISTORY IN THE MAKING II
BRAVE NEW WORLD EDITION
Version 6

A Total Conversion Modpack for Civilization V: Brave New World

English language ONLY!
BY GRAVE

ABOUT

History in the Making II (HiTM2) is a complete conversion style modpack. It carries on the traditon of it's Civilization IV predecessor by adding a little bit of everything, while trying not to change too many core elements of the game "just for the sake of change". HiTM2 is my version of how Civilization V should be.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my mod. I have put alot of time and effort into making this modpack, and hopefully you enjoy the fruits of my labor. So sit back, relax, grab the beverage of your choice and enjoy HISTORY IN THE MAKING II!

INCLUDED MODS

MOD: Fishing Technology
AUTHOR: James Barrows
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: New Mandir Building and Mysticism Technology
AUTHOR: James Barrows
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: Global - Complete Eras (GK)
AUTHOR: Whoward69
REFERENCE: http://www.picknmixmods.com/main/home/home.html

MOD: Maps - Improved CS Luxuries
AUTHOR: Whoward69
REFERENCE: http://www.picknmixmods.com/main/home/home.html

MOD: Tech - Satellites Reveal Cities
AUTHOR: Whoward69
REFERENCE: http://www.picknmixmods.com/main/home/home.html

MOD: More Mercantile Mod 1 & 2
AUTHOR: Sukritact
REFERENCE: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468962

MOD: Shwedagon Paya Wonder
AUTHOR: Pouakai
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: More City-Sates Luxuries
AUTHOR: Miguel Clemente
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: More Pantheons
AUTHOR: Barathor
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: Pantheon Wonder
AUTHOR: Pouakai, sukritact
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

MOD: Smithsonian Institution
AUTHOR: Pouakai, sukritact
REFERENCE: Steam Workshop

SO WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS MODPACK?

CITY CHANGES:
- Cities now have an attack range of 1 (instead of 2)
- Reduced the default Defensive Strength for cities to 500
- Renamed the American city of New York to Manhattan

TECH TREE CHANGES:
- Tech Tree broken down into Era specific trees; must complete all techs of a specific era before proceeding to the next one
- Several buildings/units have updated PreReqTechs to coincide with TechTree changes

NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
- Fishing
- Advanced Flight
- Mass Media
- Command and Control
- Artificial Intelligence
- Theory of Everything

REMOVED TECHNOLOGIES:
- Replaceable Parts
- Industrialization

NEW BELIEFS:
- Synagogues
- Mandirs

NEW WORLD WONDERS:
- Area 51
- Oktoberfest
- World Trade Center
- Cure for Cancer
- Hollywood
- Schwedagon Paya
- United Nations
- The Motherland Calls
- Rock n' Roll
- Pantheon
- Smithsonian Institution

NEW NATIONAL WONDERS:
- Harvest Festival
- Red Cross
- National Treasury

NEW PROJECTS:
- SDI

NEW BUILDINGS:
- Brewery
- Supermarket
- Synagogue
- Mandir

NEW RESOURCES:
- Mercantile resources from the More Mercantile Mod 1 & 2, by Sukritact
- Hit Movies

CIVILIZATION CHANGES:
- Civilizations now start with two Technologies
- Venitian Serenissima trait now provides a free Merchant with Banking instead of Optics
- Manifest Destiny now provides all land military units with +1 sight; 25% discount when purchasing tiles; Gun units cost 25% less maintenance.

EXISTING UNIT CHANGES:
- Many late game units require TWO resources
- Cannon and Pikeman now requires +1 Iron
- Byzantine Dromon is now a Unique Unit replacing the Galleass; still has +50% vs Naval Bonus
- Lancers no longer ignore building defenses (Walls, Castle, etc)
- Marines upgrade to XCOM Squad
- Bazooka focuses more on anti-tank and anti-helicopter combat
- Privateers can only be purchased with Mercenary Army
- Barbarian Galley now requires Sailing; upgrades to Privateer

EXISTING BUILDING CHANGES:
- Forge also gains Production bonus from Aluminum; can be built in cities with Aluminium resource nearby
- University no longer gets Science bonus with Jungle; Wat still retains this feature
- Military Academy increases the chance of Great Generals spawning; requires Fort
- Iroquois Longhouse completely re-done; now replaces Granary
- Celtic Ceilidh Hall completely re-done; now replaces Amphitheater
- Egyptian Burial Tomb completely re-done; now replaces Shrine
- Monastery no longer requires a Belief; can be constructed once Theology is discovered
- Windmill now provides +5% Building Production
- Watermill now provides +5% Building Production
- Harbor maintenance costs reduced to 2 Gold; now requires a Lighthouse
- Recycling Center now consumes +2 Iron
- Granary now carries over 25% of food; no longer provides Food bonus from Deer
- Bomb Shelters population protection reduced to -50%
- Military Base requires Armory; provides free experience to military units
- Arsenal provides +15 Production bonus towards Armor, Siege, Ranged Naval, Bomber and Helicopter units; requires +1 Iron
- Factory changed to +3 Production, +15% Production; gains +2 Production bonus when discovering Robotics
- Zoo consumes 1 Horse resources; Science bonus with Ivory or Whale; +2 Tourism with Ecology
- Stadium now requires a Colosseum
- Happiness from Colosseums increased to 3; Maintenance costs increased to 2 Gold
- Happiness from Stadiums increased to 6; Maintenance costs increased to 3 Gold
- Walls maintenance costs increased to 1 Gold
- Castle defense reduced to 500; Maintenance costs increased to 2
- Aqueduct can only be built in a city with access to Fresh Water (lakes/rivers); provides 15% Growth and +2 Happiness
- Hospital now provides +3 Food, +15% Food; gains +2 Food bonus when discovering Penicillin
- Medical Lab now provides +5 Food, +15% Food; +2 Science from Jungle tiles
- Opera House now requires a Monument instead of an Amphitheater
- Museum now requires a Monument instead of an Opera House
- Broadcast Tower now requires an Opera House instead of a Museum
- Harbor now provides bonus to sea resources and bonus to Naval production instead of Seaport
- Seaport now provides Range and Gold bonus to sea Trade Routes instead of Harbor
- Hydro Plant now requires a Water Mill
- Mosque now provides +25% Religious pressure; adjusted Happiness/Culture/Faith
- Airport now requires 1 Oil

EXISTING WONDER CHANGES:
- The Pantheon now unlocked with Piety instead of the Mosque of Djenne
- Stonehenge no longer requires a Technology; requires Shrine
- Temple of Artemis now provides additional +15 XP to ranged units instead of a Production bonus
- Circus Maximus now consumes a Horse resource
- Forbidden Palace increases Influence with city-states by +25%; Delegates moved to UN Wonder
- Statue of Liberty can only be built on the coast
- Great Pyramids now unlocked with Tradition; increases Golden Age length by 50%
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa now unlocked with Liberty
- Hanging Gardens no longer require a Policy Branch
- Hagia Sophia no longer provides free Great Prophet; provides 1 free Cathedral and contains a Great Work of Art slot
- Chichen Itza now unlocked with Tradition; provides +25% Worker speed and 2 free Workers (this was Civilization V's original intention)
- Kremlin now reduces City Count Unhappiness by -15%
- Machu Piccu now unlocked with Commerce
- Parthenon now unlocked with Aesthetics
- Sistine Chapel now unlocked with Aesthetics
- Terracotta Army now unlocked with Honor
- Hubble Space Telescope now unlocked with Rationalism
- Oracle now unlocked with Liberty
- Brandenburg Gate moved to Rifling

EXISTING NATIONAL WONDERS:
- Ironworks now consumes +2 Iron
- National Epic now provides a free Great Writer
- Heroic Epic now provides a free Great Writer

EXISTING RESOURCE CHANGES:
- Copper now provides +1 Gold and +1 Production
- Salt now provides +1 Gold and +1 Food

POLICY BRANCH CHANGES:
- Piety and Rationalism are mutually exclusive again
- Liberty is now unlocked with Classical Era

RELIGION:
- Removed Orthodoxy and Protestantism
- Removed Earth Mother Pantheon Belief
- Changed Catholicism back to Christianity (schism schmizism!)
- Monument to the Gods now extends into Medieval Era
- Goddess of Love requires peace
- Peace Loving now renamed Pacifism; +1 Happiness for every 6 followers if not at war
- New Pantheon: Zoolatry (+1 Faith and +1 Culture from Ivory and Cattle)
- New Founder Belief: Legalism (+1 Science for every 5 followers)
- New Pantheon: Sacred Mountains (+1 Faith per Mountain)
- New Pantheon: Spirits of the Swamp (+1 Faith per Marsh)

FEATURES:
- Fallout now has a -25% Defense penalty

DOWNLOAD INFORMATION

GET IT ON THE STEAM WORKSHOP:

Just do a search for "History in the Making"

GET IT ON CIVFANATICS:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=16360

SUGGESTIONS & FEEDBACK

Constructive feedback is very important to me, and I'm always looking for suggestions to improve this mod. If you have any ideas about new units, buildings, or how I can make this mod overall more balanced and enjoyable, I would love to hear from you! So play a few games of History in the Making II, and please take a moment to provide feedback to me on this thread!

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SEE THREAD #2 FOR HITM2 SCREENSHOTS/INFOGRAPHICS!
(click below for an enlarged view of the new Tech Tree!)

ENJOY!
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Grave · Jan 13, 2011

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Grave · Jan 13, 2011

WHAT I CAN USE A HAND WITH... :nuke:

I'm always looking for suggestions to improve this mod regarding:

:c5capital:

Better game balance :c5capital:

Artwork! If you can create Civ V style wonder spashes, icons, etc... :c5capital:

New units, buildings, wonders, technologies, etc :c5capital:

Historical accuracy :c5capital:

Anything that will make this mod stand out from the rest, and become more enjoyable to play! :c5capital:

Full credit will be given for any artwork/innovative ideas you contribute to History in the Making II...

Grave · Jan 13, 2011

CHANGE LOG:

Spoiler :

Grave · Jan 13, 2011

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GoUtes53 · Jan 13, 2011

As a former player in your Civ 4 incarnation, let me say that this is indeed a much welcomed surprise! Thanks much for doing this, Grave. I for one truly appreciate it.

Panda_Power · Jan 13, 2011

Wow! This sounds exciting!

**Edit**
Looking at the additional starting techs I wonder if it's a bit of an unfair advantage giving Egypt the "calendar" tech because they'll be able build Stonehenge real quick given their wonder building trait. Did this balance OK in the Civ 4 version?

Great work by the way! Really looking forward to playing this!

skodkim · Jan 14, 2011

Grave is back - Great news!!

HiTM was the best mod I ever played for CivIV and I can't wait to see this develop into the same.

Suggestions for mods I'd like to see included : Emigration, Enhanced Golden Age, Random events and Food Economy

And of course the UI mods like Atilas mod, Civwillard and InfoAddict. But if there's no conflict with these as you say, I can just enable them myself.

Once again: Great news!
\Skodkim

Draskar · Jan 14, 2011

I very like this affermation: "It carries on the traditon of it's Civilization IV predecessor by adding a little bit of everything, while trying not to change too many core elements of the game "just for the sake of change""
I'll try it at my next game.
Very cool tech tree, the civ5 units are few and bad-spreaded along the tech tree, in your mod are few but well spreaded!

Grave · Jan 14, 2011

GoUtes53 said:
As a former player in your Civ 4 incarnation, let me say that this is indeed a much welcomed surprise! Thanks much for doing this, Grave. I for one truly appreciate it.

Thank you! I hope HiTM2 lives up to your expectations! :goodjob:

Panda_Power said:
Wow! This sounds exciting!

**Edit**
Looking at the additional starting techs I wonder if it's a bit of an unfair advantage giving Egypt the "calendar" tech because they'll be able build Stonehenge real quick given their wonder building trait. Did this balance OK in the Civ 4 version?

Great work by the way! Really looking forward to playing this!

I see what you mean there. It "kinda" does in a way. An idea I had was to give each starting tech a Wonder you could build right off the bat, but the problem is coming up with that many ancient era wonders... and giving them unique stats.

I was thinking about giving Stonehenge a PreReq number of monuments to build, but then that would step on the toes of the National Epic a bit too much. Or maybe moving it to Priesthood instead.

I'm totally open for suggestions... this is the excact reason why I'm craving customer feedback! :goodjob:

skodkim said:
Grave is back - Great news!!

HiTM was the best mod I ever played for CivIV and I can't wait to see this develop into the same.

Suggestions for mods I'd like to see included : Emigration, Enhanced Golden Age, Random events and Food Economy

And of course the UI mods like Atilas mod, Civwillard and InfoAddict. But if there's no conflict with these as you say, I can just enable them myself.

Once again: Great news!
\Skodkim

Thanks Skodkim! Glad to see HiTM2 caught your eye! You gave me good feed back on the original HiTM, and I know you'll have plenty to suggest in this incarnation as well!

My goal is to keep the UI mods to an absolute minimum. The reason is: people have different preferences on what information they want to display with their UI mods. If I add certain UI mods, they may conflict with other mods that people like to use. So I want to leave it up to the end user to pick and choose what they want. That's not to say I won't add anything in the future, but it better have some really fancy schmancy bells and whistles.

Pretty much the same goes for gameplay changing mods: I only will add them if they add a core feature to HiTM2 that is a "must have" to make the mod perform the way I want. Emigration comes to mind, but there's no real reason to add it because it basically acts as a "stand alone" mod that can be activated and deactivated at will. It doesn't fundamentally change the mechanics of the game as a whole.

The only things I want to change are things that affect the "big picture" that simply can't be modular (tech trees, new buildings, unit stats, etc). Again, that's not to say I won't add gameplay changing mods, but they have to be pretty much essensial to the vision I have for HiTM2 and "can't live without".

Draskar said:
I very like this affermation: "It carries on the traditon of it's Civilization IV predecessor by adding a little bit of everything, while trying not to change too many core elements of the game "just for the sake of change""
I'll try it at my next game.
Very cool tech tree, the civ5 units are few and bad-spreaded along the tech tree, in your mod are few but well spreaded!

I figure, if it's not broken, why fix it? I don't want to reinvent The Wheel... I just want to discover it around 3500BC and stick with it. :lol:

Draskar · Jan 14, 2011

Moving stonenge to priesthood is a good choise, it's distant to the starting tech a like the vanilla game i think.
About historic coorence i very dislike the mounted-units path of vanilla, it don't reflect its raise & fall (with de maximum on meddle-ages), i hope you will concentrate on the "new kind of war" of each era in future, and if you want some suggestions, i can make some visual modification to tech tree to explain my suggestions on it.

Fabiano1979 · Jan 14, 2011

Great to see this MOD back!

Playing already, but the tech tree is kind of broken. Just cant see all the techs, all I see is the first page (ancient era)..theres no scrollbar.

Azazell · Jan 14, 2011

Where is Paper technology in the game?? I don`t see in tech tree.

Fr8monkey · Jan 14, 2011

The King of the Mods has returned!! All hail the King!!

I haven't gotten CiV yet because of the reviews and the lack of content; but I may change my mind...

LavaLama · Jan 14, 2011

Hey Hey, you need someone for a german translation of the mod?

Still testing it. You'll get my feedback when i am done.
Nice mod so far.

Maybe you should implemend the City State Mod from Gazebo? Can't play with out it anymore :/.

Draskar · Jan 14, 2011

Fabiano1979 said:
Great to see this MOD back!

Playing already, but the tech tree is kind of broken. Just cant see all the techs, all I see is the first page (ancient era)..theres no scrollbar.

Same problem!
I had this problem also with "total mod" but not with "Call to power mod".
ps I tried to switch the game to english language

Brave Sir Robin · Jan 14, 2011

Great to see this MOD back!

Playing already, but the tech tree is kind of broken. Just cant see all the techs, all I see is the first page (ancient era)..theres no scrollbar.

same thing to report here

you SHOULD implemend the City State Mod from Gazebo .Can't play with out it anymore :/.

Draskar · Jan 14, 2011

Hi Grave, here's my proposal for make more graduate the transition between medieval armies and 19° century army.
The aim of these suggestions is to have a "new kind of war" at every age..

Spoiler :

In medieval times we have 5 units:

Feudal Militia) Farmers bad equipped, cheap & weak unit
Longswordmen) Strong warriors well covered and equipped, medium cost & strong unit
Knight) Queen of the battle, high cost & very strong unit (stronger than longswordmen!)
Crossbowmen) Citizens armed with crossbows, like in vanilla
Trebuchet) Siege weapon, like in vanilla (very good vs cities,bad vs units)

In reinassance times we have 5 units:

Citizen Militia) Citizens armed with polearms, cheap & weak unit (little bunus vs mounted, like 25%)
Pikemen) Backbone of the army, professional warriors, medium cost & strong unit
Dragoons) Ranged unit (like ancient chariots), medium cost & raid unit, usefull vs musketmen & fears pikemen
Musketmen) Range unit of the era, like stronger crossbowmen
Bombard) Siege weapon, like a stronger trebuchet but only good vs cities but only weak vs units

In 18° century time we have 4 units

Militia) Citizens armed with musket, cheap & weak unit
Line infantry) Trained troops, medium cost
Hussar) Trained troops, usefull agaist artillery, flanking support and for finish infantries (like the ancient horsemen)
Cannon) Like the vanilla cannon

In 18° century time we have 3 units

Rifilemen): standard infantry
Cavalry: fast unit usefull for flanking and recognizing (loose against riflemen)
Campal Cannon: stronger cannon with range 3 but not "undirect fire" (you must use chivalry to spot enemies and shoot them from distance!)

To implement these,followings are needed:

1) Some renaming of units
2) Some adjustments on stats and abilities
3) Skins for citizen militia (animation from original pikemen)
4) Skins for militia (animation from minuteman)
5) Skins for new pikeman (animation from lanzchenc)
6) Band new stuff for dragoons
7) Brand new stuff for musketmen
8) Brand new stuff for bombard
9) Skins for line infantry (animation from rifleman or old musketman)
10) Brand new stuff for new cannon

UU changes samples:

Militia -> Minutemen
Dragoon -> Cossak
Pikemen -> Tercio

I hope you like this and if you are interested, a can start think the effective units stats and position on tech tree (i think few new inventions are needed, max 4)

Brave Sir Robin · Jan 14, 2011

good to see this loved it for civ 4 :goodjob:

played till 1000ad a few observations
i have the tech tree display problem as already noted.
even though you have added 12 tech (a good thing) the tech rate still flies by
tech progress needs to be slowed maybe 20-25 % .
one of my biggest problems with the tech tree is it is to easy to run the bottom
of the tech tree to steel .I generally play king and in at least 8 or so games I have seen longswords from another civ at 500bc not very historically accurate & makes you play
one specfic way to have to counter . One of the base features that i cant believe got by
testers is that research agreement dont scale by era, (they are all 300$) having them
scale would help slow belines. modern techs are worth many times the beakers than the ancient one shouldn't they be worth more money ?
also i am hooked on the city state diplomacy mod by Gazebo
Have you looked in to this great mod and to adding it to yours

MasterTonberry · Jan 15, 2011

Holy hell, this is great news! I had no idea this was in the works Grave, you have made me very happy. I loved HitM for Civ 4 BTS and couldn't play the game without it.

Is this initial version compatible with the latest patched version of Civ 5? I don't mind waiting at all it isn't.

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