[R&F] How to make eras longer?

[BeMerry]

Before Rise and Fall, you reached a new era by discovering techs/civics, but this seems to be uncoupled now and the game on Standard is running at a break-neck pace for me. Anyone has any idea what value in which file I need to modify to extend them?

 

[Kjasjar]

There are new Eras vor the Expansion called Eras_XP1. They have values for GameEraMinimumTurns and GameEraMaximusTurns.

So an example to extend the Maximum Duration to 90 Turns would be:

<GameData>
    <Eras_XP1>
        <Update>
            <Set GameEraMaximumTurns="90"/>
        </Update>
    </Eras_XP1>
</GameData>

I think the actual duration is calculated in the game depending on the science progress of the players, but it can't be more than the value in GameEraMaximusTurns.

 

[Animist7]

Presumably, extending the game eras will make it easier to get golden ages because you'll have more time to get the necessary era score. So you'll have to increase the era score thresholds for normal and golden ages accordingly.

 

[yutterh]

I am currently trying to do this with the modbuddy. So far I am unsuccessful. I am trying to increase the era's to go along with x10 all in one mod. But I am new to modbuddy. I had modbuddy create the mod and it popped up on the mod section and I have it enabled. but when i check the era score on the dropdown it still says 40-60 when i want it to be 400-600.

edit: I did the hard change and it worked but not sure on how to get the mod to complete the change. I would also like to know where to modify the era score gain. Can't seem to find that either.

 

[Sotof]

If you change the golden age era score requirement remember that you need to change the one for the dark age as well. It's in the global parameters (IIRC) file for the expansion.

 

[Animist7]

Well I went ahead and used the slower tech by era mod and didn't touch any of R+F's parameters and so far it's worked pretty well for me. The pacing is fixed and the eras are longer but that hasn't necessarily changed the balance for me. I was able to navigate between normal and golden ages up until the atomic era but I'm currently in a dark age and it'll take some work to get out of it. I guess slower civic / tech / great person development means the balance is naturally maintained since it takes longer to get those era points.