How to stop at a certain age?

[ahmose2]

I am running Civ IV on a Mac (OSX Mavericks) and I want to know how to stop at a certain age. For example, I usually play with England and want to know how to stop progressing after I unlock Redcoats, Cavalry, and Cannons. Basically how to stop at 19th century tech. Thanks.

 

[isenchine]

The simplest way is to disable the technologies you don't want. In the Civ4TechInfos.xml file there is a tag

<bDisable>0</bDisable>

Change the value to 1 for every modern/future tech you don't want to see: you (or the AI) won't be able to research them anymore.

Ideally, you would do that by creating a very basic mod that you would put in the BtS/Mods folder. It should have the following structure: YourMod'sName/Assets/XML/Technologies. In it, copy the BtS Tech infos file and change as stated. Launch the mod.

Or just change the original file at your own risk.

Downside: when you have finished your reduced Tech Tree, research points have no value anymore as you don't even have a 'Future Techs' series.

Minor: the disabled techs will still appear in the Tech Tree but in red. They will still appear in the Civilopedia too.

 

[ahmose2]

The simplest way is to disable the technologies you don't want. In the Civ4TechInfos.xml file there is a tag

<bDisable>0</bDisable>

Change the value to 1 for every modern/future tech you don't want to see: you (or the AI) won't be able to research them anymore.

Ideally, you would do that by creating a very basic mod that you would put in the BtS/Mods folder. It should have the following structure: YourMod'sName/Assets/XML/Technologies. In it, copy the BtS Tech infos file and change as stated. Launch the mod.

Or just change the original file at your own risk.

Downside: when you have finished your reduced Tech Tree, research points have no value anymore as you don't even have a 'Future Techs' series.

Minor: the disabled techs will still appear in the Tech Tree but in red. They will still appear in the Civilopedia too.

Can you help me in creating the mod, or teach me how to do it? I don't have much python experience in this.

 

[isenchine]

There is no Python in this, just xml. A simple text editor like Notepad will do. Notepad++ is better and is for free.

For all the rest, there are tutorials.