How will modders approach leader agendas?

[NycholusV]

Civ 6's new AI agenda feature adds a new component that has to be created for custom leaders and civilizations. Programming aside, designing custom agendas seems to be quite a challenge in itself. To me, the number of possible distinctive agendas is very finite. How many different agendas can be conceived of? So my question is, is this a concern to prospective modders, and how will modders approach designing agendas for custom civs?

 

[Brackenspore]

Civ 6's new AI agenda feature adds a new component that has to be created for custom leaders and civilizations. Programming aside, designing custom agendas seems to be quite a challenge in itself. To me, the number of possible distinctive agendas is very finite. How many different agendas can be conceived of? So my question is, is this a concern to prospective modders, and how will modders approach designing agendas for custom civs?

Numeric value? War - 10, Wonders - 5, Food - 7, Science - 5 and etc.

 

[Homusubi]

We'll just have to learn a new kind of modding I guess. Tbh I doubt any of my civs will have unique agendas when they are first released, especially seeing as we already have to make an extra unique (leader ability).

 

[Ryika]

Depends heavily on how agendas are implemented. If it's just semi-hardcoded XML-stuff then modders will have huge limitations on creativity, but it sounds like the stuff that you'd externalize into lua scripts, which would mean a great level of customizability for people with the capacity to code.

From a perspective of creating "interesting" agendas I actually don't have much doubt that people will, assuming it's technically doable, come up with all sorts of stuff, especially for well-known historical leaders, as they all have had their stereotypical quirks that can easily be translated into an agenda that, even if it's not that deep gameplay-wise, would most certainly feel very flavorful if it matches the character.

Of course the reality of modding is that not everybody will do that, and instead we'll get a whole lot of Leaders who represent well-known personalities but don't have much interesting gameplay/mechanics to back the theme. But that's just the nature of the beast.