I wish the mod did "this" because it's like that in real life.

[tu_79]

I think there's a modmod that does something similar - autoproduction? No idea how well the AI makes choices, though.

There was a mod that made pioneers found always puppet cities (among other things such as illnesses and morals), but it was not compatible with VP. And there was no option to create your own vassal who manages the armies for you.

 

[usadefcon1]

What I miss most from Civ 4 is that each citizen had their own nationality. When you conquered a city the unhappiness would stem from the fact that they were still loyal to their old civ until they eventually assimilated over time. If you had high culture they would assimilate quicker, and if that city was conquered back it would be at full production immediately since the population was still loyal.

 

[BiteInTheMark]

The only real life thing I miss is migrations.
But the happiness system ends up doing something that looks like it, so no complaints.

On the other hand, not exactly a real life thing, but I was dreaming on a mechanic that mimics centralization.
For example, I could directly control all of my cities, all of my armies, and play the tyrant. Or I could set a few cities free from my rule, but still belonging to the empire and contributing to our wealth and manpower. Or even grant them complete autonomy, so they are free to act on their own, but always allied to me.

Wait, wait. I know. There's puppet cities and vassals for that. But as they are now, we can only have a puppet from a conquered city and we can only have a vassal from a vanquished country.
I'm talking about having the option to decide whether a new city is gonna be puppet or controlled, of having the option to create a new vassal out of our own cities, a vassal who will not attempt to loose free.
I'm talking about reversing any of those statuses as we see fit, turning puppets into controlled cities, and vassal cities into owned cities at will.
Well, maybe with some restrictions.

In such scenario, a player could be regarded as a tyrant when most of his cities are owned, a king/president, when most of them are puppets, or an emperor when most of them are vassals.
The less the player controls, the harder it is to deploy strategies, but also the easier to manage. If the country is faring well, I could relax and let the AI handle the hard work for a while.

This would be a cool feature.
And absolutly realistic, if you look at the history starting from 1550 to 1900. Portugal, Spain, England, France... all of them colonized lands far away and established colonies.
Often enough I see decent spots were I could easily found cities but fear it might not be worth the effort or could increase the tensions to neighbors, if I settle there.
If I would be able to pay the price for the settler/pioneer + population but know it will not harm my tech/policy cost and get a small vassal for free, damn I would do it.
Maybe there could be a project, unlocked at the same time as researching the caravel, which enables my cities to create a new civilization, randomly chosen and immidiatly my vassal. It could be like a normal vassal but count only half for the master/vasall strength calculation. That would be a total awesome.

 

[Patine]

What I miss most from Civ 4 is that each citizen had their own nationality. When you conquered a city they would still be loyal to their old government for quite some time until they assimilated. If you had high culture they would assimilate quicker, and if that city was conquered back it would be at full production immediately since the population was still loyal.

I have never played Civ4 as a Civ iteration, but that feature sounds similar to Master of Orion 2, to be honest.

 

[kenneth1221]

Yes, because "appeasement," was SUCH a success. I don't think it even kept the peace in Europe for a full three years...

Sure, appeasement was a failure in real life. That doesn't mean it wouldn't be a more fun game mechanic than a highly successful warmonger constantly getting phony war declarations from Civs who can barely do anything to hurt them.

 

[kenneth1221]

The only real life thing I miss is migrations.
Wait, wait. I know. There's puppet cities and vassals for that. But as they are now, we can only have a puppet from a conquered city and we can only have a vassal from a vanquished country.
I'm talking about having the option to decide whether a new city is gonna be puppet or controlled, of having the option to create a new vassal out of our own cities, a vassal who will not attempt to loose free.
I'm talking about reversing any of those statuses as we see fit, turning puppets into controlled cities, and vassal cities into owned cities at will.
Well, maybe with some restrictions.

In such scenario, a player could be regarded as a tyrant when most of his cities are owned, a king/president, when most of them are puppets, or an emperor when most of them are vassals.
The less the player controls, the harder it is to deploy strategies, but also the easier to manage. If the country is faring well, I could relax and let the AI handle the hard work for a while.

Alternative idea: puppet cities stay as suggested, but instead of vassals, city-states with permanent Spheres of Influence. Then, some of the mechanics might already be there -- send the equivalent of a 'Merchant of Venice' to puppet the vassal states, and then annex them.

I think there's a modmod that does something similar - autoproduction? No idea how well the AI makes choices, though.

Enginseer's Bare Necessities provides an auto-governor, but it's not amazing/might need tuning. When I tried it in one of my games it built military units I didn't need at all instead of building infrastructure.

 

[Mastfire]

What about a way to shoot down missiles? Modern day ships do have a capability to fire at missiles. Mech inf. should have to ability to cross coastal tiles with out embarking like the attack helicopter. And what happened to the marines unit that was in the vanilla unit?

 

[Stalker0]

I have never played Civ4 as a Civ iteration, but that feature sounds similar to Master of Orion 2, to be honest.

If a feature wasn't in MOO2, it honestly shouldn't be in 4x. MOO2 was perfection personified, and anyone who disagrees is not a human being

 

[Stalker0]

Long time ago, I've played Civ4. Wasn't there villages which grew over time and give more yields, after 10/20/40 turns?

ModMod territory I think. I will say, village growing was one of the best parts of the Civ4 economy, but its not something you can just "tack on". There were techs, civics (aka social policies) and the like that all worked off of the village concept, and that's what made it successful in Civ 4.

It should also be noted that one of the counters in Civ 4 to towns was pillage. Unlike Civ 5, pillaging was permanent in Civ4. If I crushed your town back to a village, you had to start growing it all over again.

 

[Bryan317]

Knights should require Iron and Horses. And there should be slightly more Iron available. There should also be a weaker version of knight (Light Calvary) that doesn't require Iron. Knights should be stronger overall to reflect the added investment of Iron. Both can be upgraded straight to Lancer requiring No Iron.

 

[tu_79]

Alternative idea: puppet cities stay as suggested, but instead of vassals, city-states with permanent Spheres of Influence. Then, some of the mechanics might already be there -- send the equivalent of a 'Merchant of Venice' to puppet the vassal states, and then annex them.



Enginseer's Bare Necessities provides an auto-governor, but it's not amazing/might need tuning. When I tried it in one of my games it built military units I didn't need at all instead of building infrastructure.

I see.
You can lose easily a city state under your sphere with a world congress resolution all your neighbors would love to have. Not to forget that a city state is much more beneficial than a vassal, since they provide yields and resources.
The idea of leaving the work to a vassal is to give him half the cities, and let him mobilize troops for me. This is a game of war and strategy but sometimes I don't need the hassle of micromanaging my full armies for every petty war. Most importantly, vassals can be given and taken cities, so I can regain control if I need it.

 

[th3f00l]

In civilization 5, has some way to produced strategic resources using the same mechanics of growth? If I'm not mistaken in civilization 6 it is like this, example: When you discover iron and have a source, let's suppose, from 6 instead of having to discover other sources to be able to increase this 6 iron, the strategic resource growth +1 per turn without explore another source, and the civis with more numbers of source can produce more strategic resource per turn, maybe some buildings can rise the number of production per turn (example national wonder Iron Works rise the capacity of production Iron +1 instead give 2 Irons). Case it's possible and someone ask yourself for balance, this production of strategic resource can be rise the maintenance where more explored sources more you spending to produce. I don't know if it's possible to do this in the game, but it's something I've always wondered about. I apologize for just asking, or gives bad ideas, but these are things I always wanted to know if it is possible and how I don't understand anything about programming or how far can go in dll changes.

 

[JamesNinelives]

In civilization 5, has some way to produced strategic resources using the same mechanics of growth? If I'm not mistaken in civilization 6 it is like this, example: When you discover iron and have a source, let's suppose, from 6 instead of having to discover other sources to be able to increase this 6 iron, the strategic resource growth +1 per turn without explore another source, and the civis with more numbers of source can produce more strategic resource per turn, maybe some buildings can rise the number of production per turn (example national wonder Iron Works rise the capacity of production Iron +1 instead give 2 Irons). Case it's possible and someone ask yourself for balance, this production of strategic resource can be rise the maintenance where more explored sources more you spending to produce. I don't know if it's possible to do this in the game, but it's something I've always wondered about. I apologize for just asking, or gives bad ideas, but these are things I always wanted to know if it is possible and how I don't understand anything about programming or how far can go in dll changes.

I mean, this is already the case in Vox Populi to a degree. Forget the name of the building (refinery?) but it gives Coal and Iron, and Recycling Centres give Aluminum. Similarly building the Manhattan Project first gives you 1 uranium (as well as the bomb).

 

[Bryan317]

I mean, this is already the case in Vox Populi to a degree. Forget the name of the building (refinery?) but it gives Coal and Iron, and Recycling Centres give Aluminum. Similarly building the Manhattan Project first gives you 1 uranium (as well as the bomb).

Actually the Strategic balance is pretty good as is. I would only recommend a little more iron available if my knight change was implemented. We should encourage counterpoints in this thread. Be willing to listen to others why your change is game breaking. Might help you get over it lol. But by all means defend your argument with possible mechanic adjustments. On the Knight...didnt vanilla Civ5 require Horse and Iron? Why did they remove this? I would say it's because knights became too limited and by the time you built them they may be phased out. I still think they should require both resources, be made slightly stronger... and a cheaper light calvary made available, no iron needed. Which leads me to another point...

Another idea Ive toyed around with that would let them play and adjust the combat strengths of Ancient through Medieval times (essentially make a few stronger) is.... make Gunpowder unit 15% stronger against ALL units unless they are a gunpowder/modern armor unit) You could call the Promotion "Boom Sticks!!" Lol jk. But maybe something that means "Guns to a Knife Fight" And I don't mean to keep picking on the Tercio but maybe he'll be the in-betweener that still takes that 15% gunpowder damage.
Eh? Eh? Lol.

 

[pineappledan]

I'm pretty chapped that the Refinery gives Iron and Coal, but not oil.

 

[Patine]

I'm pretty chapped that the Refinery gives Iron and Coal, but not oil.

The refinery down the highway from the neighbourhood I grew up in as a kid ONLY dealt in oil.

 

[Bryan317]

I'm pretty chapped that the Refinery gives Iron and Coal, but not oil.

Are the betas doing Iron now? I was out of the loop awhile and decided to play a stable version first. If I can successfully Invade the #1 Austria, I'll definitely win by score and call this game wrap.

 

[Stalker0]

Are the betas doing Iron now? I was out of the loop awhile and decided to play a stable version first. If I can successfully Invade the #1 Austria, I'll definitely win by score and call this game wrap.

Yep its been changed to +1 iron and +1 coal (also just +3 prod and no more +15% prod)

 

[BliTTzZ]

(Obligatory disclaimer of the mod's greatness before I gripe.)

I despise GDR and X-Comm as immersion breaking. We should add Drones to the game, or at the very least make ICBM's more central to late game combat (removing them from supply was a great change). Further, Jet Fighters should have a late game buff to their damage against land units to represent their multipurpose function in modern combat.

I feel the same about XCOMs and GDRs. While it's understandable they are somewhat iconic units for Firaxis, but they break immersion big time.
Drones would be nice as support units. And make ICBMs more important... I wish it had global range and if you attack another major superpower, every single one of your cities gets nuked in return automatically. MAD in a nutshell.

Would also change tech placement for some units. For example all fighters could be researched 1 tech earilier, so you would a decent amount of them prepared once enemy gets bombers. Also guided missiles are researched before fighters? Would swap them with fighters any day.

Would like to see some units to have one more upgrade in their line. First ones I can think of are guided missiles and bazooka. They feel underwhelming once modern armor and mechanized infantry are on the field.

 

[Bryan317]

Yep its been changed to +1 iron and +1 coal (also just +3 prod and no more +15% prod)

Now that I understand this, I'm inclined to agree with the other comments that ask about oil refining. Maybe they could actually be split into three different buildings. And you build the one you need. Of course you don't want an overabundance either. Even war mongers should be forced to trade lol