Anarchemitis
Chieftain
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- Aug 9, 2014
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As it stands Ice is an unpassable terrain type, unless you're a submarine or aircraft. In reality this is not the case.
The idea came from a thread I saw on Reddit, which proposed a new unit which could render Ice tiles into Ocean tiles. The obvious drawbacks of this would be AI abuse, and the fact that the mini-map wouldn't update. So I pondered a bit, and came up with this:
Icebreakers is a Level 1 Promotion available to Destroyers and Cargo Ships. The promotion can be activated on these ships if Combustion has been researched, and only if the ship you want to promote is located in a city you own, that has a Shipyard. The Promotion costs 300 Gold but no XP (since Cargo Ships do not have xp). It allows the unit to move through Ice (which has a movement cost of 2, like hills and jungles on land) and leave behind a trail of broken Ice which lasts for 1 turn, during which, other naval units can traverse the broken ice.
Recently broken ice would have one appearance as a tile with a clear cut path through them, and broken ice which is going to return to being solid at the end of the turn will have a different appearance, with chunks starting to fill the gap. There is also a permanent movement penalty of -2 to Cargo Ships and -3 to Destroyers which have the Icebreaker Promotion-- in real life, icebreaker hulls are less hydrodynamically efficient than regular sea-going hulls, and are much heavier, cutting into fuel efficiency.
Other naval units can follow in the trail behind the icebreaker ship with the default movement cost for water navigation, and can disembark onto land or snow if it is adjacent to the broken ice tile they occupy. If the unit does not move on to recently broken ice tiles, or off of ice by the end of the next turn, they will be sent back to the body of water they came from (still embarked if they are such), unless this distance is greater than 8 tiles, in which case that unit will be destroyed by floes.
An ice breaker ship can remain idle in ice, because any ice tile it is on will stay recently broken as long as it sits there. Recently broken ice, and soon-to-solidify ice do not change in the map, since they are like a temporary tile improvement.
How possible/impossible/difficult would such a Mod be?
The things I can foresee there are
1. inventing a promotion that is specific to two units, and requires a technology, money and being in a certain location, rather than XP.
2. creating two kinds of tile changes for ice.
3. changing how destroyers and cargo ships can react to ice.
However I have absolutely zero experience in Lua, C++ or modding Civilization in general, so even if it is possible, I wouldn't know where to get started.
The idea came from a thread I saw on Reddit, which proposed a new unit which could render Ice tiles into Ocean tiles. The obvious drawbacks of this would be AI abuse, and the fact that the mini-map wouldn't update. So I pondered a bit, and came up with this:
Icebreakers is a Level 1 Promotion available to Destroyers and Cargo Ships. The promotion can be activated on these ships if Combustion has been researched, and only if the ship you want to promote is located in a city you own, that has a Shipyard. The Promotion costs 300 Gold but no XP (since Cargo Ships do not have xp). It allows the unit to move through Ice (which has a movement cost of 2, like hills and jungles on land) and leave behind a trail of broken Ice which lasts for 1 turn, during which, other naval units can traverse the broken ice.
Recently broken ice would have one appearance as a tile with a clear cut path through them, and broken ice which is going to return to being solid at the end of the turn will have a different appearance, with chunks starting to fill the gap. There is also a permanent movement penalty of -2 to Cargo Ships and -3 to Destroyers which have the Icebreaker Promotion-- in real life, icebreaker hulls are less hydrodynamically efficient than regular sea-going hulls, and are much heavier, cutting into fuel efficiency.
Other naval units can follow in the trail behind the icebreaker ship with the default movement cost for water navigation, and can disembark onto land or snow if it is adjacent to the broken ice tile they occupy. If the unit does not move on to recently broken ice tiles, or off of ice by the end of the next turn, they will be sent back to the body of water they came from (still embarked if they are such), unless this distance is greater than 8 tiles, in which case that unit will be destroyed by floes.
An ice breaker ship can remain idle in ice, because any ice tile it is on will stay recently broken as long as it sits there. Recently broken ice, and soon-to-solidify ice do not change in the map, since they are like a temporary tile improvement.
How possible/impossible/difficult would such a Mod be?
The things I can foresee there are
1. inventing a promotion that is specific to two units, and requires a technology, money and being in a certain location, rather than XP.
2. creating two kinds of tile changes for ice.
3. changing how destroyers and cargo ships can react to ice.
However I have absolutely zero experience in Lua, C++ or modding Civilization in general, so even if it is possible, I wouldn't know where to get started.
