Idea: UU based on leader

[Ajes]

Hail fanatics!
I have an idea!

The UU should be based on the leader, and not on the Civ. If you play George Washington, the UU is from the same time as he was, and not the Navy SEAL, as it is now.
I dont know how to make mods, so it have to be some one else there have to make it.


If someone else have suggesed this before, of if it have been made - sorry, i must be blind!

/Ajes

 

[Impaler[WrG]]

I'm working on this in the Civ4 Core Community Project, its "mostly" ready in that you can now add the unit in XML to the Leader and it will give the unit to that leader only. Unfortunatly the Python interface needs moding to properly display the new units. Currently you see the Unit on the "What to build next" popup and can start building it their, but you DONT see it (infact you dont even see the defalt unit its replacing) in the city build buttons so you cant re-start the unit if you switch to something else. The tech tree also fails to show the change. Once these issues are resolved I will officialy announce the mod as complete.

 

[Seven05]

Impaler, are you planning on adding Leader UUs in addition to civ UUs or replacing the Civ ones entirely? I think have both available would be ideal, especially for "flavor" units that are nation specific but wouldn't need to be leader specific.

 

[Shqype]

The way his works, is that it still provides UUs for the civ, but the leader UU overrides his civ's UU.

So, If England has a battleship UU, but Churchill's UU is the Churchill Battleship, the game will use the leader's UU instead of the civ's UU. But, if they're both completley different, then both will be used.

 

[Seven05]

Even better, too bad we only have one leader per civ in TAM

 

[Impaler[WrG]]

Shqype description is right on the money, unfortunatly If your following a One leader per Civ rule then this mod dose nothing for you (unless perhaps your now interested in more leaders know that it will (someday) be possible).

 

[Shqype]

Even better, too bad we only have one leader per civ in TAM

It's not at all difficult to add more. I think it would be cool if each civ had 3 UUs, 1 civ UU, and then the UU of whichever leader they chose to play as.