Hi. I like to play with charismatic leaders and in my army production cities I tend to have at least 4 great generals so every new unit has level 4 promotion. I prefer having smaller, but well trained (experienced) army. I don't like that when a unit has more than 10 experience points and I upgrade it to newer unit, it's experience counter resets to 10. I know that this behavior was in original civ4 as well, but I think it's a bug. Right now when I have a unit with more than 10 experience points and it's missing just 1-2 experience points to reach next level, I can't upgrade it until that unit receives those missing experience points and reaches next level. Could this be fixed?
K-Mod: Far Beyond the Sword
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s.bernbaum
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No comment with regard to K-Mod on this. I understand your dislike (and I also dislike) the reset to 10. However, it is not a bug. It is intentional. I bought the game way back when it came out and it came with a manual back then. The manual discussed the reset to 10 in the unit upgrade section. It was intended to prevent massively experienced armies via upgrades.
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This can be changed easily. You need to edit one xml file. Open ...\Beyond the Sword\Mods\K-Mod\Assets\xml\GlobalDefinesAlt.xml with a text editor (I recommend Notepad++) and add
Code:
<Define>
<DefineName>MAX_EXPERIENCE_AFTER_UPGRADE</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>99</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>I have also attached this file with this exact change made (using the file from K-Mod v1.46 release as a starting point) so you can just download it and replace the mentioned file.
Note that this breaks multiplayer compatibility, i.e. all players in a multiplayer game would need to have made this edit. Also, if you want to use this in other mods, you would need to edit those mod's files, i.e. you cannot just reuse the file I have uploaded in other mods without potentially breaking them.
I think this reset to 10 EXP should be changed for next K-Mod version (at least for Charismatic, Aggressive and Imperialistic leaders) to something like 20 or removing the reset all together.
What do you think? should this be changed in K-Mod?
DarkLunaPhantom, thank you for the guide and the file!
BUG is included, Advanced Combat Odds too, but many (most?) other BULL features aren't, in particular Show Hidden Attitude, Pre-Chop and Sentry Heal. And many BUG options are disabled by default in K-Mod (arguably better than enabling everything by default as in standalone BUG). K-Mod also has a few UI features of its own, e.g. Rapid Unit Cycling, simple unit selection with Shift, right-click for setting maximal/minimal commerce weights, Ctrl/Shift/Alt-click for rearranging production queues, Alt for showing Building Actual Effects, no zero stats on the Statistics tab.
Edit: Added simple unit slection to the list
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I see i'am really noob with this stuff. My older version of this mod from december 2016 has a folder weight of 55 mb and it has in game BUG options which I enabled there. The newest version 1.46 folder space is only 18mb and there aren't any bug mod options in the game menu to open it and enable. So i guess I installed something wrong with the new version?
Ah, then I misunderstood the question a bit. 
18 MB sounds right; 55 MB is probably v1.45 with Blue Marble. That can be installed separately; see the last paragraph of this thread's initial post. I think one of the 1.45 downloads had included Blue Marble directly, but 1.46 doesn't. Anyway, that shouldn't affect the BUG menu, which is normally accessible through the ESC menu, CTRL+O menu and directly via CTRL+ALT+O – however: only from within a running game, not from the main menu. Could that be the issue?
18 MB sounds right; 55 MB is probably v1.45 with Blue Marble. That can be installed separately; see the last paragraph of this thread's initial post. I think one of the 1.45 downloads had included Blue Marble directly, but 1.46 doesn't. Anyway, that shouldn't affect the BUG menu, which is normally accessible through the ESC menu, CTRL+O menu and directly via CTRL+ALT+O – however: only from within a running game, not from the main menu. Could that be the issue?
Ah, then I misunderstood the question a bit.
18 MB sounds right; 55 MB is probably v1.45 with Blue Marble. That can be installed separately; see the last paragraph of this thread's initial post. I think one of the 1.45 downloads had included Blue Marble directly, but 1.46 doesn't. Anyway, that shouldn't affect the BUG menu, which is normally accessible through the ESC menu, CTRL+O menu and directly via CTRL+ALT+O – however: only from within a running game, not from the main menu. Could that be the issue?
Yes this old version is with blue marble. Sth else is wrong with my installation of mod version 1.46. I go to advanced > load a mod> K-mod v1.46 then game restarts mod is loading normally but it's not working. So that is why there is no BUG mod options becouse whole mod is not working. I checked leaders with protective or agressive traits, serfdom civic and they dont have any new bonuses. So the whole mod is not working for me somehow.
Yep this was the solution - now everything works. Really thank You very much for help!.
dailyminerals
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Has anyone experienced a (competent) AI naval invasion with this mod? I've always wanted an AI competent enough to actually be a naval threat, but I've never actually had that wish fulfilled. Does this AI mod enable the AI to actually launch competent naval invasions, rather than the single transport of 4 cavalry that's slaughtered the moment it reaches landfall like most AI mods?
dailyminerals
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Well color me excited.
I've just gotten through lain's Immortal game from 2017. There's a nice example of an AI naval attack shortly after 19 minutes in part 11/14: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPhC2FEHeA&t=19m
Great, you're welcome.
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Spoiler Yup... :
I had one game where I followed two typical BtS strategies: I left only one cheap unit in all my coastal cities that were far from my borders, and I was pretty rude to Shaka because he was rather backwards, hated by everyone and crucially, lived alone on his own continent. I had a rude awakening when he suddenly showed up with a fleet and landed like 30 units next to my important coastal cities that all just had warriors and archers in them.
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No way of getting those activated when playing K-Mod still?
I mostly care about pre-chop.
Thinking about another deity playthru (now i would be warned about vassals breaking free ~~), hidden attitude and other AI stuff missing is okay since it's all about more challenging AIs, but i would really miss workers not stopping chops.
@Fippy: I've recently merged parts of the BULL pre-chop code into my own mod, so I know which files need to be changed. Since you don't need it to be optional nor multiplayer-compatible, it's only some 100 lines of C++ code to be copied into the K-Mod files. I've just given that a quick try and it seems to work correctly. I wouldn't want that quick-and-dirty version to spread beyond S&T and perhaps reflect badly on the original mod when someone's multiplayer games go OOS, but I think if I just attach the modified DLL to be unpacked to K-Mod\Assets and maybe take it down in a few days, it's unlikely to do any harm. It's late here, so I had better take another look at it tomorrow, but I'm posting the file I have now; I can always update it if needs be.
Edit: I've taken the link down after a month. Had been downloaded 8 times.
Edit: I've taken the link down after a month. Had been downloaded 8 times.
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