Limited Resource Usage Help

[Ithryn_luin]

I'm looking to make a Peak Oil mod. Basically I want each oil field to have a set value, say 10,000 (or Random). Every turn the Civ that's using that oil will tally up it's military and population and subtract a certain amount divided amongst the wells that their using (as it's non-renewal). When the oil well runs dry, it will dissappear and that Civ will have to find alternate fields, suffer monetary/building penalty or research alternative fuels. As the game progresses you will see wars being launched or ludicrous deals in order to satiate their oil thirst.

To do this I figure I could either assign a unique designation to each well as it's created and have the game store each value and alter it per turn. If this isn't possible then maybe I could make say 20 unique resources that all happen to be oil well-like just with different names (I don't look forward to that though).

I've never delved into Python (only XML), but I figured it would be the best way to do this. My only problem is I don't know where to start. Can anybody help? Either steer me in the right direction for tutorials or let me know which files I should be looking at?

Thanks!

 

[surt]

Tutorial on how to use python:
http://docs.python.org/tut/

Documentation on the python methods and objects available in civ4:
http://civilization4.net/files/modding/PythonAPI_v160/

After you've read those, you'll probably want to start reading some civ4 python, so start browsing through either mods, or the civ4 assets/python directory.

 

[Ithryn_luin]

cheers.

I'll post whatever I figure out here.