Making minor changes
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davidlallen
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The relative speeds of research, building, and unit construction are given in Assets/XML/GameInfo/CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml. Locate the active version of the file under Beyond The Sword, if you have it; under Warlords, if you have only Warlords, or in your vanilla directory if you have neither. Make a backup of the file, and then edit the lines like:
<iTrainPercent>200</iTrainPercent>
<iConstructPercent>300</iConstructPercent>
<iCreatePercent>300</iCreatePercent>
<iResearchPercent>300</iResearchPercent>
<iBuildPercent>300</iBuildPercent>
<iImprovementPercent>300</iImprovementPercent>
<iGreatPeoplePercent>300</iGreatPeoplePercent>
If it isn't obvious from the file which of these lines affects what, you can search in this forum for the exact keyword and you will probably find somebody else has already asked.
<iTrainPercent>200</iTrainPercent>
<iConstructPercent>300</iConstructPercent>
<iCreatePercent>300</iCreatePercent>
<iResearchPercent>300</iResearchPercent>
<iBuildPercent>300</iBuildPercent>
<iImprovementPercent>300</iImprovementPercent>
<iGreatPeoplePercent>300</iGreatPeoplePercent>
If it isn't obvious from the file which of these lines affects what, you can search in this forum for the exact keyword and you will probably find somebody else has already asked.
davidlallen
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If you look into the file, and compare the marathon, normal, and quick entries, it should be clear. For example, the values in the marathon section are 300-400 and the values in the quick section are 67. So a value of 300 means 3x longer.
davidlallen
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There are a number of FAQs and help threads around this site which will help you through your first time of editing XML files. It isn't that hard, but it can be time consuming to debug remotely.
Yeah, but this site has like 50 forums and I couldn't find it. And it also won't let me search for xml because the word is too short. The file isn't marked as read only either.
All the tutorials that I've found are full blown modding types like custom units, etc. I just want to make the 100 a 300 in the normal section of that xml file.
Oh well, not the end of the world.
All the tutorials that I've found are full blown modding types like custom units, etc. I just want to make the 100 a 300 in the normal section of that xml file.
Oh well, not the end of the world.
davidlallen
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I have a feeling this is a Windows thing, not a Civilization thing. If you don't have permission to write the file, is it possible that you installed the tool in supervisor mode? Or there are several users on your machine, and another user installed it?
EDIT: if you can *read* the file but you can't *write* the file, there is a way to put copies of certain files into your "my documents\my games\..." directory. I have never used this method. But you could search for "customassets" in this forum, that may give another lead.
EDIT: if you can *read* the file but you can't *write* the file, there is a way to put copies of certain files into your "my documents\my games\..." directory. I have never used this method. But you could search for "customassets" in this forum, that may give another lead.
