Making my own scenario for myself

[heartofgrigori]

So i'm trying to make my own Scenario for my OWN personal amusement only.

i'm sure it's been thought of, if not already created (i havent found it yet)

I thought it would be cool to create a World War type atmosphere with evil being: Tojo, Hitler, and Muso...i mean followers of the Ashen Veil and allies vs. followers of The Order and it's allies. My question: is there a map that shows the world of erebus?

Basically I let the computer generate a Terra map. using the civpedia as guide, i located the Bannor in what looks like a ******** Europe. in the tundra to the north is the Doviello. directly bordering Bannor's eastern most city is the Clan of Ember's Braduk. Again if this was on Earth map:to the southeast of Bannor borders is the Sheam which owns the AV holy city. The whole scenario is basically a World War that has started because the Bannor have called on a crusade against the Ashen Veil. So it may seem a little too similar to the real crusade. People in "Europe" calling a crusade against the people located southeast of europe (im not trying to say that the AV is Islam or that Christianity is The Order, i just thought it would be cool to have the Civs located like that on the map).

I'm just curious, how can I modify these: the Armageddon Counter, each civlizations treasury, the diplomatic leanings of one civlization to another
(ie -5 "You declared War on us!" to -6 "You declared war on us!"), and the amount of hammers left to a cities current production. And how can i add Basium/Hyborem too the mix. I remember good ole Civlization II, you were able to do all that with the built in Scenario editor! (except basium and hyborem. i dont remember ever seeing a CIV II scenario with those two in it...odd...).

Another thing, playing as the Grigori one time, apparently i was pissing off Alexis because i was building too many theaters and Monuments. I spent most of the game tradeing blows in the form of cross border raids with the AI. On and off...finally i had enough forces to conquer a few Calabim cities. I found it odd that the Calabim were actually thinking: "VIVA LA RESISTANCE!". I had to look it up, but it sounds like the Stockholm Syndrome to me.

 

[Ekolite]

You can change civs relations to each other using the WB.

 

[zxcvbnm]

My question: is there a map that shows the world of erebus?

There's no official map yet. Nikis-Knight has made the closest-to-canon one although the Hippus are placed quite away from their "canon" neighbours, and OzzyKP has made another close-to-canon map. I have been working on a most-canon-one-yet map but I haven't been satisfied with the results.

(im not trying to say that the AV is Islam or that Christianity is The Order, i just thought it would be cool to have the Civs located like that on the map).

The Ashen Veil is actually the fanatics in this article

 

[MrUnderhill]

It would be cool if there was some (more?) inter-faith strife between the Order and the Empyrean, or other religions in general.
After all, the real-life crusades were between two "holy" faiths, not one of angels and another of demons
(though this is from a neutral perspective, of course. Talk to one side or the other and I'm sure you'll hear differently).

 

[Ekolite]

How do you make a scenario anyway? Do you just do it on the world builder? How do you choose what civs you want in it, or how many and stuff like that? Is there an editor like civ3 had you can d/l or something?

 

[zxcvbnm]

It would be cool if there was some (more?) inter-faith strife between the Order and the Empyrean, or other religions in general.
After all, the real-life crusades were between two "holy" faiths, not one of angels and another of demons
(though this is from a neutral perspective, of course. Talk to one side or the other and I'm sure you'll hear differently).

Empyrean actually seems just a bit buddhist, and the Order might be either of these religions.

How do you make a scenario anyway? Do you just do it on the world builder? How do you choose what civs you want in it, or how many and stuff like that? Is there an editor like civ3 had you can d/l or something?

You can do it with the WB, or with MapView or with a converter
There's no civ3 like editor, the mods do most of it.

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Changing values for specific diplomacy modifiers can be done in the xml, probably. But adding preset attitudes can be done in the WB or by editing the WB file with notepad or similar.
Same with treasury.
I don't know anout Arm. Counter, but there is a game option for double speed, perhaps that would suffice.

Again if this was on Earth map:to the southeast of Bannor borders is the Sheam which owns the AV holy city. The whole scenario is basically a World War that has started because the Bannor have called on a crusade against the Ashen Veil. So it may seem a little too similar to the real crusade. People in "Europe" calling a crusade against the people located southeast of europe

Nah, that's still plenty vague enough to do without any real life parallels springing to mind.