Making Resources 'Untradable'

[Jon Shafer]

Part of my the scenario I'm working on requires me to make it so that you can't trade resources from one city to another. Has anyone figured out a way to do this?

[Edit]What I mean is untradable from city to city within a civ, not between different civs.[/Edit]

 

[Sim_One]

If two cities are connected by harbors and airports I suppose you could mod harbors and airports to disallow trading supplies. I'm not sure if you can do that with roads/RR's. You could also disable the "allow trade in sea/ocean square" option for Astronomy/Magnetism/Navigation.

 

[WillJ]

So are you asking how to make it so that only one city may use a resource at a time, and if that city is a capital then it can trade it to another civ, but then only that other civ's capital can use the resource?

Hmm, that's a toughie. I can't imagine how you could possibly do that. Unless you wouldn't mind completely disabling roads and railroads (and doing what S_O said about harbors and airports).

 

[Syiss]

Unless you can also make it so that you can use a resources in your area even though its not connected by road, then you cant completely disable roads because then you wouldnt be able to use any resources at all.

 

[Jon Shafer]

In the scenario I'm working on right now, I want a civ to be able to build a UU depending on the nationality of the city, and to do that I planned on putting a 'people' resource underneath every city, but disallowing internal trade of that resource, so that city, and that city alone could make a particular type of unit. For example, the French own a couple of cities in Germany. Underneath those cities I have a 'Germans' resource. 'German Musketmen' require the 'Germans' resource to build. I want it so that the German cities and those alone can build German units, and the effects of the resource aren't seen in Paris (so you can't build 'German Musketmen' there).

See what I'm trying to do? I've turned off sea trade, but that still presents the problem like I mentioned earlier about France owning parts of Germany. So far the only possibility I've heard is to disallow the building of roads, and either get rid of roads altogether, or make sure no cities are connected (which would be a pain).