Mechanics of TAM

[Darkhour]

Hi there. Like the work you've done with TAM and eager to see you finish a polished version for BTS.

What I cannot seem to find though is a breakdown of what has been changed in the mechanics of the game compared to normal BTS. I understand that there is a lot changes in the XML and graphics etc.. but what game mechanics or have been changed? Are there any other peoples mods integrated into TAM or related concepts or is there in house DLL modifications and what do they change etc..? Are there any new one planned also?.

Cheers
Alex

 

[graywarden]

Hi there. Like the work you've done with TAM and eager to see you finish a polished version for BTS.

What I cannot seem to find though is a breakdown of what has been changed in the mechanics of the game compared to normal BTS. I understand that there is a lot changes in the XML and graphics etc.. but what game mechanics or have been changed? Are there any other peoples mods integrated into TAM or related concepts or is there in house DLL modifications and what do they change etc..? Are there any new one planned also?.

Cheers
Alex

Darkhour,

the mechanics, ive been referring to in other threads are the changes from Firaxis, more then the TAMDEV group. What we are dealing with is rebalancing our BTS TAM to where our vanilla TAM was in game play. A lot of things are affected, Civics, Trade Routes, Production..... everything was altered from what it was.

the space race is being replaced with the Silk Road, there will be trading posts along the way to complete the trip to the Silk Road.

Right now our focus is getting the Civics rebalanced, the Tech Tree is getting a make over. Once we get the gameplay balanced, then our focus will shift to altering the BTS components to TAM.

sorry if I couldnt be more specific, but its really something more we are dealing with rather then having planned... haha

 

[Darkhour]

ok cheers but what has been altered so far? I notice you use your own DLL. Is that just the patched 3.13 dll or have you altered it for some particular modification with TAM regardless of BTS?

 

[Shqype]

The big one is natural spread of multiple religions (since missionaries are out for all except Christianity).