Min City Distance?

[Cruor]

Hi, I HATE packed in cities. I want them to have room to grow. It also stops the AI from sneaking a crap city into that little corner of tiles you don't want. I modded min city distance in pretty much every Civ that has come out. In Civ 4 it was an easy fix, just change the 2 to a 3. Same thing in Civ 5 and 6, except from 3 to 4. If memory serves, it was GlobalDefines.xml maybe? Anyway, I can't seem to find how to fix it in Civ 7. I already fixed the lame comabt bonus the AI gets, I changed all those to 0. I can deal with the AI getting resource bonuses but freaking 5 and 8 combat bonus for the same unit is strait up cheating, not a bonus. Hell with that, I fixed that. Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Base\modules\base-standard\data Anyway, I can not find where city spacing is. Any help?

 

[Acken]

Late answer, see here

Post in thread 'Modding discoveries'

Feb 13, 2025

While I was looking for the Golden age thresholds I was finding it weird that it was only an update statement in Exploration and Antiquity.
It was updating the GlobalParameters table which contains quite a lot of values not present in XML files (or anywhere in the civ7 files) as far as I can tell with a text search (around 10 updates in the data folder through XML).
But this table has 415 entries from the log dump. A few of them appear to be related to civ6 though. Note: this was also found out a few days ago by @thecrazyscot here...

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[Piglet The Brave]

I have just posted a mod for this in the Released Mods forum.

 

[Enio]

CIVILIZATION 7 MIN CITY RANGE
I just found how to modify the min city range, I don't like cities or towns to close. so here it is
if some one want to do a mod that will be great.
I found out with a debugger I got from civ fanatic web, so just paste this :
<Replace Name="CITY_MIN_RANGE" Value="5" /> in SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Base\modules\age-modern\data\gameplay-systems.xml. Just look for <GlobalParameters> at the bottom and paste the line below. BUT DONT FORGET FIRST TO BACK UP DATA. You can do same thing for all the ages folders. I spent 3 days looking everywhere for it and couldn't fine any mode or idea, so I figured out with a debugger.

 

[Enio]

Hi, I HATE packed in cities. I want them to have room to grow. It also stops the AI from sneaking a crap city into that little corner of tiles you don't want. I modded min city distance in pretty much every Civ that has come out. In Civ 4 it was an easy fix, just change the 2 to a 3. Same thing in Civ 5 and 6, except from 3 to 4. If memory serves, it was GlobalDefines.xml maybe? Anyway, I can't seem to find how to fix it in Civ 7. I already fixed the lame comabt bonus the AI gets, I changed all those to 0. I can deal with the AI getting resource bonuses but freaking 5 and 8 combat bonus for the same unit is strait up cheating, not a bonus. Hell with that, I fixed that. Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Base\modules\base-standard\data Anyway, I can not find where city spacing is. Any help?

I uploaded a mini mod to fix that