Houman
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After another two months of development we proudly present:
A new Warlord version for this mod will be released about mid Dec 2006
Meanwhile we are beta testing our Beta 4 version and would make it public, more than you would ever have expected from a mod.
Please discuss your ideas about this mod in this forum:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202
Veni Vedi Vici
One of the greatest Mods ever has finally been released. Including more than 50 new units, new Mod Components, new ideas developed from scratch, rewritten and extended most of other known mod Components according to the suggestions of our fans and our analysis of a more balanced game play.
This Mod takes Civ4 a step further. Our philosophy for this mod is easy and straight forward: We empathize on three stages:
1) Game Balance, Unit Balance, tactical balance between all available Civs
2) Realism: Archers shall not destroy Tanks. More realistic warfare and strategically depth by using the advantages of your units to counter the enemy.
3) Fun: This is why we are here, right?
We have extensively modified the Game play according to realistic Warfare, Politics, AI decisions, Trade, exclusive religion mod, realistic raze city, unit-counter-strategies and much more.
DOWNLOAD NOW
* Old save games won't be compatible with this release. Please start a new game.
---------------------------------------------------------
Release 2.1 - 28.08.2006
I would like to thank the team to all the efforts. Especcially I would like to thank Mexico. Without his efforts despite having all these recent problems in the family. He has always been there; worked hard and did an excellent job.
Major fixes:
- mostly awaited: performance updated (stack aid and other unit-on-plot-based improvements now use new hooks from SDK, which aliminate calculationg on non-used plots (now only revious plot and new plot are updated))
- solved bug that ICBM cannot be build
- ninja (assassin) is now working
- jail and courthouse reduce success of assassin by 5%
- all melee/archer/gunt type unit also reduce chance by 2%
- most code updated for Multiplayer compatibility, MP is avaliable (still can't be guaranted for full functionality)
- armored car can not transport Tanks anymore but only transport foot units (riflemans, grenadier, infantry, marines)
- Redcoat and Minuteman are now replacing the Rifleman instead of Infantry
- Musketman now upgrades to Rifleman instead of Infantry
- If a religion is neglated and its holy city spawns away so does the shrine gets destroyed.
- New model for Huntsman is there. Huntsman is back, which replaces the Northern European Archers!!!!
- Barbarians get the Wild Versions for Spearman, Swordsman and Axeman from now + the Huntsman for Archer by default
- Added Arabian Longbowman UU
- Added Arabian Spearman
- Added Arabian Pikeman
- Added Arabian Swordsman
- Added African Archer
- Fix of normal Flags according to the little patch in post #920 in the forum
- fixed African (Nubian) Archer
- Added Canoe Button
- Added Egyptian Longbowman
- Added Egyptian Scout
- Added Egyptian Settlers
- Added Egyptian Warrior
- Added Hindu Scout
- Added Hindu Settlers
- Added Hindu warrior
- Added New Native Archer (Only for map (already replaced), since he looks like Indians from North America and doesn't fit the Aztecs and Incans). Old Native Archer still existing
- Swapped normal workers and Egyptian workers, to give the one that looks more Egyptian to the Egyptians. ;o)
- Added Black Knight UU for French (Normandy)
Added new unique Great Generals model for
- Russia
- Persia
- Spain
- England
- German
- Adding new Picture for the Zoroastrian Shrine once built. (Removed the Confucian Picture)
- Added Roman WW2 Tank 'Fiat L6/40'
- Added Chinook Transport Helicopter transports 6 foot soldier, green camouflaged Jungle/Forest bonus
- Added Chinook Transport Helicopter transports 2 Tank/Artillery, Desert camouflaged , desert bonus
- Added KA50 Gunship (comes with Satellites) excellent combat rates
- Added mi24 Gunship/Transporter, good attack rates and can carry 2 foot soldier
- Added mi26 the biggest transport helicopter in production, can carry 8 soldiers and is even faster. UU (replaces Infantry Chinook) for Russia, India, Greece, Aztec (Mexico), Inca (Peru)
- Added Black Knight Button
- Replacing old Churchil tank model by a new one.
- Conquistators are a bit nerfed due the possibility of defense bonus on a tile. No more Immune to First Strike, Collateral Damage reduced, Cost increased from 90 to 100.
- Roman Cataphtracts now upgrade to Knights
- added Tercio (Spanish UU for Musketman)
- All Musketmen get a -35% vs Archers (due inaccuracy of early Muskets - refer to the Book of five Rings) (Only Logbowmen can have a chance against them)
Airplanes re-balanced:
- Fighters (WW2) get 100% vs Zeppelin
- JetFighters (modern) get 150% vs WW1 Biplanes and 200% vs Zeppelins
- Jet Bomber (modern) get 100% vs WW1 Biplanes, 100% vs WW1 Zeppelin and 50% vs Armored units (-50% on Air in general)
- Stealth Bomber get 250% vs WW1 Biplanes, 250% vs Zeppelin and 150% vs WW2 Fighters and 50% vs Armored units (-50% on Sea in general)
- Promotions re-adjusted.
- TotalRealismWorldmap; old units replaced with new ones.
- Longbowman get not only bonus vs normal Archers not anymore in general aginst all Archery units (like themselves)
- English Longbow man gets +10% bonus vs Knights and some bonus vs Maceman, which neglates Maceman bonus vs normal Longbowman.
- Musketmen have now 15% when attacking Knights and 30% when defending against Knights. They also have -35% vs Archers
- American Settler modified
- Native Settler fixed
- Map completely replaced with new units, city in Australia removed
New components:
- updated SDK (as mentioned before) for unitSetXY event - now also return old position for unit
- implemented Flying Mod from RogerBacon (now helicopters can fly over ocean)
- implemented Dale's combat factory components:
- missile mod (new unit - Tomahawk missile, can be transported on nuclear submarines)
- MAD nuke mod (pre-targeted nukes)
- ranged bombardment (heavy updated):
- new damage calculation for ranged attack (too complex for short description)
- all siege unit is defend-only, so they can attack only via bombardment
- new promotions for siege unit (ignore terrain, ignore range, ...)
- new defense tags for terrain/buildings/improvements
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patch 2.0.2 - released
- patch include all changes prior to 2.0.1
- saved games from version 2.0.1 is compatible with 2.0.2 version
- Updated worldmap
- XML strategy bugs resolved
- Fixed more XML indent problems
- Solved bug, when holy city for non-state religions was appeared and then disappeared in next turn
- When holy city disappear, then also the shrine for this religion is geting destroyed
- Introducing a new World map with 3 existing cities for each civ ( StartYear= 3250 BC, everyone starts with FISHING, WHEEL and AGRICULTURE)
- Demolution troops can now raze a city
- Crusaders need from now a Temple instead of Cathedral to get built
---------------------------------------------------------
Info about the coming Patch 2.0.1 - released
Emergency Fix:
- Thanks to the excellent work of the team, all the unneccessary hooks in the DLL have been removed which leads to 50-75% Game performance on the Total Realism World Map.
Major fixes:
Minor fixes:
---------------------------------------------------------
What happened since Realism 1.09
Some of the major new features:
Land Transporters
We forgot to mention this. We got a WW2 land transporter to transport 3 infantry units to the front lines. There is a better Humvee for the Modern age that has better defense, more moves and more cargo. Try to find behind the enemy lines, do a Blitzkrieg or just send produced units faster to the front lines...Also the Whippet WW1 Tanks now have a horde promotion. Have 5 of them in one stack fighting together....
Military Generals
You are waiting for the Expansion to be able having real general sin the battle field? Why are you waiting? Here they are. Take care of your units with higher promotion, the higher their promotion is you have highter chances to obtain an additional real general that can fight on the battle field and give the units in the stack combat promotion. This gereral can also rush wonders.
We have at this time two different generals. The one that is being generated in the cities as great person, who can build academies etc. and this battle field general. Both will be merged in one unit in the next release.
Different approach to Assassins:
- No more negative population (minimum after attack is half of previous (or 1))
- No more negative culture (minimum is half of previous) - need more complex algorithm based on culture level etc...)
- reduced occupation timer (was too high for experienced assassins)
- Halved success and survival chance when targeted civ has "Police state" civic
Different Time line:
You won't see the years but a general era. e.g. Ancient Era etc. The problem with WHEN something is founded is no longer one.
Slavery civic good or bad?
If you accept Slavery during warfare you might capture the enemy units and turn them into your slaves. Slaves work for you as workers or can be sacrified to rush a production. However be aware, that having the slavery civic could come to uprisings in your empire, where you would never expect it...Spartacus is calling
Mercenaries at your service
It is now possible to hire mercenaries in times of desperation. Press Alt-M and get to their Menu and be aware the more experienced a mercenary gets the more expensive he will be.
Religion Mod:
So far not published anywhere else is our Religion Mod that makes Religions more realistic.
Since Judaism, one of the oldest religions, was a tribal religion (PC we call it in this mod dominant religion) it acts a bit differently in this mod.
Once a player founded Judaism and converts to Judaism, he becomes the protector of this faith. Judaism can ONLY spread inside the own countries borders. And it doesn’t allow any other religion being spread in the Jewish cities. Only exception is the Jewish holy city which can have, like Jerusalem, other religions. The AI knows how it works and won’t waste one missionary outside the border. Since this puts the player into a tougher situation and probably more pressure from outside, Jewish temples provide +15% more trade routes.
The other improvement is that holy cities in general can disappear if the Player doesn’t convert into that religion. Let say you found Zoroastrianism and you get the holy city. If you don’t convert your state religion to that religion, you would loose the holy city in 10 turns. After 15 turns the holy city might appear again in a random city that A) has that religion and B) has the biggest population among those cities. Independent from civilization the holy city might even spawn in your neighbors borders who do more appreciate that religion. The respawn of a holy city also happens if the holy city had been razed. There is only one exception to the dominant religions like Judaism. Their holy city is the only holy city they like to have. The civic free religions plays also a big part. It tolerates other holy cities and acts as it had the state religion of all those religions.
This mod makes it harder to collect all religions and holy cities for yourself. Diversity and distribution of the religions among all civs will be the result.
Raze a city shorter than razing a cottage?
Not anymore. From now if you or AI try to raze a city it happens like in real. The Population and buildings get decimated each turn until the city is no more. Only small cities of 3 get instantly destroyed. This way you get some time sending troops to rescue your fallen cities.
I would like to thank the whole team for their time, effort and all the hunger and hygiene problems we went through despite – some of us - being even married.
I would like also to thank all of these modders, who have helped indirectly with their unit or mod component:
Never mind, Rabbit White, Snafusmith, C.Roland, Ploeperpengel, Notarzt, Chalid, sharick, AlazkanAssassin, RogerBacon, Cafegio, ComG, baal_isidro, seZereth, Hunter, LittleRedPoint, heroes182, Expositus, Von Zeppelin, Robo Magic Man, nautil, Lucky4life, Mumin, krowtrobot, Zuul, Aranor, Hell's Angel, villo, Tremo, TheLopez, Snaitf, 12monkeys, Frontbrecher, Bhruic, SupremeOverlord, Stone-D, Thalassicus, Optimizer, Master Lexx, Mylon, Patricius, naf4ever, abbamouse, Sevo, Willowmound and TheFourGuardian, Niust, Arne
Total Realism 2.0 Team:
Houman “Houmie” – Team Leader, XML developer and responsible for Soundtrack
Christian “Israfil” – Project Website Admin and responsible for release and distribution
Joe “Nightravn” – Map Editor and Graphics Artist and responsible for timeline balance
Peter “Mexico” – Python Developer and responsible for installation scripts
Paul “Phatlip” – SDK Developer and responsible to stay up and work 24/7 on the mod
“12Monkey” as Freelacer – External SDK and Python solutions
DOWNLOAD NOW
* Old save games won't be compatible with this release. Please start a new game.
Please discuss your ideas about this mod in this forum:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202
Have you found a bug? Then please email it to our new Email Savegame attachements are VERY welcome and helpful!
bugs.totalrealism@gmail.com
A new Warlord version for this mod will be released about mid Dec 2006
Meanwhile we are beta testing our Beta 4 version and would make it public, more than you would ever have expected from a mod.
Please discuss your ideas about this mod in this forum:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202
Veni Vedi Vici
(I came, I saw, I conquered)
Gaius Julius Caesar - October 2, 48 BC
One of the greatest Mods ever has finally been released. Including more than 50 new units, new Mod Components, new ideas developed from scratch, rewritten and extended most of other known mod Components according to the suggestions of our fans and our analysis of a more balanced game play.
This Mod takes Civ4 a step further. Our philosophy for this mod is easy and straight forward: We empathize on three stages:
1) Game Balance, Unit Balance, tactical balance between all available Civs
2) Realism: Archers shall not destroy Tanks. More realistic warfare and strategically depth by using the advantages of your units to counter the enemy.
3) Fun: This is why we are here, right?
We have extensively modified the Game play according to realistic Warfare, Politics, AI decisions, Trade, exclusive religion mod, realistic raze city, unit-counter-strategies and much more.
DOWNLOAD NOW
* Old save games won't be compatible with this release. Please start a new game.
---------------------------------------------------------
Release 2.1 - 28.08.2006
I would like to thank the team to all the efforts. Especcially I would like to thank Mexico. Without his efforts despite having all these recent problems in the family. He has always been there; worked hard and did an excellent job.
Major fixes:
- mostly awaited: performance updated (stack aid and other unit-on-plot-based improvements now use new hooks from SDK, which aliminate calculationg on non-used plots (now only revious plot and new plot are updated))
- solved bug that ICBM cannot be build
- ninja (assassin) is now working
- jail and courthouse reduce success of assassin by 5%
- all melee/archer/gunt type unit also reduce chance by 2%
- most code updated for Multiplayer compatibility, MP is avaliable (still can't be guaranted for full functionality)
- armored car can not transport Tanks anymore but only transport foot units (riflemans, grenadier, infantry, marines)
- Redcoat and Minuteman are now replacing the Rifleman instead of Infantry
- Musketman now upgrades to Rifleman instead of Infantry
- If a religion is neglated and its holy city spawns away so does the shrine gets destroyed.
- New model for Huntsman is there. Huntsman is back, which replaces the Northern European Archers!!!!
- Barbarians get the Wild Versions for Spearman, Swordsman and Axeman from now + the Huntsman for Archer by default
- Added Arabian Longbowman UU
- Added Arabian Spearman
- Added Arabian Pikeman
- Added Arabian Swordsman
- Added African Archer
- Fix of normal Flags according to the little patch in post #920 in the forum
- fixed African (Nubian) Archer
- Added Canoe Button
- Added Egyptian Longbowman
- Added Egyptian Scout
- Added Egyptian Settlers
- Added Egyptian Warrior
- Added Hindu Scout
- Added Hindu Settlers
- Added Hindu warrior
- Added New Native Archer (Only for map (already replaced), since he looks like Indians from North America and doesn't fit the Aztecs and Incans). Old Native Archer still existing
- Swapped normal workers and Egyptian workers, to give the one that looks more Egyptian to the Egyptians. ;o)
- Added Black Knight UU for French (Normandy)
Added new unique Great Generals model for
- Russia
- Persia
- Spain
- England
- German
- Adding new Picture for the Zoroastrian Shrine once built. (Removed the Confucian Picture)
- Added Roman WW2 Tank 'Fiat L6/40'
- Added Chinook Transport Helicopter transports 6 foot soldier, green camouflaged Jungle/Forest bonus
- Added Chinook Transport Helicopter transports 2 Tank/Artillery, Desert camouflaged , desert bonus
- Added KA50 Gunship (comes with Satellites) excellent combat rates
- Added mi24 Gunship/Transporter, good attack rates and can carry 2 foot soldier
- Added mi26 the biggest transport helicopter in production, can carry 8 soldiers and is even faster. UU (replaces Infantry Chinook) for Russia, India, Greece, Aztec (Mexico), Inca (Peru)
- Added Black Knight Button
- Replacing old Churchil tank model by a new one.
- Conquistators are a bit nerfed due the possibility of defense bonus on a tile. No more Immune to First Strike, Collateral Damage reduced, Cost increased from 90 to 100.
- Roman Cataphtracts now upgrade to Knights
- added Tercio (Spanish UU for Musketman)
- All Musketmen get a -35% vs Archers (due inaccuracy of early Muskets - refer to the Book of five Rings) (Only Logbowmen can have a chance against them)
Airplanes re-balanced:
- Fighters (WW2) get 100% vs Zeppelin
- JetFighters (modern) get 150% vs WW1 Biplanes and 200% vs Zeppelins
- Jet Bomber (modern) get 100% vs WW1 Biplanes, 100% vs WW1 Zeppelin and 50% vs Armored units (-50% on Air in general)
- Stealth Bomber get 250% vs WW1 Biplanes, 250% vs Zeppelin and 150% vs WW2 Fighters and 50% vs Armored units (-50% on Sea in general)
- Promotions re-adjusted.
- TotalRealismWorldmap; old units replaced with new ones.
- Longbowman get not only bonus vs normal Archers not anymore in general aginst all Archery units (like themselves)
- English Longbow man gets +10% bonus vs Knights and some bonus vs Maceman, which neglates Maceman bonus vs normal Longbowman.
- Musketmen have now 15% when attacking Knights and 30% when defending against Knights. They also have -35% vs Archers
- American Settler modified
- Native Settler fixed
- Map completely replaced with new units, city in Australia removed
New components:
- updated SDK (as mentioned before) for unitSetXY event - now also return old position for unit
- implemented Flying Mod from RogerBacon (now helicopters can fly over ocean)
- implemented Dale's combat factory components:
- missile mod (new unit - Tomahawk missile, can be transported on nuclear submarines)
- MAD nuke mod (pre-targeted nukes)
- ranged bombardment (heavy updated):
- new damage calculation for ranged attack (too complex for short description)
- all siege unit is defend-only, so they can attack only via bombardment
- new promotions for siege unit (ignore terrain, ignore range, ...)
- new defense tags for terrain/buildings/improvements
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patch 2.0.2 - released
- patch include all changes prior to 2.0.1
- saved games from version 2.0.1 is compatible with 2.0.2 version
- Updated worldmap
- XML strategy bugs resolved
- Fixed more XML indent problems
- Solved bug, when holy city for non-state religions was appeared and then disappeared in next turn
- When holy city disappear, then also the shrine for this religion is geting destroyed
- Introducing a new World map with 3 existing cities for each civ ( StartYear= 3250 BC, everyone starts with FISHING, WHEEL and AGRICULTURE)
- Demolution troops can now raze a city
- Crusaders need from now a Temple instead of Cathedral to get built
---------------------------------------------------------
Info about the coming Patch 2.0.1 - released
Emergency Fix:
- Thanks to the excellent work of the team, all the unneccessary hooks in the DLL have been removed which leads to 50-75% Game performance on the Total Realism World Map.
Major fixes:
Spoiler :
Minor fixes:
Spoiler :
---------------------------------------------------------
What happened since Realism 1.09
Spoiler :
Some of the major new features:
Land Transporters
We forgot to mention this. We got a WW2 land transporter to transport 3 infantry units to the front lines. There is a better Humvee for the Modern age that has better defense, more moves and more cargo. Try to find behind the enemy lines, do a Blitzkrieg or just send produced units faster to the front lines...Also the Whippet WW1 Tanks now have a horde promotion. Have 5 of them in one stack fighting together....
Military Generals
You are waiting for the Expansion to be able having real general sin the battle field? Why are you waiting? Here they are. Take care of your units with higher promotion, the higher their promotion is you have highter chances to obtain an additional real general that can fight on the battle field and give the units in the stack combat promotion. This gereral can also rush wonders.
We have at this time two different generals. The one that is being generated in the cities as great person, who can build academies etc. and this battle field general. Both will be merged in one unit in the next release.
Different approach to Assassins:
- No more negative population (minimum after attack is half of previous (or 1))
- No more negative culture (minimum is half of previous) - need more complex algorithm based on culture level etc...)
- reduced occupation timer (was too high for experienced assassins)
- Halved success and survival chance when targeted civ has "Police state" civic
Different Time line:
You won't see the years but a general era. e.g. Ancient Era etc. The problem with WHEN something is founded is no longer one.
Slavery civic good or bad?
If you accept Slavery during warfare you might capture the enemy units and turn them into your slaves. Slaves work for you as workers or can be sacrified to rush a production. However be aware, that having the slavery civic could come to uprisings in your empire, where you would never expect it...Spartacus is calling
Mercenaries at your service
It is now possible to hire mercenaries in times of desperation. Press Alt-M and get to their Menu and be aware the more experienced a mercenary gets the more expensive he will be.
Religion Mod:
So far not published anywhere else is our Religion Mod that makes Religions more realistic.
Since Judaism, one of the oldest religions, was a tribal religion (PC we call it in this mod dominant religion) it acts a bit differently in this mod.
Once a player founded Judaism and converts to Judaism, he becomes the protector of this faith. Judaism can ONLY spread inside the own countries borders. And it doesn’t allow any other religion being spread in the Jewish cities. Only exception is the Jewish holy city which can have, like Jerusalem, other religions. The AI knows how it works and won’t waste one missionary outside the border. Since this puts the player into a tougher situation and probably more pressure from outside, Jewish temples provide +15% more trade routes.
The other improvement is that holy cities in general can disappear if the Player doesn’t convert into that religion. Let say you found Zoroastrianism and you get the holy city. If you don’t convert your state religion to that religion, you would loose the holy city in 10 turns. After 15 turns the holy city might appear again in a random city that A) has that religion and B) has the biggest population among those cities. Independent from civilization the holy city might even spawn in your neighbors borders who do more appreciate that religion. The respawn of a holy city also happens if the holy city had been razed. There is only one exception to the dominant religions like Judaism. Their holy city is the only holy city they like to have. The civic free religions plays also a big part. It tolerates other holy cities and acts as it had the state religion of all those religions.
This mod makes it harder to collect all religions and holy cities for yourself. Diversity and distribution of the religions among all civs will be the result.
Raze a city shorter than razing a cottage?
Not anymore. From now if you or AI try to raze a city it happens like in real. The Population and buildings get decimated each turn until the city is no more. Only small cities of 3 get instantly destroyed. This way you get some time sending troops to rescue your fallen cities.
I would like to thank the whole team for their time, effort and all the hunger and hygiene problems we went through despite – some of us - being even married.
I would like also to thank all of these modders, who have helped indirectly with their unit or mod component:
Never mind, Rabbit White, Snafusmith, C.Roland, Ploeperpengel, Notarzt, Chalid, sharick, AlazkanAssassin, RogerBacon, Cafegio, ComG, baal_isidro, seZereth, Hunter, LittleRedPoint, heroes182, Expositus, Von Zeppelin, Robo Magic Man, nautil, Lucky4life, Mumin, krowtrobot, Zuul, Aranor, Hell's Angel, villo, Tremo, TheLopez, Snaitf, 12monkeys, Frontbrecher, Bhruic, SupremeOverlord, Stone-D, Thalassicus, Optimizer, Master Lexx, Mylon, Patricius, naf4ever, abbamouse, Sevo, Willowmound and TheFourGuardian, Niust, Arne
Total Realism 2.0 Team:
Houman “Houmie” – Team Leader, XML developer and responsible for Soundtrack
Christian “Israfil” – Project Website Admin and responsible for release and distribution
Joe “Nightravn” – Map Editor and Graphics Artist and responsible for timeline balance
Peter “Mexico” – Python Developer and responsible for installation scripts
Paul “Phatlip” – SDK Developer and responsible to stay up and work 24/7 on the mod
“12Monkey” as Freelacer – External SDK and Python solutions
DOWNLOAD NOW
* Old save games won't be compatible with this release. Please start a new game.
Please discuss your ideas about this mod in this forum:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202
Have you found a bug? Then please email it to our new Email Savegame attachements are VERY welcome and helpful!
bugs.totalrealism@gmail.com
