Modern-Day Enhancement Mod:

[Smellincoffee]

Smellincoffee's Modern Civilizations

File: Modern Civilizations -- Version 2

Version 1 released: November 15th, 2003
Verion 1.5 released: November 16th, 2003
Version 2 released: January 23rd, 2004


Intro:

This modification ("mod") changes the names of all ancient civilizations to their modern counterparts. If the civilization is completely extinct, then it has been renamed to another modern nation, hopefully one occupying the same landmass as the previous one. If this is not possible, then the civilization has been renamed to another, completely unrelated, modern civilization.

Example: The modern state of Mexico -- who used to be the Aztecs -- covers the Yucatan peninsula. The Maya, therefore, have no modern counterpart. To fulfill the mission of this mod, the Maya are now the great South American state of Brazil.

Purpose:

This modification's purposes are varied. For one, I spend most of the game in industrial/modern, and I prefer these modern names to the ancient ones. I hope this mod will be useful to those who are doing modern-day scenarios. Hopefully, they can just go with my city lists and such instead of having to research their own.

Version History:

Version 1:
Renamed America to United States; added cities
Renamed England to Great Britain
Renamed Aztecs to Mexico; redid city list
Renamed Persia to Iran; redid city list.
Renamed Babylon to Iraq; redid city list.
Renamed Rome to Italy; redid city list
Renamed Zulu to Zimbabwe
Renamed Ottomans to Turkey
Renamed Arabia to Saudi Arabia
Iraq's preferred is now Fascism
Mexico's preferred is Democracy
Great Britain is now burgundy (the color, not the civ!)


Version 1.5:
Fixed typo in Iraqi adjective

Version 2:
Redid Italian city list
Redid Egyptian city list
Redid Saudi city list
Redid British city list
Redid Turkish city list
Redid Mongolian city list
Renamed Zimbabwe to South Africa; redid city list
Renamed Sumeria to Austria; redid specs
Renamed Hittites to Israel; redid city specs
Renamed Inca to Peru; redid city list
Renamed Maya to Brazil; redid specs
Renamed Scandanavia to Norway; redid specs
Renamed Carthage to Australia; redid specs
Renamed Iroquios to Canada; redid specs
Renamed Celts to Ireland; redid specs
Renamed Byzantines to Romania; redid specs
Added French cities
Added German cities
Added Korean cities
Added Portugese cities
Added American cities
Added Indian cities
Added Japanese cities
Changed China to sci and agricultural, along with appropriate techs
Made Austria militaristic and industrious, along with techs


Reasoning:

The Maya occupied the Yucatan peninsula. Since Mexico also covers this, the Maya have no modern counterpart. I decided to change them to a dominant South American country, and the most dominant I could think of was Brazil. In world maps, they'll keep the Peruvians company, and keep them from dominating the entire continent.

I was going to change Carthage to one of the influential northern nations of Africa, but decided against it. Why? World maps. Australia is always empty. I'm well-aware of the fact that Australia was a British dominion, but that's not the point in this mod. Australia is important in her own right. (The country was pivotal in the Pacific War)

"Canada? CANADA?" I didn't want to rename the Iroquois into anything else because I like the balance world maps will have now. Two civs in NA, one in CA, two in SA. I like Canada. There's a great big argument about Canada in the General forum of CFC, so go look at it. Ironically, Canada's UU is still the Mounted Warrior-- so you can call them "Mounties". Heheh.

The Sumerian/Austrian replacement and the Austrian/Chinese switchup is due to game logic. I've read that the Austrians were intended to be put into the Epic game, and the Sumerians would've been the "bonus civ". This makes sense. The Chinese were great inventors, and usually found stuff way before Europe did in earlier times. (Rocketry and real paper, to name two)





Comments:

You will note that the mod is incomplete on the matter of one thing-- Korea. The modern Korea is split into two halves. I decided to keep it whole due to the fact that I rarely think in terms of "north" or "south" Korea.

I used Norway instead of Sweden and Finland because I've been reading A Doll House in English 102-- Norway was already in my mind.

Austria uses Bismark as king-- you'll need to add the king unit yourself. The files are already there, but I didn't want to add a unit and someone complain about it.

If you object to Trudeau looking like Hiwatha or Hannibal Barca leading Australia, you can use the links below to download leaderheads for those nations. The leaderheads are not mine. They should contain "readme"s telling you how to install them. If you do decide to use them, you will probably need to rename files, create folders, and know how to use winzip. If you cannot do any of those, I do not reccommend trying to install custom leaderheads.

The Australian cities are not mine; I got them from Pesoloco's website. I also got the extra cities for France, Germany, Korea, America, Portugal, and India from some other site. I'd like to thank Mobilize for the suggestions and Rhye for the world map. (I changed the starting locations, so gripe at me and not him. )

http://www.civ3files.com
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26030

Cities from National Geographic's Our World, the CIA Factbook, and Oxford's atlas.

Download contains this information (documentation) installation instructions, the random-map biq, and Rhye's world map, edited by me for the new starting locations.


Modern Civilizations -- Version 2

 

[Emperor Xerxes]

I always thought that the Ottomans should have just been Turkey in general.

But while your changes are good for the modern era Rome is not the same as Italy, the same with Aztecs and Babylon, they were differant Civs in the same area.

I like the idea of nuking the Byzantine-Russian Soviets because they annoyed my Babylonian Reich. Its all about counter factual.
But this is most useful for realistic modern era only games.

The closest thing is Iran, which has actually been called as such by most of the inhabitants even since ancient times. Persia is a Greek term that was taken from one provinve of Iran; Parsa. It would be the equivalent of naming the UK Essex because of one county called that or calling the USA Florida because it just happened to be the first state you heard of.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm well aware of the vast differences between the renamed civs. I just don't like contacting ancient nations to tell their destroyers to take a hike.

Actually, the Aztecs called themselves Mexicas- which is where the name "Mexico" comes from. That's why I renamed them.


I was going to rename Byzantium into Turkey (don't shoot, Xen) but I ran into the Ottomans. That's an odd problem right there, with both of them represented in the game, both having the same capital...

 

[syme]

Originally posted by Smellincoffee
I'm well aware of the vast differences between the renamed civs. I just don't like contacting ancient nations to tell their destroyers to take a hike.

Actually, the Aztecs called themselves Mexicas- which is where the name "Mexico" comes from. That's why I renamed them.


I was going to rename Byzantium into Turkey (don't shoot, Xen) but I ran into the Ottomans. That's an odd problem right there, with both of them represented in the game, both having the same capital...

They both named the city differently; Istanbul versus Constantinople.

 

[Androrc]

Originally posted by Smellincoffee
I was going to rename Byzantium into Turkey (don't shoot, Xen) but I ran into the Ottomans. That's an odd problem right there, with both of them represented in the game, both having the same capital...

Maybe you should just put Turkey's capital as Ankara... which is their capital nowadays.

 

[Mobilize]

Why don't you just turn to Byzantines to the Romanians, Bulgarians, etc. etc? BTW, what are the Sumerians now? Or did you do the smart thing and replace them with Austria?

 

[jshetley]

This really looks nice. Thanks a lot.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Actually, I'm in the process of replacing the Zulu with the Austrians. They're misfits in the game, really.

Thanks for the ideas and encouragment.

 

[Androrc]

I think you should change the Zulu to South Africa instead, and change others to countries like Brazil and Argentina...

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm currently working on version two, which will change a few more civs. I'm thinking of scrapping Sumer or Bablyon entirely and replacing them with the Hebrews. Which would you prefer?

Version 2 will have updated city lists (I neglected to go through some of the old ones, which have ancient cities and not enough modern ones).

 

[Lachlan]

Keep Sumer and change Babylon in Israel (leader : Ariel Sharon, as it anybody will want to kill Israël )

 

[Androrc]

Hadn't you changed babylon to iraq?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Yep, remembered that a few minutes after I posted. Now it's between Sumer and the Hittites.

 

[Androrc]

Maybe you should take the hittites out because their starting location is on turkey...

 

[Smellincoffee]

Okay, here's a list of the Civs being renamed or completely changed for version 2:

Renames:

America: United States
England: Great Britain
Rome: Italy*
Babylon: Iraq*
Persia: Iran*
Aztecs: Mexico (trait change)*
Inca: Peru*
Maya: To Be Determined
Mongols: Mongolia*
Arabia: Saudi Arabia:

*City list redone

POTENTIAL OVERALLS:
(Have not been done yet!)
Sumeria: Austria (will include the modified pediaicons.txt file)
Hittites: Israel/Hebrews
Scandanavia: To Be Determined
Celts: Scotland/Ireland (Need feedback)
Carthage: Thinking South Africa, due purely to Hannibal's color.
Iroquois:
Byzantium: TBD

Other:
Egypt now has a modern city list. (Cairo, Egypt's current capital, was dead last on the former Egypt's city list.)
America has some more southern cities in there.
China: Probably going to change to Sci/Agri, due to the Austrian replacement of Sumeria.
Mexico is now Religious and Agricultural.
Celts will go back to Militaristic to take compensate for this.



Feedback requested.
(Currently working on Peruvian city list.)

 

[Mobilize]

Scandinavia - Denmark
Celts - Ireland
Carthage - Morocco
Iroquois - Canada
Byzantines - Romania/Bulgaria/Wallachia/Serbia/Bosnia/Yugoslavia

There you go. As for the Israelites.. I don't see why everyone thinks their so important.. I don't find them interesting, unique, or historically important at all. They suck up to all the Imperialistic powers who stole that land and gave it to them because they felt sorry.

Argh.. evil Americans. -Cherokee war paint time-

 

[Smellincoffee]

Mobilize: Havn't missed a day of Sunday School in eighteen years save three weeks when I was in the hospital. I've always been partial toward the Israelites due to my faith.

 

[kettyo]

Renamed America to United States, added a few cities.

Yankees might be even better.

Renamed England to Great Britain

British might be better.
I think the people lived there in the far past called themselves british. Great Britain is name of an empire which i don't know but suppose hurt scottish and welsh somewhat for instance.

Renamed Aztecs to Mexico, redid city list

Mexico ony exists after spanish colonization.
And because there's also Spain in the game i don't know whether it's a good idea.

Renamed Bablyon to Iraq, redid city list

Iraq was the name of the british colonial territory there and the independent state afterwards choose to hold that name for the state.
A state which such a name never existed before british colonization.

Renamed Persia to Iran, redid city list.

Absolutely agree.
They called their state Iran in the very far past yet.

Renamed Rome to Italy.

It's matter of taste.
I think italians might be a bit better than Italy because unified Italy only exists since the 19th century.

Renamed Ottomans to Turkey

Good idea.
Ottoman is a dynasty which doesn't fit to the other civ names.


Good work and for the idea !
I will think about civ names myself too.

 

[Androrc]

Originally posted by kettyo
Renamed Aztecs to Mexico, redid city list

Mexico ony exists after spanish colonization.
And because there's also Spain in the game i don't know whether it's a good idea.

Actually Mexico existed before the spanish colonization. The aztecs called themselves 'mexicas'. The spanish just kept the name.

Also, if you think that way, then united states shouldn't be in - seeing as how it only exists after english colonization, yet mexico and usa are nations that are very different from their former colonizers.

 

[kettyo]

Originally posted by Androrc

Actually Mexico existed before the spanish colonization. The aztecs called themselves 'mexicas'. The spanish just kept the name.Also, if you think that way, then united states shouldn't be in - seeing as how it only exists after english colonization, yet mexico and usa are nations that are very different from their former colonizers.

OK.
It must be my undereducation.
Have to read more history.