Modmaking Checklist: Tips & Tricks

[Ozymandias]

And yet you've still not compiled all of the info, ozy... :shakehead

It's on my huge "to-do" list ...

Abraxas,

Oz

 

[kevincompton]

Is there a quick way to add arrows to the tech tree?

 

[WildWeazel]

See the first post. Kal-El made a graphics pack a while back with lots of pre-made arrows to paste on. It should be in the tutorial or utilities forums.

If anyone knows what global warming effects work, please post them. I can't find the old thread anywhere, and I don't really want to test all that.

 

[Zeekater]

Germany could have had jetfighters a lot earlier, but Hitler didn't like it
I've tried to come up with a way to similute this kind of what if thing in civ, here's the idea:

Make a tech called 'Hitlers stubborness' for example, and make it really really really expensive and require a (era none ) tech that only Germany has and possibly another tech to have it at a certain point in the techtree
The tech right after is 'jetfighters', so if you go through the trouble of researching the tech / convincing hitler you can have Me262's earlier
A bit further in the techtree, there is another tech which gives one bonus tech ( or more ), so you can get the 'hitlers stubborness' for free.

Some more fiddling with era non flags and voila

 

[LouLong]

Not sure if it has been posted or not but you cannot build units if they are dependant on a non-era tech.
2 possibilities then :

- make the units not need a tech and try to use the UU principle.
- put the tech in the former era (if possible)

 

[WildWeazel]

Zeek, have you actually tried that? Techs can only have prereqs from the same era, so the no era tech thing wouldn't work. No era techs have to be available at the beginning.

 

[Zeekater]

Zeek, have you actually tried that? Techs can only have prereqs from the same era, so the no era tech thing wouldn't work. No era techs have to be available at the beginning.

I can have a tech from another era as prerequisite for a tech
The only thing you can't is have a tech require a tech from a later era

Haven't really tested it ingame, but theoretically, it should work

 

[WildWeazel]

Prereqs have to be in the same era unless it's a no era tech. So a later tech can require a no era tech, but a no era tech can't require a tech from an era. I just tried it in te editor and it won't let me.

 

[Zeekater]

Prereqs have to be in the same era unless it's a no era tech. So a later tech can require a no era tech, but a no era tech can't require a tech from an era. I just tried it in te editor and it won't let me.

Well then, that isn't what I proposed either
The tech 'hitler' is in some era, and requires a non era tech that only the germans have
That hitler tech then gives the next normal tech, 'jetfightersI'
After a certain time in the techtree there is a tech called jetfightersII or something that signifies that hitler isn't stubborn any more, which gives one bonus tech, which you should use on 'hitler', if you don't, you're pretty dumb

The hitler thing is just an example

 

[mrtn]

In that case the Germans would be the only ones who could research jetfightersI.

 

[Zeekater]

In that case the Germans would be the only ones who could research jetfightersI.

Hm, yeah

But if you have the Me262 in your game, you can just let the other jetfighters come with a different tech