[ModMerge] Religon and Revolution with 2 Plots City Radius

[Commander Bello]

As Religion and Revolution has adopted the 2 Plots City Radius since long, this modmerge is outdated (RaR 1.3 isn't even available anymore, but has been constantly updated to current version 2.0).
In case you are interested in the "no entering peaks" feature, please load my modmod (see my signature).

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Since it has been asked for (here) and I had it available:

This is a merge of "Religion and Revolution (RaR)" (v. 1.3 - download link can be found here) and "2 Plots City Radius".

Please be informed that this is just a merge.
No corrections, balancing changes or any other adaptions have been made.
It is purely meant to give you the chance to play the standard RaR with bigger cities.

Nevertheless, any findings and bug reports of course are welcome, but don't rely on me to have them fixed, as I am just a beginner in coding. You will play at your own risk.

Update
19th of January, 2013: due to the alternative version (see below) available now, please make sure that in case of problems, you state the date of the version being in use.
End of update

Procedure:

• Make a copy of your RaR folder in the "Mods" directory.
• Have it called "Religion_and_Revolution1.3_2PCR" (or any other name, but then you would have to insert the files manually).
• Just start the game and load this new mod (yet unchanged from RaR) to make sure that your new copy of RaR is running correctly.
• Close the game.
• Extract the 7z-file attached to this posting to any place you like (for instance, to Desktop)
• Once again, make sure you have named your copy correctly.
• Copy the extracted folder structure to your Mods folder.
• If asked to incorporate existing folders and/or to overwrite existing files, always say "Yes".
• Start the game again
• Select "Religion_and_Revolution1.3_2PCR" again as mod to be played
• Your first settlement should show up similar to the first screenshot below
• After having gained more than 20 bells, it should look similar to the second screenshot below
• That's all. Happy playing.

Screenshots:

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Credits:
Credits go solely to the RaR-Team for creating their mod and to Nevermind for creating the "2 plots city radius"-mod. None of them can be held responsible for any issues related to problems arising from the combination of both mods.
Except for merging, I haven't done anything.

Version history
Version for Religion and Revolution 1.2(c) has been downloaded 43 times

Alternative version (forbids entering of mountains [peaks]) can be found here.

 

[Androrc the Orc]

Cool!

 

[Commander Bello]

Thanks.

 

[Willi_Tell]

Interesting merge, thank you!

 

[Commander Bello]

You're welcome.

 

[Lady Lydia]

On the moment im trying something new.

I am playing with the Mixtec (natives) and am just trying to figuer out how i can get professional professions i can make all buildings but lack the skill of teaching them or train them.
And i cant buy some materials needed (horses) i have to figuer that out aswell.

I am glad to hear that a other victory option is in development.

And thanks on the tip for the bigger radius.

 

[Commander Bello]

On the moment im trying something new.

I am playing with the Mixtec (natives) and am just trying to figuer out how i can get professional professions i can make all buildings but lack the skill of teaching them or train them.
And i cant buy some materials needed (horses) i have to figuer that out aswell.

I am glad to hear that a other victory option is in development.

And thanks on the tip for the bigger radius.

Sorry, I don't have any experience with playing natives - I even didn't know that this is possible.
On a general level, natives shouldn't have any chance to get professional units.
Horses they can get only by assaulting European colonies or by trading.

Regarding the bigger city radius: you're welcome.

 

[JosEPh_II]

Do Native settlements also receive the expanded city radius?

JosEPh

 

[Commander Bello]

Do Native settlements also receive the expanded city radius?

JosEPh

In my test game (currently ~turn 75) they don't, as they don't produce culture.
But I did notice that they are asking for money if settled near their villages, although the cultural radius of the new (European) city doesn't collide with the radius of their settlement.

So, the feature of 2 plots per city for sure requires some work in the future, something which I have to admit not to be currently able to do.

As I've said in the opening posting: you will be playing at your own risk. Technically, the features seems to work but balancing and interaction with other features has not yet been tested and not been adjusted.

 

[JosEPh_II]

Thanks.

Always wondered what good the Colonies expanding culture radius actually did for that colony as you could never work those tiles without cramming in another settlement.

JosEPh

 

[Commander Bello]

That's about pros and cons, I guess.

You gain the ability to access more tiles but you have to pay for it....

 

[Lady Lydia]

On a general level, natives shouldn't have any chance to get professional units.
Horses they can get only by assaulting European colonies or by trading.

It is possible to get horses without trade or conquer with natives.
And Natives can get proffesions even in time, it can also be learned if you build a school if you have 1 native with the proffesion.
Only proffesional soldiers i cant get (yet) .
Now its looking for graphics for the buildings and proffesional jobs and ships that are not so European.
Then i have to figuer out how to code them.

 

[orlanth]

On the moment im trying something new.

I am playing with the Mixtec (natives) and am just trying to figuer out how i can get professional professions i can make all buildings but lack the skill of teaching them or train them.
And i cant buy some materials needed (horses) i have to figuer that out aswell.
It is possible to get horses without trade or conquer with natives.
And Natives can get proffesions even in time, it can also be learned if you build a school if you have 1 native with the proffesion.
Only proffesional soldiers i cant get (yet) .
Now its looking for graphics for the buildings and proffesional jobs and ships that are not so European.
Then i have to figuer out how to code them.

Hi Lady Lydia, I'm glad to hear you're working on playable natives I'm interested in that too, and I did enable playable natives for the Colonization 2071 mod.

Basically, in Civ4Civilizationinfos.xml I created a "King" parent civ for each native civ, like the regular colonial civs have; this allows them to have access to the Europe screen and goods prices for trade. I gave native civs a Trait with a big disadvantage in producing Crosses, but still made it possible for them to attract a few immigrants if they work hard at it. Then I gave them access to many of the units and buildings and professions of standard civs , also with some unique buildings and units especially for them. If you want, you could do a similar thing with the regular colonization natives. I have some nif graphic files of primitive buildings that may be good for natives if you'd like to have them. Here is a thread about making playable natives mods in Colonization:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=447895

 

[Robert Surcouf]

Since it has been asked for (here) and I had it available:

This is a merge of "Religion and Revolution (RaR)" (v. 1.2 latest available version) and "2 Plots City Radius".

Please be informed that this is just a merge.
No corrections, balancing changes or any other adaptions have been made.
It is purely meant to give you the chance to play the standard RaR with bigger cities.

Hi Commander Bello! I'm impressed.
Do you intend to do the same with version 1.3 and following?
When I have some spare time, I might check your source codes? What tags do I have to look for?

 

[Commander Bello]

Hi Commander Bello! I'm impressed.
Do you intend to do the same with version 1.3 and following?
When I have some spare time, I might check your source codes? What tags do I have to look for?

Hi Robert!
Thanks for the kind words, but I don't deserve them. For sure, it isn't my source code.

All what I did was merging the two mods, nothing else.
And yes, I might do it for 1.3 too, if people are interested.
The keywords to look for would be "//nm" and the changes are very simple That's, why I succeeded.

What I would be interested in, would be to adjust the city screen a bit to cover the whole extended radius so that the more remote units aren't placed almost outside anymore. But since I lack any knowledge about Python...

 

[Pallando]

Commander Bello, thanks for the work in merging RaR 1.2 and 2PCR. It is awesome playing it.

I look foward to the merging of 1.3 with this.

Great work.

 

[Commander Bello]

You're welcome.

And I agree, I have fun in playing with this little addition, too.

 

[Pallando]

Yes, it does really add a new dimension in the game. It does makes the game more fun for me to play, because I tend not to make that many cities (from 5 to 7) and that really makes each city much more self reliant and have access to lots of resources.

I have a city with cattle, grapes, silver, with lots of fisherman.

Can I ask you what software do you use to compile in c?

Are there other mod mods out there that you are contemplating adding or something that interests you?

 

[Commander Bello]

Yes, it does really add a new dimension in the game. It does makes the game more fun for me to play, because I tend not to make that many cities (from 5 to 7) and that really makes each city much more self reliant and have access to lots of resources.

I have a city with cattle, grapes, silver, with lots of fisherman.

Can I ask you what software do you use to compile in c?

Are there other mod mods out there that you are contemplating adding or something that interests you?

Oh, compiling has been an almost endless story for me.

I am using VS2008 right now with the 2003 SDK. I might release a description of how to set it up in the next days, but this needs some preparation first.

And the next thing I would like to integrate is KJ Jansson's "Codex" (here), which - and I feel honoured by that - was based on an idea I once discussed in the German CivForum.

 

[Pallando]

I am using VS2008 right now with the 2003 SDK. I might release a description of how to set it up in the next days, but this needs some preparation first.

Where do you get that software?