need help changing the tech tree

[ehinkes]

I'm not a very good modder and would love if someone could point me to a way of removing certain techs from the tech tree. I'm basically trying to play the game with only ancient and medieval techs with maybe a few scattered texts from the industrial age.

If there is an easier way to just prevent the game from moving past the medieval age I could do that instead. I appreciate any help!

 

[surt]

I'm not a very good modder and would love if someone could point me to a way of removing certain techs from the tech tree. I'm basically trying to play the game with only ancient and medieval techs with maybe a few scattered texts from the industrial age.

If there is an easier way to just prevent the game from moving past the medieval age I could do that instead. I appreciate any help!

I don't know about disabling eras, but disabling techs turns out to be quite easy. You want to create a mod (which only needs to contain a couple of files):

modsdirectory\yourmodname\yourmodname.ini
modsdirectory\yourmodname\Assets\XML\Technologies\Civ4TechInfos.xml

yourmodname.ini is just a simple configuration file, it should look something like this (from my own mod called rather uncreatively 'surt'):

[CONFIG]

; This mod is only for single player games
SinglePlayerOnly = 0

; Allow public maps to be used with this mod
AllowPublicMaps = 1

; Mod Image file
ImageFile = 0

; Name of Mod
Name = Surt

; Description of Mod
Description = Generic Mod

The Civ4TechInfos.xml, you just copy from the wherever_you_installed_civ_4\Assets\XML\Technologies directory.

Then you edit it (use notepad or your favorite XML editor. Look for the technology you don't want in the game, and within the information for that technology, you'll find :

<bDisable>0</bDisable>

change that to:

<bDisable>1</bDisable>

do that change for each technology you don't want.

 

[Jeckel]

Just FYI, you don't need to make the ini file. The game will make one for you if it isn't there, so you just need the Civ4TechInfos.xml.

And if you don't feel like scanning through techinfos, check the Limited Eras link in my sig, I went through and made several mods will eras turned off.