Need some help

[Tilarium]

One thing I really hate is when a unit becomes upsolet and you can't upgrade it. This leaves you the option of having alot of junk units or disbanding them.

Now, the only two units right now that are like this are the ancient cavalry and the crusader. Novel solution, go into the editor and make it so they upgrade. But not wanting to lose their uniqueness I wanted to have them upgrade into unique units no civ can normally make. This is where I need help, because I can't figure out how to do it.

What I did in the test was have the ancient cavalry upgrade to a new unit I made called advanced cavalry. I made the unit, set them to be avalible with military tradition and set them so no civ could make them. Then I set the ancient cavalry to upgrade to them, and yes, I checked the upgrade unit ability.

When I got military tradition I went to upgrade them... but alas, the option wasn't there. Is it even possible to have them upgrade to a unit no civ can make and if so, how?

Thanks,
Kyle

 

[Kryten]

Originally posted by Tilarium
What I did in the test was have the ancient cavalry upgrade to a new unit I made called advanced cavalry. I made the unit, set them to be avalible with military tradition and set them so NO civ could make them.

I'm afraid that this won't work.
You see, the upgrading rules in Civ3 are as follows:-
"If you cannot build a unit, either because you do not have the resources or that particular unit is not allowed to your civ, then you can still carry on building the previous unit.
And the same applies to upgrading."

So if you want to get rid of unwanted obsolete units, you must have them upgrading into units that your particular civ can also build.

Sorry.

 

[Gogf]

That poses a problem. You can't do what Tilarium suggested, which was a very great suggestion. However, if this is modified, you won't be able to upgrade to your UU. There should be a flag "Upgrade if not allowed" that if checked would allow you to upgrade to the unit if it was not available to your civilization.

 

[spincrus]

Agree on what Gogf has said, but don't agree on applying this on the crusader and ancient cavalry.

In the epic game, by the time you reach new technologies, such old wonders as the kinghts templar and the temple of zeus is ment to become obsolete, anyway.

Oh, would be cool for a "naval academy" though. Produce frigates first, and then maybe produce special sort of battleships in the late industrial ages, etc...