Dom Pedro II
Modder For Life
I think of this more as a module than a modification... since it will be an addition to the regular game without making any changes to it, and I hope it will fit into other people's modifications without need for change or at the very least only slight changes necessary.
Anyway, the idea behind this is that it would create a history of your civilization from the very beginning of the game to the very end. Think of it as a textual expanded version of the simulation that runs at the end of the game.
I'd like to make it accessible through the Civilopedia, but if that's not possible, then I'll opt for some other way. It would be readable at any point in the game and would be added to as new events occur.
It wouldn't be a simple list like this:
No no... that would defeat the purpose of it. It would look something more like this:
So how can this be done? Simple: using variables and XML text banks. It would work much in the same way as the diplomacy screen does. A Python events script would check for certain events as well as multiple values being true or false at once, and select an appropriate line of text from the XML file.
The data would be broken down into sentences rather than paragraphs or even longer lengths of text so that they can be fit and refit together to not only make events more specific, but also to keep it from seeming repetitive from game to game. So if the civic Slavery, for example, is adopted in the middle of a war that's being won, it produces one sentence, if it's in the middle of a war being lost, it produces another. If the war is over yet another. If there hasn't been any war, it creates still another.
Time consuming? Absolutely, but the content contained in the XML files is by far the easiest part of the process.
What will be more difficult is the Python events script. I personally don't have experience with Python specifically though I do have experience with programming logic, which is somewhat universal even if the syntax is different.
But basically, I'm looking for people who want to go in this project with me, and I'd like to use this thread as a place to hash out ideas, determine what works and what doesn't work, and find ways to streamline the whole thing if and when possible. Any help from people with programming experience would be greatly appreciated.
If you are actually interested in a more hands-on part in the creation of this (with all due credit of course) then convo me and we'll get cracking on it.
At the moment, I'm thinking the easiest way to do this would be to have the game create a new XML file for storing the full text that could then be simply spit out on the screen when someone wants to view it rather than setting up a complex script to display the information stored. Naturally, there are advantages and disadvantages to both, but I think having the game run the condition checks and write the text from the XML banks to a single new XML file every turn would be the best way to go.
Anyway, that's my idea thus far. Comments, criticisms and compliments are welcome
Anyway, the idea behind this is that it would create a history of your civilization from the very beginning of the game to the very end. Think of it as a textual expanded version of the simulation that runs at the end of the game.
I'd like to make it accessible through the Civilopedia, but if that's not possible, then I'll opt for some other way. It would be readable at any point in the game and would be added to as new events occur.
It wouldn't be a simple list like this:
No no... that would defeat the purpose of it. It would look something more like this:
Spoiler In-game History :
So how can this be done? Simple: using variables and XML text banks. It would work much in the same way as the diplomacy screen does. A Python events script would check for certain events as well as multiple values being true or false at once, and select an appropriate line of text from the XML file.
The data would be broken down into sentences rather than paragraphs or even longer lengths of text so that they can be fit and refit together to not only make events more specific, but also to keep it from seeming repetitive from game to game. So if the civic Slavery, for example, is adopted in the middle of a war that's being won, it produces one sentence, if it's in the middle of a war being lost, it produces another. If the war is over yet another. If there hasn't been any war, it creates still another.
Time consuming? Absolutely, but the content contained in the XML files is by far the easiest part of the process.
What will be more difficult is the Python events script. I personally don't have experience with Python specifically though I do have experience with programming logic, which is somewhat universal even if the syntax is different.
But basically, I'm looking for people who want to go in this project with me, and I'd like to use this thread as a place to hash out ideas, determine what works and what doesn't work, and find ways to streamline the whole thing if and when possible. Any help from people with programming experience would be greatly appreciated.
If you are actually interested in a more hands-on part in the creation of this (with all due credit of course) then convo me and we'll get cracking on it.
At the moment, I'm thinking the easiest way to do this would be to have the game create a new XML file for storing the full text that could then be simply spit out on the screen when someone wants to view it rather than setting up a complex script to display the information stored. Naturally, there are advantages and disadvantages to both, but I think having the game run the condition checks and write the text from the XML banks to a single new XML file every turn would be the best way to go.
Anyway, that's my idea thus far. Comments, criticisms and compliments are welcome
) for something with such limited effect on the game itself.
