dashgalaxy86
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Sorry if this sounds like I made the mod already. Truth is I'm brand new to the idea of modding Civ4 Colonization.
Here's my problem, and please point me to any existing mod or modder that can help:
Colonization is super fun for me, but there are a few problems with it that make it NOT fun to win.
-Winning is counterintuitive to the built-in economic sim (which is so awesome but basically unneeded)
-Natives basically give you no reason to ever do anything but be nice to them, at least at "normal" difficulty level
-Declaring Independence and going to war with your king is unnecessarily hard and there should be more ways to get liberty bells.
Here are my suggestions:
1. Add new victory conditions: An economic condition that allows you to buy your independence, a military condition that allows you to intimidate your king into not going to war with you in the first place (by perhaps eliminating all the other colonies other than yours), and improve the war of independence condition so that war can still be triggered even if you have successful colonies.
2. Make more consequences and scripted events relating to pissing off the natives, expanding too close to them, etc. Make the natives its own faction with more options for diplomacy. It'd be nice to have them on your side in the war for independence, for example.
3. Maybe raise the number of turns before the game ends once you go to war.
There probably already is a mod that addresses these issues, so please just point me there and I'll be quiet. If there isn't, perhaps this is an easy one to make for someone with some experience modding. I think this would improve Colonization greatly, making it its own game with multiple ways to win, and not just a standalone mini-adventure which is, admittedly, a bit broken.
Moderator Action: Moved to the main forum.
Because the files subforum is only for threads with something to download, and not for pure question threads
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Here's my problem, and please point me to any existing mod or modder that can help:
Colonization is super fun for me, but there are a few problems with it that make it NOT fun to win.
-Winning is counterintuitive to the built-in economic sim (which is so awesome but basically unneeded)
-Natives basically give you no reason to ever do anything but be nice to them, at least at "normal" difficulty level
-Declaring Independence and going to war with your king is unnecessarily hard and there should be more ways to get liberty bells.
Here are my suggestions:
1. Add new victory conditions: An economic condition that allows you to buy your independence, a military condition that allows you to intimidate your king into not going to war with you in the first place (by perhaps eliminating all the other colonies other than yours), and improve the war of independence condition so that war can still be triggered even if you have successful colonies.
2. Make more consequences and scripted events relating to pissing off the natives, expanding too close to them, etc. Make the natives its own faction with more options for diplomacy. It'd be nice to have them on your side in the war for independence, for example.
3. Maybe raise the number of turns before the game ends once you go to war.
There probably already is a mod that addresses these issues, so please just point me there and I'll be quiet. If there isn't, perhaps this is an easy one to make for someone with some experience modding. I think this would improve Colonization greatly, making it its own game with multiple ways to win, and not just a standalone mini-adventure which is, admittedly, a bit broken.
Moderator Action: Moved to the main forum.
Because the files subforum is only for threads with something to download, and not for pure question threads
. 
