Really excited for G&K, though I am wary. I don't think it will really change the game enough to how it needs to be. Since they didn't add in individual happiness rates for cities, health, and switchable civics....
Anyway, can't wait to see what you cook up with the new material Markus!
I'm looking forward to trying it out and seeing what I can come up with.
How can you make a Vanilla and a G+K version? Do you own two CIV V games, one where you buy the xpack and one without?
And can you now have bigger files than 10 mb? Wasn't there a problem with your mod if the size is greater than 10mb?
It looks like Firaxis has set it up so that we can essentially "swap" dll's, which would allow me to work on a copy for both. Worst case scenario, I do have separate Civ copies on multiple computers.
I dl the update and even uninstalled and re-installed the game and the regular game screen works fine but (I downloaded the mod from the steam workshop) but on the mod setup screen when I try to make selections the game crashes. Anyone else have this problem?
Stand corrected. When I start to play a regular game it also crashes so there is something else going on.
Did you clear your cache and moduserdata? Also, I've had people report that they stopped having crashes when they subscribed to the mod through the steam workshop web page instead of through the in game "get mods" steam overlay. You could also always try and manually put get the mod here from Civfanatics.
And make sure you physically check your MODS folder and delete any files in here that might be corrupt, (they'll be the ones with long variable names).
Encountered a new bug last night in which I was unable to add anything to any city's build queue. Saving and reloading from the main menu fixed it. Had to do that twice.
When I quit playing for the night, Windows wanted to reset my display settings, indicating a probable memory leak. That would obviously be a Civ problem, not NiGHTS.
Saw a complaint on another forum from a vanilla player who can't load saved games at all -- any saved games.
Looks to me like Firaxis is going to need to patch their patch.
Loading games from the main menu is necessary now, as the patch switches up some load orders, so this'll be the new norm for most larger mods unfortunately.
after this Nights a few games. i think that all the support for ocean tiles is FAR too much.
i had a game with 3 cities with all of em having 2 resource ocean tiles (pearls and fish) and the combination of of organized religion perk,docks, burial grounds and moai statue gave me a ridicilous advantage early on in the game. bacially making it that research was far too slow to give me more buildings to construct. giving me the chance to build an army in a matter of few turns on standard without any disbenefits because i already built everything.. and this wasnt even the moai city,...(was playing on emperor) and also mix in the fact that coastal cities also have their own tree to help em the entire game. just too much benefits. making it that if you want to try a deity game. you are going to need a coastal city structre if you want to make sure you win..
in short the ocean tiles are just too beneficial early game and will not lose their effect later on thanks to all the cultural tree support. the combined support they provide is far too many benefits compared to other types cities and resources. ( and ahead im sorry for any grammar mistakes. not my native language..)
Coastal cities are indeed strong, but they aren't necessary for higher difficulty levels, and they're also pretty circumstantial in regards to if there are any ocean resources nearby. What difficulty were you playing on? Also, if you managed to run out of things to build, that's more a case of choosing inefficient tech paths than anything else. Beelining techs isn't as viable an option in Nights compared to vanilla Civ V, where you more or less have 2-3 lines to choose from. At some point, even though you might not need an early tech, if it takes 2 turns to research, you should probably just grab it.
Having said all that, the next update will attempt to balance out coastal cities a bit more, while boosting policies in branches like Honor, for example.
markusbeutel, do you have a download link for the latest version of Nights pre patch?
I would like to play it on my other PC thats offline and hasn't updated to the latest CivV version.
Have you tried clearing out your cache and moduserdata folders? Also check your MODS folder and delete anything in there, as sometimes files are corrupted when you first attempt to install them.
If all of that doesn't work, I released a Mac version of the mod, which is essentially just the pre-patch version of v11.8, (although it doesn't have all the balance tweaks for the economy), so you might end up having more gold than you would in v 12.0.
It's listed on the first page of modpacks here on CivFanatics.
On a side note, what are people's thoughts on G+K's? I have multiple midterms and essays this week so I won't get a chance to try it out until the weekend.
Also, sometime over the next couple of weeks I plan on releasing a stand-alone version of Nights - essentially a hardcore version, where the policy branches will be mutually exclusive, the AI will act more aggressively, and gold will be harder to maintain. Essentially a Sid level difficulty for the mod for anyone that wants a challenge.
