Original Thread Discussion (Continued)

[Maniac]

I don't give a damn who was the first to include Geothermal Vent and Methane Ice. That post was made in the context of a small discussion IIRC around the same time in the Better AI forum, about why certain people felt the need to hide their C++ code from others.

Many of the ideas you lay an "intellectual claim" to are really mundane, and it would be easy for two people to have the same idea without this meaning person A "stole" the idea from person B. Methane Ice is just one of many examples which can be found. Hence my post was meant to illustrate the ridiculousness, inaccuracy and pointlessness of your historical document.

 

[LunarMongoose]

Oh. Well, I'm sorry you feel that way. Unfortunately I do care who had the idea first, as this mod is my biggest project ever and a good chunk of my life while I'm working on it. It was also a response to some of my original work on it in '06 getting used uncredited all over the place b/c I didn't take any precautions. I'm sure I probably overreacted, but I was trying to be thorough this time, and I stand by it.

The correction is made in any case, and as I said, if there's anything else I got wrong please let me know.

 

[Jester Fool]

I don't give a damn

I thought CFC Forums set the autocensor to "Communist Utopia" settings. What gives?

 

[Maniac]

I was surprised too.

 

[LunarMongoose]

I would also add that it's not like I've been beating other modders over the head with those HD posts, demanding credit for each and every little thing. I haven't used them at all yet actually, and I don't really plan to. But I did want a public record to exist, just to be safe. (Though I could've posted half the stuff in there several months earlier and I wish I had heh, oh well.)

OKAY! I finally finished my library/index picture. I added it to the Download page but I'll link it here as well:

EVENT IMAGE SET

There's a couple pictures I'm not completely totally happy with but they're still fine, and I'm pretty much thrilled with how this mini-project came out. Sorry I didn't have time to name/label the events (big mod update takes priority heh), but they're in the same alphabetical order they're in everywhere else so you can figure it out pretty easily. The actual ones used in-game are up to 400x240 in size (just like before in MM but with only 30 or so having pictures), and will be available once version 3.6 is done. Enjoy.

 

[LunarMongoose]

This, btw, is the full-size version of my "Crisis in the Senate" event picture. You may notice, primarily, seals. There are 3 possible explanations for this:

1) Your Senators have been mysteriously turned into seals somehow, which is a crisis.

2) Your people elected a bunch of seals to office, which has precipitated a crisis.

3) Your human Senators are alive and well, and the seals are a metaphor for their demeanor and competence.

I leave it to you to decide which best suits your empire's situation.

 

[EmperorFool]

4. Your senators were secretly replaced by seals as a practical joke, but no one noticed for five months.

 

[Jester Fool]

I pick #3. Great picture BTW.

 

[LunarMongoose]

Thanks EF!

4) Your senators were secretly replaced by seals as a practical joke, but no one noticed for five months.

5) The seals in your empire have staged a coup, and are now holding Senate sessions on the beach.

I like #2 the best personally, but that's just me.

 

[LunarMongoose]

Changed my mind and decided EF's suggestion was fine as it was, so I added a 5th option.

Preliminary, initial, by-no-means-complete merging in of the current version of Fuyu's Better BUG AI is now done and working without any (remaining) problems. It actually went pretty smoothly all things considered, given how much code was involved (and how rusty I was). There was a LARGE amount of great stuff in there, both from BUG/BULL and from Fuyu himself. I am not planning to use all of BUG by any means, but I like most of its components that don't significantly alter the interface.

I expect to need a few more days to finalize this core DLL stuff, a few more days after that to finish up a bunch of other minor stuff, then two weeks to try and write new AI code for some things Fuyu mentioned still need work. At that point I am hoping Cephalo will be done with PerfectWorld 3 for Civ5, which I intend to try and port back to Civ4. Release of MM 3.6 will hopefully follow THAT. Sorry again for how long this is taking, but my bigger updates are always like this it seems, and I'm going as fast as I can.

 

[brun58]

To begin, just want to say very well made mod, and I'm having alot of fun with it, I've played all your versions since you started posting them on Civfanatics and have always enjoyed them. I've found a small thing, it's not a show stopper by any means, and it might even be something on my end. What it is, is when I go into the future era, and the University graphic changes over, I get a pink blob over the top of it, realize this might be an art file and it's possible something might be borked on my install, but on the other hand I've played till the future era and haven't found one issue, which I think speaks to the very high quality of the mod

 

[LunarMongoose]

That would probably be a minor glitch with CulturalCitystyles 0.99, but if it is it's easily fixed. I'll take a look when I get a chance. The whole point of that component though is that there are different art sets for buildings depending on the region of the world your civ is from, so it'd help considerably if you could let me know what race you were playing as when this happened. Thanks.

 

[brun58]

Playing as the Americans

 

[tdfriese]

Excited to try out your mod but I had a problem with the download. You mention that the download should be 500 MB but the download here is 477 MB:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=14956

Thoughts?

 

[tdfriese]

And the important second piece of data: I downloaded the 477 MB zip and installed it but couldn't get it to work. Whenever I try to load the mod, civ quits on me.

 

[EmperorFool]

Have you patched to BTS 3.19?

 

[tdfriese]

Thanks EmperorFool for the reminder. Patching to 3.19 fixed the problem.

 

[LunarMongoose]

I'm still here... Swamped with RL stuff again for the last 10 days (all fun, productive and exciting this time though), but should be getting back to working on the mod every waking minute here soon.

I did at least have time over the last two days to make an updated/improved version of the title music track; hopefully you'll like it.

 

[brun58]

Really enjoy your mod, so will be happy to play it whenever real life says you have time to work on it, Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[Jester Fool]

Hope you ate well on Turkey day. Looking forward to the next patch. Can't wait.
P.S. You never did answer the question contained in the PM I sent you a few weeks ago. (Good natured ribbing...You still the man! )