oh, just for seperating PAE features and explain them for mod import. but, you're certainly as busy as
me. I would do that, when PAE is finished, but I'm afraid, then it's too late
P.S.
Gigapack has 5000+ lines
oh, as isenchine said, I have lots of blank, explanations and outcommented lines
You should probably take some time to review your codes for old features.
As you code more and more stuff, you learn new ways of doing things, or catch bugs in unexpected
situtations never thought of before.
Then when you look back at stuff you coded one year ago, some of them can be coded in new ways which
are more efficient or avoid the unexpected situtations.
Yes, that's true. I do. But I have my proof readers
also in the German forum, who look for
optimizing (stolenrays, Boggy, Flunky). I think, PAE is in good hands and up to date in most things.
I like the large map, but I think it lacks some expanse of Shara, Nile valley,
Arabia, Persia, and Indus valley, so I started making an extended map starting from it. This is close
to the area of the "mini" map. I attached a first rough view, I am interested in advice
I also have no idea how the starting positions work for this mod, is there a documentation somewhere,
or someone willing to add them when the map is done ?
Of course, new well done maps are always welcome!
For starting points: don't worry, I'll do that for you.
For me it's simple to implement. For you, I don't know, I explain:
1. first give your scenario on plot x,y=0 a Name (ScriptData=YourMap), which is not used by another map.
2. go into PAE/Assets/XML/Misc/ and copy and unname a StartingScript.XML and place the CIVs to the correct x,y coordinates.
3. go into PAE/Assets/Python/Eventmanager.py and search for StartingPoints. Add your Scenario and file into the correct section.
But, you don't need to do that. The python stuff, I will do for you. Just create the StartingPoints.xml for your scenario.
Pie,
Of course you can quote me.
Thanks! I really hope, I can get some new players with your great praise!
You did all this in Python? I just assumed you had DLL changes. I haven't looked at Civ 4 yet, but
Civ 5 was pretty lacking in terms of the events it exposed to Python. That's great--it was only
because I thought we'd have conflicting DLL changes that I didn't think a modmod would work.
Yes. So make a modmod and use your own dll for whatever you want!
If you handle everything with a dll then you even don't need a modmod. people can put your dll to play the scenario with your rules. Whatever you want.
But it is to say, that I will add more features into PAE. One new feature, I don't want to reveal at the moment, has also happened in old Greece....
(it will only be a python thing, so this can easily be copied into a modmod every time)
When you say
by "power", do you mean just population, or does it take military power into account?
Miltary power. It's just the calculation of getPower().
Pie,
I've been looking around in the Python for the mod a bit to get an idea about how your handling
Vassals, and I found something that didn't look right. In CvEventManager.py, OnCityAcquired(), line
9551, it's got:
Code:
iLoserPower = pLoserTeam.getPower(True) # False: ohne Vasallen
iLoserPowerWithVassals = pLoserTeam.getPower(True) # mit Vasallen
iWinnerPower = pWinnerTeam.getPower(True) # mit Vasallen
Shouldn't that first line be False, not True? Otherwise, later "if iVassalPower > iLoserPower:"
should never be true, since iLoserPower is including iVassalPower, and "if iVassalPower + iWinnerPower
> iLoserPower and 1 == self.myRandom(3, None):" is comparing against iLowerPower with the Vassal
included?
oh, thanks. I don't know why I set it to true, perhaps I had a reason, but I don't remember now. So, I change it to False.
Also, just a suggestion, it might be nice to include the Vassal's relative attitudes to it old hegemon
and potential new one in the calculation--i.e., less likely to abandon a hegemon it likes for one it
hates and vice versa.
Good idea. Tell me the calculation factors. It has to be a primary or secondary part the higher the factor. e.g.: is the difference between two powers very high, shall the bad attitude be stronger in calculation, so that it comes to a war or not?
hm, but maybe it's not good, if it concerns a small state which has no chance of a resistance, but declares war only because of a bad attitude.
? Though it would be interesting to see, in what ways his work differs from other less referential guys for one very obvious reason: Thukydides is on most of the events during the course of the Peloponnesian war the only historical witness and reporter we have, and the credibilty of his has been discussed, positively, for centuries. I see little space for disagreements, bold thesises in the "radical" fashion, that historians like so much. And as a confirmation of that, I found the only secondary literature I read on the topic, Bleckmann, Der Peloponnesische Krieg, in all agreeable and almost boringly non-controversial. Bleckmann is a one volume compendium style little book, something for the ipad
