Playground Mod

[Bluemofia]

Ok, some of you may remember The Omega's Plaground map. Some of you also requested it to become a scenario/mod. Well, work has been put into making it into a scenario/mod.

Link to off site works.
Link to original map of the playground.

So here is what we have so far.

Units

Since the entire war goes on inside kids minds, the units may not make sense, in graphical upgrades, as in the earlier ages there may be sci fi units with lasers, and guns and stuff, and they then get replaced by people with swords and arrows.


Terrain

Since the units were imaginary in a sense, we are using Warpstorm's Watercolor terrain.


Governments

The governments were heavily modified, and several added. They include school board, Democratic-Dictatorships, and Omegaism.


Civs

The civs are Freak Attack, Boy Union, United Forces, Girls, Staff, Rebs, Horse, Senso, Char, and Galaxy Wars Club.


Technology

The tech tree will be heavily modified, and will reflect school themes (such as the 3Rs, Text books, and 3rd Grade), and the aspects of warfare.


Expected release date: April 1st, 2006

 

[Bluemofia]

Here is the list of the current units in the mod. There are others still being debated on weather it should be used, but hasn't been intergrated in yet.


Settler (to settle, and build cities)
Worker (to work, and to improve terrain)
3 types of teachers (to show some variation in the staff, as well as special ops, such as amphibious and airborne infantry)
Transports (to ship units over bodies of water)
Battleship (to fight people over bodies of water)
Boy Union Battleship (a more powerful battleship unique to the boy union)
Fighter (to shoot planes down)
Bomber (to bomb people)
Paradrop plane (to ship people from point A to B)
Leader (same thing as a normal leader)
Army (same)
Principal (king unit for the staff)
2 different Anti air (one for the kids, one for the staff)
Girl Warrior (earliest unit for the girls)
Boy Warrior (earliest unit for the boys)
Horse Dragoon (a unit for the Horse in the group wars)
Char Fire Salamander (a unit for the Char, sort of a stegasarus that breates fire)
Galaxy Wars Club Infantry (a unit for the Galaxy Wars Club, think Jango Fett)
Boy Militia Fighter (the last unit that the boy factions share with each other before splitting off into their factions)
Boy Mercenary (a UU to the Boy Union and factions still part of it. Essentially a cheap soldier)
Boy Soldier (the mercenary, but better trained)
Boy Knight (powerful unit for the Boy Union)
Boy Archer (Everyone needs ranged support in the form of defensive bombardment)
Boy Sniper (The archer, but stronger, and capable of offensively bombarding)
Boy Alliance Infantry (The Infantry of the Boy Alliance, the Boy Union and other factions united togeater)
Freak trainee (the earliest unit for Freak Attack)
Freak Padawan (the next unit for Freak Attack)
Freak Knight (the standard FA unit in the Final War)
Freak master (a stronger FA unit)
Elite Freak master (a even stronger FA unit)
Gaiden (A really really really expensive and powerful unit)
Freak Attack Archer (see boy archer)
Freak Attack Sniper (see boy sniper)
Freak Attack Assassin (used to assasinate things. Like a ninja)
Mercenary (units often used by the girls since they lack later age units)
Reb Solder (a unit used by the Rebs when they defected from the Boy Union)
Gattling Cannon (a early artillery unit)
Photon Ballista (a later artillery unit)
Suicide bomber (FA's cruise missile)
Senso Warrior (the military unit of the Senso, a rouge faction at the end of 6th grade)
UF Archer (see boy archer)
UF Mercenary (the standard unit used by the United Forces)
Spy (used to gather information on enemies)
Teacher Blimp (Teachers need transports of some sort)
S (king unit for FA and Galaxy Wars Club)
John (king unit for the horse)
Alexi (king unit for Char and the BU)
Chris (king unit for Senso)
Austin (king unit for the Rebs)
Jessica (king unit for the Girls)
Mateo (king unit for the UF)

 

[The Omega]

You're forgetting the units that the kings upgrade to.... Of course, we still need to actually think of names for those units, but still....

 

[Bluemofia]

Might as well tell what I've been thinking of.

Units whose graphics I have, but have yet to implement

Kinboat's Red Dragon
Firaxis' American Flamethrower
Aaglo's Lava Elemental
Chris85's Jedi master
TheMorpheus' (?) T-800
Tpasmall's Battle droid
BlueO's Gundam
Muffins' Plasma Reaver
Aaglo's Da Vinci Tank
TheMorpheus' Yamato Battleship

 

[Bluemofia]

Omega, should the teachers get fighters and bombers? They are lacking in both air and sea. (they're powerful enough on land.

 

[The Omega]

Omega, should the teachers get fighters and bombers? They are lacking in both air and sea. (they're powerful enough on land.

No, just make them strong on land. Give them transport helicopters, but no fighters and bombers.

 

[opokoo]

is this for civ3 vanilla?

 

[opokoo]

(\_/)
(O.o)
(> <)
very funny

 

[Bluemofia]

No, for Conquests. (you should get Conquests, it's well worth the money)

No, just make them strong on land. Give them transport helicopters, but no fighters and bombers.

What about the navy?

 

[Bluemofia]

Current Techs

Here are the techs I have aquired so far (3 ages). Most still need a pedia icon to go with it. Ones that already have the pedia icon will have a * next to it.

Age 1 techs

Lunch Boxes (lets you build lunch boxes, the equivalent to grainery)
Text Books (lets you build text books, the equivalent to libraries)
Trading (lets you build trading posts, the equivalent to markets)

Transports (lets you build transport ships)* (Amphibious war)

Bridge building (lets you build bridges)* (engineering)
Comic books (lets you build comic books, the equivalent to temples)

Prodject Arrow (lets you build P.A., the equivalent to the Great Library)

2nd Grade (yes, it's a tech)

Military Training (lets you build barracks)
Library books (Lets you build library books, the equivalent to the university)
Map making (lets you trade maps)* (map making)

Ranged weapons (lets you build archers, early archers though)
The 3 Rs (enables recycling)* (recycling)

Naval Combat (lets you build early battleships)

The Republic (enables the Republic)* (republic)
Artillery (lets you build gattling cannons)

3rd grade (yes, it's a tech)






Age 2 techs

Sanitation (enables soap, the equivalent to aqueducts) *(sanitation)
Pokemon (enables pokemon cards, which generate culture and happy faces, but made obsolete by 5th grade)
Music Addiction (equivalent to the cathedral)
Diplomancy (enables MPPs and ROPs)* (Napoleanic War diplomancy)

Excessive TV (enables TV, the equivalent to a second cathedral)
Spies (lets you build spies and conduct espirnage missions)* (espirnage)

4th grade

City building (enables apartments, the equivalent of hospitals)
Nationalism (enables the group wars units, and the Tribal council gov) *(Nationalism)
Tactics* (Tactics tech in Napoleanic wars)

Mercenaries (enables mercenaries)
Speeches (enables podium, the equivalent to a courthouse, also reduces WW)

Facism (enables Facism gov)* (facism)

5th grade



Age 3

Aircraft (lets you build airports and fighters)
Swordfighting (lets you build sword units)
Archery (lets you build archers)
Paying attention in class

Bombers (lets you build bombers)* (flight)
Summer School (lets you build the summer school SM, but causes unhappiness)
Masterism (enables the Masterism gov)
Banks (enables banks)

Paradrop planes (lets you build paradrop planes)
Economy studies (enables a Smuggling Operations SM)

Rules of War (bonus tech, lets you build more powerful units)

Mobilization (enables mobilization)

Mass Production

Military Specialization (enables specialty units)

Entrenched Artillery (enables entrenched artillery improvement, which is like civil defense)

6th grade

 

[The Omega]

No, for Conquests. (you should get Conquests, it's well worth the money)



What about the navy?

Let them have a navy, but make it very expensive.

 

[Bluemofia]

Yay! I've found the perfect unit for it.

This unit.

 

[The Omega]

Yay! I've found the perfect unit for it.

This unit.

For teachers?

Oh, and Blue, I'm slowly getting the new map done, but I have no idea what terrain to make the school part of the map....

 

[Bluemofia]

Hmm, make the walls Marsh, and I'll make it more sutable for walls. (a block of white)

Desert for the halls, grassland for the classrooms, and plains/hills/whatever-that's-not marsh-or-volcanoes for everything else. Just don't put volcanoes because I don't think you had things erupting in your playground.

EDIT: And, yes, for the teachers.

 

[The Omega]

Hmm, make the walls Marsh, and I'll make it more sutable for walls. (a block of white)

Desert for the halls, grassland for the classrooms, and plains/hills/whatever-that's-not marsh-or-volcanoes for everything else. Just don't put volcanoes because I don't think you had things erupting in your playground.

EDIT: And, yes, for the teachers.

Well, the problem with that is there's already places that are marches. And yes, we did have volcanoes. Wherever we saw something that was red, we claimed it was a volcanoe. So when they stuck a bunch of red paper into the ground near BI, we started saying that islands had appeared on BI, and that kind off stuck....

For teachers? Yeah, it be good.

 

[Bluemofia]

Oh. Well, then how about landmark mountains? Then I will add a wall unit that is basically invincible, and it will stop people from running there.

 

[The Omega]

Oh. Well, then how about landmark mountains? Then I will add a wall unit that is basically invincible, and it will stop people from running there.

Okay. I put those mountains with snow on, but I can replace them.


I was just thinking, and I thought of idea. Whenever you enter diplomatic talks with a civ, a culture specific music plays. Well, this got Omega thinking, and Omega thinks that we should change that, so that whenever you talk to someone, their theme song plays. Here be list so far:


Back in Black: Freak Attack, Galaxy Wars Club

7 Nation Army: Boy Union, Char Group, and possibly the other Boy flavor civs

Some Girly Song: Grils.

Something: Senso (Still got to ask Chris about this)

Watchyou think?

 

[Bluemofia]

I was just thinking, and I thought of idea. Whenever you enter diplomatic talks with a civ, a culture specific music plays. Well, this got Omega thinking, and Omega thinks that we should change that, so that whenever you talk to someone, their theme song plays. Here be list so far:


Back in Black: Freak Attack, Galaxy Wars Club

7 Nation Army: Boy Union, Char Group, and possibly the other Boy flavor civs

Some Girly Song: Grils.

Something: Senso (Still got to ask Chris about this)

Watchyou think?

Hmm, I haven't quite worked out how to do civ specific diplomancy text, or control the music. But good idea, I'll look into it.

 

[The Omega]

Okay, I've got the map done.
For teh actual school area, I made LM desert as teh hallways, LM mountains as walls, LM grassland as classrooms, LM plains as the gym, and LM forest as the principals office. The Playground area might still need more work, but it looks good to me (But I'm not an expert, so I'm not sure how much that counts. )

 

[Bluemofia]

Nice.

I've run into a problem now. The LM Terrain is harder to manipulate than it seems. I've backed up the original terrain, but when I tried to make the LM desert to look like a tiled floor, it started to look really wierd with some blocks colored 1/4th of the way, and others not even colored.