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[Linkman226]

Yup. Thanks.

 

[CHEESE!]

How's the 3000 BC thing going?

 

[Linkman226]

Crash fixed. Updating to DoC Revision 131 and then SVN'ing. Then I'm going to add Blue Marble terrain

EDIT: Cheese- we posted at the same time

 

[Linkman226]

Ok it's SVN'ed now

On another note I was rethinking doing the way city defense is chosen and make it based on city population rather than city culture...what do you guys think of this?

 

[Linkman226]

Guess what guys!

Blue Marble!

I've always been a sucker for eye candy so this makes me very happy

Thanks to karadoc's helpful upload it took me all of five minutes, including waiting for the game to load. So shoutout to him, and I reccomend you go check out his mod K-Mod, which has many features I plan on adding to this mod one day.

Speaking of loading times, it now takes a considerably longer time to actually load the game. I'll FPK them (for non-modders, that means I compress the files so that its much quicker) for official releases, but I need the actual art files when I'm on unnofficial SVN revisions

Behold!













Now off to revise dynamic names!

Oh and the Blue Marble is still uploading to the SVN.

 

[Danwood]

Omg omg

 

[Linkman226]

Oh I also uploaded another SVN revision that strips all dynamic names out to reconstruct them. I uploaded this so that if I ever screw something up majorly I have this to go back to. Please be warned of this.

 

[Leoreth]

Looks good. I wonder if it would be possible to make it selectable which graphics to use ...

 

[Linkman226]

What for? SoI loads quite quickly- I'd say even faster than RFC- with it's BM and unique unit art by FPK'ing them.

 

[IrishDragon]

Ok it's SVN'ed now

On another note I was rethinking doing the way city defense is chosen and make it based on city population rather than city culture...what do you guys think of this?

I think culture is better, more represents unity. In real life I'd think of it as something like trying to take a large city (no culture) with no loyalty to its current owner vs taking a small city (high culture) full of die hards. Probably be harder to take the small city with people willing to die for their country.

 

[Linkman226]

Culture isn't represented by loyalty. A city could be 90% foreign and still have 10,000 culture points.

 

[Linkman226]

Alright I'm going to sketch out what I want the dynamic names to be before I actually proceed. This post is a work in progress, feel free to suggest ideas.

The names are in order of preference, i.e., the first condition listed, if true, will be used above all the ones below.

All vassals get their masters' flag

Egypt:

Vassal Names:

Achaemenid Persia- Ninth Satrapy
Rome- Province of Aegyptus
Arabia- Sultanate of Misr
Turkey- Eyalet of Misir
Spain- Viceroyalty of Egypt
Nazi Germany- Reichskommissariat Egypt
Communist Russia- Egyptian S.S.R.
Mongolia- Ilkhanate of Egypt
England- Khedivate of Egypt​

European Civillization after congresses are possible- (Civilization adjective) Mandate of Egypt
Standard: (Civilization adjective) Protectorate of Egypt

Islamic State Religion and Theocracy:

Sunni: Sultanate of Egypt
Shia: Imamate of Egypt​

Tyranny, Monarchy, Theocracy:

Before 2000 BC: Egyptian Old Kingdom
From 2000- 1650 BC: Egyptian Middle Kingdom (feedback please- not sure about this since its so short in-game. What do you guys think?
1550 BC- forever: Egyptian New Kingdom
​

Default name: Peoples of the Nile

​

Respawned Egyptians:

Respawn after Greek conquering or release from Greek vassalization:
Ptolemaic Dynasty

Respawn after Arab conquering or release from Arab vassalization:
Tyranny, Monarchy, Theocracy:
Fatimid Caliphate until 1171, Ayyubid dynasty until 1341, Mamluk Sultanate until 1517.

Vassal names same as those for regular Egypt
​

India:


Respawned India:


China:


Respawned China:


Babylonia:

Greece:

Persia:

Iran (respawned Persia):


Carthage:


Rome:

Italy (respawned Rome):


Japan
Ethiopia
Korea
Maya
Byzantium
Vikings
Arabia
Khmer
Indonesia
Spain
France
England
Germany
Russia
Netherlands
Mali
Portugal
Inca
Mongolia
Aztecs
Turkey
America

 

[Leoreth]

I suggest Khedivate of Egypt as England's vassal.

 

[Linkman226]

Wasn't that Ottoman?

EDIT: Never mind, that makes sense.

 

[BenZL43]

Are you still using the generic name for weak civs like Mali, Maya etc or you're gonna break it so each of them have their own unique dynamic names?

 

[Linkman226]

If I can figure out a dynamic naming system....

 

[BenZL43]

Okay...

 

[Leoreth]

What for?

Personal taste?

 

[McWinniage]

When will the official version be released with all the SVN'ed stuff?

 

[Linkman226]

Personal taste?

Ah I see. I have no clue whether such an option is possible

When will the official version be released with all the SVN'ed stuff?

Sometime after the dynamic naming revisions and after the next DoC release. I've been asked by Leoreth not to release his SVN features before he does because he doesn't want them leaking out.