PSA WTF Order Matters?!

[sresk]

Ok so I've posted this question in a couple of in a couple of other posts but I'm putting this here as a public service announcement. I've got a mod I'm working on that for the most part is working as designed but I'm trying to edit a couple of values in GlobalParameters and the .xml looks like this:

<GameInfo>
<GlobalParameters>


<Update>
<Where Name="SCIENCE_PERCENTAGE_YIELD_PER_POP"/> <Set Value="50"/> <!-- Original 70 -->
</Update>

<Update>
<Where Name="CULTURE_COST_FIRST_PLOT" /> <Set Value="7" /> <!-- Original 10 -->
</Update>

<Update>
<Where Name="CULTURE_COST_LATER_PLOT_EXPONENT" /> <Set Value="1.2" /> <!-- Used to be 1.3 -->
</Update>

<Update>
<Where Name="CULTURE_COST_LATER_PLOT_MULTIPLIER" /> <Set Value="3" /> <!-- Used to be 6 -->
</Update>

............ continues

here is the weird thing if I put :

<Update>
<Where Name="SCIENCE_PERCENTAGE_YIELD_PER_POP"/> <Set Value="50"/> <!-- Original 70 -->
</Update>
At the top of the list of changes every thing works the way I expect it to. If I put that line ANYWHERE else it doesn't work. I've tried putting it at the bottom, I've tried putting it in the exact same order as it appears in the GlobalParameters.xml file in game data, I've put it as the last item on my list. I have been over this backwards and forwards and it's not a spelling or typo thing I'm literally just cutting and pasting those 3 lines and if I paste them anywhere but at the top of the list then it breaks... can anyone shed a little light on why this might be happening?

I've been testing this with no other mods installed just this.

Here's where it gets weirder, I'm working with another mod :
8 Ages of Pace by Lord Olleus
If I paste those 3 lines into his .xml (which incedentally looks identical to mine I just have a few extra lines that I'm editing, it doesn't seem like the order matters. I am SO confused.

 

[ThisNameIsTooLo]

I think you'll have better luck posting this in the Creation & Customization subforum (http://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/civ6-creation-customization.541/).

 

[sresk]

Ooops! thanks

 

[Browd]

Moderator Action: Thread moved.

 

[Siesta Guru]

Check database.log, you may have an error somewhere causing everything after to no longer be executed.

 

[Denver]

Sorry to necro this thread, but after much frustration and googling I cannot believe I stumbled upon this thread. I'm having a very similar issue, except I cannot get any adjustment for the science per population to work whatsoever.

I have a fresh install, with a single mod, with 2 lines of code:

UPDATE GlobalParameters SET Value= 0 WHERE Name='SCIENCE_PERCENTAGE_YIELD_PER_POP';
UPDATE GlobalParameters SET Value= 0 WHERE Name='CULTURE_PERCENTAGE_YIELD_PER_POP';

The line for Culture always works, and the first city in any game doesn't get any Culture from population. The value can be changed and that's correctly reflected in game. It behaves as expected.

The line for Science will never work regardless of the value, and regardless of the existence of the other line of code for Culture. Cities always get 0.5 science per population, which is the default value of 50 for the parameter (because I have Rise and Fall installed).

The Database (and mod) log doesn't give any errors or notices of any kind that seem to be related.

I think it's worth posting because I haven't seen any other discussion about this, and it does seem to be a genuine bug.

 

[Infixo]

@Denver
Science per pop was changed in Rise and Fall to 0.5 (down from 0.7).
So, there is un update basically exactly the same as yours (only in .xml) that runs with expansion files.
And if you don’t set a load order in your .modinfo, then the expansion will overwrite your changes.
It is easy to fix - set LoadOrder to anything >0 (even 1 I think should work), but to be safe 100.