Question about Mountains and Units

[Jonny.utsa]

Wasn't sure just where to put this, but I have 2 questions. I just started with Civ4 from Civ1 and 3.

1. Is it possible to modify or create a new unit with new or altered abilities? For example, a transport able to carry 6 instead of 4 units that would come available later in the game or after achieving a certain experience level?

2. Mountains. To my surprise, the mountains in Civ4 aren't passable. Is it possible to alter that in the game? Also, is it possible to create a unit (or alter workers), to make a road on a mountain terrain square, but not make it "easy", maybe taking 2 or 3 times as long?

It seems to me to be not very realistic to have impassable mountains for the whole game.

Thanks

 

[Popcornlord]

1. Depending on what abilities you're talking about, it can range to very simple to requiring C++ and Python experience. But yes.
2. It would be very easy to make mountains passable by all or some units. About roads, I'm guessing you mean that the roads would make it passable and that could be a little hard. However with some coding experience, nearly anything's possible.

 

[Jonny.utsa]

Great, thanks. In my cursory reading of this forum, I have not seen anything related to these types of changes however. Does anyone actually know how to do it? Or has anyone made changes like this before and can detail to me how to do it?

Thanks

 

[Shiggs713]

i would start in the XML or python tutorials. or just click here