Question about New Units and Upgrades!!!

[The Troquelet]

Is it possible for an upgrade path to fork and merge? For example, can I make the Horseman have a choice between upgrading either to a Horse-Archer or to a Cataphract, and then both can upgrade to a Knight? If this isn't possible, can I make a group of civs's Horsemen (for example, Persians, Babylonians, and Egyptians) upgrade to the Horse-Archer, and all the others' Horsemen upgrade to the Cataphract, and then both groups upgrade to Knights?

 

[Dark Sheer]

Yes. This can be done. Just follow the upgrade example in the 1.17f bic file. For example:

Horseman -> Knight -> Cavalry (Most Civ)
Horseman ->War Elephant -> Cavalry (India)
Horseman -> Rider -> Cavalry (China)
Horseman -> Samurai -> Cavalry (Japan)

The way to do this in the bic file is as follow:

Horseman->Knight->War Elephant->Rider->Samurai->Cavalry.

Since India cannot build Knight, Horseman will be upgradeable to War Elephant. And since China cannot build both Knight & War Elephant, Horseman is upgradeable to Rider. The same upgrade chain applies to Musketman/Musketeer upgrades.

 

[The Troquelet]

The bic file? You don't mean the actual Civ-editor, do you? (with tabs for Govt, Units, Terrain, etc)

 

[Dark Sheer]

Originally posted by The Troquelet
The bic file? You don't mean the actual Civ-editor, do you? (with tabs for Govt, Units, Terrain, etc)

Yup. You need to use the Civ3edit.exe to open the Civ3mod.bic and set what a unit can be upgrade to. Just make sure you have a backup copy of the original Civ3mod.bic.