Raging Barbs problem

[09camaro]

there's a feature in BTS, and all of Civ that really bothers me.
i love to play with raging barbs. but i hate barb city spawns.
the idea is that they should only conquer other cities and make them their own, not spawn their own.

so i would like to see a mod that allows for an option that says "No Barbarian Cities" which stops Barbarian cities from spawning, but doesn't stop them from conquering.

 

[Sto]

You can create your own little MOD or alter the one you play . There is 2 ways to do that :

_ With xml , edit Civ4EraInfos.xml and put <bNoBarbCities>1</bNoBarbCities> to all era info . But i don't know in this case if the city captured would not be razed ?? (need to be tested)

_ With python , edit CvGameUtils.py and put "return True" to "def createBarbarianCities" . I'm sure this one will prevent the barbs city razing and city spawning .

Tcho !

 

[09camaro]

danke. i can do the XML easily, but do not have the tools for python.
is there a place where i can get that?

 

[Shqype]

You don't need to do both. If you do the XML only then the barbs won't spawn their own cities.

 

[09camaro]

i know it is unnecessary to do both. but i always like to double check and double over.
i learnt this in my drafting class and over the many years of playing with legos. its better to have a structure that is sturdier than not. i always used slightly more blocks than necessary to make sure pieces didn't break off.
so i want to do something similar here.

 

[09camaro]

i butched it.
i made the very simple change to that single file, and saved it as a new file on the desktop (XML format). i copied the custom assets from the original game data and pasted it into a folder in the mods folder. then, within the custom assets, in the game info folder, i moved the desktop XML changes that i just saved into it. i tried to load the game normally, and everything crashed. absolutely NONE of the XML loaded.

 

[Yakk]

Reinstall -- you probably smooshed a base game XML file.

 

[09camaro]

nah, i figured it out. i accidentally put it into the "Customassets" folder as well. i deleted it and it worked. but only through the Ancient era, it was the only value i changed.

but now i have another problem, though this isn't the place for it.

 

[09camaro]

blah. that sucks. i can't find "Civ4EraInfos.xml" anywhere.
i know it should be there but its not. the only places where i can find it are inside other mods, and i don't want to copy one of those because it may have more things changed in it than i need.

can someone attach Civ4EraInfos.xml for BTS so i could edit it. please.