RFCM-LuKo

[LuKo]

"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. Steps to enlightenment brighten the way; but the steps are steep. Take them one at a time."

Mod
The purpose of mod is to add "depth" to RFC. My main aim is Marathon speed but as I lack time to test the speed everything is tested only in Normal. The major advantage of my modmod is Future Era taken from Next War scenario. Combined with Marathon modmod it's 1620 turns of fun! But there are many features which I missed in other mods. With additional speed for modern units blitzkrieg is finally (or again, if you liked civ2 [especially IIWW scenario]) possible. Handling bigger cities is much harder with additional unhealthiness (finally important!) and unhappiness (not as important as it used to be as you can beat it with expensive artists) but more rewarding. Full list of changes is below.

Changelog

Spoiler :

v.0.0.13
Increased unit maintenance cost
Added Dark Era
Manhattan Project is now team project, therefore every civ who wants to build a nuclear weapon has to build one
Renamed Stuttgart to Frankfurt and made it the capital city for Germany
Cities on resources yield the same production and commerce as if the appropriate improvement was built on it (based on DoC)
Corrected a formula for tech penalty (so it now works, making technologies much more expensive)
AI no longer chooses State Property as always the best option

v.0.0.12
Decreased number of units in Historical Great Generals' armies
Rome again starts with 2 Galleys
Rome gains it's Settlers after conquering Mediolanum
Christianity and Judaism is found in Jerusalem even if it is owned by major civilization
Great Generals add an additional free promotion
GG threshold greatly reduced
Doubled price of Mission to Mars and tripled price of spaceship
Increased returns to scale for corporations (still decreasing)
Corporations can now spread without units (just as religions do)
Minor tweaks to corporations
New technologies: Automobiles, Patronage, Naval Warfare, Mercantilism and Manufacturing
Minor changes in techtree
New unit: Dreadnought (a ship)

v.0.0.11
"We love the Ruler day" now require two times more happy faces than population in cities with Opera House
Increased Wonders cost for China, Japan and (especially) Persia
Fixed a bug which unabled Jerusalem from gaining independence
Reduced Assault Mech's power by 5 to compensate additional movement point from Industrialism
Added two Immortals and increased unit building cost for Persia
Increased probability of war on spawn for Persia and Arabia vs Babylonia
Added a tech penalty for Egypt and Babylonia in Ancient Era to balance it a bit
Added stability penalty for Babylonia
Castle is now available at Construction
Included Orion's Inquisition Mod (with some changes)
Oracle now costs 10 gold/turn because it was overpowered
Moved +1 health bonus from Construction to Engineering
Increased penalty for tech leaders

v.0.0.10
Libraries and aqueducts can't be built during Medieval Era (until invention of Printing Press and Chemistry, respectively)
Included Saharian Desertification modmod by Baldyr
Simulated Fertile Crescant desertification
Laboratory now requires Fiber Optics instead of Computers
The first 3 units in a city causes no unhealthiness
Founding a city doesn't destroy flood plains
The more religions in a city the more unhappiness
Increased hammer cost of military units for Babylonia to balance additional hammers from plains
Health and happiness from bonuses are now capped at the population of the city
Health over unhealthiness overflow now reduces food consumption
"We love the Ruler day" is now celebrated every time when there is twice that many happy faces as unhappy and city has population 3 or bigger
During "We love the Ruler day" food storage is doubled
Jerusalem now regains independence once it's owner is attacked by stronger civilization
Hanging gardens now grants +4 healthiness (was +1)

v0.0.9
Great depressions now last for 4 turns instead of 8
Stability is now 10% closer to 0
City founding is now allowed in tundra when next to a river
Russian 2nd and 3rd goal are checked at 2000AD
Removed scenario- related code from CvEventManager.py, which caused some bugs
Winner of the game gets pernament golden era and stability set to 100

v.0.0.8
Added decreasing returns to scale in corporations (so they are nerfed a bit)
Removed national wonders per city cap
Trading company is now water world wonder (3 allowed) and gives additional 1 trade route for every city
Coastal cities now require 100% more hammers to build non-coastal world wonder, 10% more to build non-coastal building and 25% more to train a land unit
Non-coastal cities now require 25% less hammers to train a land unit
Stability now influences the production needed to build a world wonder
Kremlin is no longer obsolete with fiber optics
World wonders now require 10% more hammers for each active world wonder owned by the civilization
Moved +1 health bonus from guilds (now +1) to ecology (now +2)
-1 initial health (to balance -1 food consumption from trade route)
Fixed industrial park related bug (so the building gives +25% production for coal and +25% for oil)
Again increased population of civilizations

v.0.0.7
Fixed negative-income-bug which caused game to crash
Trade routes now reduce food consumption
Added research penalty if neighbours are backwards (up to 6x)
Increased corporation maintenance costs (to 60% of vanilla)
Increased corporation spread costs (to 40% of vanilla)
AI now prefer research over gold over culture and espionage

v.0.0.6
Fixed mercenary related bug which caused units appear at Antarctica
Updated RFCM to 1.2.2
Reversed spawn of Melpum back to 760BC
Reduced power of Gallic Warrior to 5

v.0.0.5
Integrated with Next War mod

C++:
Changed way the population is counted

v.0.0.4
XML:
Added City Hall building
Added Urban Park building
Rebalanced civics

Python:
Added cities between Germany and Russia
Removed Poland and Hungary from German spawn zone
Made Russian spawn zone a lot smaller
Changed German capital to Vienna and made Vienna tile better place for a city
Ensured Mongolian war on spawn with China and independents
Spawned Krakow, Kiev and Vilnius
Spawned Viking settler at Copenhagen tile
Removed one starting settler from Netherlands, gave them additional army and colonists

v.0.0.3
Updated to 1.21 RFCM version

XML:
Removed health penalty from factory for oil and coal (this time for real)
Changed some civcs to make them less RFCC
SoL now needs steel instead of democracy
Increased cost of technologies by 10%

Python:
Barbarians are now unable of razing holy cities (don't think it's working)
Melpum spawns later
Tweaked Roman scenario
Set starting civics for every civ

C++:
Barbarians are now unwilling of razing holy cities

v.0.0.2
XML:
Fixed Oracle's double bonus bug
Doubled health bonus from aqueducts and hospitals
Added health given by technologies
Moved +1 sea movement from refrigeration to satellites
Priests now give health, artists happiness
Palace allows 2 artists now

Python:
Doubled amount of Arabian Camel Archers at spawn
Tripled amount of Mongolian Keshiks at spawn
Removed Jerusalem from Arabian flip zone
Increased Arabian chances for war at spawn (to use it's additional units)
Fixed Celtic troops spawning at the top of city

C++:
Every citizen causes 2 unhealthiness now
Included Specialist Enhancements mod by Supercheese

v.0.0.1
XML:
5x lowered corporations maintenance and spread costs
5x increased corporations spread factor
Decreased gold produced by HQ to 1
Doubled corporations bonuses
Completely changed civics
GA yet again can be triggered by 1 GP
Factories now gives +10 hammers instead of +25% and -3 health despite coal and oil
German UB gives 1 free engineer instead of 2 slots, -3 health despite oil
Industrial park gives +25% production for oil and 25% for coal
Tripled nukes cost and made them even more deadly
Tanks and other mechanized units gets additional movement point
Gunships are 1,5x faster
Industrialism gives +1 movement point for every land unit
Weakened cannon (but gave +75% city attack) and musketman (which is cheaper)
Doubled tactical nuke's range
Changed statistics of knight (stronger attack, but needs castle)
Decreased chances of global warming
Changed bonuses of Stonehenge and Oracle

Python:
Included Roman PyScenario
Decreased number of Roman and Carthaginian troops at spawn
Decreased probability of war at Roman spawn

Civics
http://img713.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=civ4screenshot0055.jpg


Link
http://www.moddb.com/members/luko555066/downloads/rfc-luko
Version: 0.0.13

Credits
I wish to thank numerous people. Without them the mod would be never created or at least be a lot worse. Even worse, as some people would say
First, I have to thank Rhye for creating such a great mod. Without him I would never come back to cIV
Thanks to embryodead for continuing Rhye's work. Without him I would have no base to modify
Neither last nor least thanks to Baldyr for unimaginable help. For PyScenario, motivation, etc. Man, I owe you
I need to thank supercheese for his Specialist Enhancements which I really love
Thanks to Leoreth for posting in this thread XD (and reading invisible text. And making a mod from which I can steal some ideas )
And of course thanks to Corossol whose RFCC gave me most of ideas.

 

[LuKo]

Future plans
Add +1health/specialist in environmentalism (too much typing for now )
Use existing UUs and UBs (possibly after complete change)
Add "old" civs bonuses reserved for "new" ones (like faster workers) (after balancing "old" civs)
Add new leaderheads and "relay race" of civs (Rome->Italy, Grece->Byz->Greece) (someday)
Expand Unique Historical Quests (probably in new version)
Include new independent "civs" (you guessed right- Poland)
Religion changes (steal most things from RFCC)
Add tons of UUs and Wonders ("...but it won't be today and it won't be you!")

Great Generals

Spoiler :

Country- name, requirements, bonuses, penalties for death of GG
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Greece- Alexander the Great, 356BC, 4 very fast Phalanx, war with Persia, Babylon and Egypt, collapse of Greece
Carthage- Hannibal Barca, 220BC, 2 Numidian Cavlary, 1 War Elephant, 4 Spearmen, 3 Archers, war with Rome, flip of European holdings to Rome, spawn of Roman army next to Carthage
Rome- Julius Caesar, 50BC, 4 Legions, 3 Spearmen, 3 Archers, 3 Settlers, 3 Galleys, -20 stability, 2 (scaled) turns of anarchy, Hereditary Rule
France- Napoleon, Nationalism, 1 very fast and 3 normal Riflemen, none

 

[LuKo]

New buildings

Spoiler :

Name- requirements, hammer cost, effect
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City Hall- Civil Service, 120, +5 gold/turn, 1 slot for Artist and 1 for Spy
Urban Park- Biology, 80, +2 Health, +1 Happiness

UHQ

Spoiler :

Country requirements, prize
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Egypt control Jerusalem, 3 War Chariots (if done before 100BC) or 100 gold (if done later)
Greece discover Mathematics until 1AD, Great Sciencist
Persia control Athens before 1AD, Great General and 5 Phalanx
Carthage control Rome before 1AD, Great Merchant and Great General
Carthage control Sur before 1AD, two Triremes
France be first to discover Nationalism, 3 Riflemen, 5 Grenadiers, 4 Cannons, all 17exp
Russia be first to discover Communism, 10 infantry
Portugal control Delhi, Great Merchant

 

[LuKo]

Ideas for buildings

Spoiler :

Name- requirements, hammer cost, effect
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Graveyard- Mysticism, ?, +1 Health, +1 Happiness
Well- The Wheel, ?, +2 Health, needed to build Aqueduct
Post Office- ancient era tech, ?, +1 trade route, 1 slot for Merchant
Opera House- Music, ?, ?
Arsenal- Military Tradition, ?, ?
Police Office- industrial era tech, ?, ?
Cinema- industrial era tech, ?, ?
Casino- industrial era tech, ?, ?
?- modern era tech, ?, +1 Hammer on the city's water tiles
Railroad Station- Railroads, ?, ? -I'm not sure if it's a good idea
Metro- Combustion, Public Transportation, ?, ?
Ring Road- ?, ?, +1 Commerce on the city's road tiles
Treatment Plant- Ecology, ?, ?

Ideas for wonders

Spoiler :

Name- requirements, hammer cost, effect
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Trajan's Column- ?, ?, ?
Tower of Babel- ?, ?, Win the game
Terracotta Army- ?, ?, ?
Ishtar Gate- ?, ?, ?
Pantheon- ?, ?, ?
Porcelain Tower- ?, ?, ?
Tokapi Palace- ?, ?, ?
Palace of Westminster- ?, ?, ?
Empire State Building- ?, ?, ?
CN Tower- ?, ?, ?
Grand [Sydney] Opera House- ?, ?, ?
The Tallest Building- ?, ?, ? -based on one mod
The Fastest Supercomputer- ?, ?, ? -based on The Tallest Building

 

[Leoreth]

Interesting. I like the idea to give +1 speed with Industrialism, and am very curious how you will fit Poland in

 

[LuKo]

As independent cities and UU- Polish hussars. It should make German colonisation a bit harder, but "Poland" will be for some time the main enemy of Russia.

 

[Leoreth]

It would be nice to see Hussars as available mercenaries as well. And if everything works out, Poland might even put an end to Germany's unrealistic expansion to the east.

 

[civ_king]

As independent cities and UU- Polish hussars. It should make German colonisation a bit harder, but "Poland" will be for some time the main enemy of Russia.

Could it beat Russia and subjugate Moscow and Kyiv like in real life?

 

[LuKo]

Doubt it. Still, it won't be very soon (at 0.0.3 maybe). Just now I need ideas how to balance early powerful civics (already changed Stonehenge's power to not give Egypt +100% hammers).

 

[Leoreth]

Could a elaborate a little bit more? What civics do you consider overpowered, and for whom?

 

[LuKo]

I'll post ss with civics. China loves whipping which can be done now without slavery. Egyptian UHV is a lot easier with HR culture bonus. Generally speaking new civics are a lot stronger so early civs gain more advantage than later ones.

 

[LuKo]

Thanks for all your great ideas Seriously: I would like you (you, you and you. Yeah, you too) to post any ideas, complains about current mechanics (like depression system, stability system, etc.) because it's a great help for me. I would like to see comments about already present changes and about my plans. I posted ss with my overpowered civics in first post, so feel free to criticize.
Now I'm struggle with .dll compiling to add -2health/pop. I hope it will balance early civs a bit. But if I would be unable to do it soon I'll just post 0.0.2b, as current version has some annoying bugs (like Oracle double bonus, or destroying Arrentium [if you didn't settle Rome=you lose]).

 

[LuKo]

Yay! Finally compiled .dll XD Now I'm gonna add some things (hoping to balance everything a bit) and release new version (OK, I know nobody is waiting for it, but still I'm happy )

 

[nody]

What is RFCM?

 

[Leoreth]

RFC Marathon, I suppose.

I care for your modmod, by the way. It's just that I want to wait until you've added some more features; and I guess many others do the same. Don't lose your motivation

 

[Baldyr]

Yay! Finally compiled .dll XD

Great! Way to go! (Soon enough you can teach me all about it. )

 

[LuKo]

RFC Marathon, I suppose.

Yep

I care for your modmod, by the way. It's just that I want to wait until you've added some more features; and I guess many others do the same. Don't lose your motivation

Yay! With compiling motivation get additional energy

Great! Way to go! (Soon enough you can teach me all about it. )

If you really want- PM me. It's really easy (though, there aren't any good tutorials AFAIK).

 

[LuKo]

Version 0.0.2r is uploaded!

 

[KMRblue1027]

I haven't downloaded it yet but looking at the civic screens why does the game force you to be a commie? I know in Europe socialism is more widely accepted but I really don't think a free market makes people unhappy.

PS: Oh could you make it so GA prevent anarchy again and give every Civ a 1 turn golden age so they can switch civics on spawn without 5-8 turn of anarchy on marathon

 

[Leoreth]

Thanks to Leoreth for posting in this thread XD

It's way too easy to get creditted by you. So I guess I can stop helping you with development now, right?