Scenario - Eras limitation - need help!!!

[kib]

I am a begginer in creating own maps/scenarios and have lotsa stupid questions on how to work on the Civ3xEdit. Can I get some help/advice? Thank you!

When creating scenario/map with the Editor, what have I to do in order for the scenario to play in the certain age only - like Ancient age only or Middle one, and disallow civilizations develop beyond the Ancient or Middle age? I tried once to have limitation up to Middle age by deleting salpter on the map through Edit Rules\Natural Resources (and salpter disappeared on the map). I thought, if no resource available on the map, like salpter, no further development (production of particular units) will be possible and this is the way to have the Age limitation. But once the Gunpowder has been researched, civilizations still can produce musketeer without any salpter production. Another method I tried was to delete the Gunpowder invention through Edit Rules, which resulted in a strange way - musketeer is among the first units availble for producing in the Ancient Age.

 

[Plotinus]

Pull up the window for a particular unit and you will see there is an option for which resources it requires. With the default rules, units that need Saltpeter will have that resource in this option. If you remove Saltpeter from the game completely, that box will go blank, and the units will no longer require any resource. What you need to do is keep Saltpeter in the game, but ensure that there is none on the map.

Similarly, if you remove the Gunpower tech, then any units which previously required that tech to be built will now require no tech at all (hence the possibility of building them from the start).

What you need to do is delete *all* the techs after the last one that you want to be researchable. You *also* need to delete all the units, improvements, and Wonders that would have required these techs.

If you want to start the game at a particular era, I think you need to look under the Scenario Options menu. You can specify for each individual civ which era it begins in.

 

[mrtn]

All questions should go in the main creation and customization forum, hopefully a moderator will move this thread soon, as I've reported it.

 

[kib]

Thank a lot!!!!