Solver's unofficial BtS 3.17 patch

[r_rolo1]

Solver, can you give a look to the save attached to this post? AI is making settler stacks... Never saw that before.....

 

[AngryZealot]

I miss the strings even when not running mods. How can it be due to mods?

 

[r_rolo1]

BUG, versions prior to 2.30 installed ( even if you updated later ). Go to the BUG mod forum and they have the instructions for the fix there

 

[Willem]

Hmm, the Pedia displays flavour units? As in, it will show an Asian style Archer if I view the entry as a Chinese civ?

IIRC, this was added in the 3.13 patch.

 

[Psyringe]

I miss the strings even when not running mods. How can it be due to mods?

You probably have a mod in your CustomAssets. Clean your CustomAssets, and the string errors should go away. Or do as Solver said, and look at the BUG mod forums for the specific file that needs to be removed (if you used an older BUG version before, because in that case that's the problem).

 

[Slobadog]

I have a new mod that contains fixes for history and gameplay information errors that exist in the Civilopedia.





I think that they would be better suited as part of a patch than as a seperate mod.



The mod that i speak of is called "More Accurate Civilopedia". It is actually 2 mods that have recently been combined into 1.





One of the 2 mods was previously released on Civfanatics as "More Historical Civilopedia" It contained corrections of several historical errors in the Civilopedia. All of the corrections have been backed up by at least 3 sources each.




The other mod is a previously unreleased group of corrections to several errors in the strategy articles in the Civilopedia. This mod does not seek to complete incomplete articles unless a article's incompleteness creates a obviously false impression. I have no interest in completing every article as i do not see the point of having the strategy articles(Except for the civilization strategy articles). My goal was to stop things like the Ballista Elephant from being referred to as a melee unit and the Jaguar from being listed as only having a bonus in Jungles. Just obvious mistakes. Nothing more.





I combined both of these into a previously unreleased "More Accurate Civilopedia" mod. I request that you take a look at it and respond with your opinion on its usefulness in your unoffical 3.17 patch.



"More Accurate Civilopedia"

 

[Breunor]

I just wanted to say thank you for all the work on the patches.

Ditto! The 3.17 patch is really great, and this makes it even better.

Best wishes,

Breunor

 

[Slobadog]

On another note: I noticed that the modern roads are gone. Is this fixable?

 

[Solver]

I'm still not sure it's a bug.

 

[Balderstrom]

At any rate, version 0.19 is coming up.
I have also received a request for a 50-civ version. Here is the dll file which is tweaked for 50 civs - download version 0.19 and then replace the dll with this one. Well, the ones who wanted this know what to do

Why not just link this in the first post, and keep it updated on par w/ the current version?

Or is there any reason to not include the 50Civ option part into the main Patch?

IE if I just want 18 Civs, Either DLL will work. But if I want 18 CIVs and the option for possible Colonies the main DLL wont work.

Is there some disadvantage I am missing here from just maintaining one DLL that will be compatible for everyone using it?

 

[deanej]

The more civs the game allows, the shorter civ and leader names have to be.

As for modern roads, I've never had trouble telling them apart from railroads and don't see why that's grounds for removal. Besides, by that point your workers are probably railroading over every tile.

 

[Balderstrom]

FYI, this could be included: I love asphalt! (or the case for Modern Roads in BTS 3.17) - its modern roads but dark brown

@deanej - there is a string limit on the total length of all leader's names? That doesn't make sense ... even 50 leaders x 20chars is 1000...

 

[deanej]

I think I read something about one. It may have to do with how the XML reads it and not the text string, though.

And those roads Balderstrom posted look great (and new; the Firaxis ones look like they've been driven on for 10 years).

 

[Solver]

Why not just link this in the first post, and keep it updated on par w/ the current version?

Or is there any reason to not include the 50Civ option part into the main Patch?

IE if I just want 18 Civs, Either DLL will work. But if I want 18 CIVs and the option for possible Colonies the main DLL wont work.

Is there some disadvantage I am missing here from just maintaining one DLL that will be compatible for everyone using it?

The 50-civ DLL was a one-off thing I did upon request. I don't really want to maintain both, particularly because changing the number of players requires a full recompile of the DLL, which takes a good amount of time.

 

[Minor Annoyance]

I forget -- vassals can't run spy missions against their masters, right?

That was in a past patch. I think before 3.13.

 

[Aristos]

FYI, this could be included: I love asphalt! (or the case for Modern Roads in BTS 3.17) - its modern roads but dark brown

It's black. Thus the title of the post: asphalt.

Yes, I think it should be included.

 

[EmperorFool]

Does this fix the problem with the missing strings?

Please see this thread for the solution to the missing TXT_KEY problems.

 

[Balderstrom]

It's black. Thus the title of the post: asphalt.

Yes, I think it should be included.

Are you making fun of my monitor ?

 

[EmperorFool]

Are you making fun of my monitor ?

Maybe you're black/white color blind?

 

[Caboose]

Minor fix:

Remove " Ratio" from mouseover on other leaders when "No espionage" is turned on.