Solver's Unofficial BtS Patch

[Solver]

Yes. No forts in foreign territory, period.

 

[LordGek]

Yes. No forts in foreign territory, period.

Only a good thing, kind of hard to believe you could build a fort in enemy territory but not a windmill or a farm (sure, not clue why you'd want to but I see them as being much less intensive structures).

 

[marioflag]

Solver before you released your unofficial patch i modded by myself Espionagemissioninfo.xml to change both Poison Water and Foment Unhappiness.After installing your patch i noticed that the xml file has not changed at all.I need to manually change values of both missions, or your patch does affect both missions even if their values are not changed in xml?

 

[Solver]

The patch will affect both missions anyway, but how it does depends on the XML. With the normal XML files, it'd cause both missions to cause an effect of 8 for 8 turns on all gamespeeds - whether that number remains 8 depends on your XML.

 

[marioflag]

do you mean that unhappy/unhealthy faces won't decrease with turns? so after 7 turns i have used poison water, the enemy city will have 8 unhealthy faces ainstead of 2?

 

[Solver]

No no, they decrease of course.

 

[Grimus]

Hey Solver,

Excellent work my man... as well Gyathaar, Blake, and Dale for their contributions.

I have a question though. If I'm not mistaken, how come the Military Academy fix isn't included with this patch?

To be honest and fair, I still don't construct it unless I have the required tech, but I don't know if the AI does the same.

 

[LordGek]

Hey Solver,

Excellent work my man... as well Gyathaar, Blake, and Dale for their contributions.

I have a question though. If I'm not mistaken, how come the Military Academy fix isn't included with this patch?

To be honest and fair, I still don't construct it unless I have the required tech, but I don't know if the AI does the same.

Oh oh, I know the answer to this one!

Solver is trying to stick very strictly to fixes he can make in the CivGameCore.DLL. So far no XML, Python, Sound, Art, nor even the main EXE have been touched in these tweaks.

 

[Solver]

The Military Academy fix is available separately, you can get it from the Apolyton thread.

 

[Grimus]

Oh, I see, thank you very much.

 

[tazar]

I just wanted to ask a simple noob question.
When i download your patch it simply opens a folder with about 7 files. TBH i have no idea what to do with these
I assumed it would be like the official patches which auto-load.
If u could plz explain how i download the patch i would be real happy-happy

 

[ori]

I just wanted to ask a simple noob question.
When i download your patch it simply opens a folder with about 7 files. TBH i have no idea what to do with these
I assumed it would be like the official patches which auto-load.
If u could plz explain how i download the patch i would be real happy-happy

From the 12 files you really only need the one called CvGameCoreDLL.dll
copy that one to .../Firaxis Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 4/Beyond the Sword/Assets overwriting the one that is already there (you might want to copy the original file somewhere as a backup). And you are all set. Unless you intend to mod yourself you can forget about the other files

 

[Solver]

Exactly

I know no one likes to do so, but reading the first post completely makes that clear, actually.

 

[marioflag]

Solver i don't remember the last change to AI and poison water and foment unhappiness; do you have released a new version of your unofficial patch?i have the one of 16 august

 

[Jaffa_lord]

Now these kinds of patches I like. Not the "v. 3.0.00.001, v.3.0.00.2"...
The official patchs describe that they dont do a whole lot.

 

[Solver]

Marioflag, August 16 is the latest. Though you may want to restore your espionage mission XML file.

 

[tazar]

i am still pretty confused
so i go to bts, assets and copy that file into it?
Only thing is there are 4 other folders in assets: assets0.fpk, assets1. fpk etc?
There is no file similar to the downloadable one given to me...
So what exactly do i delete and where do i put this new file, exactly?

 

[Solver]

What version of the game is that?

 

[Kalimakhus]

Tazar

you actually went to My Documents/My Games/Beyond The Sword/assets didn't you?

You should go to "C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets" There you will find CvGameCoreDLL.dll backup this file then insert the one from the patch.

 

[tazar]

woohoo found it (finally)
Thanks y'all!