Starting with certain Founding Fathers?

[Great Oleander]

Hi!

After a long pause, I’ve recently started playing Civ4-Colonization again.
However, I like to tweak around with some game mechanics and I wonder if anyone can tell me, if it is possible to mod the game so that some nations start with certain founding fathers? (e.g. the Dutch start with Peter Minuit or the English with John Rolfe, etc...)
Thanks in advance!

Cheers

 

[orlanth]

Hello,
Starting with actual fathers would probably require modding the DLL code base itself; however, the functions of many fathers are implemented through Traits and it would be easy to add a new Trait for each civ using XML, which replicates the effect of that father. For instance, you could edit Assets/XML/Civilizations/CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml and add the following section after <Traits> for the Dutch.

				<Trait>
					<TraitType>TRAIT_PETER_MINUIT</TraitType>
					<bTrait>1</bTrait>
				</Trait>

good luck and happy modding!

 

[Great Oleander]

Thank you orlanth for the quick answer!

edit: I've tried it and it worked perfect!