Hello,
please dont understand my efforts to rework my version of TAM as a lack of respect.
I really appreciate the great piece of work that TAM is. There are marvelous ideas : The Silk Road (really genious), Tech Tree, the Civilzations, the Civilization Pictures, the 'Area-resources', the new Wonders and the already finished parts of the Civilopedia.
I did not know that there is already a team working on Advanced TAM. I was thinking that the project is finished.
Originally I just wanted to do some minor changes (it is the first modding that I do). But then it became an obsession.
I just remembered that I spent hours e.g. in balancing the starting Civs abilities and starting techs to make sure that every every ability and tech is equally in numbers (every 'major' ability Rel, Scien, Mil, Ind, 7 times and every minor ability Com, Sea, Exp, Agric 6 times and the same with the starting techs).
Then I took care that every combination is unique and that every 'circle of cultures' (that are civilizations that are nearby each other) like e.g. the Lydia, Hittites, Troy- area have alltogether 3 different starting techs. So every civ can trade one tech with every other civ in their area, but has to import other of the 7 possible starting techs from other cultural circles. So no area should have a to fast start, to keep up the necessity of trading and exchanging knowlegde.
After I finished that I also had to check the resources on the starting positions to make sure, that a civ with Domestication has not only wheat on their starting place, but cattle.
I added lots of flavors like Egypt, Hellas and Steppe to make sure that e.g. Egypt is building the Pyramides. Therefore I also changed Theocracy because no AI-civ never used it (it was too worse, even with flavor and with Favorite government - maybe now I make it unique to Egypt)
and so on and so on
Btw. I also used the map of Rise of Rome. But just because I personally liked the historical book perspective better, than your more innovative global based view.
So if you think it is a new mod based on your ruleset than i would see this as a honor. But I think it still feels like TAM and I still think we can share some work. Unfortunately you are right. Units, civs, all the changes in the .biq are not intertradeable.
But I could really need assistance with following :
I could need luxury versions of the ambersmall.pcx, amberlarge.pcx, silver (small, large), wool (small, large) and fruits (small, large).
In history Lydia was incrediably rich because of vast gold and silver deposits, on the other hand, Carthage was the biggest exporter of wool and amber was carried on long ways from baltic sea to the mediteranean world. So I wanted all this resources to be tradeable and so I made them luxury. The Gold I could change on my own, but all the others failed and really look awful.
I also would need strategic versions of marble (large, small) and maybe elephants (small), but there is one from ptw that is fitting, too.
I changed elephants and marble to strategic to make sure, that there is not too much, luxury. Already now there are 9 luxuries, but I hope that furs will be very unique on my map (the deposits are far away from any starting locations since I cutted the Goths)
I also added camels , but just because I wanted to see some camel riders in africa and I thought prerequesite horses is not really fitting
But my special interest (and long term project when I ever finished the map and the biq) is the Civilopedia. There is so much flavor possible to add. So I really would like if we could later exchange the civilopedias and the pediaicons (and maybe also the buildingssmall, large and unit32)
I doubt that I can make the buildings on my own. I would like to use your ones.
Last but not least I would like to keep the old leaderheads. At the beginning I was think about replacing them with all the great animated leaderheads floating around (I am also asking R8xft for a pericles head). But at the actual state I get used to the existing ones and only later I will maybe change it.
So I would need a .flc of pericles (you already started to make one as I saw in the advisor files). And also small versions of the existing leaderheads (I dunno whether you have some more files, but there are a lots missing,especially for the civilopedia)
I really would enjoy if we could work together.
best regards
Ruediger
