Volcanoes and plagues

[Gabryel Karolin]

It seems to me that these two things were implemented not primarily to enchance gameplay but to give players (and future expansions) a chance of building dynamic graphics and random events into their scenarios. Tbh, volcanoes seem fun, but they are more of an interessting curiosa than anything else, and whats up with using the old pollution gfx for lava? Plagues arent even in the epic game (or can you chose to have it )?

Sooo... my question is, how modifíable are these two? Can you change the volcano gfx to a farmers hut and make it spawn irrigation? Can you rename a plague to Airborde afrodisiac and increase the population in cities it affects rather than decrease it, and so on ?

I dont have the game until friday, at earliest, what have you american people discovered?

 

[warpstorm]

No and no.

Volcanoes blow up; spewing lava and killing units and cities.

Plague spreads and wipes out units and population.

The main thing you can change is how often they come into play.

 

[Dearmad]

Which reminds me- I had a GL kicking back in my capital when the plague came... talk about tragedy... killed him. We buried him in a shallow mass grave along with a few thousand other civilians.

I modded the epic game to include up to three plagues over the spread of the entire game. Makes things scary.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Hey, I just thought of a scary thought. Plagues with Regicide

 

[warpstorm]

Originally posted by Louis XXIV
Plagues with Regicide

You mean like the Middle Ages scenario?

 

[Louis XXIV]

At least that's mass regicide.

You might start wanting to guard outside of cities if the plague is a problem.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Originally posted by Louis XXIV
At least that's mass regicide.

You might start wanting to guard outside of cities if the plague is a problem.

I haven't found the plague a problem yet. I haven't gotten very far but so far no plague. Fall of Rome as the Celts on the other hand...

 

[Gabryel Karolin]

Heheh, ok, guess I got carried away . Thanks anyway.

 

[CautiousChaos]

Dearmad,

Likely the answer is here somewhere, but without a search feature... I am guessing the Epic game doesn't allow a GUI switch for toggling volcanoes and plagues. You mentioned modding. Is this done through the .ini file(s) or through the editor proper?

-cc