Rebalancing Civ4: RtR Mod

[Krill]

Yeah, I think that would be prudent.

[Dhalphir]

This mod will never be done if we don't stop suggesting and requesting features. Need to decide on a stop point, focus on ironing out all remaining bugs, and call it a day.

[Krill]

It'll probably never be "done", for the reasons you said.

[Dhalphir]

Few mods are.

[Krill]

Honestly, there's a bunch of stuff that could "fixed", such as fixing the late era starts mechanic, or vassal mechanics, or even team games (what with the weird tech costs and stuff).

[Commodore]

Um. Also need to fix the game crashing when starting a PBEM in 2.0.3.8 there.

[Krill]

Just tested, it works for me.

[pindicator]

Um. Also need to fix the game crashing when starting a PBEM in 2.0.3.8 there.

Ok, i'm not the only one then. The crazy thing for me is i'm not crashing everytime, and I can't figure the rhyme or reason of it

[T-hawk]

On circumnavigation, I did some code research. It's late so I'll get to trying this out in a day or two.

The movement is a global define, CIRCUMNAVIGATE_FREE_MOVES in GlobalDefines.xml, so if nothing else it could be disabled (zeroed) without any code modding.

It can't easily be changed to per-player. There's a single global flag for whether it has been achieved by anyone yet. When someone does, the game changes a field for extra sea movement for that player (just like Refrigeration tech.) Who has achieved circumnavigation isn't stored at all, only the game-wide status and the result of extra movement.

Looks like it is easy to change the result from movement to sight. In CvTeam::testCircumnavigated, instead of calling changeExtraMoves, call changeExtraWaterSeeFromCount. This is what Optics tech does. (But talk about an awkwardly named function, heh.)

The 33% (actually exactly 1/3) water requirement is trivially changeable, in CvGame::circumnavigationAvailable(). I think I could even bring this out to a global define so the number is changeable without further code editing, are we interested in that?

I don't want to try to make circumnavigation availability or numeric threshold a game option, since that involves Python coding on the UI screens and would thread through quite a number of places in the code. It can already be disabled via GlobalDefines for a one-off game if necessary.

[Krill]

Um. Also need to fix the game crashing when starting a PBEM in 2.0.3.8 there.

Um. Also need to fix the game crashing when starting a PBEM in 2.0.3.8 there.

Ok, i'm not the only one then. The crazy thing for me is i'm not crashing everytime, and I can't figure the rhyme or reason of it

I can't pinpoint this either, because I've been able to start PBEMS on huge maps with 34 players, small maps with 34 players, normal 6 player games...are you randomly generating a map, or are you trying to start a PBEM rfom a WBS you have already created? If the latter, I think the crash may have something to do with the worldbuilder file only showing 18 players, but the new mod has 34 players available...