The settings file has been set up to make the map generation as easy as possible. It does not guarantee a "balanced". What it does give a good chance of, is a quickly generated map that looks great and provides a good starting point for map balancing (as opposed to the base script where 1/100 are viable maps, about 4/5 are sound with these settings). I do believe, after generating a few dozen map scripts, that these settings eliminates the Lewwyn effect of resource deserts.
This is what I want: TBS, could you please use these map settings as the basis for your map generation. If you choose to change these settings, because you think it is necessary to provide a better map, that is your decision, and you do not need to tell the players.
However, there are certain things you will need to check and amend on the map before it is ready (ie, these are changes I am asking you to make if you use the map settings provided)
Please balance the starts. Standard expectations for an RB game, make the food fair, give every one two hammer starts. Not all starts are given fresh water either, and this will need to be added to the list. The map generator does not balance the starts beyond ensuring they all have a set number of food resources.
Please check happiness resources. The map settings are set to ensure that players do have pre-calendar happy nearer to them than other players, but the distance, presence of jungle etc is not accounted for in the map generator. Please ensure that players are not screwed over (ie happy is under jungle, or really far away).
Please ensure that coastal routes wrap around the Y axis.
Standard RB strategic resource balance please.
Other than that, thank you for your offer to make the map for us. I look forward to playing on it (although I'm not promising to whine at some point in the future!)
A reference map which will (hopefully) be updated and filled in as we explore further. Correct to turn 82109 140.
Old maps:
Barb spawning mechanics (stolen from SevenSpirits):
Barbs are spawned for each landmass individually. The game will spawn barbs up to a max of one barb per 50 (on prince) unowned tiles on the landmass. This is why islands (smaller than 50 tiles) won't get barbs.
At other difficulties, unowned land tiles per barb unit:
Also: how many barbs spawn per turn on a landmass? It's one, plus one more for every four missing units. So if a landmass supports 20 barbs, and there are currently 4 on it, then there are 16 missing, so 1+4=5 will be created.
- All xbows now give collateral, China's are just better.
- Barb animals until t40 - and those animals will kill warriors, so do we use scouts to protect travelling settlers? Makes me like Native America...
- Airships can't see submarines - pray that we don't get that far down the tech tree.
- Spain's citadel doesn't require walls so it can be instabuilt by a conquistador if we're under attack
- Wonders don't get resource multipliers
- Events are on
- Peace treaties only last 5 turns
Naval changes:
- Circumnav isn't a race any more - everyone can get it eventually (so watch out for fast moving boats!)
- Ocean costs 3 to move through (so don't worry about fast moving boats!)
- Naval Flanking promo reduces ocean movement cost by one (so worry a bit about fast moving boats!)
- Galleons are 4-movers, but should become 5-movers for most players when they circumnavigate, then with 2xp they can take Nav 1 to be 6-movers. Over ocean that's only a 2-mover, so actually with 2xp they should take Naval Flanking 1 to become a 3-mover. (A great general can give Morale for 7 base moves - 4 over ocean.)
There's a lot more naval XP available now, so boats should all start with 1-3XP, and later 8-10XP:
- Lighthouse: +1XP to naval units.
- Harbour: +2XP to naval units.
- Customshouse: +3XP to naval units.
- Drydock: +7XP to naval units.
- Moai: +4XP to naval units.
Financial: +1 commerce on all non-river tiles that have 2+ commerce. +100% production of Bank. +35% production of Library, Market.
Expansive: +2 health per city. +35% production of Worker, Work Boat. +100% production of Market, Aqueduct, Grocer, Harbor.
Creative: +2 culture per city. +100% production of Theatre. +35% production of Library, Observatory.
Charismatic: +2 happiness. +1 happiness from Broadcast Tower. -25% XP needed for promotions. +100% production of Colosseum, +35% production of Library.
Protective: Free Drill 1, Drill 3 promotion for archery and gunpowder units. +100 production of Granary, Walls.
Imperialistic: +50% production of Settlers. +100% Great General points. +100% production of Custom Houses. -10% city maintanence [Bonus not shown in interface. Bonus is multiplicative with other maintenance modifiers. Final displayed city maintenance value is correct and includes this bonus.]
Aggressive: Free C1 promo for melee and gunpowder units. -25% city maintenance [Bonus not shown in interface. Bonus is multiplicative with other maintenance modifiers. Final displayed city maintenance value is correct and includes this bonus.] +100% production of Barracks, Stable, Drydock.
Philosophical: +150% Great Person production, +100% production of University.
Industrious: +50% wonder production. Does not apply to Pyramids. +100% production of Forge. +35% production of Bank, University. -15% civic maintenance.
Organized, Spiritual: No change from BtS
Civs:
Civ: start tech 1/start tech 2. UB: building replacement: name. Effects changed from standard building (in RtR). UU: unit replacement. Name. Effects changed from standard unit (in RtR).
America: Agriculture/Fishing. UB: Barracks replacement: Armoury. +1XP to Gunpowder, +1XP to Mounted, +1XP to Armour, +2XP to Melee. UU: Musket replacement. Starts with Guerrilla 1 and Woodsman 1.
Arabia: Mysticism/Agriculture. UB: Library replacement: Madrassa. 2 Priest slots, 4 culture, cost 70. UU: Knight replacement: Camel Archer. starts with March. Does not require Horse.
Babylon: Agriculture/The Wheel. UB: Granary replacement: Garden. Requires Agriculture, cost 45, +1 health, no bonus production from trait. UU: Archer replacement. +50% against melee, no free strike, starts with Drill 1 and 2.
Byzantium: Fishing/Mysticism. UB: Barracks replacement. Hippodrome. +1 happy from iron, horse. UU: Trebuchet replacement. Counterweight Trebuchet. Strength 7. +40% city attack. Starts with Accuracy.
Celts: Hunting/Mysticism. UB: Wall replacement: Dun. Free Guerrilla 2 promotion to units built in this city, no trait production modifier. UU: Sword replacement. Starts with Guerilla 2.
China: Agriculture/Mining. UB: Theatre replacement: Pavilion. Available at Aesthetics. UU: Crossbow replacement. Causes Collateral Damage (max 60%), +2 free strikes. Requires Machinery (Does not require Construction)
Dutch: Fishing/Agriculture. UB: Customs House replacement: Dike. +1 commerce from river tiles, +1 trade route. Cost 120. UU: Galleon replacement. Strength 6.
Egypt: The Wheel/Agriculture. UB: Monument replacement: Obelisk. +2 Priest slots. UU: Chariot replacement. War Chariot. Strength 5. -25% against archers. Flank attack against Catapults (3 units, max 100%).
England: Fishing/Mining. UB: Bank replacement: Stock Exchange. +15% science. UU: Rifle replacement. +25% against gunpowder units, starts with Amphibious.
Ethiopia: Hunting/Mining. UB: Monument replacement. 1 Merchant slot; gives sentry to units built in this city. UU: Musket replacement. Oromo warrior. Starts with Drill 2 and Drill 4.
Greece: Hunting/Fishing. UB: Colosseum replacement: Odeon. +1XP to all land units in addition to base Colosseum XP. UU: Axe replacement. Phalanx. +100% defence against chariots.
Holy Roman Empire: Hunting/Mysticism. UB: Courthouse replacement: Rathaus. -75% city maintenance. UU: Longbow replacement. Landskneckt. +50% against Mounted units.
Inca: Agriculture/Mysticism. UB: Granary replacement: Terrace, +1 culture, cost 45 hammers, No trait production modifier. UU: Warrior replacement: Quechua. +100% against archery units.
India: Mysticism/Mining. UB: Granary replacement: Harrapan Granary, +1 happy, +1 health, cost 45 hammers, no bonus production from trait. UU: Pike replacement. Urukku Pikeman. Strength 8.
Japan: Fishing/The Wheel. UB: Harbour replacement. Nanban Harbour. +2XP for land units. UU: Maceman replacement. Samurai. Requires only Machinery (Does not require Civil Service) Starts with Drill 2.
Khmer: Mining/Hunting. UB: Aqueduct replacement: Baray. +1 food, +1 culture, +1 Artist slot. Cost 80. UU: War Elephant replacement. Ballistaphant (I don't know the actual name). Targets mounted first outside of cities. Can construct baray.
Korea: Agriculture/Mining. UB: University replacement. Seowan: +40% research, cost 150. UU: Catapult replacement. Hwacha. +50% against Melee units. Can kill.
Mali: The Wheel/Mining. UB: Forge replacement: Mint. +10% gold, +10% beakers. UU: Archer replacement. Skirmisher. Strength 4, -40% against archers.
Mongolia: Hunting/The Wheel. UB: Stables replacement: Ger. +1 culture, +4XP to mounted units, requires Archery, +100% production with horse, no trait production modifier. UU: Horse Archer replacement. Keshik. +1 free strike. Ignores terrain movement costs.
Native America: Hunting/Agriculture. UB: Monument replacement: Totem Pole. +3XP to Archery units, +1XP to Gunpowder units. Obsoletes at Assembly Line. UU: scout replacement. Tracker. Starts with Woodsman 3, can create Totem Pole. Updgrades to Explorer and musketman
Russia: Hunting/Mining. UB: University replacement: Research Institute. Cost 120 hammers. Free Scientist. UU: Cavalry replacement. +50% against Mounted units.
Spain: Mysticism/Fishing. UB: Castle Replacement. Citadel. -20% city maintenance. +2 culture. No espionage bonus. +2XP to siege units. Does not obsolete. Does not require Walls. UU: Cuirassier replacement. Conquestador. +50% against melee units. Can build Citadel.
Sumeria: The Wheel/Agriculture. UB: Courthouse replacement: Ziggarut. Available at Writing. Cost 90. UU: axe replacement. Vulture. Strength 6. 25% bonus against melee. 5% bonus against axemen.
Vikings: Hunting/Fishing. UB: Lighthouse replacement: Trading Post. Builds water units +25% faster. UU: Maceman replacement: Berserker. Starts with Amphibious.
Zulu: Agriculture/Hunting. UB: Barracks replacement: Ikhanda: -20% city maintenance. +100% production with iron. No production modifier from trait. UU: Spear replacement: Impi: -40% against archers, 2 moves
Leaders:
Kublai Khan: Leader traits are now Charismatic, Creative, changed from Aggressive, Creative.
Civics: Government civics:
Police State: Available at Military Science. Medium cost. +25% production of Military Units. -50% War Weariness.
Legal Civics:
Vassalage: Number of free units doubled (iBaseFreeUnits=10, iFreeUnitsPopulationPercent=20) provides free support for military units (only affects Pacifism unit cost). Requires Feudalism. Medium cost.
Bureaucracy: No Cost.
Nationhood: High cost.
Emancipation: +100% Improvement Upgrade Rate Modifier. +1 food, -1 commerce from Town. iAnarchyLength = 0 (does not cause anarchy to revolt to this civic). Requires Constitution. High cost.
Labor Civics:
Slavery: 30h for the 1st pop, 20h for the 2nd pop and subsequent pops. So, 30/50/70/90. On Quick speed, that's 20/33/46/60.
Serfdom: +75% Worker Speed, +1h for Watermills and Windmills. Unlimited Scientist, Artist and Merchant slots. Requires Feudalism. Medium upkeep. Labor civic.
Caste System: +1h for workshops. Unlimited Scientist, Artist and Merchant slots. Requires Code of Laws. Medium upkeep. Labor civic.
Environmentalism: +4 health, +2 health from public transport. +1 gold, hammer per specialist, +1 hammer from lumber mill. +3 hammers, +2 commerce from forest preserves. Unlimited Scientist, Artist and Merchant slots. Requires Chemistry. High upkeep.
Economy Civics:
Mercantilism: +1 free specialist, Medium Cost, requires Banking.
Free Market: No longer provides -25% Corporate Costs. Now provides +25% Trade Route Yield.
State Property: Medium cost.
Free Speech: +1 commerce from villages, +3 commerce from towns, +100% Culture, Low cost, requires Economics.
State property: Now Medium upkeep
Buildings:
Barracks: +1 culture, +3XP to land units. Cost 60 hammers.
Colosseum: +1 happy, +1 happy per 20% culture slider, +1XP to melee, archery, mounted and seige units. Requires Construction. Cost 80 hammers, Bonus XP applies to all Colosseum UB.
Jails: now -50% War Weariness.
Castles (and replacement UB): no longer decrease bombardment rate of catapults or trebuchets. Obsolete at Corporation (Except defensive bonus). Requires Walls. No trait or resource production bonus. Cost 80 hammers.
Temple: now requires Meditation (plus religion in city, no longer requires Priesthood)
Lighthouse: +1XP to naval units. +1 food from water domain tiles. Require Sailing. Cost 60 hammers.
Harbour: +2XP to naval units. +1 health from crab, clam, fish, +50% trade route yield. Requires Compass. Cost 80 hammers.
Drydock: +7XP to naval units. +50% production of naval units. -1 health. Requires Steel. Cost 120 hammers.
Wonders, Projects:
Wonder Resource Doublers: All wonders that had +100% production with a specific resource now only have +50% production with that resource.
Moai: +4XP to naval units.
Rushmore: Now -50% WW, (from -25%).
Red Cross: 200h.
West Point: 550h, +5XP. Now requires a lvl 5 unit (17XP/13XP for Charismatic).
Great Lighthouse: Now +1 trade route instead of +2 trade routes, enabled at Masonry, but needs lighthouse and Sailing (no functional change in the tech requirements but makes F6 look less cluttered).
SoZ: no WW effect. Now +3XP, 200 hammers, no building prerequisites. No longer gets +100% production from Ivory. Can be built on Medieval starts and earlier.
Taj Mahal: Triggers Golden Age, +2 Great Artist points/turn, requires Nationalism (No production bonus from marble)
Mausoleum of Maussollos: +50% Golden Age length. Cost 450 hammers. Requires Calendar. Obsoletes at Nationalism (No production bonus from marble)
The Internet: Now a wonder. 2k cost, +15% beakers in every city, +2 scientist gpp, double production speed with copper. No longer a project.
Cristo Redentur: +100% SPI production, -50% Anarchy instead of -100%.
SDI: Removed from the game
Religious Shrines: Buddhist, Hindu and Jewish Shrines can only be built in Ancient start games. Confucian shrine can only be built in Classical and Ancient start games. Toaist, Muslim and Christian shrines can only be built in Medieval, Classical, and Ancient start games.
Base unit changes:
Scouts: Require no tech. Every player starts with a scout instead of a warrior.
Swordsman (and all replacements): +50% city attack
Archer (and all replacements): +30% defense against Swordsmen.
War Elephants: Strength 7, +50% vs. Mounted units. Requires Iron, Iron Working, Horseback Riding, Construction.
Trebuchet: Now requires Machinery, instead of Engineering.
Crossbowman: Strength 6, 1 free strike, +50% against melee units, +25% defense against macemen. Archery unit, requires iron, Archery, Machinery, and Construction. iCollateralDamageLimit: 40%; iCollateralDamageMaxUnits: 3 (causes maximum 40hp damage through collateral, collateral damage hits maximum 3 units)
Maceman: Melee unit, strength 8, +50% against melee, +25% against cities, cost 70 hammers, requires Civil Service, Machinery, [copper or iron].
Airship: Cannot see submarines
SAM Infantry: 75% interception chance (up form 40%)
Mobile Artillery: Can now load guided Missiles and Tac Nukes (as Submarines and Missile Cruisers do). No longer require oil.
Gunships: decreased to 3 moves.
ICBM: No longer unlimited range, but long enough so that they will out distance your army and navy easily, and they can be rebased. Loses the nuke tag. Does not need Manhattern project to be built.
iCost: 450h
iAirCombatLimit: 75
iAirCombat: 160
iCollateralDamageLimit: 75%
iCollateralDamageMaxUnits: 12
iAirRange: 36
Tactical Nukes: Now S80 1shot units that can bombard units, cause collateral damage to 5 units, cannot be intercepted. Loses the nuke tag. Does not need Manhattern project to be built. Full list of changes:
iCost: 200h
iAirCombatLimit: 75
iAirCombat: 80
iCollateralDamageLimit: 75%
iCollateralDamageMaxUnits: 5
iAirRange: 4
Guided Missiles: Can bombard units, tiles and cultural defence, cause collateral damage to 2 units, cannot be intercepted. Full list of changes (underline means original stat, for comparison):
iCost: 60h
iBombRate: 16
iAirCombatLimit: 75
iAirCombat: 40
iCollateralDamage: 100
iCollateralDamageLimit: 50%
iCollateralDamageMaxUnits: 1
iAirRange: 4
Flanking: Flanking strength (used to calculate damage from flanking strikes) or all units reduced by 50%.
Naval units, promotion and mechanic changes:
Promotions and mechanics:
Ocean: Now costs 3 movement points to enter.
Circumnavigation: +1 movement point on naval units, individual achievement completed by unfogging a single tile on each row and/or column of the map on which the map wraps.
Coastal Blockade now has a range of 1 square around the blockader, instead of 3 squares.
Drill 1, Drill 2, Drill 3 Drill 4 Flanking 1, Flanking 2, Sentry: No longer available to Naval units.
Sentry: Requires Combat 3 OR Flanking 2 OR Naval Flanking 2 OR Navigation 2.
New promotion: Naval Sentry: +1 vision range. Requires Naval Flanking 2 or Navigation 2.
Naval unit changes:
Galley: Base movement 1. Starts with Navigation 1.
Trireme: Base movement 1. Starts with Navigation 1.
Caravel: Base movement 2. Starts with Navigation 1. Strength 4, -30% against galleys and triremes, 1 capacity (can transport any units). Cost 60 hammers, requires Optics. Remove ability to enter cultural borders.
Carrack: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1. Strength 4, -30% against galleys and triremes, 2 capacity. Remove ability to enter cultural borders. Cost 60 hammers, requires Optics.
Galleon: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1.
East Indiaman: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1. Lower to 3 capacity, remove ability to enter culture without OB.
Privateer: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1, Sentry. +65% attack against Ships of the Line. Requires Optics and Paper, Upgrades to Transport (not Destroyer). (Removed ability [to attack without war declartion] and [hidden nationality].)
Frigate: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1. Upgrades to Transport (not Destroyer).
Ship of the Line: Base movement 3. iCollateraldamage = 75, iCollateraldamagelimit = 70 (ie 30% hp max damage from collateral), iCollateralDamageLimit = 5. Cost 120 hammers.
Ironclad: Base movement 1. Starts with Navigation 1. Cannot enter Ocean (except within own borders). 1 free strike, strength 12, no defensive bonus, requires iron, coal, Steel and Steam Power, costs 120 hammers.
Transport: Base movement 3. Starts with Navigation 1, Navigation 2. Ignores terrain movement cost. Requires Artillery (not Combustion) (requires Oil OR Uranium)
Destroyer: Base movement 6. Starts with Naval Flanking 1. Requires Artillery (not Combustion) (requires Oil OR Uranium)
Battleship: Base movement 4.
Carrier: Base movement 4.
Submarine: Base movement 4. Ignores terrain movement costs.
Attack Submarine: Base movement 5. Ignores terrain movement costs.
Missile cruiser: Base movement 4. .
Stealth Destroyer: Base movement 6. Starts with Naval Flanking 1.
Barbarians:
Barbarians: Barbarian Animals: Wolf: unchanged.
Lion: Strength 1, 1 move. +100% against Melee.
Panther: Strength 1, 2 move, starts with woodsman 2 promotion.
Bear: Strength 1, 1 move, +200% against Melee.
Scout: +200% against barbarian animals. Require no tech. Every player starts with a scout instead of a warrior.
All difficulty levels adjusted: Human barbarian units are created from turn 40, barb cities can be created beginning from turn 50
Known tech bonus no longer scales with total player number. Scales depending on the tech era of the most advanced player in the game:
Ancient: No bonus
Classical: +2% per met player with tech, max +60% (no further bonus after 30 players)
Medieval: +4% per met player with tech, max +60% (no further bonus after 15 players)
Renaissance: +6% per met player with tech, max +60% (no further bonus after 10 players)
Industrial: +8% per met player with tech, max +80% (no further bonus after 10 players)
Modern: +8% per met player with tech, max +80% (no further bonus after 10 players)
Future: +8% per met player with tech, max +80% (no further bonus after 10 players)
Techs: Fishing, Agriculture, The Wheel, Hunting, Mysticism and Mining: base cost changed to 45.
Hunting: Enables pastures. No longer enables camps.
Animal Husbandry: Enables camps. No longer enables pastures.
Archery: Base tech cost decreased from 60 to 40.
Astronomy: Mandatory prerequisites: Code of Laws, Calendar, Optics.
Alphabet: No longer enables tech trading, allows Open Borders. Base cost reduced to 250.
Metal Casting: Base cost reduced to 300.
Writing: Enables Map trading, no longer enables OB.
Spies now spawn with "Secretive", and cannot see tiles except the one they're standing on.
The No Espionage game option now works properly:
GSpy points are converted into Great Merchant points.
Espionage no longer gets converted into culture.
Cultural expansion now happens at normal values.
Spies cannot be built.
Graphs are always visible on contact.
Tile Changes:
Lumber Mills: Available at Machinery. +1 hammer, +1 commerce, +1 commerce from river (not corner plots)
Watermills: +1 base hammers, no longer receives +1h at Rep Parts.
Workshops: +1 base hammers, no longer receives +1h at Chemistry or Guilds. +1 hammer from Engineering.
Mines: +1 base hammer at Rep Parts.
Quarry: +1 base hammer at Rep Parts.
Whaling Boats: Enabled at Sailing.
Villages: Cannot be destroyed by air bomb mission or pillaged. Also provides access and tile yields to Copper, Iron, Oil, Coal, Aluminium and Uranium. (Can still be improved over by workers)
Towns: Cannot be destroyed by air bomb mission. Also provides access and tile yields to Copper, Iron, Oil, Coal, Aluminium and Uranium. (Can still be improved over by workers). Acts as cities. [Identical functionality as forts, for the purposes of rebasing air units, canals, city defense and city attack promotions etc].
Game Mechanics:
The Draft: Rifles now cost 2 pop to draft. A city must now end a draft at size 6 instead of size 5 (So size 8 to draft a rifle, size 7 to draft a musket).
Corporations: Completely removed from the game.
Culture required to achieve legendary border pop on Quick Speed changed from 25000 to 33000.
Peace Treaty Length reduced to 5 turns.
New game options: No City Trading, No Map Trading, and No Wonder resource produiction modifiers now available in custom game set up.
No City Trading: Unable to trade cities, cities appear untradable in diplomacy screen
No Map Trading: Maps appear untradable in diplomacy screen
No Wonder resource modifiers: Resources do not affect world wonder or world project construction speeds.
No Immediate Peace (Peace treaty negotiations are only possible after 5 turns)
True AI Diplo: All single player trade items are also available in MP
Events: THESE HAVE NOW BEEN FIXED! PLEASE TEST ACCORDINGLY, THERE MAY STILL BE BUGS!
The following events have been removed from the game:
Negative Events:
1. Forest Fire
5. Washed out
10 Careless apprentice
11. Famine
12. Slave revolt
15. Farm Bandits
18. Fugitive
19. Pestilence
21. Faux Pas
22. Joyous Wedding
23. Wedding Feud
24. Left at the Altar
26. Tornado
29. Looters
30. Brothers in need
31. Hurricane
32. Cyclone
33. Tsunami
34. Monsoon
35. Blizzard
36. Volcano
37. Dust Bowl
42. Clunker Coal
43. Sour crude
50. Mining accident
52. Setbacks
54. Great depression
55. Bermuda triangle
70. Influenza
71. Solo Flight
77. Ancient Olympics
78. Modern Olympics
80. Earth day
92. Cigarette Smoker
93. Heroic Gesture
94. Great Mediator
99. The Huns
100. The Vandals
101. the Goths
102. The Philistines
103. The Vedic Aryans
104. Holy ritual
132. Spoiled grain
135. Industrial fire
155. Slave revolt warning
160. Defecting agent
161. Jail
162. Spy discovered
163. Nuclear protests
165. Broken Dam
169. Toxcatl
170. Dissident Priest
172. Rogue station
174. Impeachment
Remove (Too good):
9. Hymns and sculptures
20. Marathon
28. Bards tale
64. Federal reserve
139. Partisans
167. Golden Buddha
AP Resolutions: Declare War (on a non-member), Force Peace (between two members), Religious victory, and Assign City are no longer eligible resolution actions.
Fail-gold: You never get fail-gold if you also completed the wonder somewhere else (so no National Wonder fail-gold, or doubling up on a wonder to guarantee yourself a paycheck. The game still informs you that you received "0 gold" from your hammers).
Hut techs: Can only gain techs from the first three rows of the tech screen:
Toroidal maps: Now return city maintenance as if the map were Cylindrical.
Maximum number of players is now 40, up from 18.
Circumnavigation requires 55% water on the map, otherwise it is disabled. Circumnavigation is no longer a "First to" bonus, but will grant +1 movement to naval units to each player as they individually navigate the map and complete the necessary conditions.
Included additional bug fixes:
Trade route turn order bug.
Foreign trade route cities lost permanently when your city using those routes is destroyed (fix is taken from BTS unofficial patch).
Build culture double production.
Build wealth/research/culture + production automation double production.
Proposed trades including cities, where the cities no longer exist to be trades, are not cancelled (note: I consider this a bug because proposed trades are already cancelled if a player lacks the requisite e.g. resources/gold. could be considered not a bug).
Production decay counter on a type of build (e.g. axeman) is not reset after completing one if the next item in the queue is of the same type (fix is taken from BTS unofficial patch).
Feature growth/disappearance rates, and bonus discovery (mine pop) rates, do not scale with game speed.
Diplomacy Pausing: Diplomacy windows do not occur on game login whilst the game is paused.
Autosaves: Autosaves are generated at login and log out; log out saves are saved to a folder specified within the global defines XML file. Default location is C:\temp.
Additional alterations have been made to enable hosting of games on the pitboss server belonging to Zulan. These changes are detailed here
Observer mode
Observer mode is functional but disabled due to bandwidth issues. Requires pitboss logging enabled, and for the host to run the observer program. Observer mode is then accessible at a preset web address. Only available in Pitboss, additional server side applications required for functionality, available from teh following links.
(September 3rd, 2019, 17:35)Old Harry Wrote: He isn't going to post or even log in, but just be assured that He is watching.
This is great. I'll be watching as well. Good luck, you guys!
Thanks Katinka! Can you make sure he doesn't shirk his micro duties?
(September 4th, 2019, 01:12)Hitru Wrote: To defend myself I would point out that I actually log in fairly often, but for the posting I'm guilty as charged.
We're trying to build up an air of omnipotent mystique around you...
The script we're going to get produces maps like this. Lots of snaky continents, not many resources and not a lot of choice in where you put your cities. I'd like to play a game with bigger continents because optimising dotmaps is one of my favourite parts of the game, but perhaps we'll get a PB42 Krill or Mr Cairo style start here.
The wildcard is how much tinkering TBS does - specifically, will he give everyone extra happy resources? It seems likely that someone will have one or two happy at their cap, so TBS will balance that by giving everyone something. If he doesn't and we have a default map then CHA will shine.
Part of our success with PB42 was that EXP is great for a fast start that let us get as many religions as we could, meaning we could easily pop borders for hard-to-reach seafood, then SPI let us get the extra happy that temples for all those religions provided. We consistently had the biggest capital by miles, which I believe was down to the early religious happy cap rather than better food.
Choosing traits
So which traits best leverage another water map?
AGG - cheap barracks for seafood border pops, cheap drydock for late-game navy, only need 5XP for amphibious units. CHA - boats only need 4XP for 2 promos! (More seriously again (sorry) this script doesn't give much happy, so +2 happy off the bat could be awesome.) CRE - quick border pops for seafood. (I probably underrate CRE, in PB31 it made life easy, but I feel like you can put the effort in to planning to get a similar effect.) EXP - fast start, less hammers into work boats, cheap harbour. (Cheap markets and grocers are nice too.) FIN - work a lot of water tiles. (I guess it gives more flexibility about where you put commerce cities too.) IND - umm... Colossus? Great Lighthouse! (More generally this trait is okay, but going for wonders in a 16-player game is a fools errand.) IMP - cheap Customs House! (More seriously it's a fast starter and gives more great generals (not quite twice as many due to cost scaling) and gets a minor city maintenance discount which I like too.) ORG - build quick lighthouses. (Cheap courthouses are nice too - EPs are often underestimated.) PHI - lots of seafood means more specialists? PRO - nothing. (Drill doesn't do anything for the naval game but cheap granaries are nice.) SPI - Not much benefit. (I'd happily play SPI every game but people might start looking at me funny. In a game this big though the odds of getting a religion to use are reduced.)
So for border pops I'd like one of CRE/AGG/SPI (with religion).
And for speeding up the start I'd like one of EXP/PRO/IMP.
Then for general economy CHA or ORG would be good.
(September 4th, 2019, 05:28)Old Harry Wrote: Pre-match thoughts.
The script we're going to get produces maps like this. Lots of snaky continents, not many resources and not a lot of choice in where you put your cities. I'd like to play a game with bigger continents because optimising dotmaps is one of my favourite parts of the game, but perhaps we'll get a PB42 Krill or Mr Cairo style start here.
What's a "PB42 Mr Cairo style start"? Foodless ics? That's my main memory of the start of that game.
I think OH ment that you had lots of land around you, unlike us who started on peninsula and had our dotmap pretty much set. But I agree that quality of your land was not that great.
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