NEW CITY IMPROVEMENTS

Baron's Manor: 15% decrease in Food consumption and -2 in Happiness
Question: Can I increase/decrease Food consumption with just the text files like I can with Growth, Gold and others?

NEW WONDERS

Grand Canal: +5 Gold for all River tiles
Question: Does this require SLIC at all - I don't think it does, but want to make sure.

The Covenant: raises national loyalty in Monarchy and Republic governments from Indifferent to Loyal
Question: Does this require SLIC at all?

Luther's 95 Theses: causes all cities with no Basilica in all nations to riot for 5 turns
Question: Again, does this require SLIC?

The Copernican System: free University in every size 10 city of host civilization
Question: I wouldn't think this requires SLIC, but not sure?

Galileo's Pump: 50% decrease in production cost for Ship of the Line units and 25% decrease in costs to place Mines tile improvements
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Decree of Revolution: under all government types except for Republic, Democracy, and Virtual Democracy, all size 5 cities in every nation except host civilization will revolt
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Darwin's Theory: gives 2 free scientists in every size 10 city in every nation

NEW ADVANCES

Castle Construction: FOW effect of permanent 15% increase in Production, and 15% increase in Defense for all units Fortified in cities until discovery of Cannon Making
Question: Does the increase in Defense until Cannon Making require SLIC?

Steam Engine: FOW effect of +5 Gold in all River tiles for 25 turns
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Crusades: FOW effect of 50% decrease in Production costs for Knights and Pikemen for 30 turns
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Mass Mobilization: FOW effect of +1 movement points for all armies of 6 stacked units or more, and permanent 15% reduction in costs to place Road tiles on all Terrain
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Map Making: FOW effect of 25% reduction in costs to place Fortification tile improvements on all Terrain for 35 turns
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Federalism: FOW effect of 50% reduction in placement of Advanced Farms tile improvements for 50 turns, and free placement of Railroads tile improvements on all Terrain except: Mountains, Jungle, Forest, Swamps, Tundra, and Glacier for 50 turns
Question: Does this require SLIC?

Baron's Manor: won't work in SLIC so you'd better hope it works without it (I think it does).

Grand Canal: Requires SLIC but it's fairly easy to do.

The Covenant: Hmmm. If it's possible at all it will require SLIC (you'd need to change government through SLIC without having a period of anarchy, not quite sure if it's possible). If it's possible, it shouldn't be too hard.

Luther's 95 Theses: requires SLIC

The Copernican System: AFAIK it requires SLIC, you can give Unis to all cities in text-files but I don't think you can make it depend on size. This too is fairly easy to do in SLIC.

Galilieo's Pump: SOL part requires SLIC, mines might not be possible at all, but I'm not sure. The SLIC part is fairly easy, but figuring out if mines work might require some expermenting.

Decree of Revolution: requires SLIC. Not too tough to code either.

Darwin's Theory: Needs SLIC, and it might be tricky too (you would somehow have to force these scientists to stay scientists and not become part of the regular population, working on the fields or whatmore). I think it's doable but I'm not quite sure. Unless this one's really important for you it's probably not worth the effort though...

I understand you have other things to do, so I will keep a lookout for when you have time to comment on the advances.

Now, it's a matter of locating the SLIC files. But I do not have a clue as to what codes I would need to type for those you said that it would be simple to do.

Man oh man.. funny!

Maybe "covenant" could be "Magna Carta"? Seems like the right time period you have in mind for that.

It was after all, a covenant of sorts, between the two powers of any significance at the time - king and nobles.

Castle Construction: Yes, and it would probably be a fair amount of work to code in SLIC.

Steam Engine: AFAIK not possible at all. No wait, I take that back. Probably possible but a lot of coding required.

Crusades: Yeah, think so. Not too tough to do either.

Mass Mobilization: Requires SLIC. Movement thing is fairly easy, roads thing is a bit tougher but probably possible.

Map Making: Yes, very similar to roads thing from above.

Federalism: Yes.

Coding suggestion:
+x Gold for this or that TerrainType/River. This doesn't take into account the fact that a square might not get worked fully, this would be much more complicated, if possible at all. Would be too much work for me to look into that now. I'll see if I have some more code later.

HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'MoreGold' post { // triggers at beginning of every turn
int_t amount;
int_t tmpPlayer;
tmpPlayer = player[0];

if (canGiveGold) { // set this to 1 whenever it should be executed (after making FOW, always, etc)
amount = 5 * CountRivers(tmpPlayer); // player gets this many gold per river in city radius
AddGold(tmpPlayer, amount); // give player gold
}
}

int_f CountRivers(int_t thePlayer) { // return the number of river tiles that's in any tmpPlayer's city's radius
location_t tmpLoc;
location_t tmpLoc2;
city_t tmpCity;
int_t i;
int_t x;
int_t y;
int_t number;
int_t radius;
int_t tmpPlayer;
tmpPlayer = thePlayer;

But I felt a little overwhelmed or discouraged when I read the codes you posted for some of my ideas. Nevertheless, I am going to study what you have posted here so far and look at the SLIC documents now that I have the text editor you suggested.

Thanks for your help thus far, and let me know if you would want me to create any Great Library text for any part of your mod(s).

edit: ) added where needed

code:

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int_f mod_CanCityBuildUnit(city_t theCity, int_t theUnit) {
	if (theUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_ARCHER)) {
		if (CityHasBuilding(theCity, BuildingDB(IMPROVE_GRANARY))) {
			return 1;	// can build this
		} else {
			return 0;	// can't build this
		}
	}
	if (theUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_TANK)) {
		if (CityHasBuilding(theCity, BuildingDB(IMPROVE_FACTORY))) {
			return 1;	// can build this
		} else {
			return 0;	// can't build this
		}
	}
	return 1;	// can build all other units
}

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For those that try this before I have a chance to, beware the missing ")"s on the CityHasBuilding lines. I havent figured out SLIC yet, but i do know you have to pair off all the open "(" or "{". If they arent you get a SLIC error. Yes, I found this out the hard way

The only thing to keep in account here is that the buildlists need to be adapted so that it builds certain buildings earlier to get access to all units.

(BTW, fixed the (-problem, thanks for pointing that out, I always screw those up)

On Amazon.com, there is a price of $43 for Corel Photo-Paint 9.0! I read the customer reviews, and based on the pros and cons, it LOOKS like it MIGHT be a good buy for altering CTP II graphics and creating new ones.

But I have one question that the reviews did not have any comments on - do you know if this program will allow me to open and edit .tga graphics?

You don't seriously expect me to actually pay for a Corel product, now do you?

To edit tga's and sprites and stuff for CtP(2), you're best off using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Since both are produced by big companies and both are rediculously expensive (at least for a college student), I personally don't feel obliged to pay for them, but I use them anyway. (Well, I hardly ever work with graphics anyway, but when I do, I use PSP).

If you do have a conscience and only want to use cheap or free utilities, download.com is the place to be. I know there's plenty of good graphics utilities out there and at least some of them can handle tga. The main problem with most (if not all) of these utilities is that they don't support alpha channels, which is what you need if you want to add shadows to sprites or some other cool special effects. For regular tga's this isn't a problem but for the sprites this can be a problem.

code:

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int_f mod_CanCityBuildUnit(city_t theCity, int_t theUnit) {
	if (theUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_ARCHER)) {
		if (CityHasBuilding(theCity, BuildingDB(IMPROVE_GRANARY))) {
			return 1;	// can build this
		} else {
			return 0;	// can't build this
		}
	}
	if (theUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_TANK)) {
		if (CityHasBuilding(theCity, BuildingDB(IMPROVE_FACTORY))) {
			return 1;	// can build this
		} else {
			return 0;	// can't build this
		}
	}
	return 1;	// can build all other units
}

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I have tried it. It doesn't work : the unit can appear in the list before the improvment is build, and may not be in the list after. Moreover, if the unit is in the list of buildable unit, click on the add bouton does not always transfer it to the queue. It may be necessary to click several times. How can I solve it?