First, it contains a bunch of new units I've made. I don't see the units on the apolyton site, but you can find them at Omnigod's site. Because the unit.txt and the ai will use these new units, you will need to download them.

Second, it uses the Frenzy AI. In fact, I created that slic code, just for this mod.

Third, it has two special threats that I made. The zombie threat and alien influence. The zombie threat will take over cities and automatically generate more zombies. Alien Influence will only affect the cpu, and allow them to build a super cheap and powerful alien unit. Both events come pretty late in the game, near the end of modern era.

Lastly, and the proudest feature of this mod, the city expansion! This part of the code took a lot of time, and a lot of graphics to get working. The feature will expand the city on the world map and make it look like your civiliazation is actually growing! Here's a sample pic of what the feature does.

I still think its really awesome to see city clusters all over the place!

Welp, I had lots fun making the mod. Actually, I probably spent more time and had more fun, making the mod than actually playing the game so far.

Enjoy!

New image edit in:

Here's a mock up based on the picture above. I haven't gotten this far into the game yet, but this is what zombie threat and alien fluence is suppose to be like. You'll also notice a bunch of hi-tech units the players can use too.

MarkG, I can't capture 200x150 size images because the game runs at 640x480 for the lowest resolution I believe. The only thing I can do is to do a resize of the 800x600 or cut a part of the picture out so it'll be 200x150. Not sure what you want, but I'm sure you or Omnigod can do this yourself.

Kormer, yeah go ahead and use the city expansion in your mod. Be warned though, I integrated the city expansion feature into the main scenario.slc which is actually the frenzy ai mod. And the frenzy ai mod is modified to accomodate the city expansion feature. And both slcs are integrated with the zombie/alien influence feature. So just removing the city expansion feature might be difficult. I'm afraid none of the new units will fit into the modern scenario. I like to have sci-fi/fantasy type units over realistic ones. So any new units in the game won't fit with the 'civlization' type feel.

To successfully extract the city expansion feature, you need to edit the scenario.slc (to remove the frenzy ai, and any reference to zombie/alien threat) Hmm...actually that's all you need to edit. You will need the following files in your mod to work: goods.txt, goodsid.txt, tileimp.txt, terrain.txt, and gl.txt. I believe that's all the files the city expansion use. Oh, you will need the gg030.spr -> gg050.spr files in the sprite directory.

1. First off, this is only the second mod in my life of "civ"ing that I have enjoyed immediately. (The other was "stoneage" for civ2.) The whole game just seemed more fun than CTP2 unmodded, I don't quite know why?! Perhaps it has something to do with the added "beauty" to the game. The Amazon women bring something not present in the original CTP2.

2. There are a ton of goody huts(ruins)!! did you mod this too? I sometimes found two ruins only 2 spaces apart. I even found a cluster of three encirclling one square. Neat-o!!

3. I did stumble upon zombies in ruins. (I must admit, contrary to your advice I didn't disband them because I wanted to check them out.) They were helpful to exploring and evaluating the mod.

4. The AI offered to trade techs with me!! This never happened in a CTP2 game for me before. What a surprise!! However, I had not acquired diplomats yet and had no embasies established. Was this a bug? it happened twice; the first time around 3100 BC.

5. Everybody loves me. With AI frenzy I was expecting a bloodbath, but they love me. All smiles and offers of peace treaties. This never happened in CTP2 unmodded (to me), but who knows?!? I am respecting their requests and only violated a no trespass in order to approach a city and ask (politely) for them to give it to me. They did. Twice. And with their only two cities in my possesion they were destroyed with all the love and pleseantness they could muster. Was this supposed to be?

6. I love the idea of city's sprawling out. However, I haven't experienced this yet. I have a few cities of size four and I think one of sze five. No sprawl. Is this right?

7. Mayors are active. I have never used mayors and love micromanagement so I always leave them off. However, roads are popping up all over the place and my PW are being used. I checked and my mayors are off. I turned them on and back off, but they continue to build roads. Is this the early parts of city expansion or is it a bug?

8. Very few barbarians. After 20+ ruins and 1000 years (on a regular map) I found no barbarians. Then all of a sudden three or four huts in a row ambushed me with barbarians. I was so confident that the barbarians were non-existant that I even lost a city to two barbarian wariors. (the first two I saw. probably around 2900BC.) I quickly took the city back with a knight (from ruins) and an amazon warior.

I have already downloaded the Amazons, to look more closely at when I get around to the wonder units part of the Med mod. The Hi-tech units will get looked at as well, since I currently have no wonder units for the futuristic eras.

Omnigod, if you want to put it up on the Aployton's db, go ahead, but the explanation I put in is fairly sparse...so maybe someone else wants to write up a more descriptive explanation?

To answer a couple of Dante's question, the ai diplomancy files are actually the ones from Dale's. I was trying to include his diplomod, but I kept getting errors. I tried to solve the errors, but I have no clue on how to use the diplomacy functions since I can't find any docs on how to use them. I used his diplomacy text changes because I was hoping to see some ai diplmancy on their own. No luck there..

The first city population size for city expansion is 7, then 12, then 17, then 21...

The mayors aren't actually active, I put in a small slic code that automatically build roads around all cities. I was tired of seeing a huge ai stacks pileup around their cities because their stacks are incabable of moving around their own cities. I was hoping roads around their cities would solve that...not verified though. However, it does help my own armies to have my own cities all with roads around them.

BTW, these pics look GREAT! Might have to give the city-expansion a go one of these games. Great work.

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Author of Diplomod. The mod to fix diplomacy.

When starting your mod it always quits to desktop. I'm
sure I did the install process right, because I read
the readme.txt and installed it two times but it still
didn't help.

quote: Originally posted by Starfighter08 on 01-27-2001 06:05 AM Crash report: When starting your mod it always quits to desktop. I'm sure I did the install process right, because I read the readme.txt and installed it two times but it still didn't help. PS: I'm using patch v1.11 PPS: I would really like to play your mod.

Hmm, without more info, I can't help you. All I can suggest is, reinstall ctp2. I'm also using version 1.1, not 1.11.

On the other news, just finished making version 1.03! I've sent a message to Omnigod, so he can put it up on the files section.

The new version has many improvements. Most notabely, 3 new modes of play. There's the normal mode, which is basically version 1.01 with a few changes. There's the extreme mode, which makes the ai gang up on the human faster and adds a new mega threat designed to wipe out the human player from the face of the Earth. Then lastly, there's the bare insanity mode, for pure hardcore players!

Anywhoo, for those of you who noticed the changes to the second image above, you'll see a couple new units. One of them is a size 200x150 image! Yup, ctp2 can handle sprite sizes larger than the default 96x72, and I took advantage of that in version 1.03.

I like your SciFi mod and look forward to V1.03 since most people only want to do Historical Mods.

I was talking more about having 2 teleporters that will transfer units entering it from one continent to another continent. They would be set locations and always transfer between only them.

code:

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Event:Teleport(army_t , location_t );

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I just gave the event the expel sound by having:

code:

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AddEffect(WDT_tmparmy.location, "SPECEFFECT_DIPLOMATIC", "SOUND_ID_EXPEL");

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before the teleport event. Hope this helps.

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Author of Diplomod. The mod to fix diplomacy.

I've played the mod for some time now and I'm thrilled, no errors no crashes, splendid, but there is one items which is not very realistic.

When I opened the trade manager, very early in the game and later on still, it said to me that if I were to trade the selfmade goode it would give me 3300-3500 per trade route per turn !!!

I created 10 of those and was richer than Bill himself within a couple of turns.
Therefore if you do this you can rushbuy everything in the game and that is not very realistic I think.

Butter menthol for that cough mate?

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Author of Diplomod. The mod to fix diplomacy.

I'm afraid if you made that one I would have way to much fun killing it.

I just love your MOD really I do

I'm sure I downloaded your mod after the 22nd of january so it should be v1.03 but when I look it still says 1.01

What version do I have.

Oh and I posted this on another forum but maybe you can help me ! I installed your mod first, played a game, saved it, installed diplomod 3.1 and now when I try to open the savegame. it gives a error saying it misses a sprite file in the asset tree ???????