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Prince
Boston, USA
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Jan 2001
time: 21:27
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Hey all,
I have a few questions about "Final Frontier" mod. I've been trying to figure out a few things to enhance the gameplay somewhat. However, I can't seem to find what I need to change in the XML and Assets folder.
1. I'm looking to expand the Starbase culture borders from a radius of 2 squares to the following:
Starbase I: 2 square radius
Starbase II: 3 square radius
Starbase III: 4 square radius
Where can I do this? I can't find "Culture generation" for the Starbase unit anywhere in the Unit XML file.
2. How do I increase the population size the habitation domes give? As it stands, the habitation domes only give +1 population limit to each planet. I'm looking to increase that to +2 or even +3 population limit.
3. How do I fix the scaled up population of each "city" or solar system? At size 1, its 1,000 people I believe. In other Civ mods and main Beyond The Sword games, a size 1 city has 10,000 people. How do I fix the Final Frontier population to match the Civ 4 city population or a bit higher?
The reason I'm looking to fix the starbases is to fill in all these *annoying* gaps in my cultural borders in Final Frontier. In standard games on Earth (or your typical Civ 4 vanilla or Civ 4 Beyond the Sword games), I don't have any problem with these gaps in cultural borders. I just fill these gaps in with cities. But the problem in Final Frontier is that star systems sometimes are like 5+ squares away from each other, and it's annoying as hell to have many gaps in-between my systems. Nothing illustrates this well than space pirates popping up in the middle of my empire rather than the fringes, or enemy civ's slipping in a constructor unit to build a starbase or two in the middle of my empire *WITHOUT* open borders enabled.
The reason why I'm looking to up the population stuff (habitation domes and city population levels) is to really have an epic space empire with billions of people, instead of like 30+ star systems with just 10 million people spread through them. A well developed 30+ star system empire should have like 50 billion people or more, not 10 million.
Does anybody here know how I can fix Final Frontier assets to reflect all these issues I have? Other than these issues, Final Frontier is a wonderful mod that I can't just seem to stop playing. I've stayed up until like 1 or 2 AM playing it on days I'm supposed to wake up at like 6 AM for my daily commute. (grin)
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Emperor
Maryland Heights, MO
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Sep 2002
time: 20:27
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There's a very old post from the author of the mod here, as I recall it's intentional that there be large cultural gaps.
I think the answer is to just move up infill Starbase construction on your priority list to reflect that opponents can reach them without open borders.
(Kind of like archepello maps if there is just large enough gaps for there to be ocean tiles between landmasses as well.)
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Prince
Boston, USA
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Jan 2001
time: 21:27
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In other words, am I stuck with building like 100 - 200 starbases to fill in every last little square within my empire? That's way overkill. Thats like 10k - 20k cash, plus another 50k - 100k cash to upgrade to Starbase III's. Not to mention that it would destroy all the challenge of the game, since AI units would go commit suicide at my starbases and get themselves killed en-masse. No mega threat of big unit stacks bearing down on solar systems anymore, which takes some fun out of the game.
Also I'd have to delete bazillions of missiles that all these starbases would be producing. Each starbase produces a missile every 15 turns, so I'll end up getting 100 - 200 units every 15 turns. A lot of button mashing to "disband" or delete them all. Otherwise in like 100 turns or so, I'll have 1000 missiles, which is gonna take a huge chunk out of my economy, maintainence, and possibly even "end of turn" game speed itself.
Thats why I want to have starbases give much bigger cultural borders so that I don't have to deal with these particular problems.
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Emperor
Maryland Heights, MO
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Sep 2002
time: 20:27
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I'd sugest the Civ4-Creation forum if your trying to change your copy of the mod; that's where the experts on moding hang out.
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Again, I don't know what your level of experience is with programming, but the change isn't terribly difficult if it's something you're used to doing.