Mod idea

Mod idea

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I was thinking about the Jagged knife there actually 3 of them. First I think they should tweak the Jagged knife when it does happen they should leave alone the super projects and the Galactic achievements other then that they should upgrade all the planets or change the improvements for a economic focus or demolish the other stuff that is costing them too much also they can concentrate on population growth I would also add the ability to build super projects that would help this this would rock considering they have all the techs also the super projects would add to the value of the planets, Give them a special Ai

In the beginning their focus should be economic morale and population it would have to include tweaking the civilization screen with a focus on approval that would be more important than production. Their tech tree would be small race of course They could even try to sell techs to other Ai's

At the same time the other Ai's would recognize this and would probably buy techs or try to extort techs They would also be pissed off for losing planets and would start gearing up for war to take back all the planets especially the best if they don't have the espionage they would go after class. This would make it more fair for the Ai and turn this random event into a challange

The other part of the challenge is the galactic council I think that the one with the most influence points should be able to choose what we should vote on U would need a backup just in case their were 2 with the most influence points and on the decision they should be even for the good or the evil races

about planetary artifacts or random events they r currently penalizing good decisions they instead should have rewards for good and the neutral races that r fair. Stop penalizing for good decisions

I would like to see a game with 31 players instead of 10 the map would have to be bigger it would be nice if the map size was based on how much memory and virtual memory U have

Fix the pirates and make the weak races better and even out the starting abilities

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

make the weak races better and even out the starting abilities

That is the only thing possible among your ideas, and has already been done, to a degree, in most of the fix mods. Everything else would require access to the source code to change.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

How do U mod without source code

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting michaelwhittaker, reply 2

How do U mod without source code

Most of GC2's assets are written in files with either the .XML (like the planetary improvements, tech trees, etc.) or .STR (for the UI and other texts in-game) extension, and are easily modified with a text editor. New race logos or images, or new graphics for planetary improvements, are also easily added, because they all use the .png format. Other graphic changes probably require more work, but I never tried them. Some goes for new sound effects and music. The UI can also be changed, but you would either require DesktopX, or another program that can modify files in the .X format.

Everything else (like the AI, or game mechanics) is inaccessible to us without the source code, or until someone reverse engineers the game. However, as the game has been out for some time now, it's been extremely unlikely for that to happen.

Still, there are mods for games, that never had their source code released, like MoO2, MoM, or the Infinity Engine games.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

That being said, we can sort of change the way the AI does things by shuffling things around or spacing things out in the tech tree.

For example, one of the things the AI inevitably does is fill up tiles on planets, sometimes to the detriment of the economy.  It puts down too many factories and not enough trade centres.  So in my mod I limited their access to maintenance-sucking factories until after some kind of economic building has been researched.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Can U give the Jagged knife a generic Ai this would probably cause them to start fixing the really big empire

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting michaelwhittaker, reply 5

Can U give the Jagged knife a generic Ai this would probably cause them to start fixing the really big empire

No, this isn't possible. Races that spawn via events are inaccessible to us. The only exceptions, to a degree, are the Dread Lords and the regular Pirates.

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Is it possible to rewrite the event and then replace it

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting michaelwhittaker, reply 7

Is it possible to rewrite the event and then replace it

No, we don't have access to the Mega Events and several of the regular random events, like the economy-changing and the race-spawning ones.

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I came up with a really insane programmig idea assuming the computers Ai is on your Ram or can be blocked from accesing the Ram and assuming U know how to program I like C but U could use comething prodigy ir the like C# would be really efficient this isn't common knowledge but they use an assembler not a compiler An assembler converts code to bianary only assembly and C does this bianary is the native language of all computers a compiler is the next best thing it converts code to a language the operating system understands Prodigy is an Ai language If this is possible U could redefine what the Ai does This is programming not modding though this is beyond scripting