Bulbing Beakers
Beakers =
Great_Person_Type * Speed_Factor
+
3_OR_2 * Population
Where:
Great_Person_Type
Great_Scientist = 1,500
Great_Anything_Else = 1,000
Speed Factors
Marathon = 3
Epic = 1.5
Normal = 1
Quick = ⅔
3_OR_2
3 for Great Scientist
2 for All Other Great People
Population
Sum(City_Sizes)
Um, this might be wrong
The real takeaway from all this is that Great Scientists are worth 500 Beakers more than any other Great Person Type on Normal Game Speed and 1,500 on the Marathon Speed, making it worth one's while to prefer Great Scientists for Bulbing.
And although I never do this, cashing in a slew of Great People at once is a fantastic way of zooming ahead in the Tech Race.
Expansive
Expansive Leaders cannot get Barbarians from Popping Huts... or so I've been told.
Events
The modifications needed in the XML to Trigger an Event ASAP (once all conditions have been met):
XML\Events\EventsTriggerInfos.xml
iWeight => -1
iPercentGamesActive => 100
Though, there is a good wiki covering the XMLs at CivFanatics. So, I'd look there if wanted to modify anything in the XML... which I probably don't, as I've been unable to get any modified XML to work with The Bug Mod. And playing with The Bug Mod is more important to me than playing with or modifying Events.
Chops
1 Pop Whip ==> 1 Chop in the Big Fat Cross with Mathematics ==> Monument Hammer Cost ==> ½ Granary Hammer Cost
Yeah, sure. This might be wrong. I don't pay attention to Chops at all. But 90 Hammers for all the rest on Marathon looks about right.
OK. I looked into Chops. One gets twenty Hammers at Normal Speed plus an additional fifty percent bonus for Mathematics (+10H), which gives a grant total of thirty Hammers. And times that by three for Marathon (my preferred speed) and everything looks correct.
In other news, one gets the same amount inside the Fat Cross and one beyond that. But the yield decays any further out.
The Monument or ½ Granary is the real trick, however. As I will probably be able to remember that and look it up while playing in-game should the need ever arise.
Religious Map
It's not the most useful. But in The BUG Mod (if not elsewhere), when one scrolls the map out to Satellite View, another group of Toggle Buttons appear. One can see where Religions are present along with Cultural Dominance. But the functionality I will likely use the most is the drawing of simple lines. It may make my write-ups better.
Circles
○ ○
● ●
I have been carrying around a screen-shot for the last year (well, for the last ten months) reminding me about those two HTML Codes. Originally, it was in research of a Chess project... wherein, I was (likely) thinking about spinning off into Checkers, which I think the above two symbols may well work to represent the two sides.
Nearby those two codes (in a numeric sort of way), we also have a bunch of other interesting (to me) symbols.
◉, ◍, ◎ ◉, ◍, ◎
■, □ ■, □
▢, ▣ ▢, ▣
▤ ▥ ▦ ▧ ▨ ▩ ▤, ▥, ▦, ▧, ▨, ▩
▲, △ ▲, △
▶, ▷ ▶, ▷
▼, ▽ ▼, ▽
◀, ◁ ◀, ◁
◆, ◇, ◈ ◆, ◇, ◈
And if you really want to understand the motivation behind this page, it's these symbols. They represent research for a project that has long since been discarded. But I don't want to throw out the results (and/or information) just yet. So, this page is as good a way as any to bury said data.
After all, I will come across all of this information again on those dark and lonely nights when I peruse my website. And then, having spent all this time writing the page up (along with the edits), it's sort of likely I will remember for a little while (who knows exactly how long) where I have this information tucked away. And then, a while after that, I'll stumble across the page, having totally forgotten about it... and either be quite pleased... or highly embarrassed.
Anyhow, for now, this is the parking place for these HTML Code Numbers. I'd call them HTML Entities, but I'm going to reserve that syntax for Named Entities (such as © for © instead of ©).
And yes, this has precious little to do with CIV IV. But it does have everything to do with clearing my phone of screen-shots of which this is one.
Eh, it's a little late for me to worry about a total lack of focus on this website.
And besides, I really have no reason to apologize for diverging from CIV IV on a post whose first entry was about Zero-K... a totally different game, altogether.
Hammer Decay
I won't say that I routinely switch between Builds. But it happens often enough. I put a few turns into one thing. And then, I realize I would be better off Building another thing first. Well, the Hammers start to decay after awhile.
TYPE | DELAY | RATE |
Unit | 10 Turns | 2% Turn |
Building | 50 Turns | 1% Turn |
Wonder | - - - | - - - |
Thus, Units lose 2% of the remaining Hammers (rounded up, so at least 1 Hammer per Turn) after 10 Turns of inactivity (a counter which never resets).
Wonders never decay, which is good for Fail Gold.
Further, for Game Specific (or more accurately, Mod Specific) information, one may want to look in the
GlobalDefines.xml
(in the base XML directory) and the relevant values for
xxx_PRODUCTION_DECAY_TIME
and
xxx_PRODUCTION_DECAY_PERCENT
.
Leaders
XML/Civilizations/CIV4LeaderHeadInfos.xml
defines how the various AI Controlled Leaders behave. Some leaders I respect and some I do not. The idea was to change some of the Leaders Flavour XML Values (so, Flavours, I think this would be called for short) with the view of creating Leaders that I wanted as Allies... and by the same token, feared.
Since I've never figured out how to modify The BUG Mod (and since I don't really want to play without it at this point), this idea sort of stalled out. But one never knows.
XML/Civilizations/CIV4TraitInfos.xml
defines the Bonuses for the various Traits. And though the original idea was to create a New Trait, at this point I'd likely just modify an existing one if that's what I wanted to do. Giving Industrious a 100% Bonus to Building Wonders (in lieu of 50%) or gifting the Financial Trait the benefits of Creative (as well) would be a fairly easy numeric substitution. I should note that if a change is made in this manner, the changes would apply to all Leaders with the appropriate Trait. It is not a Leader Specific (or Civilization Specific) change.
And now, having said all that, I can delete 648kb of back-up information that has been residing on my desktop for well over a year.
Psycho Killers
I like the idea of a Civilization or Trait that earns Gold for Combat... say one Gold per Strength for every Unit destroyed. Though, I am sure the exact amount of Gold would need to be tweaked. And since this would need to be enacted in the code, I have little expectation of ever doing this myself.
Unlimited Wonders
It would be a different game, indeed, if all the Wonders and National Wonders were treated like Regular Buildings... or Wonders like National Wonders and National Wonders like Buildings.
That Is All
In truth, I thought this page would be longer. But as far as I can tell, those are the outstanding notes and ideas that have been sitting in limbo for time untold.