Help on locating XML concerning cities

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Primer: I've been balancing my game and have finally gotten to the point where I want to do a couple things with the cities.

1) Increase the min distance you can place a city from another, this will reduce city spam...

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm, I can only find references in the elemental.str file.

[CityBuildEmptyTile] Must be built on empty tile
[CityBuildCityTooClose] Too close to another settlement.  Minimum distance is %d tiles, you are only %d away.
[CityBuildSovLowEssense] Not enough essence
[CityBuildNoMoney] Need %ld gildar for the new settlement
[CityBuildImpNoMoney] There is not enough money to build this improvement.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah I didn't bother looking in the string file because I figured it would be like SOASE and just be the info type stuff.

Another idea I just thought of now is to see if the pioneer unit/ability can be modified instead of the actual city.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I haven't gotten around to trying to mess with cities yet. It will be something we have to deal with for the Dragonlance Mod though. I recommend getting on MIRC and trying to ask one of the devs there. If I find anything I'll let you know.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

someone suggested it could be a python thing, that's bad news bears for me if it is

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

What I am really looking for is to say, "cities cost 300 g to found."
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I think you want these lines in K_CityHubs.xml and F_CityHubs.xml :

 

       <!--<GameModifier>
            <ModType>ConstructionResourceCost</ModType>
            <Attribute>Gold</Attribute>
            <Value>-25</Value>
        </GameModifier>-->
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Uncomment and change the value to -300 :

       <GameModifier>
            <ModType>ConstructionResourceCost</ModType>
            <Attribute>Gold</Attribute>
            <Value>-300</Value>
        </GameModifier>
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IIUC creating a city automatically builds the "Outpost" improvement, to which you can attach improvement modifiers like build cost, capacity (10 population), etc.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Note: It looks like there's a bug that lets your gold go negative if you can't afford the city founding cost.  I tried this with a cost of -500 and ended up with -400 gold but never saw the CityBuildNoMoney message from elemental.str.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

thank you letterboxart, that pretty much solves one portion of the problem. now to see if the AI can handle it or they lose all their armies.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

as for:

1) Increase the min distance you can place a city from another,

 

<kryo> I think that part's internal atm

 

oh well for now