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Historical Spawn Dates

Timelines

Setup menu option for start dates:

• Standard: A mixture of historical realism and gameplay balance
  
• True Historical Start: Based on the national founding dates of countries or cities
  
• Leader Start: Based on the birth date of leaders
  
• Era Start Mode: Era based timeline. Players will appear at the beginning of a new Era
  
• Lite Mode: Isolated and Colonial Civilizations receive start dates. All other civilizations start the game normally on Turn 1
  
• Input Start Dates Manually: Enter start dates from the setup menu

Full list of start dates can be found in the Discussions section post (link here)

Spawn Zones and Invasions

Spawn zones increase in size around the starting plot based on the game era (maximum 6 plots in all directions by Medieval). Cities in the spawn zone will revolt if they don't have an established governor. Original capitals and City State players will not revolt by default. New players will declare war on the city owner if it has an established governor, and they receive military units (compatible with all unit mods) dynamically based on tech and civic progress. AI players will attack nearby cities.

Setup menu options:
• Spawn Zone Types:
  - Iterative: Select cities not separated from the starting plot by mountains or water
  - Classic: Select one city per player within the spawn zone
  - All Cities: Select every city in the spawn zone
  
• Convert Cities: Cities are converted to the new player when they revolt. If disabled, they become Free Cities and must be converted through loyalty
  
• Convert Cities With Governor: Cities with established governors can revolt
  
• Convert Any City: All cities can revolt, including original capitals, cities with established governors and a player's final city

Gameplay Balance

• Receive bonus technologies, civics, yields and great person points based on the progress of other players and the game difficulty setting. Isolated players receive minor bonuses to yields based on the game era.
  
• The Super Monument building provides bonus loyalty pressure from all citizens to help sustain new players. It is spawned in the capital until the number of cities owned by the player exceeds the era limit. The era limit is the numerical value of the game era (Ancient = 1, Classical = 2, etc)
  
• New cities receive bonus population, buildings and units until the era limit is reached
  
• Players receive 1 Era Score per turn before they spawn, after the first Civ enters the Classical Era. Later starting players will spawn in a Normal or Golden Age, depending on factors such as number of players and game speed, while earlier starting players are more likely to start in a Dark Age

Isolated and Colonial Civilizations

• Isolated Civs spawn without any bonuses, but they receive a stronger version of the Grand Embassy trait which provides extra Science and Culture from Trade Routes to more advanced Civilizations (defined in IsolatedCivs.sql)
  
  • Isolated Civilizations:
    
  • Aztec, Cree, Inca, Mapuche, Maya, Maori
• Late-game Colonial Civs start with the Democracy government unlocked and receive a copy of the Grand Embassy trait and the Era Building which provides bonus yields in every city depending on the Starting Era (defined in IsolatedCivs.sql)
  
  • Colonial Civilizations:
    
  • America, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Canada

Colonization Mode

• European Civs can spawn colonies on foreign continents after discovering Cartography and advancing into every new era until Modern Era. Colonies start with military units, workers and a Harbor.
  
• Coastal cities on foreign continents with a Harbor that is not pillaged are always loyal to the owner

Raging Barbarians Mode

• Barbarian camps will contain unique units based on the continent and game era. These units are weaker versions of player unique units and can be viewed from the Civilopedia. For Earth maps only.

1. How to change start dates:
   
   
   • Start date lists are found in the Tables folder of this mod. Choose the file that matches the Timeline of your choice. Open in a text editor to make changes to the start dates. You can add start dates for Leaders which will always take precedence over the Civ start date.
     
     
   • See the discussion post "Spawn Dates and Starting Eras" for the full list
   
   
2. How to make advanced changes:
   
   
   • See ScriptHSD.lua for the main gameplay functions, InGameHSD.lua for some UI related functions, UnitFunctions.lua for starting units and all unit related functions, and ScenarioFunctions.lua for Colonization mode and Raging Barbarians mode (WIP)
   
   
3. Default mod location (search for the mod ID in bold):
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\289070\2141200494

Known Issues:

• Civs that conquer their first city before using a settler do not have an Original Capital. Does not affect Domination Victory.