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Radiant Stronger Cities

This mod buffs City center, Encampement and all kind of Walls hitpoints so cities become way harder to take. And since AI's player would suffer a lot from such changes (because they already suck at taking our cities), clever modifiers are applied to help them against our districts (only that), resulting slightly more difficult games than in vanilla's, but also way more interesting !

Updated on 05/10/2018. Second part of the mod need more testing to find the right difficulty balance. Don't hesitate to tell me your feeling about the 3 actual values (+25, +10 and -10). I would want it to make games little harder than vanilla.



While playing civilization 6, I always felt that enemy cities were too easy to take. Do you remember the feeling of declaring a war on Civilization 1 ? That sudden big fear of loosing the game because you just wanted to take a city ? You could spend a whole army just to get one city, grazing the game over lol ! i want to taste that again without necessarily being at Deity difficulty.

Before anything, we need City way harder to take. The first part of my mod will be focused on that and it will be applied for all players (Ai, Human, City-States). More Hps for districts to help city to defend better, and more of their ranged power in your face.

The second part of my mod, way harder to implement and test (Give me some time for that), will lead this mod to its final version by bringing back a nice difficulty balance in the game. To sum up, I will grant Ai players diverse advantages to help them greatly when they will want to take our cites or encampments even with the previous buffs brought by the first part. Trust me, they need it bad ! That way, we will suffer way more than them, and i hope we will meet that old fearful feeling again !

For this mod, i put time to make a comprehensive .sql file so you can tweak it at your own taste. Don't hesitate, but be sure to do that with notepad ++ software. This mod folder should be named 1530476030 inside the general civ mod folder. RSC_RadiantStrongerCities.sql is for first mod part, RSC_RadiantStrongerCities.xml is for second mod part.

If you trust me blindly with my personal value tweakings, then don't change anything and here is what this mod will do :

< FIRST-PART >

• City Center HPs : 200 >>> 450
  
  
• Encampment / Ikanda HPs : 100 >>> 250
  
  
• Encampment / Ikanda Bonus Power for City ranged attack : +2 >>> +6
  
  
• Walls HPs (per wall improvement) : 50 >>> 100
  
  
• Modern City Walls HPs (after steel tech) : 200 >>> 350
  
  
• Walls Bonus Power for City ranged attack : +2 >>> +4
  
  
• Palace building HP Bonus : 0 >>> 100

Because of that last Palace HP bonus, Every capital in the game will gain a ranged attack as soon as its founded. If you don't like that idea, go the mod sql.file and put that value to 0 (it's well explained inside). But i can assure you with my first tests that this is a really healthy tweak (prevent early CS and Civ defeats).

< SECOND-PART >

• Give all AI player units +25 combat strength bonus only when they attack districts (yours, and each other's). It seems like a huge number but paired with the first part of this mod, your cities just feel like moderatly weaker when AI players attack them than they use to be in vanilla, which is a very nice addition !
  
  
• Give all AI player units an additional +10 combat strength bonus when they attack districts (yours, and each other's) if they have reached GunPowder Technology. (to reinforce first effect at some point because City-Centers & Encampments start to be a lot tougher past renaissance era).
  
  
• Give all units (yours, AI's, Everyone's) attacking a City-State district a -10 combat strength malus. (because they need it to survive better against Aggressive Ai's and human players).

I know what you think, this is not perfect and it should have been better/simplier to only affect human player districts. But so far, because of dull district game code, it is plainly impossible for us to create an effect that apply depending of what kind of player a district belongs to (for instance : + something if unit attack a human player's district). That's why i had to find other ways with general effects.



This mod only work when a whole new game is created while activated and can't work fully on already existing saves. Sorry it couldn't be avoidable. (It actually can work if you add the famous line in the modinfo but i don't advise it for this mod integrity)

This mod is meant to be compatible with most of the existing mods (has been tested with 150+ of my mods). Though if you have a problem, you can notice me if you need help to fix it manually.



You can find all my mods by searching "Radiant" in steam workshop, nexus, or civfanatics, which is a recurrent word in all my mod's tittles.

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