Thank you so much!

I am using to many to count. :) Just recently started to play more again, now that I could boost the AI in both growth and development I am enjoying the game again. I might be ready to drop Real Tech as it feels a little to restrictive and switch back to this approach again.

Which mods are you using instead of this one?

Yes and No, It should still work. I personally move on from a large mod and now use a number of mods to do some of the things this mod does, for example I use the Real Tech Tree Mod plus a number of other mods to cover most things.

Is this mod still supported?

Greetings. Should this work on vanilla (no expansions)? When I try to use it the Mod manager says it depends on Gathering Storms. Thank you.

Sorry, I meant 35% for China.

The Tech Discount should be reduced more. I always preferred 25% instead of 50%, except for China, which gets 30%.
Can you do this, or do the tech and cultural discount be modular? Would be awesome! :)

is there a way to make even more expensive to simply buy great people with money or with faith. the AI seems to want to buy them as often as possible and then never have them do their retire effect. which seems to be strange to me. i never understood why anyone would want a great person and then not actually retire them at some point.

Great mod ! I don't know how Firaxis doesn't see the major unbalancing of their vanilla tech tree, even after two major expansions.

I had a bug though, i don't know if it's from your mod or the other one i used in this save (steel and thunder unit pack). Coal was not consumed by power plant, and some of my cities had the renewable power icon way too early, like in the medevial era. I tried several others games, with your mod only or the other one only, the bug didn't show up again. Even on a new game with both the mods, i didn't show up either.

Otherwise, the only thing i think for now who need balancing, are the techs boosts being still too powerful. Most of the time, i reach industrial era in the 1600 in Emperor difficulty, wich is historically a little too early. With eureka and inspiration reduced to a 20 or 25% boost, it will be better i guess. Or maybe it's inherent to emperor difficulty ?

Anyway, great work :)

R.E.D
What do you mean by old graphical mod? I only use your mod and strategic forts, no any mods, playing in DirectX 12, with huge map and 20 players. but trying 2-3 times, it crashed around industrial era, I am waiting an update of your mod and will try again, hard to know what kind of problems is, maybe next time I have the Firaxis bug error I can try to find the error code and tell you

Nevermind. I'm an impatient idiot it would seem. My play style usually involves king (above that and the AI gets ridiculous buffs it seems) difficulty and taking over the two nearest capitals as fast as possible. This usually generates some hate from everyone else, which makes sense. Last test game I am running, and after wiping out all of the neighbors on my continent, the AI on the other landmasses started to chill out after a whole lot of turns. They are friendlier now after some gift giving and remaining mostly pacifist with everybody. Seems they have their own issues with each other right now. Probably just bad rng with more aggressive empires last play.

Regardless, thanks for this. A lot of the tech changes make better sense than vanilla. And I like the fact future techs take a bit longer now.

Bullyhunter: Depends on what the change. I do some tech cost updates which moves a few techs in the same era, to make the connection better. So might or might not work. I change

TECH_ROCKETRY
TECH_REPLACEABLE_PARTS
TECH_FLIGHT
TECH_STEEL
TECH_CHEMISTRY
TECH_REFINING
TECH_ELECTRICITY
TECH_COMBUSTION
TECH_RADIO
TECH_CASTLES
TECH_CELESTIAL_NAVIGATION

longironcondor, I am low on time maybe next week, basically the statements I use are these.

UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 3 WHERE EraType ='ERA_ANCIENT';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 3 WHERE EraType ='ERA_CLASSICAL';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 2 WHERE EraType ='ERA_MEDIEVAL';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 2 WHERE EraType ='ERA_RENAISSANCE';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 2 WHERE EraType ='ERA_INDUSTRIAL';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 1 WHERE EraType ='ERA_MODERN';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 1 WHERE EraType ='ERA_ATOMIC';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 1 WHERE EraType ='ERA_INFORMATION';
UPDATE Eras_XP2 SET GrievanceDecayRate = 1 WHERE EraType ='ERA_FUTURE';

Flash Mike, I always play on standard (Firaxis balanced standard the best if you can call it balanced) :)

Eldiabs, interesting I am looking at some AI changes maybe once I get the AI more aggressive. The AI is way to friendly in GS, then we can tone down the grievance changes. Experimenting with increasing AI unit standing army base count and slightly higher negative start relationship penalty on higher difficulties. I got the AI to have lots of units but they are slow to attack humans, not sure if Firaxis intentionally made the AI nicer to the human player, same with barbarians they are not mounting large attacks anymore. I wish the had two setting, Aggressive AI (More units / more attacks) and More Barbarians. The game is just way to easy right now.

Toasted Bread / Bird Jesus. I set the CO2For1DegreeTempRise to 2.0 maybe it not enough?

Kelhmis, I had some issue with crash when using older graphical mods, could that be it?

Thanks for this mod. Has been fun. My only issue is the grievance system. Currently broken with this mod as the AI denounces you before grievances can decay, thus maintaining a constant negative modifier towards the player. Basically, with the way this is currently set up, if you ever go negative opinion with the AI, you'll never get out of it. Doesn't matter if you never did anything to that civ. Attacking a single civ, even taking over one of their cities in a self defense war, everyone will hate you forever.

Other than that, I'm enjoying these changes.

I played 2 times to test it, arriving to industrial era, the game crashed 2 times... I don't know why. I only use it with strategic forts mod

With the CO2 change, I still lost many many tiles to coastal flooding even though I beelined Computers for the barriers. Still seems pretty harsh given that I used bare minimum power plants, swapping to nuclear as fast as possible, and used renewables. Only one other civ polluted in an 8 civ game and the climate went insane exponentially.

Where did you find the CO2 values needed to activate climate change?

Looks great! What game speed is recommended to accompany this mod, or will it work on all game speeds?

Could you make a simple mod that just has the adjusted grievances decay rate please?

Ever since 8 Ages of Pace hasnt been updating ive been looking for a mod that does the same. Thank you.

Is this compatible with mods that move, add, or change things to the tech or civics tree?

Yes, I did a quick update for the CO2 basically increased the amount per degree to Double, that said I have not had time to fully test the full impact of the change as that change require a full game and it takes a while to get to CO2 problems, but I think the setting change should do the trick. Once tested I might see if we can get the other effects like storms etc to have more impact.

Just saw the update. Perfect! Gonna take a swing with it, thanks.

Suggestion: adjust the climate change threshholds. Otherwise we're polluting the world just as fast, while taking longer to get to the technology to solve the problem.

Fixed issue with pre-req connections and lower cost of random future techs/civics. New version uploaded.

Thanks Longironcondor, seems the random techs/civics are not getting prices correctly and are connected based on that price in the tree, have to find out why that happens. Most likely have to increase the tech cost of the random techs.

In the civics tree, I don't think it's intended for cultural heritage to connect directly to the unrevealed civics of the future era.

Going to use your mod instead of the Historic Speed mod, since I'm guessing there would be conflict between them. Looking forward to using this as the changes make sense. :)