Hi ! first I love your mode it's incradibly good wish I discovered it sooner, but I would know from where come the Harbringer instrumental you use for Dawn diplomacy menus ? I like it so much

Hoofington rises!

You gonna make more FOE mods?

Project Horizons but no Blackjack?

G O D S T A Y S I N H E A V EN B E C A U S E H E F E A R S W H A T H E C R E A T E D

dang i really wish someone would make fallout equestria mods of all of the good guys most the mods i see are the bad factions except for little pip if i ever learn how to mod i might try to add calamity and them in this game but i dont know if i ever succeed so not gonna say much on that yet but the fallout equestria mods i have seen so far are awesome.

What about Flank, Friendship Town, Zebra remnats?

@Anton Thanks, fixed it.

As a heads up, the Direct download link seems to be down.

what the fuck

It will be fantastic unleash the fury of my customized civilization against this poor factions XDXDXD

And you're right when you say shes not a ruler, she's a leader. And you cna be a hero and a leader at the same time. The common depiction of Leonidas, spent more time as a general then at the public forum dictating policy. He was a badass Greek hero. And one of the two kings of Greece. Hell she can even be compared to King arthur. The only differnce I can see is that she doesnt call herself a king or a ruler of any kind. Much like the dictator of north korea doesnt call himself as such. I don't know much abotu commander shepherd since i will never be playign any of the mass effect games. But based on how you described him he sounds a lot like a very capable leader. And military leader seems all you need to have a viable candidate for the leader of any given civ. Take Alexander the Great for instance, or Napoleon, It can even be argued that most of what made washington actually historically relevant was his battlefield experiance against the Brits.

@Rakdar
Well, actually, no. What you're describing are actions of a hero, not of a ruler.
Are you familiar with, say, Mass Effect? The protagonist, commander Shepard, did lots of stuff, including saving or dooming a couple of civilizations, brokering a piece between major superpowers and leading a war against an enemy on a galactic scale. Does commander Shepard rules the galaxy? No. He's just an awesome hero.
If you're unfamiliar with this... Pick any other fictional hero who did similar things. It's a fairly common trope.
Blackjack achieved great results without really ruling anything. Although she had ton of influence on actual leaders of different Hoof factions, and she probably could easily become the Hoof overlord, she did not. It's as simple as that.

@decumos
So brokering peace between the Reapers and steel rangers, quelling the disputes between the society and the collegiate, building up Flank and Chapel. Taking the crown of the soceity, and then putting people in power to actually make that group work. Helping to establish the keepers as a uniter for the hoofington wastes( Remember, Trade saves the wasteland). None of those are "Building up and organizing an administative structure". She was pretty hard lining on the whole slaver situation. Sure, from her perspective she didnt conquer anyone. But that doesnt make her not a capable militiristic conquerer. And if oyu look at it objectively she conquered the hoof. The more we talk about this the less sure i am that you paid attention to what she put together.

@Rakdar
Genghis Khan was not a mere military commander. He spent a lot of time organising and building up an administrative structure of his empire, managing relationship between lesser clans, working on terms under which conquered nation were supposed to exist from there on and so on and so forth. Atilla would be a better example of your point, he spent pretty much all his life fighting and pillaging and feasting. But we would not want Blackjack to be brought down to Atilla's level, would we?
Trust me, if back when I was working at this I would've thought of the way I could implement Blackjack in a way she deserves it that would be the first thing I do. I mean, she's the main character of the story! But I did not want her to be some kind of token, added just for the sake of it.

@decumos yet genghis khan is a civ you cna play. And with that mindset it helps balance them. Since they are going to be really hard ot beat civs. Just for funsies On my last game i was going agaisnt dawn and i spawned in 5 settlers for dawn at the beginning. Turned out to make dawn a warmonger and it was realtively easy to unify the other civs to burn her to death. It certainly wasnt easy, but there is give and take on whereever thespectrum is. Like how babylon was still better then dawn even though she got effectivly 5 free cites, granted this was on deity so that might influence it but still.

@Rakdar
Leading a battle is not the same as leading a faction. At least, not in this game.

@Rakdar
While it is possible to disable settlers for the player via one-city challenge there's no option to disable them for non-playable factions. The idea is that you may not only want to play these factions yourself, but also want to play any other faction while having these two as AI-players. And if AI-controlled Dawn or Zodiac is left without this settler restriction they may eat the whole map faster than Eater of Souls. They still can get more cities than player (since AI on a higher difficulty starts with up to 3 settlers - that's why I put more than 1 city name in there), but at least it's something.

If you read it then you hsould know how blackjack lead that last battle.

@Rakdar
Oh, I assure you I read PH whole (and even read its sequel - at least, chapters that exist). I think you and I just interpret the whole "Eater" situation differently.
I don't think that the Illuminati analogy is applicable in this. At least, not in a sence it's usually depicted.
While it is true that certain actions of Zodiac, Dawn and Cognitum were alligned with Eater's agenda they still acted according to their own free will and ideals. Some of their... ideas were probably in their heads due to Eater's influence but that does not undermine their own hard work and their own agendas, as villainous as they may be. And their goal was definately not the end of the world and whatnot. The only person who was an Eater's servant through and through is Amadi.

Though I am wodnerign why seekers appear so early in the game, and if theres somethign i can edit in the mod file to enable settlers. Since you dont need to disable settlers. there's an actual option when yo usetup a game that disables settlers , its called one city challenge.

@decumos Fair enough i suppose. i mean i certinly dont know the first damn thing about modding so i dont know what goes into it. As to unity and enclave. The enclave in PH is considerably different then the enclave in FOE, especially since there's a schism. And by all means Awesome would definitely be a better leader for the society then blackjack, never made the argument that he wasnt. Blackjack lead the war against cognitum. With that said the eater is basically the illuminati and controlled everything around the hoof. I implore that you finish PH, it does have quite the fitting end.

@Rakdar
Look, I get it, Blackjack is awesome. No objections here. But back when I was working on this I did not feel like she would fit into a faction-leading role.
Also, there's the thing that I don't work on this mod anymore, so even if I agree with you I won't probably do anything. I kinda got bored, to be honest. If I remember correctly, I planned to implement The Society next, I might even have some files left from those attempts. But it was supposed to be led by Awesome, just so you know, not Blackjack.

Enclave and The Unity already exist in Malexlee1's mod. It's much better then mine, there're lots of factions, including NCR led by Littlepip.

Goldenblood's Secret Project is a gameplay workaround. It's impossible to get. Its puprose is to be replaced by Tokomare and Steelpony for respective factions and to be unavaliable for everyone else.

@Rakdar
Oh, my... Well, while I ceirtanly agree that there are plenty of room for other faction I am still not so sure Blackjack fits the role of a faction leader. And although it is true that she's done a lot for the Hoof and it's by her actions everyone united and whatnot she never actually ruled anything, that is, on day-to-day basis, while Dawn and Zodiac did ruled with their factions. Even more so, they founded and dragged their people from nothing to... something. They spent years building and preparing their shady shit, so... yeah.
Eater maybe influenced them but they still acted on their own, they were not some kind of mindless shells.

(3/3). I know that oyu put some thought into settlers, since for spawning them in with Ingame editor or the settler perk does give a variety of lore specific city names like the dams. Oh and what the hell does Goldenbloods secret project do? I'd like to think that its a super weapon, like Tom was, but i cant seem to meet conditions to trigger it.

Seekers are probably the best unit in the game. I think that has to do with a mod conflict, but I end up getting seekers before the great war infantry, and even if that's intentional its busted as fuck. Definitely not useless.

(2/3)maybe the raider army that the psycho bitch lead? OR the highlanders? Hell there are TWO, ENCLAVE, FACTIONS. where the fuck is lighthooves? Or maybe the LEGATE. the third biggest antangonist of the series behind COGNITUM. Need I go on? Hell It could even be argued that she was the faction leader of Flank or Stable 89 for a time. With that rant out of the way, I mean you don't have to go with any of these factions or the literally dozens more, like the sand dogs, and that's fine. But you ignored most of the important factions for the damn collegiate. Not saying that the collegiate wasnt important, everything in that epic was important, but there was far less interaction.

With all that said I do want to know if theres an Ini file setting i can change to allow settlers in non-OCC cities

(1/3)@decumos Bull fucking shit. For the those of oyu who havent finished project horizons ignore this comment. Blackjack's little group, Goldenblood, the crusaders, the steel rangers, Chapel, and all those little groups. She led and organized the entire fucking hoof against the harbingers and there was a 40k word long battle that her "Counsel" organized. She was basically the simon Bolivar of the fucking Hoof. Yeah if i was referncing the time she was queen of the societym yeah that wouldn't count. It's more a stretch to say the collegiate was lead by the doctor, or the harbingers by dawn. Eater of souls was the one who controlled those idiots. Where's light hooves? Where's the enclave? Where's Big Daddy? There are dozens of factions in the hoof, and you leave out some of the biggest? The collegiate was never a big player? How about Sanguines mercenary empire? Or meatlocker? Or I dunno... The fucking GODDESS. Or

@Rakdar I guess you can... mod it? But I would advise against that, since I made those civs with this restriction in mind, and turning settlers back on would make them OP.
No Blackjack since she's not a faction leader in the book, obviously. And, no, that one time with the Society does not count. *winky face*

Well @decumos. Suppose that's my own fault. Is there a way i can enable them? Since it doesnt seem to be an issue since you can get settler from liberty tree. And what of my other question?

@Rakdar
Please, read the description. Settlers are disabled on purpose.

Also, I cant seem to build settlers as Dawn and Ai doesnt seem to make settlers in collegiate

Why no Blackjack

@Flik the Changeling
No, I think not. Seekers literally have the same stats as infrantry, they are just cheeper. Zodiacs may be a bit too powerful, but they are not avaliable untill the very late stages of the game (they replace XCOM squad), so they shouldn't be a problem either.

Does it have any OP units or something? Some times I had the mods what had a civ with OP unit and somehow it always got into the other factions making it a bit unfair

Why'd you have to do this to such a great game?

this game needs no more ponys

he has it now

you need to park it with gods and kings and brave new worlds in the "required" DLC part. it is highly deceptive to not have it.

Yeah, I'm anywhere into this Fan fiction, I just like collecting MLP mods and other stuff.
Plus, The Collegiate CAN play better I was mostly being a noob, I started by NOT building my city next to the ocean so no navel units for me, I was also playing with Barbarians Evolved and didn't annex any of their Rebel cities to expand; pretty poor playstyle on my part and I lost due to the Barbs having much more score than me.

Though I'll give The Collegiate another shot, I do love the fan art and want to get the end game stuff, it was just hard doing so because playing with Barbarians Evolved is like turning Civ5 into turn-base Dawn of War :p

@IDGCaptainRussia94
Because of Deus, of course! The original Steelpony!
I thought it was pretty clever.

So I played one match, random AI player-The Collegiate
Beat them, and now, I have to play them.

And, they kinda suck, atleast before you can get the really cool endgame stuff, but otherwise it was still fun having an OP city :D

On a side note, why does project SteelPony have the Deus Ex icon?

@rheceehlert did u try deleting your cache ;o?

Thank you for your time then. I guess i'll just have to wait till I get a new computer to try again; though that will be a few years. In terms of downloading I never tried instilation from another source, I only downloaded through the steam workshop.

@rheceehlert
Wow. That is... odd. Did you install this mod using the Workshop, or did you download the thing via a direct link and extract the files manually?
Because at least in the first case none of what you've described should happen. The thing is, mod files are placed in a separate directory, ergo, they do not interact with the main game files and, in theory, should not have any chance to corrupt your game. The game adresses mod's files only when you activate the said mod via game's menu. And when you exit the mod's menu the game stops adressing them.
So... I am at loss. And no, I did not update the mod since I first uploaded it, so the problem probably still remains... I honestly have no idea where I should even start to fix this. "I just don't know what went wrong!"
Sorry...

First, thank you for responding.
When i played a game with this mod activated the next time i closed Civ 5 would somehow corrupt the entire game file. Next time i tried starting Civ 5 (not the save, the game) it would crash in loading.

I tried deleting the save file from my computer but that did not solve the issue; the only way i could was to completely remove Civ 5 from my computer and fresh instal. This is not an issue to a corrupted mod file as I attempted many times to get this mod working (dispite having to fresh instal each time) but saddly the results were the same each time. through this testing I also discovered that it would corrupt the game file even if i did not save a new game with this mod. I also attempted running with just this mod installed but it still corrupted the game so it's not a conflicting mod issue either.

I do not know if this issue has been fixed by an update you did in the time sense I did this testing. (being about 6 months) I would be willing to attempt to run it but if there is any other way we could fix this without me doing another fresh instal would be preferable and appreciated.

@rheceehlert
Hi.
Can you please clarify what exactly goes wrong? Although, if an installation of this mod makes the game not playable, I'm sure it would have been reported much sooner, but in any case I need more information in order to determine the problem.

Question, I'm not sure if this was a solitary bug but about half a year ago I had this mod installed and whenever i played civ 5 i had to fresh install inorder to get Civ 5 working again. Was this reported by others? If so has it been fixed? If not then is there some way i might be able to improve the situation on my end?

@[AD]TheCasualGamer
I was going to at first. As of now... Maybe. I dunno. Not likely in near future. Sorry.

Awesome mod, but are you going to add more factions possibly?