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Barbarians Actually Get No Free Techs

This mod will make barbarians no longer get Sailing, Bronze Working, and Shipbuilding Technologies for free. While this mod will work on its own, it is more of a fix for the "Barbarians No Free Techs" mod by Weraptor, which has gone unfixed for 2+ years. I'd also like to thank Sailor Cat for their assistance in catching a typo in my "code", if it can be called that.

Despite the Workshop apparently saying this needs Gathering Storm, this work fine in Vanilla and with any and all DLCs.

Since there was a little confusion about exactly what this does, I'll elaborate here. Normally, the barbarians are granted several technologies immediately so they can spawn units which are gated by those techs. From there, they are granted other techs once enough major civilizations have unlocked them and only then can the barbarians spawn units gated by those later techs.

The 3 relevant technologies unlock the following units:

1. Bronze Working, which unlocks spearmen,
2. Sailing, which unlocks galleys, and
3. Shipbuilding, which unlocks quadriremes.

Since barbarians camps normally spawn with a scout or naval unit as well as an anti-cavalry unit to defend the camp itself, this means this mod will prevent anything other than a scout from being spawned until enough civilizations have unlocked the requisite techs.

I have made an alternate version (link below) of this which only blocks barbarians from getting Bronze Working for free. This prevents them from spawning spearmen right away but they can still manage naval units. Credit for this alternate goes to emperor_ike and their friend pyrojester009. I'd considered doing it but wasn't certain if it was something folks would want. If there's demand, I can also make an alternative version of this which only stops quadriremes from spawning but allows spearmen to be spawned in the camps as well.

It isn't terribly complex to change these up but may get a bit confusing if folks subscribe to more than one of them. This really is meant more as a way of making the barbarians less of an issue early on for players who prefer that sort of thing, of course, so personal preference definitely enters into it here. Regardless, the point of mods is to make things the way we like within reason so I'm happy to assist of folks would like that.

The alternate version of this is here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014557785

The original mod by Weraptor is at the last link below, though they have redirected folks to this mod now. Regardless, they deserve the credit for the idea since I'd never have done this is it weren't for their mod.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2184619823