Change City Building Criteria

[Aranittara]

Hi, so I'm trying to determine if it's possible to mod cities to be able to build a city on a mountain or coastline etc.

Other features seem to have include or exclude markers but I'm not seeing any for cities.

[Xilmi]

Couldn't find any hints in the corresponding XML's either.
So I would guess it somehow is hardcoded.

[Aranittara]

Is that true of all the features? I can't seem to see any way to allow other features to be built or not build in various terrain types.

[Xilmi]

Once again, it looks like that.
I just tried to find out if there's something that prevents forest on mountains because it is not possible in the game.
But neither the Forrests nor the Mountains file gave any clue about that.

[Aranittara]

Well, that's disappointing. Hopefully the next major revision will improve modding support so more options are exposed.

[YaroslavUSSR]

Hi, so I'm trying to determine if it's possible to mod cities to be able to build a city on a mountain or coastline etc.

Other features seem to have include or exclude markers but I'm not seeing any for cities.

I think you are not able to build a city in the ocean like in SMAC without modding colonizer unit. But you can build water suburbs! I couldn't wait for Eclipse of Nashira so I created a mini-mod for my own use whereI can exploit seas and ocean a bit more.

[Aranittara]

Can you post the mod?

[YaroslavUSSR]

Can you post the mod?

Start the game as Solar Dynasty to test new improvement immediately.

[YaroslavUSSR]

Hi, so I'm trying to determine if it's possible to mod cities to be able to build a city on a mountain or coastline etc.

Other features seem to have include or exclude markers but I'm not seeing any for cities.

Xilmi is right. Each construction has parameter feature type="XXX", where XXX can be "Modification" for land structures or "WaterModification" for water structures. So you can create new water improvements that can distillate ocean water to produce minerals, floating solar collectors and water purifiers. But the city has feature type="city" which is not described in other xml files. If you change it the game crashes.

[gendalv]

overwrites Industrious.xml from Unsub's 12 Faction Mod, 6 New, 6 Rebalanced mod
and
Orders.xml and Features.xml from Terrain modifiers mod