Change Log

V1.4

• Reduced Diplomatic relation range for Treaties by 2.
• Reduced base realtions range by 2.
• Increased Conquest Victory relations by +1.
• Increase Conquest Victory modifier for Aggressive races by 25%. (150% of Base)
• Reduced Conquest Victory modifier for Peaceful races by 25%. (50% of Base)
• Reduced Ripe for Conquest modifers for Benevolent by 25% (50% of Base)
• Increase Ripe for Conquest modifier for Aggressive races by 25%. (150% of Base)
• Increase Ripe for Conquest modifier for Cruel races by 15%. (140% of Base)
• Increase Ripe for Conquest modifier for Expansionst races by 5%. (130% of Base)

V1.3

• Moved gameplay changes to a seperate mod folder, ID Gameplay, for people that just want the cosmetic changes.
• Added colors to the Mood Text.

V1.2

Forgot GalCiv3AIDefs.xml - This is in a seperate folder, AI Tweaks, I did it this way so anyone using the AI Tweaks mod still has compatibility.

•     Changed Trading, Foreign Aid & Demand Tribute modifiers to reflect the -20 to +20 scale.
•     Base Relations changed to accomodate the increase from 10 to 20.
•     Changed base asset values.
•     Changes base Treaty values.
•     AI requires a relation of +6 to trade Military Techs.

V1.1

Increase Numerical value by 5, scale is now -20 to +20.
Adjusted Diplomacy treaty relations. Scales from 2-20 instead of 1-10.
Adjusted Diplomacy Modifiers:-
    Reduced Diplomatic race modifier to +2
    Increased Positive values:-

•         Common Enemy to +3
•         Outside of Range to +5
•         Weaker Military to +2
•         Proclaim Friendship +2

    Increased Negative values:-

•         Opposing Culture -2
•         Alliance With Opposing Culture -2
•         Culture Treaty With Opposing Culture -2
•         Alliance Or Trade With Enemy -3
•         Close To Influence Flip -2
•         Built Planet Killer -3
•         War With War Victim -2
•         Successful Influence Flip -4
•         Broke Treaty -3
•         Broke Alliance -6
•         Large Fleet Near World Or Starbase -3
•         Invaded UP HQ -3
•         Used Planet Killer -4
•         Colonized Within ZOC -4
•         War Against Friendly Player -2
•         Refused War On Other Request -2
•         Conquest Victory Goal -3
•         Close To Ascension Victory -2
•         Close To Research Victory -2
•         War With Friend -2
•         You Conquered Our Friend -3
•         You Are War Monger -2
•         Grudge -3
•         Proclaim Friendship With My Enemy -3

Adjusted Diplomacy Improvement's and Starbase Module's

•     Tier 1 = 0.2 (Was 0.25, even though it showed in game as 0.3, the ingame UI does not display two decimal places and rounds up)
•     Tier 2 = 0.3 (Was 0.5)
•     Tier 3 = 0.4 (Was 1)

v1.0

Changed Diplomacy Relation's to numerical values, -15 upto +15.
Added and extra 30 moods to the AI to better reflect thier relations.
Added new smiley icons to better reflect AI moods.

Quoting a0152570,

reply 2

This looks fantastic,  I said way back in beta we should have numbers instead of the  1-3 +/- .   Will be loading at the start of my next game

The 1-3 +/- has been bugging me since I started playing, it never reflects the true values, in my last game it got to me so much I decided to do something about it. Since the --- and +++ has no min/max range I figured numerical's would suit it better. The additional moods are just a bonus!

I did not however forsee Ripe for Conquest hitting the cap of -15 I set, so I may well change this to 20 or 25, see how far the code pushes it I guess. Thinking about it Diplomacy will prolly push the cap too, Embasies/Diplomatic modules can stack quite high on large maps.

Wow, this isn't just great, this is a must-have! I usually play with diplomacy in mind so this is particularly useful for me. I never thought of it much before as I thought there was some sort of roof on 3. Excellent work!

Yeah that was broken ID_DIPLOMACY_MOOD_ENRANGED just doesnt quite fit

Was also broken, this one actualy made me chuckle, ID_DIPLOMACY_MOOD_RESENTFUK.

TY for the report, fixed them up and I will upload a new version.

Updated to 1.1

See Diplomacy Changes.txt for details.

Updated to 1.2

Forgot GalCiv3AIDefs.xml - This is in a seperate folder, AI Tweaks, I did it this way so anyone using the AI Tweaks mod still has compatibility, over write the one in AI Tweaks Mod.

• Changed Trading, Foreign Aid & Demand Tribute modifiers to reflect the -20 to +20 scale.
• Base Relations changed to accomodate the increase from 10 to 20.
• Changed base asset values.
• Changes base Treaty values.
• AI requires a relation of +6 to trade Military Techs.

Yeah...I changed that reduced it by 60%, same for starbase modules. Might be overkill but, we will see.

Updated 1.3

Savegame compatible.

Informatic Diplomacy does indeed have all the Cosmetic changes, DiplomacyDefs.xml is just expanded to account for the -20 to +20 realtions, doesnt impact gameplay at all, since I only doubled up the relations in it, its the same as vanilla but taking the new scale into account, same for the changes to GalCiv3AIDefs in the AITweaks folder, I adjusted Trade, Aid, Base and Tribute relations to accomodate the new scale.

If I did not do this you would max out realtions at +10 or -10 still, would kinda make the additonal scales pointless, my inital release went to 15, but Ripe for Conquest maxed that out and produced overflow +20 seems to do the trick highest I have seen RFC since is -18, I wanted the mod to have full visibility in regards to the relation modifiers, no overflow.

ID Gameplay contains the files that impact on gameplay. adjusted modifiers ect. Thinking about it, so does GalCiv3AIDefs since I changed treaty values. Hmm might have to do two mods.

Out of curiosity what changes have you made to Diplomacy? Are they worth sharing? Maybe combine this and that?

AH! I did the same in regards to Mining Rings in my Trek mod, just wish I could get the AI to use it too.

Whoa on the Diplo changes, how does that effect a Diplo win? Still easy to get or? I cut it to 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 for this mod and I thought that might be a bit harsh, prolly is for small maps but I play Huge-Imense maps, not sure if ppl actualy play small maps!?

I finaly found the Ripe for Conquest modifiers. Its labled as EasyTarget I was looking for RipeForConquest

I have a calculation that I beleive to be correct, feel free to correct me if I am wrong:

We have a base of -3, set in DiplomacyModifiers.xml.

There are modifier's in DiplomacyModifiers.xml of 1.25 for certain personalities:

1. Aggressive
2. Cruel
3. Expansionist
4. Opportunistic

There is a scaling global modifer in GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml of 1-1.5.

I have a race (The Borg) with 3 personalities that effects Ripe for Conquest:

So I have: Base x (Aggressive + Cruel + Expansionist) x Global Modifier = Ripe for Conquest

-3 x 3.75 x 1.5 = 16.875.

They are showing in game as -17 so it fits. A race with all four personalities would take it to 22.5

A Race with none of the personalities would end up with 4.5, Base x Global.

Fantastic work as always!

I've been pounding the table for a while now about expanding the diplomatic scale, to alleviate too easy (and too fast) diplomatic victories, and too much early game Ai warmongering.  Well done.

I can't believe I played all this time without actual numbers for the modifiers!  Even after all my hours of play I thought "-" was -1 and "---" was -3.  I never realized there were degrees of severity.  In the test game I'm playing, I watched the Ripe for Conquest go from -15 to 0 in several steps as I built more ships. 

Hoermvore, I like to modify my game XML directly. For example I will go into my game files (not the mod folder but the actual xml under steam) and mod up the sensors to 30 or add +1 move to all the engines and change the Shield Punch value from .60 to 1.(note shield punch does not work currently unless the value is 1 or higher.)

Also I have started tinkering with the starting planets for my custom race, I have been playing a recent game where I wanted to see what happened if I changed earth to class 25 and Mars to 20.  Crazy overpowered but still rather fun! 

My question is this. I want to start a new game using  your Star Trek mod with everything you include in it, (star trek races, diplomo fixes and such) while still using my own custom race which I call the Empire of Vulcan (they are the 'Mirror Mirror' Vulcan's with bearded Spock!). Can I still make changes to the game files like that and still have your mod work?

Thanks, 

<Happy 4th!>

Updated:

1.5 Cosmetic

Added Infinite Symbol to represent any overflow.

1.5 Gameplay

Increase positive and negative counters to +29 and -29, scale unchanged pure cosmetic increase.

Decrease Diplomacy stat to +1 for any non Diplomatic races.