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One thing that I would like to change for some scenarios is that when you (or the AI) capture an enemy production city, the production capability is immediately reduced, due to war damage and/or unrest among the enemy citizens. I think it unrealistic to capture an enemy production city and immediately have it turn out 100% of its rated production.

Can these be modelled by rule changes or events?

Capture enemy production city - 50% of normal capability due to damage and unrest - could increase to normal over time
Re-capture friendly production city - 50% of normal capability due and damage - could increase to normal over time

Or, when an enemy production city is captured, or a friendly production city is re-captured, production is set to 0% for X number of turns, to simulate repairing factories and/or quelling unrest.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Most of the time, conquered cities are damaged anyway due to air / artillery attacks and the usual ordinary street fights. I don't see the need for a fixed production capacity reduction.

There is an ability to set how much production a city gives to a capturing regime - IIRC it's mentioned in the "How to build a scenario" thread.

One thing that I would like to change for some scenarios is that when you (or the AI) capture an enemy production city, the production capability is immediately reduced, due to war damage and/or unrest among the enemy citizens. I think it unrealistic to capture an enemy production city and immediately have it turn out 100% of its rated production.

Can these be modelled by rule changes or events?

There are several approaches to do this. If you are working on something and need some help, send me a note.

ORIGINAL: SMK-at-work

There is an ability to set how much production a city gives to a capturing regime - IIRC it's mentioned in the "How to build a scenario" thread.

I looked through all the how to build a scenario threads in the Mods section and couldn't find a reference to this. I also examined every setting in the Editor. Help please!

Thanks.

To do this:
 
1.  Prep the map.  I would use slots and area codes.  This is a mechnanism that lets you tag hexes.  Use a slot # that is not used and then mark each production center with a code that coresponds to the regime number (e.g., use slot 6 and then code Vienna as a 1 since it is an Austrian country.  Note that all hexes have a default code of 0, use the fill button to make the default a higher number than the number of regimes (maybe code 10).
 
2.  Go to the loctype tab and note the number of the city.  You might make a copy of the city (call it 'half production city') and set the production to half (2500).
 
3.  Write an event (turn check):
 
- Looper temp0 = 0 to check map width
- Looper temp1 = 1 to check map height
- check (checkslot(6, temp0, temp1) < highest regime number&nbsp; (checks if the hex has a city)
- check (checkslot(6, temp0, temp1) <> checkturn&nbsp;(see page on event code on conditionals) (checks if this city is not controlled by original owner.
- exec changelocationtype (change to a half city)
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(close out your checks and loops.&nbsp; Also, you need to do a similar event to change the city back to a full city).
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Send me a note if you are still stuck
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ORIGINAL: Dgold

ORIGINAL: SMK-at-work

There is an ability to set how much production a city gives to a capturing regime - IIRC it's mentioned in the "How to build a scenario" thread.

I looked through all the how to build a scenario threads in the Mods section and couldn't find a reference to this. I also examined every setting in the Editor. Help please!

It is in the thread tm.asp?m=1605901 - almost at the bottom - look for the text "We do this by going to the peoples subscreen again (a), then selecting a people(b) and setting its production if owned by its own peoplegroup to 0.25 instead of 1. "

Using this you can set a different modifier for being owned by different peoplegroups.

It is in the thread tm.asp?m=1605901 - almost at the bottom - look for the text "We do this by going to the peoples subscreen again (a), then selecting a people(b) and setting its production if owned by its own peoplegroup to 0.25 instead of 1. "

Using this you can set a different modifier for being owned by different peoplegroups.

This approach would also work but I think it may be harder and less elegant to implement as you would have to set up each regime as a people group, reset the people group for most of the locations, and change the people groups of all of the units already on the board.

Many thanks for the advice, guys

Great design tips here.&nbsp;Perhaps somebody could compile a bunch of these useful posts into a "Designer's Tips" post (or something) after a few months?