Game breaker in the modifiers.csv file (?)
There is a small problem in the data transfer between the modifiers.csv file (mod-CORE2/db/units subdirectory) and the game engine. Unfortunately this has the unpleasent result of messing up all already started games
, since I haven´t found out a way to effectively alter the data in the modifiers.csv file for saved games. The modifiers then seem to be saved within the saved game file itself.
While the game engine (check during the game the army/air/naval modifiers in the statistics folder) presents seperate lines for "plains_attack" and "plains_defense", the modifiers.csv file of the core2 mod seems to do not.
This results in a shift of all the modifier values up one line in the game modifiers, i.e. starting with "blizzard_Defense" in the modifiers.CSV is "plains_attack" in the game, "snow_defense" in the modifiers.CSV is "blizzard_defense" in the game, and so on down the list up to "urban_defense".
Since the line "plains_defense" is missing also in the modifiers.csv all lines below starting with "urban_defense" have shifted up two lines, i.e. "blizzard_move" in the modifiers.csv is "swamp_defense" in the game and so on down to the end of the file.
You can easily check this by comparing both files using a windowed game mode. But consider, that some of the values in the game have been slightly changed from the modifiers.csv values due to technology modifiers altering them within the game. Still the shifts are obvious.
It is easy to fix though. The missing lines just need to be inserted at the right position in the modifiers.csv file within the core-mod/db/units folder ("ATT_Plains" below ATT_Fort" and "DEF_Plains" below "DEF_Urban" and set 0 for all values - or slight alterations as you like).
Unfortunately this might also ruin a lot of the already done combat balancing since the wrong modifiers completely messed up the combat values starting with "plains_attack" down the list :wacko:. Especially the Plains defense and urban defense modifiers get rather large negative modifiers, most likely resulting in two quick combat in the basic core game testing. This has been "corrected" (?) by a reduction in the land combat org damage in the misc file from 0.6 to 0.3.
With a corrected modifiers.csv file this drop in the land combat org damage (misc file in the core-mod/db folder) propably then might be too big (I recommend a 0.45 to 0.55 from my experience), as combat lasts longer with the corrected modifiers, especially in plains and urban terrain in comparison to the oringinal AOD core game testing.
When I modded the vanilla game some weeks ago I also used the original core modifiers.csv file for my modification. And did the same mistake by overseeing the missing the "ATT_Plains" and "DEF_Plains" lines in the modifiers.csv file. It ruined the game, since all movement and combat has freaky modifiers then, which I more or less found out in 1939 in my game, due to ridiculuos slow movement in hills and forrest terrain and rather quick in mountains. I checked the modifiers in the game then et voila: Shit! I appologize for not giving you the hint based on my moddding experience with vanilla AOD by then, as I assumed the 0.49 core mod was aware of the problem due to the game testing in the past weeks and quickly started a game without checking the "old" (in my experience) problem and . Unfortunately it doesn´t seem to have been corrected yet and it requires players to start over - or someone can explain me how to insert the corrected modifiers.csv into a saved game.