Modding in Rise of Nations

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Introduction

Here it is!!! Lord Krulls Guide to modding Nations. Are you not excited? So, let us break down

modding nations into three parts:

Setting up the nation with new powers and help text Setting up unique units for the nation Integrating the nation into the Conquer the World Campaign.

You'll need a word processor to open and edit the files. I use MS Wordpad.

Rise of a Nation

First, get an idea of what nation you want to make. You cannot create nation powers in the

game, but you can make slight changes to existing ones, usually changes in numbers of

things. Then, go back up these files:

Rise of Nations\data\rules.xml Rise of Nations\data\help.xml Rise of Nations\tribes\(nation you will replace).xml

The tribes folder contains xml files for each nation, you'll need a copy of the nation you want

to mod. Now, you can either mod the files that are in the Rise of Nations directory, or you can

mod the files that you copied. I like to set up a folder on my desktop with the copied files and

them mod them from there. Now, first step, that tribes file. Let's take the Minoan Mod I made

a while back as an example. The Minoans replace the British, so I took the british.xml out of

the tribes folder. Here it is:

King Henry VIII

Richard the Lionheart

King Richard III

King Henry V

William the Conqueror

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Mary

London

Edinburgh

York

Salisbury


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Newcastle

Canterbury

Nottingham

Leicester

Norwich

Lincoln

Chester

Durham

Bath

Oxford

Southampton

Cambridge

Whitby

Hexham

RunnymedeWindsor

Exeter

Lancaster

Carlisle

Aberdeen

Glasgow

Bristol

Richmond

Birmingham

Manchester

Portsmouth

Liverpool

Winchester

0 European

1 NEuro

It is simple really. Change the name to what you want, change the leader names, and change

the city names. You do not have to have as many leaders and cities as the orginal file does, or

you can have less, just make sure to delete the extra and

if you decide to have less. Important here are and

. These decide what the art set for the units and buildings of the nation

will be. There are several catagories:


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0 European

1 Arab

2 American

3 Asian

0 Med

1 NEuro

2 Asian

3 Korean

4 American

5 Turk

Here is what the file looked like after I modded it:

Minos the Great

Satur I the Great

King Sakavipi

King Satetot

King Iasiton

Our Lord Ruru

King Krull the Great

Knossos

Phaistos

Kato Zakros

Akrotiri

Vassiliki

Myrtos

Mochlos

Agia Photia

Sitia

Archanes

Malia

Palaikastro


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Phylaki

Fournou Korifi

Tripiti

Nerokourou

Petras

Phourni

Prassa

Simi

Achladia

Amnissos

Chania

Galatas

Karphi

Kommos

ApodoulouChamaizi

Tylisos

Sklavokambos

Zominthos

Zou

0 European

0 Med

Next, we will work with the rules.xml. This is the important part, because it is where you

modify nation powers. Look for a part in the rules.xml that looks like this:


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This is what all the nation powers do. Any power that a nation has in-game can be changed.There are also some un-used powers. Putting values into them sometimes gets them to work,

but not always. Here is what I modded the powers to be:

Really high bonuses I put in are used to simulate instantaneous creation and an unlimited

comerce cap. You can experiment to get just what you want.

Now on to the last step, editing the help.xml. While this will not change anything in the

gameplay, it is necessary to do so that players know what you have changed. Open up the

help.xml, then find an entry that looks like this:

{The British have the Power of Empire.}

+$NUMBER0% Commerce Cap. Receive double income fromTaxation.

Ships created $NUMBER1% faster.

Receive Foot Archer upgrades for free. Forts and

Towers +$NUMBER5 range.

Anti-Aircraft units and buildings created $NUMBER3%

cheaper and $NUMBER4% faster.


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This is the help text that discribes the nation. " places bullets that

separate the different nation powers. Delete powers you are no longer using, and change the

text for ones you have changed. Something like $NUMBER1%" looks up the value in the

rules.xml, so if you change a 10% discount to 30%, you don't have to change anything in the

help text, it will change for you. Here is what mine looked like after I fixed it:

{The Minoans have the Power of the Mediterranean.}

Commerce Cap always at maximum.

Ships and Archers created instantly.

Since I wanted it to seem like instantaneous creation, I changed the text a bit, instead of

keeping the percentage entries.

So once you've done all that... you're done! Replace the original files with the modded ones to

use the mod, and replace those with backed-up files to go back to the regular game. Which, if

you have bad luck generally, will not work. Keep the game CD handy for reinstallation.

- Ruru Ghoshal a.k.a. Lord Krull the Minoan.8

thSeptember, 2006

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