Frogboy's Mods

I'm reasonably sure you have to DL them separately; although, since I HAVE DLed them separately, I can't really say if I would have acquired them through updates anyway...

- Ash

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They're not included in the updates. I heard Frogboy say in another thread that you have to download them separately.

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and... Are they worth it?

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"Are they worth it?"

Worth what? There's no cost... they're free updates. If you want more content, DL them. If you don't, don't DL them. Simple, really.

- Ash

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The smuggling tech has never been used by me: I only play good (so far...). The others work nicely.

M

"Worth what? There's no cost... they're free updates. If you want more content, DL them. If you don't, don't DL them. Simple, really."

OK, let me be more specific. My thought is that since these are available as Mods, and not as part of the BonusPack or updates, that they may have some deleterious effects on game balance. Hence the reason they are only available as Mods.
Thoughts anyone?

Sysi,

I have also not downloaded them for the same reason. Beeing available as-is and not as official updates tend to indicate that they may be untested and unbalanced things.

They work fine. The additional moral choice and anomaly only really add variety, and the Smuggling tech is totally irrelevant if you don't play evil (and if you do, it's one extra trade route... hardly unbalancing).

In other words, Frogboy's mods are all fine. No ill effects... the guy did, after all, design the game, so it's not surprising that extra stuff he designed works well. I imagine the reason they weren't included in the game/bonus pack had more to do with timing than anything else.

- Ash

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Thanks
Does the smuggling Mod give an extra trade route to all evil civs?

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The Smuggling mod is a tech available only to Evil civs. So I would assume that any evil civ, human or AI, would get the extra route once they research it.

- Ash

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Thanks. Just curious as to why something made by Frogboy isn't included in the normal updates. Unless, perhaps, they there as examples of how to make such things for the modders.


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"Just curious as to why something made by Frogboy isn't included in the normal updates."

Maybe timing, maybe they're there as examples, maybe they're just non-critical things that would have added to version-confusion in the post-release days... whatever the reason, they work and they're fine.

- Ash

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I've seen the Dangerous Animals event. It is included in one of the updates. I just don't know which one.

I used to run the mods themselves. But since I've rebuilt/reinstalled GalCiv, I haven't taken the time to install them.