{"id":3861,"date":"2016-05-14T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2016-05-14T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T12:55:57","slug":"better-than-civ6-bookmarkable-links-for-civ4-mod-master-of-mana-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2016\/05\/14\/better-than-civ6-bookmarkable-links-for-civ4-mod-master-of-mana-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than Civ6? Bookmarkable links for Civ4 mod: Master Of Mana sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Master of Mana was a great game &#8211; much better than Civ5, and from what we&#8217;ve seen of Civ6, Firaxis is still playing catch-up in a few areas :).<\/p>\n<p>The author has disappeared, and his website has been taken over by scammers (not even going to link it), but the community has kept going the SourceForge-hosted copy of the source and continues to update it. The files are ordered confusingly (inherited from previous projects, and Civ4 itself, which was mainly shipped as a commercial game, not as a moddable game!). Here&#8217;s a few key links to find interesting \/ useful game-design gems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/masterofmana\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/Xtended\/Assets\/Modules\/NormalModules\/Xtended\/\">Folder with the XML files from community&#8217;s updated Civs, Techs, Units &#8212; all the game stats<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/masterofmana\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/Source\/\">Folder with all the C\/C++ source code<\/a> (only needed for major game-changing mod features)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/masterofmana\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/Assets\/Python\/Wildmana\/Civs\/\">Folder with most\/all the custom Python scripts for the MoM civilizations<\/a> (i.e. where 95% of Master of Mana is implemented)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/masterofmana\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/Assets\/XML\/Civilizations\/CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml#l202\">Base definitions of all the customized Civilizations<\/a> (Their starting techs, their heroes, the units they start with, which units they can\/cannot build or have special versions of, etc)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/masterofmana\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/Assets\/XML\/Buildings\/CIV4BuildingInfos.xml#\">Definitions of all the special buildable city-buildings in the game<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master of Mana was a great game &#8211; much better than Civ5, and from what we&#8217;ve seen of Civ6, Firaxis is still playing catch-up in a few areas :). The author has disappeared, and his website has been taken over by scammers (not even going to link it), but the community has kept going the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}