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Iska's Il Principe

Il Principe

Successor to Empires Ascendant. Smaller in scope, with fewer features, additions, bugs, changes, and crashes, and doesn't as drastically change the BNW experience. See included mods for additional details.

(If you do run into a bug, please let me know, and I'll fix it ASAP.)

Companion Mods

Intended to be played with, but completely optional if they're not to your taste, Expansion and Settlement, Command and Conquer, Rise and Fall, 202 Nights, as well as my Custom Civilizations. (Any that require Empires Ascendant can be loaded using this mod instead.)

TL;DR

Extremely highly curated modcomp of only the bespokest mods. See links for details and screenshots.

Governments

Adapting art and concepts from other entries in the Civilization series, your Civilization can now adopt a Government, gaining a bonus and filling the flavor gap in Policies. Included mod: Iska's Governments

Expanded Diplomacy

Il Principe expands on the game's diplomacy by introducing a number of new ways to interact with other Civilizations and refining existing diplomacy systems to add more depth and nuance. Included mods: Iska's Additional Diplomacy, Putmalk's Civilization 4 Diplomacy Features

More Policies

Il Principe restores the three Vanilla/Gods and Kings Policy Trees (Order, Autocracy, and Freedom), while adding a few extremely minimalistic balance changes to the existing Policies: more choices without any overpowered Policies or Trees. Included mods: Vanilla Policy Trees Restored, Tiny Policy Balance, Just Policy Renames

Great People and Great Works

Il Principe expands on the Brave New World Culture system by introducing a number of new types of Great People and Great Works, allowing you to further develop your Civilization's Culture and exert Tourism pressure on foreign Civilizations. Included mods: Great Archaeologists and Great Works of Paleontology, Great Inventions, Great Performers, More Great Relics, Great Sculptors and Great Sculptures, Great Work and Secular Tenets, JFD's Great Relics, JFD's Great Works of Film

Cities and Improvements

Il Principe adds two familiar City mechanics from Civilizations IV and VI: City Health and City Loyalty. City management has been expanded on to add new depth to gameplay without being too punishing or irrelevant; Unhealthy Cities have a growth penalty and extremely Disloyal Cities will eventually revolt and become Free Cities. Cities now start with one tile, instead of six, increasing the importance and value of early game border expansion. Trading Posts now grow into Towns over a number of turns, in the style of Civilization IV. Included mods: Civ 4 City Health, Civ 6 City Loyalty, One-Tile City Starts, Sukritact's Civ VI Style City Names, TofuSojo's Trading Posts Grow into Towns

Religions, Resources, and Victories

Il Principe includes my Religions and Beliefs mods, allowing all Civilizations access to a diverse and more historically accurate set of Religions and Beliefs, and Barathor's More Luxuries and companion mod More Pantheons, expanding on Resource and Pantheon content, as well as two new Victories, Economic and Religious. Included mods: Iska's Religions, Iska's Civ 6 Beliefs, Iska's Worship Beliefs, Barathor's More Luxuries, Barathor's More Pantheons, Stephen's Extra Victory Conditions

AI Improvements

Il Principe includes Delnar_Ersike's Artificial Unintelligence Lite (Full version had crashes), giving the AI a boost to performance and capability. Included mod: Delnar_Ersike's Artificial Unintelligence Lite

Essential, Minimalistic Balance Changes

Includes a few essential balance changes without going overboard and radically altering Brave New World's metagame or feel. Includes the following balance changes, and nothing more: Unlimited Barbarian XP, More Frequent World Congress, National College Nerf, Rationalism Opener Nerf.

Modularity

While they should now be considered out of date (almost all of them had bugfixes/additions/ improvements/changes when added to Il Principe) modularized elements of this mod (individual components) can be found here.