Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4

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SkyPhoenixTweaker - Heroes and Item Forge - V1
   
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11 Nov, 2024 @ 2:29am
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SkyPhoenixTweaker - Heroes and Item Forge - V1

Description
My mod introduces some changes to Rulers, Heroes and Item Forge, so the game can become more enjoyable.

All features included in Variant 1:

+ Now all Heroes (including Rulers) get +5 starting skill points.
+ Rulers and Heroes now have +25 health and +3 status resistance to make them more sturdy and reliable at the game beginning.
+ Refunding all spent skill points is now much cheaper, 5 imperium per spent skill point on a character skill tree. Refunding all 25 used skill points will cost around 125 imperium.
+ Refreshing Hero Recruitment Pool is now free, so now you can get the heroes you want without any obstructions on the way.
+ Increased time of auto refreshing Hero Recruitment Pool to 100 turns, because the refresh option is now free, i also wanted to give much more time to collect resources to recruit new ones you want, the heroes you are interrested in wont run away anymore (by default the pool is refreshed after each 5 turns).
+ Reduced Cost to Recruit Heroes, now the base cost is 50 gold and 25 gold per Hero Level.
+ Reduced Cost to Ressurect Dead Heroes, now the base cost is 50 mana and 25 mana per Hero Level.
+ Halved the Cost to Recruit Heroes from Pantheon. They are still expensive but the previous price was too absurd in my mind.
+ Imperium Cost to increase Hero cap is reduced from 30 to 20 per Remaining Turn.
+ Increased Infusion Points cap from 5 to 10, so you can make more powerfull items, also tweaked costs in binding essence to make items more affordable and to reflect investments in more infusion points
+ I tweaked item tiers, so now you have to invest more infusion points to get extra bonus stats you gain from higher item tiers.
- Tier 2 starts from 3 infusion points
- Tier 3 starts from 5 infusion points
- Tier 4 starts from 8 infusion points
+ All items are forged instantly.

For more details about as which .rpk files are modified and what values are changed inside there, please read detailed changelog attached to the mod inside mod's folder. Feel free to make any changes to my mod and upload forks.

Ogre 1.0 Update is required for this mod in order to work.

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You can also check other variants of my mod:

- Variant 1 - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3363909522 - 5 starting skill points, 10 infusion points

- Variant 1b - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366682409 - 5 starting skill points, 20 infusion points

- Variant 2 - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3364764016 - 2 starting skill points, 2 skill points per level, 10 infusion points

- Variant 2b - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366683090 - 2 starting skill points, 2 skill points per level, 20 infusion points

- Variant 3 - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366683853 - 3 starting skill points, 3 skill points per level, 10 infusion points

- Variant 3b - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3366687010 - 3 starting skill points, 3 skill points per level, 20 infusion points


Please notice that all variants of my mod are not compatible with each other, you have to choose the one you do prefer more.

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If you want your heroes to have higher hero lvl cap, you can download my other separate mod too

- Level 30 Mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3395430218

You can now download mod increasing experience earned for heroes, comes with 4 variants.

- Faster Leveling: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458569000
22 Comments
EdTheMad 13 May @ 1:04pm 
Wow, thanks for all the info and the detailed descriptions! I also found the official modding tutorial on the net.
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 13 May @ 11:10am 
PS i forgot that if you use Windows 11 with onedrive enabled, you have to move prepared mod from roaming location to documents folder so the game can detect it and is possible to add it to your playset.
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 13 May @ 11:06am 
There used to be also available public official modding tutorial guiding people how to start modding the game, covering only basics to get familiar with tools where you can get know other useful informations.
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 13 May @ 11:02am 
when you left click on determiner of property, resource editor will give you some hints as what that thing does, but keep in mind that not everything has own description. After making desired changes you have to save your work in resource editor, then in package manager. I also want to warn you that pop up window that ask you to save changes when you want to close window of resource editor does nothing when you click confirmation so you have to always remember to save it before closing window so changes wont be lost.
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 13 May @ 10:57am 
You have to open mod first in package manager, then open with it the resource editor. Game content is stored inside ...\Age of Wonders 4\Content and this is where you gonna always go whether its to modify some simply stuff or look for a reference to make something new yourself, this is also a point where my detailed changelog.txt file comes in hand, telling you where to find certain rpk files, their properties and determiners you want to edit. Structure of rpk file inside is divided into categories, you have to find proper category and then look for property, the label i edited myself you want to modify should be hightlit with orange color.
EdTheMad 13 May @ 10:20am 
I´ve done the first part. Now, where/how do I edit? Where do I see orange highlights? All I want are to change numbers to different values. Discord was not helpful, you can see my questions there in modding-questions, I use the same user name as here. Thank you so much for the help!
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 12 May @ 9:32pm 
First you have to move mod from steam userdata to your documents, if you have windows 11 and onedrive enabled it will be a game folder in roaming (i dont remember exactly what it is). Just open package manager and click open to see the path to the folder where mods you want edit should be dropped. Once you moved my mod to proper place you have to yet to copy the name of .acp file inside mod's folder, come back and change numerical name to resemble the name of acp file without ".acp" extension. From now you can edit mod, all modified by me things should be highlit with orange color. I recommend you to join discord to get better guidance and anwsers for your questions.
EdTheMad 12 May @ 7:08pm 
How can I make simple edits to this mod? For example, I’d like to revert hero costs back to the vanilla values. I can see the file path mentioned in the changelog, and I’ve opened the mod in the Package Manager—but when I look through the Content Editor, Resource Editor, and Resource Browser, I can’t figure out where to actually edit this specific part of the mod. The changelog points to the path, but I’m not sure how that helps with making the edit. Any help?
SkyPhoenixZ1  [author] 16 Apr @ 9:55pm 
I dont plan to make changes or add new features to this mod now and in the near future, just update if necessary to keep compatitbility with newest version of the game. I also dont want to make more variants of this mod.
Gniwii 16 Apr @ 10:51am 
Can you change the auto refreshing hero pool to 1 turn? It seems there is a random seed selected for hero creation and it does not update until the hero pool refreshes. What I think that means is if the seed doesnt spawn a certain trait or combination of traits it will never spawn that combination. I literally clicked the button several hundred times trying to get the combination I was looking for and noticed the same characters recycling through (even with the same names) and could never get the combination of traits I was looking for together on the same character. I'm hoping if you change the pool refresh to 1 turn it allows me to just wait a turn to get a new seed and start spamming the refresh until I get the combination I'm looking for or decide to just wait another turn. Thank you.