RIP weather drums. May the icr cream factory live on.

bro died before he could give us the update

If you don't know the Diplomatic Quarter Expanded mod (which is a stunning; one of the coolest and cleverest out there that isn't some sort of super overhaul -- actually it's a like 6x improvement on the Diplomatic Quarter) you should. It's so deep and complete, plus allows you to build a DQ (a Dairy Queen?!! Whaaaaaaat??) district in each city (because everyone loves ice cream) providing tons of variety and specialization and unique crosslinks, and, of course, a cheeries and whipped cream. Go check it out, and don't forget to tip your waitress.

I'll tell you in a minute if this and that are indeed compatible (please, God, please), which would be cooler than your parents buying you a sundae for getting A's on your report card when you're 8.

I can vouch for the real world validity of this mod:

My dad was a diplomat (so I grew up around diplomats of every kind (like John Bolton, russian defectors, Colonel Oliver North (remember that scandal?), ambassadors, CIA spooks, celebrity's agents, missionaries, professors abroad, travelers in trouble, etc., from all over the world) and I can vouch that having an embassy abroad means your country is involved in all areas of home country betterment, like spying, consular duties, business expansion, international relations, business or cultural development, military engagement, education and/or cultural exchange, and everything else you can think of.

*** Hence, +1 to any District is not just totally appropriate, it's real world accurate, and should have been there all along. ***

Definitely a cool mod.

@OurOhnlyHope - Where exactly on CFC did you ask about this? I'm assuming you're the same person as OurOhnlyHope on CFC that I helped debug a different mod the other day. Also, if you're Nikola on Discord, it seems Zegangani helped you out already.

Hey p0kiehl, first let me say that as a novice modder myself, I really appreciate how much you have done for the community. This mod is really cool and I appreciate how it gives more "oomph" to the DQ and changes it from a poor man's government plaza into something with its own laurels.

This is tangential to the mod itself, but is there a discord or forum you can recommend to get feedback on modding? I have tried CivFanatics but they weren't super helpful. I'm trying to make a simple mod that lowers Incan production on mountains to 1 and gives them 1 food for each mountain, but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of people who are used to SQL editing like you. Hoping you see this and can lend some sage advice.

@Dionysys The Ethiopia DLC is what adds the Diplomatic Quarter district, the mod does nothing without it.

Can the DLC requirement be removed to enable them in multiplayer games? Or would this cause issues in single player games without the DLC?

I had the same idea. Good job. They should make this part of the base game

\/\/\/ LUL - Just wanted to say that I can really appreciate how well made and useful your mods are. Down to every last detail. Modders like you @p0kiehl make this community great. I don't even usually have to see the name under them mod to know it's yours. It just looks like a high quality mod from the presentation and from a graphic design standpoint that is impressive by itself. Anyway, thanks for another useful, high quality mod. Looking forward to many more hopefully.

That would be next to useless.

id go with +1 adj bonus for harbour and commercial only. it doesnt make a huge impact as well as it kinda have a real life sense

I don't know, maybe the Devs felt the Diplomatic Quarter does a lot already and felt that the adjacency was not needed or want it exclusive to the Gov. Plaza.

I personally feel the Gov. Plaza does as much as the Diplomatic Quarter, if you add in the fact it can add in addition buildings inside it. So I can see the need for adjacency bonus. I mean the Devs never wrote anywhere in stone saying that Gov. Buildings need adjacency bonuses.

Yeah that would explain why the mod just came out a few days ago. I did felt something was not right when I finally got around to play with the new stuff. Someone was off, I could not place it, until I saw this mod today and read what I did. I was like, oh that is what was going on in my game.

I think after playing the game for a long time, a player gets a feel for things and when something feels off, we notice it right away, but not generally the cause.

Thanks for kind words everyone!

@Raven_2012 - I agree. In fact, I assumed it gave the adjacencies up until recently. I was quite surprised, and it spurred me to make this mod :)

@wmcarlvz - Don't know what issue you have going on but it's not from this mod.

Yeah, my last game I noticed that. I was like wtf, why does it not have adjacency bonus, like other districts, especially like the Government Plaza. I felt like that was a Dev oversight on that vanilla feature.

Had an issue were a theater square was considering a diplomatic quater a wonder for adjacency purposes.

Thanks!!

As it should've been from start! Thx mate!

I'll third sensible!

Thank you so much for this incredibly sensible addition!

Very nice.

@kem5859 - exactly.
@ my brudda - Considering that the Diplomatic Quarter is from the Ethiopia dlc there isn't anything I can do.

"Requires the Ethiopia DLC" Any chance you could make it not require it? I don't have it :(

so it gives +0 adjacency bonus(+1-1) to seowon just like government plaza, doesn't it?

Brilliant!

Once again you've made the game more sensible. Many thanks.