Multilingual consensus.........juste awesome

Belgium IS a real country

wtf belgium isnt even a real country

*North Sea

Can we have an alternate download link please??

I realy demand Antarctica sponsor now. Poland can in space, Belgium can in space... WHY PINGUINS CANNOT?!

@Marcelo: FN is a Belgian arms company. The biggest one in Europe. Amongst their most famous guns there's the FN FAL (2nd most sold gun in the world, western alternative to the 1st most sold: AK47), FN FiveSeven (personal favorite in CS :D), FN SCAR (US special forces), FN MINIMI (US name: M249), FN F2000 (you know that alien sci-fi gun), P90 (often seen on tv shows) and FN MAG (US name: M240B) . If you play any 'modern era' shooter you probably know all of these. The promotion is based on the idea of taking some engineers with you to your trip allowing you to start with marines instead of soldiers (because of the weapon construction experience).

@Togis: great, I'll take a look into it. No promises so far about what I'm going to try and/or deadlines. I have a full schedual ahead.

sponsor bonus seens to weak... at first sight at least, will see how usefull that would actually be trough the game later.

what does FN (engineers) stand for? I think it goes just perfect with the revised brasilia mod

Love the idea of the brewery building. Could you post a direct install link for this please?

I'm a guy from Gent, Flanders! This is awesome!!

Please add:

- Current prime minister Louis Michel
- A 3D model rendering when interacting for trade and war declaration
- Full english naming, instead of french and dutch names
- Brewer +1 food -1 health

Great work!

suggestion : Manalien Pis wonder (+4 culture, +5 if brewery in the city). A Firaxite sculpture/foutain of beer acting as a terran relic and seen as ridiculous by all sponsors but federal citizens.

@^9Vnze I agree with you about the english mistake (not my native tongue neither) But I really wish to have the "Belgium" in the name instead of "Belgian". What do you think of the new one? United Federations of Belgium. I think it fit more to the background story too.

About the graphics, if you wish to participate in the mod, do not hesitate to navigate to C:\Users\<YourName>\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth\MODS\United Federations of Belgium (v 7)\Art

You will find there the type of graphics I created. We could use a icon for a few items (Brewery, Administrator, FN, Cargo of Brewery, and the multilingual consensus tech). Pick the ones you wish to work on, I won't be able to make them during the next week, too much work on my own game for now (creating the multiplayer)

Also about moding, if you are ok with coding, just look at the xml files, on the mod, they are easy to understand, the Civ XML API is beautifully simple ^^

As I can't seem to edit my posts again a double one: there's a spelling error in the mods name as it now says Begium Federation (without the L in Belgium)

@Togis, nice to see you're working on this!

On the name, I think (English isn't my native tongue so I might be wrong) that Belgium Federation is wrong if you mean "the federation of people living on the Belgian soil". If it's just a name there is of course no right or wrong.

On the politics that was meant as a joke. I wouldn't pick a nation with -90% production :D

I have 0 experience with modding but I'm okay at coding and I could give some graphics a shot. If I could be of any help you may tell me (in my inbox or here)

or "Belgian Unity"

According to the belgian motto : union makes strenghth, you should call it "Belgian Union" :)

Belgian Commomwealth maybe?

I'm making a lot of change in the mod including a lot of your feedback. I will also add graphics to many things. Testing my changes now.

What I may add if I manage to do it:

From @^9Vnze

I will add the FN Engineers (we can't allow to skip to soldier I think but we may offer a point in affinity level, resulting in the same effect)

I don't really like the sound of "Belgian Federation" unfortunatly, could other people give their feeling about it? I don't discard it completely

Belgian Politics --> I have no idea how to do that for now :p Hehe I'm still a noob in mod for civ.


from @Aulis Vaara

About the colors, it will bered and black now, I just didn't made my own color on the first day.

From me:

Graphics for the icons, portrait, loading screen and diplomacy screen

New building: the brewery (give culture by default and food foreach plantation, well not sure yet, I'm working on it)

This update should be up tonigth or tomorow

Another possible advantage (if the game allows that) could be "FN engineers: take some of the engineers of the biggest European small-arms factory, Fabrique National, with you on your journey." Allows you to skip soldiers and start using marines from the start.

je testerais a l'occasion belgique en force :)

BELGIUM!!!

I think energy would be an issue for BE(CON)FED but culture would flourish. The AI would react aggressively when borders meet foreign borders (asking to stop the spreading of the oil mark).

Can you make a Germany mod just like this? that would be great!

@togis
I have a list of 6 civilizations I want to see added: USCA (United States of Central America), Republic of Argentina, Middle East Alliance, EU Remnant , Scandinavia, and the Alliance of Central Asia.

I like your referencen to our slogan "Eendracht maakt macht"/"L'union fait la force"/ in the introduction text

Also excuses for the spam but shouldn't it be "Belgian Federation" instead of "Belgium Federation"? And BELFED is a little bit more in line with existing companies/initiatives with Belgium in the name compared to BEFED but that's just my 2 cents :-)

Extra energy? That would be useful in the winter if we may believe the government :D

How about this:
name: Belgian Politics
text: "As told in the ancient scrolls a political party claiming to finally bring "change" from the ancient regime will appear every 4 turns."
effects: strike: -90% production, tax increase: -50% energy. Effects stack with every incarnation of a new/'different party.

Seriously: love the fact a Belgian sponsor is made, a BeNeLux one would be slightly more realistic maybe but cool anyway! Maybe the bonus could be cultural or food? (refering to or rather well know export products, waffles, beer, fries,...). Or military (refering to our tendency to resist in the most dire odds in the revolution or in war like against Germany or against Germany). Engineering is also a strong point (education and massive project wise)

Now I know what I pay taxes for...

Awesome, but why the purple and yellow overlay colors, rather than red and yellow or red and black?

aaa oke i understand it

Ah, Civilatation BE, i get it. BE stands for Belgium :P

I thought it said BEEFED at first :)

@dominx1230 hehe yes it was a fun rush :p And yep I'm from Belgium, and Ik begrijp een beetje Nederlands, maar mijn moedertaal is Frans

dude how you made this mod so fast the game ahs bin out for an day (in the netherlands it is) en ik neem aan dat je belgisch bent XD

dude how you made this mod so fast the game ahs bin out for an day (in the netherlands it is) en ik neem aan dat je belgisch bent

It's a placeholder from the slavic federation. I'm working on a 2D version of the diplomatic screen graphics for the logo, the administrator just to make the mod a bit more polish. I won't add 3D version of the diplomatic screen as even the vanilla ones crash on my PC :p (this will probably be fixed by Firaxis in a few patches)

Or is there none or is there a placeholder from vanilla?

Is there any 3D diplomacy screen stuff yet?

It's good to see people already making mods for the game, and especially one with new sponsors, since with Civ. V, there was just so many maps and not enough civ mods. Also rather happy to see tutorials here! I want to go ahead and make an overpowered sponsor (Like the Gary Oak mod for Civ. V) and that will really help! Thanks for both this mod and the link! ^_^

@Maiconi, when you highlight the link and right click to copy it don't click 'copy page url.' That copies the URL of the page your on, not the URL you've highlighted. Use regular copy

(and everyone else of course, feel free to suggest ideas)

@Guidrion I'm having fun so far making this mod, so I think I will improve it over time. I'm making a playthough for now to see how over powered the administrator colonist are, I'm not sure yet if the -2 production apply. Wel, I have some idea to improve it so I will. But if you have any idea, do not hesitate to share, I'm open to suggestion from fellow citizen of the Federation.

Funny idea. I'm happy to see my country as one of the very first mods.^^
Will it remain a joke-ish faction or do you intend to enhance the backstory?

@Maiconi > not on my side, strange

Google : "Modding basics by ceej12", it's the first link for me

@Togis . That link goes to this page XD

guid civ 5 (missing link last comment) steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120875856

@Maiconi > this is a very good guide for civ 5, the concept is the same. But to fins out the new file structure for now, as I didn't find any doc on day one, I just downloaded donald23 mod and read it, modify it, try to learn for it.

I later found out you can really add any data you wish to the game, as soon as you know the data structure. And C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth\assets\Gameplay\XML is a great repository of all the game data, so it's easy to read it, and create new one from it. (But don't modify thoses ones in any cases)

Hey I was wondering how to make these. I'm having trouble finding any videos or guides

Hehe just played last nigth with 2 friends and we had a joke about it, so I had to make it. ^^ donald23 made it very easy thougth.

so fast