In order to clear up some questions you may have about this mod (as the actual mod describtion is, in parts, far outdated!), to get compatibility with different game versions and mods cleared and show all it's hidden features, i created this discussion.



Firstly, about compatibility. The mod is compatible with at least Rise&Fall and Gathering Storm now, have not yet tested without both.

Three of the four new City State types, Agrarian; Entertainment and Maritime are compatible with both versions at all times; however the fourth type, Consular, has to have it's bonus to be changed to play in Rise&Fall (or has to be disabled entirely there). That can be done in The UserSettings, which i will talk about later. (Ofc Consular can also use the bonus they have to use in Rise&Fall in Gathering Storm).


This mod is compatible with Better Trade Screen at this point in time, the patch noted in the mods describtion is not needed anymore.


This mod can be made compatible with CQUI (the only conflict lies in the fact that both mods change the Citystate envoy panel, CQUI has to be prevented from doing so). To do that, you have to:

1. Find your Steam folder in which everything installed via Steam, be it games, tools or mods, is stored.
2. From there, you go the file path:
Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/289070/2115302648

2115302648 is the mod ID of CQUI, if you don't find it, just search for it in any prior location and it should find that folder.

3. In that folder, you search specifically for "Citystates"; all files that will show up are files from CQUI. You delete all of them.

After that, the City state panel should be the one from CSE while CQUI is active. Done.



Now to the fun stuff - the User Settings, mentioned by Chimpan'G in the Scope pin.

The User Settings are a special file withhin the mod folder in which some values can easily be changed without a great deal of danger to destroy the entire mod basically.
To find the file, you have to:

1. Find your Steam folder in which everything installed via Steam, be it games, tools or mods, is stored.
2. From there, you go the file path:
Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/289070/1331757859

1331757859 is the mod ID; if you don't find it, just search for it in any prior location and it should find that folder.

3. Open the folder "Core" withhin the mod folder.

There you will find several files and folders, most of which are irrelevant. Editing them could cause errors when playing with the mod, so unless you know what you do, dont touch any other than the "CSE_UserSettings.sql" file which is located at the bottom of the "Core" folder.

After opening that one up (best with some code editing software (e.g. notepad++, which is free)), or with something as simple as editor (though the file will be horribly messy when opened with that!), you will be presented with a barrage of different options. In the file itself is explained how to change anything, and what everything means at any point; so i wont go into detail about that. What i will do however is giving a small rundown of every available option to define for yourself. These options are:

• Allowing City-States (from here on referred to as CS) to either receive or not receive war-weariness (CS' groth might suffer from war weariness)
  
• Letting CS get additional garrison combat strength (value is up for the user to decide) (CS are usually weak(ish))
  
• Giving CS city walls additional strength (value is up for the user to decide) (CS are usually pretty easy to capture)
  
• Giving CS city ranged attacks additional strength (value is up for the player to decide)
  
• Permitting CS tobuild all the walls in half the usual time
  
• Leaving or releassing the restriction of CS to only build the one type of District fitting to their own type
  
• Giving CS more options to grow their borders (still by every envoy sent there; by gold; by culture) -> None up to all three can be enabled/disabled, with varying results in CS border groth rate
  
• Setting the amount of tiles the CS settle their cities with (like for example russia starts with more tiles) -> can also be less than usual.
  
• Disabling or keeping the feature of immediately sending an envoy to any newly and before other players met CS active
  (Could give an unfair advantage in amount of envoys one gets by discovering many CS at the beginning of the game before anyone else if keepen active; provides one free envoy to send to a CS of choice when disabled)
  
• Directly modify the multiplier for unlevied CS combat units for how much combat strength they get per envoy (1.0->100%, so the regular bonus)
  
• Add additional starting units to the CS. (warriors; swordsmen; spearmen; slingers; archers;
  builders) (number of added units per type is up to the user)
  
• Allow or prohibit CS to upgrade their units for free (to keep their strength up with the game)
  
• Letting Protectorate wars have the requirement of denouncement or not
  
• Making Protectorate wars available from the beginning of the game or keep it tied to the civic
  
• Setting the amount of grievances (=Gathering Storm required) or Warmonger penalties (everything pre-GS) received by declaring war on any CS. The value translates to whichever version of the game you play.
  
  
  
• Disabling certain CS types (only from the 4 added by this mod)
  If a CS with one of the new types has their type disabled, they will have a fallback-type (meaning they will instead pick one other type that is set for them if their type is disabled; the fallback-types are always vanilla CS-types)
  
  
• Disabling CS at will. The ones you dont want; from the core game and from the mod, can both be disabled.
  
  
  
• Rise&Fall required: Allowing CS to build units in half the usual time while they are at war
  
  
• Rise&Fall OR Gathering Storm required: Setting the amount of envoys received for liberating a CS -> can be different for every era
  
  
• Rise&Fall OR Gathering Storm required: Setting the amount of loyalty a CS gets per turn (value is up for the user to decide)
  
  
• Rise&Fall OR Gathering Storm required: Setting the amount of era score acquired by occurances involving CS and the player (value is up for the user to decide)

So it is absolutely worth checking this file out and changing things to one's liking.
I should mention however, that, if you intend on playing this modin multiplayer, all players involved NEED to have the same settings in this file, otherwise it WILL result in a desync.


Also, please keep in mind that there might be mistakes in this whole thing/things i forgot; neither am i perfect nor am i part of the Civitas modding group - or a modder at all, so i cant help with questions regarding deeper subjects than this.

I hope this could help you, cheers!