Have you ever dreamed of :
- Playing balanced maps (ESOC maps) on Nilla ?
- Playing balanced maps on Nilla as rated games ?
- Playing ESOC maps on Nilla as rated games with a few balanced civs ?
- Playing ESOC maps on Nilla as rated games with a few balanced civs without CRC mismatch with other players on Nilla ?
Welcome to the Vanilla Mod ! This mod will provide your exisiting Nilla games with 7 maps imported from ESO community : Arkansas, Colorado, High Plains, Hudson Bay, Manchac, Pampas Sierras and Tassili :
VM stands for Vanilla Mod
[spoiler=Balance Changes]Balance changes :
- TP costs 200 wood now, and 120 wood with ATP (taken from RE patch)
- Wall hitpoints down from 1500 (from 3000) and LOS reduced to 1 (taken from ESOC patch)
- Mameluke hitpoints reduced to 1200 hitpoints (taken from ESOC patch, but hitpoints are reduced(-20%) rather than reducing the number of mameluke)
- Halberdier +1 speed point,+ 20 hitpoints , and cost reduced to 50 food and 60 gold (Personal idea for making this unit more viable)
- Portuguese : +100 wood start ( Personal idea, 80f vills makes them too OP in team games. + 100w allow them to go for a tp or a market every game and go toward a direction of an eco/age 3 civ)
- Russia : You receive + 100 food after queuing the first vill batch (taken from ESOC Russia discussion thread)
- British : Longbowmen got +10% hitpoints (Personal idea, trying to make them as good as the RE patch)
How do you do to get the Vanilla mod ?
You can download the setup file here.
Download it and install the setup on your computer. It should work for both CD and Steam version of the game. I advise you to do a shortcut on your desktop of the Vanilla Mod because while you can still use the standard Vanilla launcher to play on the maps, but you won't know when there is a new update of the Vanilla Mod is avalaible. You can only play on these maps with people who have downloaded the mod. As mentionned before, this mod is much more an add-on than a standard mod, because it won't cause a CRC mismatch with other players
It only works for windows right now, but it works for Voobly and GameRanger.
One last note :
This mod is entirely done by Rikikipu. Balance changes haven't been provided by the ESOC balance team. Also, you are going to see soon new maps that aren't ESOC released.