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              Civilization III - Modern Ages Mod Pack
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                           Release 2.3
               Created by Dorian Credé, 9th May 1998
                     email dcrede@g26.ethz.ch


(1) TERRAIN
    - Yes! This is not a joke! You can in fact transform ocean
      squares in land squares and vice versa. I have only changed
      some terrain values in the RULES.TXT file. Now things are
      a little bit differnt, if you want to transform terrains:

      Engineers:
      FOREST ---Transform--> HILLS 
      GRASSLAND ---Transform--> OCEAN

      Terraformship (is a SEA unit!):
      OCEAN ---IRRIGATION--> DESERT (here TRANSFORM is NOT possible;
                                     but with IRRIGATION it works!)
    
(2) UNITS
    Some really new and important units are listed:
    - Terraformship:   sea unit,  ADM 0/2/2,       40 shields, must stay near land
    - Frogmen:         sea unit,  ADM 6/1/4,       40 shields, must stay near land
    - Stinger Soldier: land unit, ADM 6/1/1,       40 shields, can attack air units
    - Hovertank,       land unit, ADM 10/5/4,     100 shields, IZOC
    - Stlth Frigate:   sea unit,  ADM 7/7/7,       80 shields, can attack air units
    - Spy Plane:       air unit,  ADM 0/5/32(x4), 100 shields, can spot subs
    - Nuclear Sub:     sea unit,  ADM 10/3/6,      80 shields, can spot subs

    Some units' flags were changed/modified:
    - Only Frogmen, Torpedo Boats, Spy Planes and Nuclear Subs can spot subs
    - Only Fighters, Stinger Soldiers and Stlth Frigates can attack air units
    - Only the modern sea and air units can see 2 space far (exception:
      Cybersoldier, Hovertank, (old) Submarine and Spy)
    I changed these flags, in order to keep the special characteristics.

(3) TECHNOLOGIES
    - If you reach the tech of MOBILE WARFARE and ROBOTIC WARFARE,
      all your barracks become obsolete.
    - If you reach the tech of ENGINEERING, you can build fortresses.
    - With the tech of NUCLEAR MEDICINE the negative effect of 
      COMMUNISM is cancelled, that is your hospitals make 3 unhappy
      people content again.

(4) GOVERNMENTS
    - Monarchy is renamed to IMPERIALISM
    - The effects of Fundamentalism have been reduced; now only 6 units
      can be supported w/o any costs instead of 10; it loses 70% of science
      instead of 50%. I make this worse because I believe that Fundamentalism
      is too good in Civ2, compared with reality.
    - Communism now has in fact some corruption (less than Republic); more over
      Communism pays support for all units past 4 (instead of 3)

(5) CITY IMPROVEMENTS
    - The following buildings were renamed:
      Palace -> Government Building
      Temple -> Park
      Library -> University
      University -> Internet
      Cathedral -> Hospital
      Colosseum -> Stadium
    - To build and maintain a SDI Improvement now is extremly expensive;
      this should represent the fact that up to now in reality there 
      is no SDI because of the high costs.
    - To build a spaceship now takes much more time

(6) WONDERS
    Some expiration for certain Wonders have changed:
    Only the following WoW expire:

    Panama Canal       : GLOBAL TRADE
    Gaussian School    : SUPERCOMPUTERS
    Prussian Academy   : ROBOTIC WARFARE
    Edison's Workshop  : COMPUTERS
    Darwin's Voyage    : TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Statue of Liberty  : NEOLIBERALISM
    Assuan Dam         : HYDRO OXYGEN ENERGY
    United Nations     : NEW WORLD ORDER

    Why do this Wonders expire? Well, I try to explain my opinion
    about the effects of some wonders:

    Prussian Academy:  With the developing of ROBOTIC WARFARE mankind
                       is able to use robots instead of human
                       soldiers; because of this, the academy becomes
                       useless.
    Edison's Workshop: In the age of COMPUTERS many engineers,
                       scientist and inventors are able to produce 
                       innovative products; Edison's Workshop isn't
                       anymore something special in the world.
    Darwin's Voyage:   As soon as a civilization has reached the
                       tech TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Darwin's Voyage
                       becomes obsolete (assumed it has not build up
                       to this point), that is, it has no sense
                       anymore to make this voyage because no
                       advantages will be received.
    Statue of Liberty: At the beginnig of the 21th century, the general
                       way of thinking about ethik rights changed in a
                       new way never reached before, the so called
                       NEOLIBERALISM; with this people now do not
                       accept any more so fast a new political system;
                       therefore the Statue of Liberty loses its effect.
    Assuan Dam:        With HYDRO OXYGEN ENERGY developped in the early
                       20s of the 21th century mankind had found a more
                       effective way to produce cheap energy without destroying
                       the environments. Because of this all Hydro Plants
                       become useless and were replaced by Hydro Oxygen Plants.
    United Nations:    In the 30s of the second millennium most nations
                       resigned from the United Nations, because
                       obviousley it did not worked properly.
                       Historians will call later this period the
                       NEW WORLD ORDER.

    This Mod Pack can be copyed and FREELY distributed, as long as
    these README files (1 & 2) are included. Please email me, if you modify
    this Mod Pack.

               Copyright by Dorian Credé, 1997, 1998
              c/o  Lerchenhalde 41/02, CH 8046 Zürich

                  email: crede@stud.phys.ethz.ch

