Did you ever get around to that? Looks like governments still can't be founded

Most likely so. The main reason for this is I switched the method for how caching is done (that being persisting save data; something that is not natively possible in the game, and which has always been a bit precarious). Which means I need to manually adapt everything to the new system - and I've been a bit slow on updating in general, but for Sov, given its complexity, especially. It's on the cards after the rest, hopefully will do so soon.

Sorry for the off-topic post, but do you know whether the Utilities update also broke Sovereignty? I'm not getting prompted to start a government after reaching 6 population

Yep, will update soon as I can.

This mod doesn't work anymore after 23 January (RTP) (Core) Utilities update.

Democracy is basically impossible on longer game speeds. I’m playing on just Epic and by around the middle of the classical area it’s gotten to where I have two cities and so -3 virtue per turn (one base and two from each city) and my next culture policies are taking between 40-50 days so I’m not able to get a policy out. Autocracy is a bit better but you can still get shafted and be forced to pit a tech you don’t want just keep your cycle and on the flip side Oligarchy basically can last an entire game without you needing to worry about it, you have to acftively try in order to get anarchy from oligarchy. Having the rates be flat values per turn is detrimental to late game play; idk if something’s wrong with my file but the rate of decay for virtue doesn’t change at all depending on game speef

Democracy isn't working. Culture is not boosted

I plan on doing some balancing tweaks for the next update. Meanwhile, you can adjust them in JFD's Rise to Power - Cyles of Power/Core/CCyclesOfPower_CyclePowers file, or to adjust the starting virtue its in JFD's Rise to Power - Cyles of Power/Core/CyclesOfPower_Defines.sql, under the 'JFD_CYCLES_OF_POWER_VIRTUE_START' tag (change 50 to your desired value up to the max in the same file).

Is there a way I can increase the base virtue at the beginning of each cycle? Otherwise I never have enough time to gain any virtue

Played a wide game with this mod. Large map, epic length.

None of the cycles felt relevant in themselves beyond the degree to which avoiding the awful two wasted turns of anarchy is more or less hard in the three of them. Oligarchy, despite having the worst bonuses on every level (seriously, -25% science?) is the only one that can actually be actively maintained, as the other two key off of things that the player is already trying to maximize and still have a certain maximum threshold the player can realistically attain, compared to Oligarchy where one can just keep buying workers. It is thus the least awful.

Overall, all of them have Virtue penalties that actively punish the player for building their Civ in a game called Civilization, and thus I am unlikely to boot it back up.

In other words, what would happen is My Civ would enter Anarchy every 3 turns or so and I can do nothing to keep Anarchy from happening or staving it off.

Issue with Cycles of Power. Upon entering into the Atomic Era, The Cycles of Power, does not matter which one, no longer accept positive Virtue, meaning that I can not use gold to buy buildings to get virtue or get virtue from research or polices. MODS used are the other JFD mods. Preformed no script changes to the mod.

Virtue is already adjusted by game speed

is there a way to make this work better with different game speeds (epic, marathon)?

Vanilla tooltips are incomplete, yeah - don't show everything. Will have to wait until I've ported my custom tooltip mod out, since it has to be fixed manually. Plan on adding some Virtue Reforms with Sovereignty.

Monarchy is not showing the line of -25% culture in the city yield screen under culture, although it gets subtracted and total culture is correct.

Democracy doens't seem to give the +25% bonus to culture (I am seeing the -25% for gold though). For the rest, Democracy seems pretty balanced and maintainable currently. Just thinking about ways to keep virtue up later in game: could be neat to have certain buildings/wonders give a bonus to virtue, so you have some levers to pull... e.g. Castle/Manor as buildings or Gulou/Changdeokgung as Wonders. Or create a reform around virtue...

I liked it a lot, but it seems impossible to have a democracy when your empire grows too strong!
In Medieval Era, I have a city with 20 pop, which means Monarchy also lasts only 6-8 turns. Only Aristocracy works for me!

Yeap

It seems like I am always entering anarchy every 15-25 turns even if i try to stop it by doing what the cycle of power asks of me. Could you decrease the rate at which virtue is lost and increase the virtue gang from each cycle's respective way of gaining it?

No, sorry. CP is a DLL-based application and DLL is a windows-based language, so Mac users can't use it. This mod should work fine enough without the CP.

The applications for the CP are showing as a 'microsoft windows application', I'm running a macbook pro at the moment. Will the CP still work or am I SOL?

So what do you know about Civ 5 modding? I Was hoping to make a Total conversion mod for Civ5 or at least a mod that adds more gameplay mechanics. TBH I really would like for more advance dimplomacy with AI players, since it just devolves into an endless denounce stream by the end of the game.

Awesome mod! After my Theocracy ended I'm not returning to any of the other 3 options. I'm playing with the Community Patch and Ingame Editor

You can get the Community Patch here
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/community-patch-how-to-install.528034/
It isn't explained plainly, but you don't need to install the Community Balance Overhaul and can install the CP by itself.

where would I go to get the community patch? If it has fixes for things like the forgetful workers it's probably worth the download. It's good to see this game still gets attention, I got this back in high school and it's a great throwback game

Thank you, I will install the community patch.

You'd have to test

can this mod be played on vannila civ5

You increase Virtue based on your chosen Power, which is explained when you choose it or by hovering over it in the Info Panel

Sorry, Community Patch or non-Community Patch is what I meant - whether you're using or not using the CP when you run into these issues. I would point the blame at vanilla because the game is less stable without the CP, but I was running it without CP as it turns out and managed to get along fine. Did you manage to reload from a save after that point? Is it consistent? Other mods?

Is there a way to increase or gain virtue?

What do you mean by "CP or non"?

I'll add Virtue to the Top Panel since it seems the Info Panel is a bit unreliable atm

Ok, so Im loving this mod, but I can't see anything about my government. I got to the government tab and its just not there, empty.

Check your Government Info Panel, which can be accessed in the top right corner where you see your Tech Progress, Great People Progress, and other things.

How am I to see my current amount of virtue?

CP or non?

Hello! I have a fairly decent computer but this mod crashes on about turn five for me. I don't know why. Otherwise this looks awesome and I hope I will be able to run it soon.

Are any of the old Sovereignty / Legislation mechanics ever going to surface again?

I love that people keep working on mods for older games. Cheers to you mate and if I end up playing this mod and enjoying it I will buy you that coffee.

Yes, this is what I have needed for

Awesome!

When do you think you'll be able to update Byzantium? That Civilization has a good ability, but it's pretty far down the totem pole in usefulness, right there with America's.