@The360MlgNoscoper That's perfectly understandable.

This game has such cool ideas though. I don't think I've built underwater cities since "Civilization": Call to Power. The Variant Ages allow imaginative, novel scenarios, but it loses its appeal because the gameplay experience is bound too tightly to the Age progression mechanic. If you're really enjoying the Age of Heroes, remember that most, if not all of the AI "players" are actively trying to abort it after only researching half the technologies. And even if they aren't pressuring you because they're somehow still in the Stone Age, you've always got your own Knowledge Point countdown timer ticking down, and unfortunately this clock doesn't have a snooze button.

@Foxxhound i considered trying this, but i never got around to it before i lost interest. Maybe some day.

@The360MlgNoscoper When making this mod, did you by chance determine if it's possible to potentially repeat ages, such as Age of Heroes -> Age of Heroes, or Age of Heroes -> Age of Blood -> Age of Heroes -> (and so on) until someone decides to advance to the Standard Iron Age? In other words, this mod allows you to chose any variant from the next Age without restrictions, but is it technically feasible to offer variants within the same age, or have only standard ages advance civilization?

I'm sure I could figure this out myself, but I'd grow tired of the game in the process. Having to start a new game to test even small tweaks to mods is a tedious flaw in this software, so if you already have the answer, I'd like to benefit from that. As far as I can tell, despite the dev suggesting otherwise, you can only reduce the knowledge points of the currently played faction using the console, so a mod is the only workaround besides making every faction human.

@chrisjevans1234 Old Ones is an age that can trigger int he age of heresy, if you fail to stop the crisis. It's a final age, meaning you can't progress after it, you either win or lose. It is also miserable to play.

just realized that age of old ones Linkart stated might actually be an age in the game for timelines and not what I thought he was asking. Is old ones a age in the timeline because knowing if it is would clarify things and would help me understand what you meant as the comment I mentioned earlier.

I am trying to allow ages before the age you are currently in (for example going from age 9 to age 5)

To sum it up I am in no means able to figure out of to change raw code without someone telling me what code to change. I am only able something similar in Microsoft Exell version 2019.

I am hoping to do enable age of one like Linkart stated in on March 18th this year. The problem is I only know how to code in Scratch, and haven't done any sense before 2019. I learn it in a educational class in high school. I did what you recommended in the Comment I you did to Linkart back on March 19th. they are both going to be on the second page of the comments for this mod. I am interested in how the mod worked previously.

I am by no means a coder other than in Scratch which I haven't done in sense before 2019 and I have no practice sense the end of the class I took as a soft-more in high school I had my high school graduation back in 2019.

@chrisjevans1234 Just mess around until it starts working.

I still don't know what you want to do though.

Do I remove the tag label or do I just remove the code in the middle. I only the funamentals of code and I learned this over 6 years ago.

I looked still use Windows 10 but will change to Windows 11 later this year.

how do you access the steam folder?

I want to do the action that you mention on Mar 19th this year. I am new to mods on this game, though I have played mods on other games made by paradox

@chrisjevans1234

My mod is located in (Your main steam folder)/steamapps/workshop/content/1268590/3344831902

Could you elaborate on what you want to do?

how do I find the line of what I assume is code that re allows this mod to allow to do previous ages? I just downloaded this mod and I am having trouble finding where the mod is stored on by default so I can do the thing you said would re allow the game to do previous ages.

@Inspector95 No, the ages are the same for everyone. Having different ages would tear the game asunder.

Just wondering, is Each nation tied to the same Age hard-coded, or can you break the chain making unique games were some nations have plagues and you can choose your policy by reacting to every other nations political, and Situations caused by the ages. you can offer diplomatic help. isolate yourself, isolate them if you have more 4x their army, declare them a scourge to eliminate all whom has been affected. and prob many more reactions and actions you can do just by unbinding nations tied to the same age.

@Linkart I disabled it intentionally because of it's weird status, and to prevent the ai from randomly entering it. It's the type of thing you only play once then don't really want to do again. If someone makes a mod that changes it substantially it would change things. Also, it's meant to be a kind of easter egg anyways, so just making it easy to enter would complicate things. And I also think that when i first made the mod the game UI couldn't handle more than 4 potential next ages at the same time, and it was the lowest priority to keep.

Though you could re-enable it by removing the >TECHAGE6_CRISISHERESY-TECHAGE7_CRISISOLDONES_ADVANCE_REMOVE< tag from the Age6CR Deck.

A crisis only mod has been on my mind and would be quite simple to do. I could probably make one if i got into modding Millennia again.

Glad you're enjoying my mod :).

How do I enable the age of old ones? Are you able to make a mod that forces only crisis ages?
Thank you for this mod. I never would have realized how interesting the crisis ages can be.

@CN--sheep It's a minor visual issue. Ages appear locked until you have enough technologies to unlock them, then they appear as normal.

作为回报，机器翻译。这是一个小的视觉问题。时代将显示为锁定状态，直到您拥有足够的技术来解锁它们，然后它们将正常显示。

我在使用的时候存在bug，在进入第二时代后除了血腥时代其他时代全被锁定了，为什么？
There was a bug when I used it. After entering the second age, all ages except the Bloody Age were locked. Why?

@napamathguy there isn't any save for being ahead of the ai. Take note of which age the ai is in. They might get stuck several ages behind you, especially since the AI struggles with variant and crisis ages.

To rephrase/clarify: There's the normal timeline, the variant timeline, the crisis timeline, etc.

While I'm exploring the various timelines (3rd Age, for instance), what's to stop the AI from completing the requirements to advance to the 4th Age and cut short my fun?

@napamathguy Tech Requirements are still as normal. They can't break out of ages early.

Question: If I want to explore multiple variant timelines, what's to stop the AI from spoiling my fun by breaking out of an age early?

will check it out but the locks on the other options were red in color where the crises one was silver or the normal color run into. may have been a visual only but on the plague one had the requirements and was ready to move but only got the one option. Be a while before test as have to finish current game. thanx for response.

jsnider193 did you research the required technology count to enter the next age? It displays as if the other ages are locked until you have the technology count, then all are open. It's purely visual.

Try double checking this. This mod should only have issues with mods that change how tech progression works.

Hi, not using any slow speed mods but this mod forces me into one of the critical ages even though have requirements to enter age of heroes. In another play it forced me into the Plague age (had plenty of sanitation and no count showing). Only mods using are the ones that increase road distance and city separation. Once finish the current game might try this with no other mod but it seems that it and other mods might not play nice.

@GRIMZONE What other mods are you using? What game version? (Beta or release)

Which slow speed mod are you using? PresidentWHitmore's version changes certain age requirements, so it seems likely that's the conflict origin.

age of alchemy also lets me move to other ages. It seems it is just the age of enlightenment that forces me to go to age of ignorance. I am profoundly confused

hey, idk if i am doing something wrong or if there is a mod conflict. I 360 something turns into a game using the ultimate slow speed mod along side this one and I made it to the age of enlightenment but I am locked out of progressing from any future age other than the age of ignorance. I loaded an older save and if I go through the age of heresy I can then progress to other future ages but I cant find any other solution. If anyone has any advice on what I could do it would be greatly appriciated.

@Domenicus forced crisis ages is incompatible with the ages being completely free to choose from.

I liked the forced into crisis ages mechanic, it made sense

Thank you for update！

I might add support for age of old ones back

@eternalnoob in this mod access to the age of old ones has been removed completely, for the sake of simplicity.

sirkerry the Age of the Old Ones follows on directly from failing to stop the heretics in the Age of Heresy - it's not a choosable Age like the others. It's a lot of fun though!

@sirkerry it doesn't seem to fit in the age transition menu when all the other ages are also accessible, it has weird requirements and is really just a gimmick age. If i had kept the normal way to access it it would be an exception to the "no locking" rule. In addition you'll really only go for it one time anyways, since it's not really fun to play in and ends the game early. It also would make the achievement way too easy.

Yeah, Ive tested another game with Open beta selected for launch and its working just fine. It seems that bug appears only when you launch the game in standard mode.

Why is the Age of the Old Ones inaccessible?

@Johnson The bug does not happen on my end. I am however using the Beta Branch. Are you using the standard branch?

Switching to beta might fix the issue.

@Johnson i'll investigate it

Heya, after the last patch Ive encountered the same bug as when using the My Timeline mod. Basically when you pass from Age of Discovery to Age of Alchemy, there is one turn when the arcana is spawning on the map but you don't actually advance at the Age of Alchemy and the next turn you change the era but you cannot spawn any alchemists to harvest the arcana.

@The360MlgNoscoper Sweet thanks, been trying for age of heroes for a while but sometimes the landmarks are nowhere to be found. Keep up the good work.

@Null They don't!

do mods effect achievements in this game?

@Juhius That is totally doable. Though some transitions would be slightly different than usual.

Any chance for an alternative version with the requirements still present?

Great fun! Thank you for this. Straight from Age of Plague to Age of Intolerance - brilliant!