My Milky Way

My Milky Way Mod is designed to create a more immersive experience for the player. The mod includes a number of system and visual tweeks including:

• For the Benevolent Ideology bonus I replaced the 2nd and 5th outreach bonuses that provided additional habitable planets in the home system.  To me it didn’t make sense for new habitable planets to be discovered in the Sol system so it wouldn't make sense in the other home systems either.  The 2nd outreach bonus has been replaced by repeating the 1st bonus and the 5th bonus has been replaced by repeating the 4th bonus.

• In addition to including Hereward’s Spiral Galaxy templates I’ve included a 4th barred spiral galaxy template based on the Milky Way.

• The global colony growth rate has been reduced to the smallest rate possible, 1. 0.  In addition I’ve included Sorentoft’s Longer Age of Exploration mod.

• I’ve included a new race, the Galrisian Confederacy.  They are a feudal society wrestling with internal conflict but also having a martial, yet honorable, nature.  They should prove a fun addition to the game.

• This mod includes eleven maps of the Milky Way, one for each major civilization (Snathi as a major race aren’t included, they are replaced by the Galrisians).  This map also includes an active barred galactic core and I've included some of the actual stars in Sol's stellar neighborhood... for example the star closest to Sol is Proxima Centauri.

• Please note there is a blank map included in the mod so that you can replace the Galrisians with the Snathi if you are so inclined.  If you choose to do so please note that each civilization is marked by black holes.  This mod includes a directory, _Modding Resources, that has a text file with each civilizations starting position and a png file to assist you in locating the black holes/starting coordinates.  I’ve included a readme file in this directory with more information if you want to make your mods based on this mod.

• I've also included a new scenario, Sid's Galactic Civilization III!  You can consider it a sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization.  This scenario replaces the Marauder minor civilization with the Centauri Union, a new minor civilization located in Alpha Centauri.  Unfortunately, the map editor does not all for the placement of minor civilizations BUT if you keep reloading the map eventually the Centauri Union will be located in Alpha Centauri.  In order to load this scenario you will need to replace the FactionText.xml, FactionDefs.xml and DLC6_FactionDefs.xml (this does require the "Rise of the Terrans" DLS) with the files in _Sid's Galactic Civilizations III folder. Then, in order to determine this you will need to enable the cheat mode, save the map, then open the console and enter "fow" to ascertain who your nearest neighbor is.  Please see the README.txt file in _Sid's Galactic Civilizations III folder for more info.

However, you can also simply install this mod and start conqueroring… or winning by consensus, which ever you choose.  There is a readme file in the mod that provides instructions on installing the mod, but I’ve also included the instructions below.

I also want to give credit to some of the other great modders out there whose work was included in this mod:

Star Names Text by Eddie49663 http://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/29/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fgalacticcivilizations3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D29&pUp=1

LongerAoE from Sorentoft http://forums.galciv3.com/465812

Star Map Reduced Nebula Mod from Hereward Hills http://forums.galciv3.com/466155/page/1/

De-abstractified Stock Civ Logos v0. 5 from Dirtyface83 http://forums.galciv3.com/474055/page/1/

Gauntlet's Race Mod from Gauntlet http://forums.galciv3.com/466227/page/1/#3557488

Star Types Mod By Hereward Hills (tim@timothyhills.me) http://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/45/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fgalacticcivilizations3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D45&pUp=1

Hereward's Spiral Galaxies by Hereward Hills http://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/44/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fgalacticcivilizations3%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D44&pUp=1

I hope you enjoy it!

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README: Installation Instructions

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