Customizable Domestic Advisor (CDA)

BtS Unaltered Gameplay Mod

Customizable Domestic Advisor (CDA)

by Taelis (heavily modified by EmperorFool)

Inspired by the fantastic work of Homegrown and Requies, I thought I'd try to extend what they've done and add in game customization, including the ability to add new pages, to add and remove columns from pages, and change the order and width of columns, all from within the advisor itself.


Instructions

This mod can be enabled in the Advisors tab of the BUG Options Screen (Alt+Ctrl+O).

All other settings may be set directly from the in-game interface of the advisor.

The controls along the bottom of the advisor interface, from left to right, are:

  • list: shows the current page and allow you to go directly to another one
  • white left arrow: go to the previous page
  • white right arrow: go to the next page
  • parchment: toggle normal interface and customization interface

In the customization interface, the buttons along the bottom of the screen, from left to right, are:

  • list: shows the current page and allow you to go directly to another one
  • white left arrow: go to the previous page
  • white right arrow: go to the next page
  • parchment: toggle normal interface and customization interface
  • pinned paper: rename selected page
  • testa: add/remove to/from the page the bottom bar with specialists, culture list and GP list
  • white +: add a new page
  • white -: remove the selected page
  • red up arrow: move the selected page up in the list
  • red down arrow: move the selected page down in the list
  • monitor: save the last customizations
  • ban sign: delete last customizations
In the customization interface, an additional row of buttons is placed above the previous one; these controls, from left to right, are:
  • white left arrow: decrease the size of the selected column (in the left panel)
  • white right arrow: increase the size of the selected column (in the left panel)
  • white +: add the selected column (the selected column in the right pane is added to the left one)
  • white -: remove the selected column (the selected column in the left pane is removed from it)
  • red up arrow: move the selected column up (so it will be displayed before in the CDA page)
  • (la corrispondente colonna nella schermata del CDA risulterà spostata a sinistra)
  • red down arrow: move the column down (so it will be displayed after in the CDA page)
While you are configuring, remember that the left half of the screen is the current page you are working on, and the right half of the screen are items you can add to the current page.


Credits

Forum: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=150198

Author: Taelis (Lee Reeves)


Author's Credits and Thanks

This mod was inspired by the fantastic work of Homegrown and Requies of CFC and all those who contributed to their work.

I'd like to thank:

Firaxis for making Civ4 and stealing months of my life ;)

Cammagno for extensive help with beta testing, and for developing a complete, optimized configuration file.

Homegrown for the original 'Domestic Advisor Mod' with its many improvements.

Requies for the 'Special Domestic Advisor Mod' the basis of this mod.

Credits from Requies's Special Domestic Advisor Mod include:

Terrasol for the changes to the color of the text to indicate problem values and for changes which fix the non-English language problems and additional small changes.

Arkeide for the base code to jumping to a city on the list.

Rendermad for the suggestion of making garrison colored when < 1.

=DOCTOR= for the suggestion of putting in Culture and GP Thresholds.

Tubby Rower for the unfortunately unimplementable mouseover idea.

Eotinb for the suggestion of putting in the city automation information and for some general comments and ideas.

Sportybrian for the suggestion of highlighting with different colors for the 0, and very positive levels.