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Matt's Leaders: Sophia Duleep Singh

Big agree with policies being pretty boring in basegame, its kind of a shame, makes the civic tree a lot less fun than the tech one. Britons sound cool, excited for that - hope we get those art tools sooner rather than later. Good luck with your doctorate!

well thank you for the interest! ive got 3 or 4 new things in the works, but a lot's on pause for a little bit. i'm due to complete my doctorate in about a month so i'm focusing on that, and firaxis still hasn't given us proper art tools to customise assets. so e.g. right now we can't include appropriate models for any wonders or unique improvements. i have an antiquity britons civ ready to release mechanically, but i don't want to publish it when the unique improvement just look like an empty tile. a leader i have in the works will also need some extensive 3d asset work. the justinian concept for policies is really fun: ive been mulling for a while on how to design a leader who really makes policies rewarding. lafayette could have been really fun, but ultimately you end up with more slots than there are good policies to make use of.

Aww that's a shame re: interest but you're probably right unfortunately, and didn't realise they were such a pain in the neck to put together, especially compared to full-on leaders and civs and models and all that crazy stuff you've put out. And do keep injecting that flavour into whatever you do make, know someone out there enjoys it too ahaha. I really think the roleplay/immersion factor is what elevates your mods into feeling like proper DLC quality products rather than fan projects. That and the crazy gamechanger gimmick abilities which I LOVE. Fingers crossed for a Justinian-type who gets double effects from slotted policies & traditions but also crisis cards and he has to slot all of them .. or an 'Isabella of Wonders' who gets double effects from them with some kind of downside.. or something equally crazy hehehe. Keep on rocking!! Can't wait to see what you cook up next!

in sum: i worry it could end up being a lot of work for something only a small number of people end up playing with, which is a shame, but for now i just include them as part of my other mods

awh this is such a lovely comment! thank you!
an events pack mod sounds like it'd be a lot of fun, and i'll do it if there's interest! my main hesitation is i'm not yet sure how popular events are with the civ community. i know only a handful of people (like me) who enjoy them and like reading them and taking in the flavour. i also know some people just look at the reward tooltips and click without even reading any of the flavour lol.
they're also currently one of the most complicated things to mod! which may seem strange, but basically the pieces involved are scattered across loads of different dataframes, and testing is incredibly complex given you have to reproduce the conditions for the event every time. leader questlines are especially bad for this, given they form mutually exclusive branching lines of events.

Hey Matt, you shine with all the creative aspects of these mods! Your passion for history really bleeds through - the little narrative flavour and events are wonderful, I especially like the Unique GPs here. It's just a shame that leaders are so finicky right now!
Have you ever thought about making a proper historical events pack, like the VIET mods from Crusader Kings? It's a concept they teased with those Rome - Carthage interaction events but never really went all the way, and I think there's a lot of potential there. Even just the example mod Sukritact put up with one Maurya-Greek 'Yona' questline was a really interesting proof of concept. I think you have the exact intersection of ability and creativity to make something like that really cool. Unique GP from events? Getting free Purabhettarah when you declare war on Rome as Carthage? The Hellenisation of Rome or the Indianisation of the Khmer? Sky's the limit!

latest update fixes benjamin franklin FPO appearing as the leader model,
but changes to the backend in how models are loaded mean sophia's skin colour is currently bugged. currently working to find a new solution on this.

it shouldnt be a dependency! i'll take a look at what could be causing this. it can be difficult to test for compatibility without dlcs that i own, as i think the game can still access the files even if i disable them.

Game can't run in modern era without Crossroads of the World DLC, please set this DLC as dependency.

well spotted! thanks, it's fixed in the latest update.