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Overview
Overview
Concept
Features
City-States
Version History
Future Plans
Recommended Mods
Credits
Contact / More Information
Concept
This city-state mod aims for flexibility and diversity. It currently features a wide range of new  city-states, from historical city-states, over small nations to ethnic groups, from Europe, over the Middle East to the Pacific Ocean. All can be removed as simple as deleting their XML file.
Next to this quantitative change, there are the so called  'Capital' city-states. These city-states represent countries owning a single city, instead of autonomous cities, and also have a leader. In all correspondence they are referred to by their country's name, but on the map their city's name is still one of a city. These are mainly edited vanilla city-states (f.e. Hungary, Denmark and Kazakhstan, respectively in control of Budapest, Copenhagen and Almaty), but there are a few new ones too, as to balance the amounts having one of the 3 traits and meet popular demand for these city-states. In later versions I intent to make these into city-states with extended (diplomatic) functionality, true 'minor civs' as it were.
Features
- Modular design
Each city-state has its own XML file and has no other files depending on it, so deleting a city-state, either for personal preferences or to make it compatible with another mod also adding that particular city-state is super easy. Just delete for example Bahrain.xml under \Documents\My Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 5\MODS\Not Another City States Mod\NewCityStates and the Bahrain civilization is removed from the game.
- 32 new city-states
Bringing the total to 60 : 20  cultured, 20  maritime, 20  militaristic.
- 'Capital' city-states
The 19 vanilla city-states that are/were not actually city-states or otherwise reasonably autonomous entities, but ‘mere’ capitals, are renamed after their respective countries and feature leaders. They still own the city with the original city-state name, but are otherwise referred to by their country's name. They also have their flag showing on the Diplo popup.
There are an additional 5 of these 'Capital' city-states added to bring the total to 24 : 8 cultured, 8 maritime, 8 militaristic. (Numbers included in the 60 total above.)
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- Compatibility.sql
This file resolves certain city-state - major civ conflicts likely to occur with DLC or civ-adding mods active.
City-States
The following 32 city-states were added:
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And these are the 28 vanilla city-states and changes, where that is the case:
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Version History
v. 7 (13 Apr 2011) CS Leader update
- 6 new city-states:
the 'Capital' city-states of Byzantium(Constantinople), Holland(Amsterdam), Portugal(Lisbon) and Spain(Madrid)
and the normal city-states of La Isabela and Strasbourg.
- 'Capital' city-states now have a leader representing them in the Greeting and Diplo popups.
- The Pygmy and Basque Nations' cities now go by the names of Ituri Forest and Bilbao respectively. However they are not 'Capital' city-states.
- Combatibility.sql is extended:
- Amsterdam: CS removed if Holland/Dutch/Netherlands civ present
- Bilbao: Spanish city of the same name removed if Spain civ and Bilbao CS present
- Constantinople: CS removed if Byzantine/Byzantium civ present
- Lisbon: CS removed if Portugal civ present
- Madrid: CS removed if Spain civ present
- Strasbourg: French city of the same name removed if France civ and Strasbourg CS present
v. 6 (09 Apr 2011) Flag Waving update
- 'Capital' city-states now have their country's flag show up in the Greeting and Diplo popups.
- Added Combatibility.sql, which checks for the presence of the Polynesia DLC, in which case Hawaii, Fiji and Rapa Nui are not available as city-states.
- Ragusa now refers to the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) instead of the Sicilian city. (No longer a 'Capital' city-state and Civilopedia entry edited.)
- South Korea (Seoul) is changed to Korea (Seoul).
- Addition of this updated Readme.
v. 5 (10 Mar 2011) Relaunch update
- 9 new city-states: Dubai, Jericho, Luxembourg, Malta, Puntland, Quebec, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Ur
v. 4 (03 Nov 2010) First feature update
- New feature: ‘Capital’ city-states renamed after their respective countries.
- Improvement in lay-out of the ReadMe and Mod description.
- Added language tags for German, French, Spanish and Italian, so the names show up properly in those versions. (Did not yet actually translate though.)
- Bug fix: Vatican City now shows up properly
v. 3 (31 Okt 2010) Maturation update
- 9 new city-states: Bahrain, Eritrea, Fiji, Guernsey, Hawaii, Jerusalem, Kurdistan, Masada, Vatican City
- Inclusion of this ReadMe.html file
- Improvements in lay-out of the mod description in the mod browser
v. 2 (30 Okt 2010) Public release
- 3 new city-states: Gaza, Isle of Man, Rapa Nui
v. 1 (29 Okt 2010) Private version
- 5 city-states: The Basque Nation, Brunei, The Pygmy Nation, Swaziland, Troy
Future Plans
None of these are guaranteed to be included. They just serve as a roadmap for me and to tease you  .
You are of course welcome to contribute to this mod.
- Many more city-states.
Candidates:
| The Aborigine Nation |
| Abu Dhabi |
| The Ainu Nation |
| Andorra |
| Anfa |
| Carthage |
| Danzig |
| Honk Kong |
| The Inuit Nation |
| Jabal Tariq |
| Jersey |
| Kuwait |
| Lesotho |
| Liechtenstein |
| Lübeck |
| Macau |
| Maldives |
| The Maori Nation |
| Qatar |
| San Marino |
- Militaristic city-states with unique units (taken from the vanilla major Civs), which you will also be able to receive as a gift. (Taken from Gedemon's City State UU mod.)
- Language support (at least partly) for German, French, Spanish and Italian.
- Civilopedia entries for the new city-states.
- New city-state types, each giving new bonuses when they are befriended or allied:
 Productive city-states, giving a bonus to production in your cities Mercantile city-states, giving a certain amount of gold per turn Scientific city-states, giving a certain amount of science per turn- maybe city-states providing
 happiness and  great person progress as well
- The possibility to interact with city-states as you can with major civilizations, mainly trading and diplomatic actions, possibly providing a small amount of
 influence per interaction.
Recommended Mods
Here is a list of city-state related mods I recommend:
- Thal's Balance Mods by Thalassicus:
Balances the usefulness of cultural, maritime and military city-states amongst many other things.
- City State Diplomacy Mod by Gazebo:
Overhauls how you gain influence with city-states by introducing diplomat units into the game.
- Mercenaries by Gedemon:
Gives you the option to hire 'mercenary' troops from city-states.
- City State UU by Gedemon:
Gives unique units to the militaristic city-states found in the vanilla version and two of his mods (Yahem and Yagem). (Yes, what will be in this mod in the future.)
- City State Leaders by mihaifx:
Adds leader icons to the city-state diplo popup. This will conflict with the flag icons this mod adds. (I don't know which one will show up.)
- Extra City States by Garett20:
Adds 28 new city-states to the game. (Note: there is some overlap with my mod, so you might have to delete some of mine.)
- City States of the World by Opera:
Adds another 17 city-states to the game. (Note: there is overlap with mine as well as Garett’s mod.)
Also check out my other mod:
- Garrison Training:
Units garrisoned in a city can gain XP. A mechanic to get experienced (strong) units even when you aren't the warring type.
Credits
Thalassicus for getting me into modding because of his wonderful Balance mods.
Kael for making the awesome Modder's Guide to Civilization V, a crucial learning document.
Alpaca for making the Lua tutorial on the Civ 5 wiki.
Onni, again for a tutorial: on UI mods.
Garett20, Opera, Zappara and everyone participating in their threads, for making ace city-state mods which I looked at for code implementation and city-state inspiration.
mihaifx for the code for the flags in the city-state diplo popup. Credits go to Gedemon and Zyxpsylon as well, for their improvements and suggestions.
Gedemon, for the code of the Compatibility.sql major civ flagger (lent from his YnAEMP mod) and helping me on the (future) implementation of the UUs for militaristic city-states.
Contact / Extra Information
You can find me on Civfanatics, where this mod has his own Thread.
Go there for your cheers, requests, questions, contributions,...
If you want to incorporate this mod or parts of it in your mod, please let me know and give proper credit.
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