Not Another City States Mod
version 11
 version 11
by Iceco
This city-state mod aims to provide more choices and variety. It currently features 3 new  city-state traits and 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  'Lesser' civs. 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.
Modular design
Deleting features, like the new traits or the changes for the 'Lesser' civs, or deleting individual citystates, for personal preferences or compatibility with other mods, is easy. Deleting the folders of these features or the files of these city-states will not break the mod.
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. Or even delete the whole NewTraits folder.
6 new Traits
Next to  cultured,  maritime and  militaristic city-states, there now are:
 Commercial city-states: give you a certain amount of Gold per turn.
 Diplomatic city-states: slows Influence degradation with other city-states.
 Intellectual city-states: give you a certain amount of Science per turn.
 Productive city-states: give you a certain amount of Production per turn distributed over your cities.
 Progressive city-states: give you a certain amount progress towards Great Person creation per turn distributed over your cities.
 Prosperous city-states: give you a certain amount of progress towards Golden Ages per turn and make them last longer.
44 new city-states
Bringing the total to 72  :
8  commercial, 8  cultured, 8  diplomatic, 8  intellectual, 8  maritime, 8  militaristic, 8  productive, 8  progressive, 8  prosperous.
27 'Lesser' civs
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 have their flag and leader shown on the Diplo popup.
There are an additional 8 of these 'Lesser' civs added to bring the total to 27  :
3  commercial, 3  cultured, 3  diplomatic, 3  intellectual, 3  maritime, 3  militaristic, 3  productive, 3  progressive, 3  prosperous. (Numbers included in the 60  total above.)
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 * Meanwhile Norway is no longer in the mod, as Oslo has been replaced with Quebec City in patch 1.0.1.275 to allow for it to be used as a city for the Denmark DLC civ.
Compatibility.sql
This file resolves certain  city-state - major civ conflicts likely to occur with DLC or civ-adding mods active.
The following 44  city-states were added:
And these are the 28 vanilla  city-states and changes, where that is the case:
v. 11 (02 May 2011) Jack Of All update
- 3 new city-state traits:
diplomatic, progressive and prosperous.
- 12 new
city-states:
the 'Lesser' civs of Cuba(Havana), Ethiopia(Addis Ababa), Mayas(Tikal) and Switzerland(Bern)
and the normal city-states of Aboriginals(Ayers Rock), Abu Dhabi, Andorra, Anfa, Carthage, Inuit(Iqualuit) Liechtenstein, Luebeck and Macau.
- Latest patch compatibility:
Removed my Quebec as the patch replaced Oslo with Quebec City.
Renamed the Danish lesser civ to the Australian, as the patch replaced Copenhagen with Sydney.
- Updated some
'Lesser' city-state popup tops:
Updated the right-hand side icons to reflect the trait changes of most Lesser civs since the addition of the new traits.
Correctly named Scotland's leader James VI. (Was wrongfully named James IV.)
Maria Theresa replaces Franz Joseph as leader of Austria.
Éamon de Valera replaces Daniel O'Connell as leader of Ireland.
- New icons for commercial and intellectual city-states. Used the icons for the Great Merchant and Great Scientist respectively.
- Compatibility.sql: added Cuba, Carthage, Ethiopia, Mayas and Switzerland.
- Bug fix: resolved issue that on ally status you'd still receive the friends bonus as well.
Older versions:
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v. 10 (27 Apr 2011) Really Working update
- Bug fix: resolved issue that the bonuses of the new traits were not being applied.
v. 9 (26 Apr 2011) Working update
- Bug fix: resolved crash on unpacking the mod. Mods are so much more fun when you can install them.
v. 8 (25 Apr 2011) Traits update
- 3 new city-state traits:
commercial, intellectual and productive.
- Bug fix: City-state messages headed f.e. "King of The City-State of Norway has a Message." Removed the "The City-State of" part and also fixed the coloring of the message.
- Combatibility.sql: Fiji removed because it was found actually not to conflict with the Polynesia DLC.
v. 7 (13 Apr 2011) CS Leader update
- 6 new
city-states:
the 'Lesser' civs of Byzantium(Constantinople), Holland(Amsterdam), Portugal(Lisbon) and Spain(Madrid)
and the normal city-states of La Isabela and Strasbourg.
'Lesser' civs 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 'Lesser' civs.
- 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
'Lesser' civs 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
'Lesser' 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
Gazebo for the diplomatic city-state trait icon (the peace dove), lent from his City State Diplomacy Mod.
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 the improvements and suggestions made in the City State Leaders thread.
Gedemon, for the code of the Compatibility.sql major civ flagger and the citystatepopup addins (both lent from his YnAEMP mod) and helping me on the (future) implementation of the UUs for militaristic city-states.
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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