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title: New modifiers available
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author: Michael Burschik
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<div align="left">
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<span>One of the attractions of the original Colonization game are its many</span><br />
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<span>small features that sometimes affect game play in subtle and</span><br />
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<span>unexpected ways. Although we have been working on implementing all</span><br />
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<span>these features for years, we still haven't completed the job.</span><br />
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<span>Recently, we were made aware of one feature that had escaped our</span><br />
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<span>attention so far: Inca and Aztec cities, as well as native capitals</span><br />
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<span>have a higher defence bonus than other native settlements.</span><br /><br />
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<span>Adding special cases to handle these bonuses would have been pretty</span><br />
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<span>simple, but would have added more hard-coded modifiers to the game.</span><br />
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<span>As it turned out, the combat model already contained about half a</span><br />
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<span>dozen hard-coded modifiers interfering with our on-going effort to</span><br />
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<span>make FreeCol more configurable. The (more or less) obvious solution</span><br />
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<span>was to move these modifiers to the specification. This, of course,</span><br />
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<span>created several smaller problems, which seem to have been fixed,</span><br />
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<span>however.</span><br /><br />
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<span>The net result of the changes is that you can now tune six modifiers</span><br />
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<span>that directly affect the combat model, such as the defence bonus</span><br />
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<span>granted to a fortified unit. Nation types now have two additional</span><br />
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<span>modifiers, namely the settlement defence modifier and the capital</span><br />
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<span>defence modifier, which are added to the defensive modifiers of all</span><br />
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<span>units defending these settlements. At the moment, European nation</span><br />
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<span>types do not make use of the capital defence modifier, since they do</span><br />
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<span>not have capitals, but this might well be changed in the future.</span><br />
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