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Caveman 2 Cosmos
Version 35
An Unofficial Community Expansion Pack
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword 3.19

At A glance
10 Eras
734+ Technologies
2700+ Buildings
1200+ Units 

Major Features
Many of the features of Caveman2Cosmos are the combined
programming efforts of the community of CivFanatics.com, but a majority are
original features exclusive to this unofficial expansion pack. Some of this
features are can be turned on and off in the Custom Game Screen.
 
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1. Multiple Production
Multiple Production allows cities to produce more than one building or unit
whenever possible. If a city has overflow production from the last item, it
will be applied to the next item in the city queue. If the overflow production
is enough to complete the next item, this process repeats. With large
military cities, you can easily create multiple missiles or infantry units in one
turn.

2. Multiple Research
The same concept as Multiple Production. If you have enough overflow 
beakers from your last research project to complete the next technology in
the queue, you will research multiple technologies in one turn.

3. Usable Mountains
Usable Mountains transforms peaks from wasted space to strategic choke
points and useful industrial locations. Resources can and will spawn on
peaks, and units will be able to move over peaks after you have researched
Mountaineering. After researching Algebra, cities can be constructed on
peaks. Peaks now give 3 production, but no food or commerce. Any
improvements that can be built on hills can be built on peaks as well.

There is a new promotion, Mountaineering, available to Great General units.

With it, all the units in the group will be able to cross over peaks without the
aid of the Mountaineering tech. Peaks offer units a 75% defense bonus, the
largest in the game.

4. Fixed Cultural Borders

Fixed Cultural Borders completely changes the way borders worked. Instead
of Culturally-Driven borders, Military force and might dictate the spread of
borders. With Fixed Borders, Units have new command "claim territory" that
you can apply in an enemy territory. You claim it, next turn the plot is inside
your borders. In order to recapture it, enemy must place his forces on that
plot and do the same ("claim territory").

When capturing cities, you get all the territory that the city 'provides' to its
original owner. So when you're at war with someone and capture all his
cities, you will get ALL his territory, up to the last plot (there's only one
exception to this rule - the tiles that are not 'provided' by cities, but claimed
by force can remain in the old civ, but for sure they can't go to other
neighboring civ that is neutral in war). In order to keep all this territory you
need only the military force. No neighbor of his that is at peace with both
sides can benefit from the war. If someone wants that territory – he must
declare war and capture it or trade for it (city trading, like in normal game).
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During a war, if a tile has more of your tiles surrounding it than the enemy
has, it is claimed automatically, if no enemy units are defending it. This
makes the borders less shredded at the end of war.

If you are not using a civic that "forces" fixed borders, the game acts as
before (i.e. the culture defines borders) and once a player has the necessary
civics all of his territory becomes ‘fixed’, no one can take it by culture means
anymore and his units get the new command to execute when in enemy
territory (‘claim territory’). The player still culturally expands his borders 
over unoccupied territory and over nations that don’t have fixed borders
(think of the Roman Empire that enforced its own borders, but influenced
the surrounding tribes that had no solid state formed).

5. Surround and Destroy

Surround and Destroy gives attack bonuses for surrounding enemy forces.
The more units you have around and enemy, the larger the bonus, up to the
maximum of 60%. Particularly useful for laying siege to medieval cities.

6. Advanced Diplomacy
Advanced Diplomacy vastly changes the way diplomacy works from standard
Civilization. Many new trading options are added, each with their own
benefits, and potential disadvantages.

6.1. Embassies
Nations can now establish embassies in other nations. Embassies improve
diplomatic relations between countries, but be warned; revoking a foreign
embassies rights will have disastrous diplomatic repercussions with the other
nation. Embassies also allow the trade of Military Units and Workers between
countries. In addition, Embassies are now required to unlock higher
diplomatic functions with other nations, namely, Open Borders Agreements
and Defensive Pacts. Be warned, Embassies allow for enemy spies to more
easily complete their missions in your country.

6.2. Right of Passage

When players research Writing, they can request to have a Right of Passage
agreement between two civilizations. The agreement is similar to open
borders, in that it allows foreign trade, but the agreement only allows for
defensive units to pass through the nations. Offensive units will not be able
to enter the territory.

6.3. Trading Military Units

Certain Military units, like siege machines can be traded, with Advanced
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Diplomacy. To be traded, each player must have an embassy in the other

players nation. Each tradable unit will be marked in it's respective civilopedia
entry with "This unit is tradable."

6.4. Trading Workers

Workers, can be traded, with Advanced Diplomacy. To be traded, each
player must have an embassy in the other players nation

6.5. Buying and Selling of Corporations HQ's

Nations, if they happen to own a corporation Headquarter, can also sell it to
other nations, where it will be automatically moved to one of their cities. If a
nation does not own the particular Corporation Headquarter, they can offer
to buy it from the owner.

6.6. Trading Contact with Other Civilizations

Nations can buy and sell contact with other civilizations that they have not
yet met. It allows you to meet civilizations who you would not otherwise be
able to trade with for many centuries.

7.Barbarian Generals
Barbarian Generals allows units to gain Great General experience from
combat with Barbarians. It also allows barbarians to get experience as well,
and they will be able to spawn their own Barbarian Great Generals.

8. Assimilation
When you capture an enemy city, it retains the personality of the former
owner. The conquering player will be able to build the former owner's Unique
Unit and Unique Buildings in that city instead of their own.

9. Ruthless AI
The ultimate challenge. Ruthless AI removes any human aspects from the
AI, making them cold, calculating, and cunning. The AI will expand
strategically into nearby targets, destroy threats, and use diplomacy to it's
advantage. Watch small border conflicts flare up into International conflicts,
with the entire world arrayed against you.

10. Great Commanders

Great Commanders are a new use of Great Generals. While players will still
be able to attach Generals to units or settle them in cities, they will also be
able to use the general unit in stacks, and have Great Generals receive XP
from successful combat in nearby tiles. Great Generals will be able to earn
promotions from this XP, and the promotions will boost the stats of all
nearby units. Other promotions can extend the command range of the
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general (the radius in which the general's effects may be felt) or the amount
of effects the promotions provide.

11. Realistic Culture Spread

Culture will spread in a more realistic fashion, more quickly over low lying
lands, like plains and grasslands, and slower over heavily forested hills and
peaks.

18. Guilds
Guilds are a medieval variant of corporations. There are twelve total guilds,
part of three separate branches, the Servant Guilds, the Victualers Guilds,
and the Craft Guilds. Each of the twelve guilds offers separate benefits to
cities that incorporate them, be it health, happiness, production, science, or
wealth. Spreading guilds is identical to spreading corporations, except it
doesn't cost money. Guilds will, however, incur maintenance fees; the best
way to alleviate these fees is to use the "Guilds" economic civic. Guilds are
very useful for increasing city production or making your cities happy and
healthy. Most guilds become obsolete in the Industrial Era.

12. Modern Corporations

Modern Corporations expands the amount of Corporations in the late game.
Corporations that give increased military training and experience are useful
for catch-up. Other corporations can give happiness, health, culture, science,
commerce, or espionage against rivals.

13. Advanced Nukes

Advanced Nukes expands the nuclear arsenal available to players, allowing
players to access advanced biological weapons, and nuclear weapons that
can destroy entire continents. Chemical and Germ warfare can be used, to
ruin even coastal land, and utterly annihilate a city to nothing. Advanced
Nukes provides the finest and latest gear in the art of destruction.

14. Mastery Victory

Mastery Victory is the ultimate victory condition. Players must survive to the
end of time, and be the most powerful player. Having cities with legendary
culture, or constructing wonders adds to your final score. Spreading your
religion to the most cities also boosts your score. The player with the highest
score at the end of time wins.

15. Resource Depletion

Resource Depletion allows for heavily used non-renewable resources to
deplete from the the game. Each turn, the game measure how much you are
using a resource, and based on your usage, the chance of depletion
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changes. As you rely more and more on a particular resource, the odds of it
depleting increase.

In Addition to this, mines without any resource also have a small chance of
depleting. When a mine depletes, no mines can be built on top of the tile
ever again. While this will rarely happen in the early game, by the late
game, players will be forced to re-adjust their strategies if they relied too 
heavily on mines for their production.

To balance this, Players with Resource Depletion installed will also have an
increased chance of discovering resources.

16. Terraforming
After researching Weather Control, players may terraform previously
inhospitable land into lush grasslands. Workers gain the ability to terraform,
and can turn land to plains, and eventually, into grasslands. This will allow
your cities to grow even larger, as your civilization reaches it's own "Golden
Age."

17. Sea Tunnels

After researching Civil Engineering, players may build underwater tunnels to
join continents together. These tunnels allow units to move under the water,
and reach areas previously only accessible by ship. Be wary though, a sea
tunnel can just as easily be used to allow enemy troops easy access to your
mainland cities, bypassing your naval defenses.

18. Mega Cities

Player cities can now expand to a third level radius, if enabled. After a city
reaches an "Influential" level of culture, it's third ring of tiles will become
workable, allowing for mega-cities to emerge. Players can use this expanded
access to food to fuel their specialist economy, drive their war machine, or
to gain access to previously locked resources. However, because the third
ring of culture is now workable, this change makes maintaining your cultural
borders more important. Losing access to some outer-ring mines may
become the difference to defeat or failure in a war. In addition, players will
face other new challenges. Because cities will reach much higher levels of
population before running out of food, unhealthy and unhappy cities may
become problematic. If poorly maintained, these larger cities may even
decide to rebel against your leadership. Players should spend extra effort to
keep these mega-cities healthy and happy.

19.Great Commanders
Great Commanders are a new use for Great Generals. Previously, players
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could only settle Great Generals in cities for XP, or attach them to a unit and
give the unit immediate XP. Great Commanders give Great Generals a third
ability, the ability to help lead troops in battle. While initially providing no
benefit, a Great Commander will gain XP from successful combat on the
same tile as other friendly units. When the Great Commander levels up, it
will be able to choose promotions from a special promotion tree designed
specifically for it's use. The promotions don't help the Great Commander, nor 
can the Great Commander partake in any combat, but they will help nearby
units. Units that are inside of the Commanders command range will receive
the effects of the promotion, allowing for much more powerful armies on the
battlefield, for offense and defense.

20.Occasional Promotions
Occasional Promotions is a new way for units to receive promotions. In every
battle, a unit has a chance of earning a promotion that they are eligible for,
after combat is resolved. This chance is not purely random, it is affected by
the chance of success in combat, and how well they preformed. If a unit had
a high chance of victory, the odds of being promoted in battle is low, but if
the chances were slim, and it overcame the odds, the chance of being
promoted is much higher. Likewise, if a unit preformed well in battle, and
lost little or no health, the chances of being promoted increases. If the unit
barely survived, the chances of being promoted decreases. If a unit is
promoted in battle, it will not earn any XP for that battle.

21.Realistic Corporations
Realistic Corporations gives freedom to Corporations, as they are no longer
state-controlled entities. While the State may own the city a corporation
operates in, or the headquarters for the corporation, they can not control it's
spread, except in extreme circumstances. No Executives or units that can
spread corporations can be trained, except when using a civic that blocks
foreign corporations. Corporations are no longer founded by units, buildings,
or otherwise. Instead they are founded by a little bit of luck, and some
strategy.

22. Ruthless AI Game Option

The Ruthless AI Game option will make the AI much more manipulative and
harder to beat than normal or Aggressive AI. The AI will use techs and gold
to hire war allies, often sparking small border disputes into raging world
wars that ultimately will work to their advantage. Expect to be sneak
attacked, or worse, blitzed, as the AI seizes poorly defended border cities,
and gobbles up smaller city-states. The AI will remember your breaches of
trust more keenly; it may be wiser to die an honorable death then become
the next Benedict Arnold. Lastly; suspect every AI request; an ordinary map
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request may actually be a search for future attack sites, so be prepared for
pre-emptive strikes.

23. Dynamic XP
Unit XP is now saved in fractional values, and units gain experience
dynamically, depending on their battle success and the odds. The less likely
a unit will win a battle, the more XP it will receive, to a maximum of 6XP 
attacking or 3XP defending. Units will always receive a minimum of 0.25XP.
In battle, the less health the units lose, the more XP the units can earn, so
that players are forced to make more strategic attacks, and that players can
no longer gain significant amounts of XP by attacking very weak units.

24. Castle Improvements

Castle Improvements adds a new system of improvements, making castles a
key defensive structure. The Moat, Balistraria, Castle Turret, Catacombs,The
Keep, Heavy Gate, Herbalist, Dungeon, and more.

25. Realistic Culture Speed

Realistic Culture Spread creates a more natural style of cultural spread from
your cities. Culture spreads more slowly over rivers, higher terrain like hills
and peaks, heavily wooded areas, and ocean tiles. Because this more natural
spread also has the effect of limiting your cultural borders, three new
intermediate culture levels have been added for this game option only, to
expand your borders further.

26. Advanced Espionage

Advanced Espionage adds a slew of new espionage missions for your spies to
preform and cause havoc with. Also, Advanced Espionage scales all missions
damage with game speed, so the effects of the missions are more
pronounced on slower speeds, and less noticeable on faster speeds.

27. Employed Citizens

Certain Buildings employ your citizens. Your citizens will work in the
building, ensuring it stays open, instead of working land or acting as a
specialist. You can see how many citizens are employed by your city's
buildings by viewing the employment dropdown inside of the city interface,
(to the right of the city name). If your city lacks the population to staff all of
the buildings, they will shut down until your city regains a large enough
population to be operated again.

28. Subdue Animals

The Subdue Animals changes some of the mechanics of combat with animal
units. Now when an animal unit is defeated instead of just being killed, it
may be butchered for food and production, converted into a resource on the
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map or subdued as a captured version of the animal unit. Captured animals

can be used to build special buildings. These buildings may provide resource,
science, culture, happiness or reduce revolutionary sentiment. Some also
allow new units or provide experience for units built in the city.

29. Crime and Punishment

Crime is used to represent the idea that humans are selfish and that they
will commit offenses against others if they think they will get away with it.
The fact that there is as much evidence for this selfish idea as against
suggest that things are much more complex in the real world, but this is just
a game. The higher the crime level in a city the more crimes, represented by
"free" buildings, you will have. It will also allow you to build crime related
buildings which can give you more money and units. Crime can be fought in
two ways. Crime prevention buildings and crime fighting units. Both affect
the amount that crime changes.

30. Flammability
The concept of Flammability is introduced. Highly flammable building such as
an Oil Power Plant, Oil Refinery, Chemical Plant, etc would generate have a
large amount of "flammability" while a fires station, fire brigade, Artesian
well, etc would lower the cities flammability. 

If it got too high then it would increase the risk of a fire. If a fire occurs then
building will be destroyed. In other words you could control how frequent
those random fire disaster events occurred.

31. Housing
In Caveman2Cosmos houses and residential buildings increase of decrease
food, health, gold, and other bonuses depending on the Density of and
wealth of the housing building. Density levels include Low, Medium, High,
and Super Density and increase as Eras go by and are categorized by Low,
Medium, or High Wealth of the building.

Example:
Trans-Human Era / Galactic Era
- Low Density | Low Wealth = Dugouts
- Low Density | Medium Wealth = Smart Homes
- Low Density | High Wealth = Chateau
- Medium Density | Low Wealth = Modular Highrise
- Medium Density | Medium Wealth = Modular Homes
- Medium Density | High Wealth = High-tech Manor
- High Density | Low Wealth = Refugee Camps
- High Density | Medium Wealth = Time Shares
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- High Density | High Wealth = Holochambers

- Super Density | Low Wealth = Arcology Slums
- Super Density | Medium Wealth = Arcology Suburbs 

See also: Automatically build buildings

32. Hero System

Heroes can create exclusive Achievement Buildings and a new system for
units is introduced.

Hero Units
- World Unit
- Only one can exist and once it dies it cannot come back.
- Can get a series of Hero promotions
- Example: Spartacus

National Units
- National Unit
- Limited amount of units per civ.
- Gets normal promotions.
- Example: Assassin

Normal Units
- Available to all civs.
- Can make unlimited amounts of these units.
- Gets normal promotions.
- Example: Axeman

Elite Units
- National Unit
- Limit 15 (can be rebuilt if they die)
- Can get special elite promotions (not the same as heroic).
- Example: Samurai

33. Bug and BULL Options

BUG stands for BTS Unaltered Gameplay and is a collection of interface
enhancements and screens that provide quicker access to information
available elsewhere in the game plus some cool features that make playing
the game a lot more fun by removing some of the tedium involved in
micromanagement. This is our commitment to the player that no game rules
are changed and no information not available somewhere in the original BTS
interface is ever shown. BULL stands for BUg dLL and adds a lot of useful
information to some of the hover texts, specifically the City Bar hover and
the Yield and Commerce hovers in the City Screen.
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34. Alternative Timelines

This adds historical fiction to fiction history to the Tech Tree and different
flavors of "punk" including Megafuana Domestication, Clockpunk, 
Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Atompunk, Biopunk and Cyberpunk. Some sections
are currently being developed. They each take up one (1) Tech slot on the
Tech Tree and provide unique units, buildings, and wonders.

-Megafuana Domestication is based on the late prehistoric period and

fictionalizes if man could have ridden large animals like bears and bison.
-Clockpunk is based on the technology used is based on springs and
clockwork, and is usually set during the Renaissance.
-Steampunk is set in the late eighteenth through the whole of the nineteenth
centuries ending about 1919, and focuses on steam power and the
possibilities it could bring.
-Dieselpunk is based on the aesthetics of the period between the end of the
World War i and the beginning of WW2.
-Atompunk relates to the pre-digital period of 1945-1965, and the rise of the
US military/industrial powers.
-Biopunk focuses on near-future unintended consequences of the
biotechnology revolution following the discovery of recombinant DNA.
-Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial
intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future
Earth.

34. Divine Prophets

Choose where to found your Holy Cities, and Divine Prophets provide
bonuses.