Future Expansion – Enhanced

My own modifications to Sullien's great – and, now, defunct – Future Expansion for Unciv.

Dependencies

This customization is based on and requires Future Expansion Continued, my continuation of Sullien's mod.
As such, it is intended for use with the Gods & Kings ruleset.

WiP Warning

This mod is still a WiP and limited by my currently restricted knowledge of Unciv and the original expansion mod.
I can't guarantee its stability or usability in-game.
I'll do my best to address any received feedback.
Thanks in advance for your patience, tolerance and interest. 🙏🏻

Ownership Disclaimer

Inspired by the awesome Mlie . 🙂

• This is a modification of an existing mod.
• I claim no ownership of the original mod.
• The original author is free to use this mod to update their own.
• Since I did not create the original mod, I will not accept donations for this mod of a mod.

Future Plans

I intend to add much more to this mod-of-a-mod than simply customizations of the original content, although I'm not done with that, yet.
After a lot of playtesting, I'd designed a partial restructuring of the specialized, mutually-excluding resource hubs. However, I've since lost access to the HDD I had this on. 🤦‍♂️
I'll get back to it ASAI've regained access to my old HDD or I've played enough to recreate what I'd done – whichever comes first.

Now, for my other ideas:
Some of them come from the great Future Worlds mod for Civ V (which I'd wager was one of Sullien's inspirations), some from other Civ V mods, some from Sullien's own unreleased next version of Future Expansion, some from interesting ideas in sci-fi and futurism and some from my own ideas while playing the game.
What I've thought up, so far:

• Buildings:
  • Other energy plants, including Tidal and Geothermal Plants.
  • Battery Bank.
  • Genetic Bank.
  • Gen-Editing Facility.
  • Space Beacon.
  • Central Mainframe.
  • Geodesical Garden.
  • Vertical Farm.
  • Myco-Tank.
  • Protein Vat.
  • Several buildings from Sullien's unreleased next version, including Faculties and Breakthroughs.
• Improvements:
  • Maglev Rails.
  • Living Fortresses.
  • Deep Mines.
  • Nature Preserves.
  • Hamlets.
  • Villages.
  • Towns.
  • Suburbs.
• Units:
  • Worker Bots.
  • Coast Guard.
  • Snipers.
  • Great Architects.
  • Power Armour Infantry.
  • Railgun Tanks.
  • Stealth Destroyers and Stealth Battleships.
  • More genetically-engineered creatures, including Stealth Seekers (cat-like Seekers), Seeker Drones (bird-like Seekers), dinosaurs, ambulant fungi, dragons and other pseudo-mythical creatures and maybe more.
  • Zombie Mutants.
  • Super Soldiers.
  • Orbital Drones.
  • Make Orbital Strikes a Unit Type, including Orbital Shots, Orbital Lasers, Convergence Deathrays, Stellaser Strikes and Void Bombs.
  • Other aliens, including Xenomorphs, Yautja (predators), Saya-jins, Namekusei-jins, Zergs, Arachnids (from Starship Troopers), Green Martians (from the Barsoom novels), Skrulls, Gauna, Krogans, Daleks, Cylons, Sith Lords, Borgs and maybe more.
• National Wonders:
  • Super Mainframe.
  • Megabattery
  • Underground Colony.
  • Space Stations, including Earth's orbit, Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, Sun-Earth Lagrangian points and maybe more.
  • Arcology.
  • Underwater Colony.
  • Orbital guns, including Orbital Coilgun, Orbital Laser, Focal Mirrors, Stellaser and Matter Aggregator.
• Wonders:
  • Borehole.
  • The Eye in the Sky.
  • Humanity Vault.
  • Space Ark.
  • Space Elevator.
  • Generational Spaceship.
  • Space Colonies, including the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Ceres, Europa, Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Pluto and maybe more.
  • Bishop Ring.
  • Space Missions with varied destinies, including Ringworld, Rama, a Dyson sphere, Alpha Centauri, V'Ger, a wormhole, a neutron star, a blackhole's event horizon and maybe more.
  • Space Drive.
  • First Contacts, including Vulcans, Asogians, Minbari, Protoss, Asari and maybe more.
  • Death Star.
  • Artificial Sun.
  • Artificial Black Hole.
  • Artificial Wormhole.

I plan on holding polls on Discord to decide on what to work next.
Keep in mind some of these ideas depend on as-of-yet unavailable modding features (But, hey, we can dream, right? 😉).

I'm, also, very much open to suggestions! 🙂

Changelog

1.0.4

Rifleman and its equivalents (Carolean, Mehal Sefari and Norwegian Ski Infantry) now upgrade to Great War Infantry, provided GP-Great War perk is adopted.

1.0.3

Foreword

• Caravel now upgrades to Privateer.
• Privateer now upgrades to Ironclad.
• Barbarians now have access to Ironclads.

1.0.2

Foreword

Everything now appears in Civilopedia.

1.0.1

Foreword

Removed code comments.

1.0

Foreword

• Solar Plant can now be built.
• Units:
  • Obervation Balloon is now available earlier, once Chemistry is researched.
  • Renamed Orbital Jet to Orbital Fighter.
  • Increased Drone's movement from 3 to 4, to make it faster than Observation Balloon.
• Completed military units' upgrade trees:
  • Modern Armor now upgrades to Hovertank (Provided GP-Hovercombat perk is adopted.).
  • Rocket Artillery now upgrades to Hovertillery (Provided GP-Hovercombat perk is adopted.).
  • Mobile SAM now upgrades to Hover-SAM (Provided GP-Hovercombat perk is adopted.).
  • Mechanized Infantry now upgrades to Energy Infantry (Provided GP-Energy Weapons perk is adopted.).
  • Helicopter Gunship now upgrades to Future Copter (Provided GP-Energy Weapons perk is adopted.).
  • Carrier now upgrades to Orbital Carrier (Provided GP-Energy Weapons perk is adopted.).
  • Jet Fighter now upgrades to Orbital Fighter (Provided GP-Space Combat perk is adopted.).
  • Jet Bomber now upgrades to Stealth Bomber (Provided GP-Stealth Operatives perk is adopted.).
  • Stealth Bomber now upgrades to Orbital Bomber (Provided GP-Space Combat perk is adopted.).
  • Stealth Bomber now requires Aluminum, instead of Oil.
  • Hacker now upgrades to Stealth Hacker (Provided GP-Stealth Operatives perk is adopted.).
  • Stealth Hacker now upgrades to Monolith Brainiac (Provided Monolith Portal has been built.).
• Refurbished uniques and promotions:
  • Observation Balloon and Drone now have the Intel promotion, which consolidates the following uniques:
    • +1 Range to adjacent [Siege] Units
    • "[+33]% Strength bonus for [Siege] units within [1] tiles"
    • "[+1] Sight"
    • "Ignores Zone of Control"
  • Hovertank, Hovertillery and Hover-SAM now have the Hovering promotion, which consolidates the following uniques:
    • "[+50]% Strength <vs [Land] units>"
    • "All tiles cost 1 movement"
    • "May travel on Water tiles without embarking"
    • "Can enter ice tiles"
  • Observation Balloon, Drone, Helicopter Gunship, Future Copter, Orbital Carrier, UFO and Monolith UFO now have the Flying promotion, which consolidates the following uniques:
    • "No defensive terrain bonus"
    • "All tiles cost 1 movement"
    • "May travel on Water tiles without embarking"
    • "Can enter ice tiles"
  • Additionally, Orbital Carriers' In Orbit promotion now contains the following uniques:
    • "Can pass through impassable tiles"