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Auto Ages Script

This script can be run with any random map with any number of civs in any order. I always found that RoN became too much of a "rush through to the information age as quickly as possible" without enjoying playing the ages in between, but neither did I enjoy artificially limiting the game to end in certain ages. So, I created a script to fix this.

What this script does is remove the player (and AI) ability to advance ages automatically. Instead, ages advance every 30 minutes or so, with a prompt appearing on screen to inform the players that the world has advanced. There is also a period in the Modern Age before Atomic Weapons become available, and in the Information Age before Future/Super Technology becomes available, again to get full use out of all units. Library technologies are also limited to appropriate ages. No more researching computers in the Medieval Age! This does mean expansion and such are limited early on, but again this helps the game feel less rushed and help with a proper, realistic feeling of expansion in the late Renaissance period. "Discovering the New World" etc. especially on maps with those sorts of gameplay features.

I also added scripts that rename each civ and leader per age, again to give it a more realistic feel. I started to add scripts that renamed cities based on age and owner but this was rather complex and slowed the game significantly, so I believe only some British cities do this (I may have removed it in this version, I haven't worked on it in some years)

Finally, I also limited wonders to be built only by appropriate civs. This does give certain civs an advantage, but well it always struck me as a bit weird to see the Romans building Ankor Wat or something. There are some wonders that are, strictly speaking, without a civilisation, but I gave them to those that are "close enough", culturally speaking.

Hope you enjoy.