Option to start matches in the City Phase

[Chrisau]

I'd really love the ability to select the Phase in which the game commences. This would allow for a wider variety of singleplayer and multiplayer playing styles. It's a common feature of many games with technology or research phases. 

For me, I'd like to jump right into military composition, battle tatics, etc. without all the "boilerplate" of unlocking my civ's champion units and siege units. 

I'm wondering if there's a console command or config file I could tweak or some other hacky workaround. Also, as a programmer, I'd be okay with contributing this feature to the Matches UI.

 

[Classic-Burger]

10 hours ago, Chrisau said:

I'm wondering if there's a console command or config file I could tweak or some other hacky workaround. Also, as a programmer, I'd be okay with contributing this feature to the Matches UI.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com

You can start there.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Ideally it would be nice if it was extended to:

Nomad

Village (standard start)

Post-Village

Town

Post-Town

City

Post-City

And then be compatible with mods which have more phases, such as Delenda Est, so:

Empire 

Post-Empire

Post- means that all of the techs up to that point have been auto researched. Only exception is paired techs. In that case, resource and time costs are set to 0 and all the player has to do is click one out of the pair they want. 

Do, Post-Town would mean every tech in Village and Town are automatically researched for free. Make sense?