10-06-2005 03:41									#1
	"Mafia - La Cosa Nostra" - RELEASED Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

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quote: MAFIA - La Cosa Nostra The mafia is a basic part of American life, deniance or not. Every generation has had its underworld kings. Unforgettable personalities that commit unspeakable crimes. We call them names like Al "Scarface" Capone, "Lucky" Luciano or "the Dapper Don". The mafia is a business. It turns over more money than America's ten largest industrial corporations. It saw its break through during the prohibition era and came out as the leading crime fraction in New York City. Most importantly, it won control over the Brooklyn docks during this time. After the prohibition, the NYC mafia was organized into five families - the Bonanno family, the Colombo Family, the Gambino family, the Genovese family, and the Lucchese family. The mafia expanded into different forms of crime, to prostitution, gambling and racketeering. Mafia power peaked in the United States in the mid 20th century, until a series of FBI investigations in the 1970s and 1980s somewhat curtailed the Mafia's influence. Despite the decline, the Mafia and its reputation have become entrenched in American popular culture, portrayed in movies, TV shows, and even product commercials. This is the story of the Italian mafia's rise and fall in New York City.

CIVILIZATIONS:
1. Bonanno Family
2. Colombo Family
3. Gambino Family
4. Genovese Family
5. Lucchese Family

6. New York City (AI)
7. NYPD (AI)

(8. Criminals – barbarian civ, consisting of various unorganized crime fractions)

PS: See to README before playing. Some ver significant pointers are given there.

DOWNLOAD:
Mafia Main Files

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Mafia Sounds

Enjoy!

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INFO:

MOBSPEAK:
Don't think that it is my English there's something wrong with when reading the pop up windows. I've done my best to translate all the text files to mobspeak, to add some flavour to the scen.


BE CAREFUL:
Be extremely careful with attacking police officers of any kind, as they will immediately call on the FBI for assistance. Also, killing civilians is not a very good idea. By killing other ethnic gangsters, you will only encourage them to rise up against you, so bear this in mind before playing. But then again, it's your job to keep unorganized bullies away from your neighborhoods to protect your interests and the people living there.


TERRAIN INFO:
Irrigation, Farmland and Mining have been renamed Bars, Restaurants and Hotels. It has most of the same effects as in vanilla civ, but do take a look at the terrain section in civilopedia for a more detailed description. All terrains have their own distinct feature.

Don't bother building roads, as the effect of roads have been disabled.

Also, the terrain transformation time has been drastically reduced, in order to encourage the players to go into the construction business, which has a history of mafia relation in NYC.

Here's what they transform to:

Non Habitated ---> Low Dense Res.
Low Dense Res. ---> Residential
Residential ---> Upper Class Res.
Upper Class Res ---> Commercial

Docks ---> Industrial
Commercial ---> Industrial
Industrial ---> Estates
Park ---> Estates
Estates ---> Commercial

So, don't hesitate to transform terrain. It will only take you 5 turns. Irrigation etc 4.


ADDITIONAL INFO:
Cars are in reality naval units and the roads are ocean with pollution as an overlaying terrain. Global warming has been removed from the scenario, and no roads lead into the Hudson river or any other NY water surrondings.

To keep up with the AI tech race you should prioritize trade.


MAFIA DICTIONARY:
If you come over a word in this scenario you don't understand, you can see to this dictionary for explanations.

* Buttlegging: bootlegging untaxed cigarettes.
* Borgata: an organized crime Family.
* Capo: the Family member who leads a crew; short for capodecina.
* Cazzis: see Stugots.
* Che bruta: How ugly you are.
* Goomah: slang for girlfriend or mistress. No self-respecting wiseguy is without one.
* Consigliere: a trusted Family advisor, who is always consulted before decisions are made. See Tom Hagen in The Godfather.
* Don: the head of the Family
* Facia bruta: ugly face, something you call someone you don't like.
* Fanook: a derogatory term for homsexual or gay, i.e., people that wiseguys feel nervous around. A "mezzofinook" is half gay, sissy, bi.
* Golden Age: The days before RICO.
* Jamook: idiot, loser, lamebrained, you know, a jamook.
* Made guy: an indoctrinated member of the Family. Essentially, you pledge your allegiance to the boss and the family for life. To even qualify, your mother has to be Italian.
* Madonn': Madonna, common expression meaning holy smoke, holy cow, holy ****.
* Mannagge: going to war with a rival clan or family.
* The Mob: a single organized crime family; OR all organized crime families together.
* Mortadella: derived from the Italian sausage, meaning a loser. As in "Guy's a ****in' mortadella."
* Mulignan (literal translation): eggplant. Another word for African-Americans. Also called "mooleys.
* Omertá: the much-vaunted Mafia vow of silence. In other words, don't rat on your friends. Transgression is punishable by death.
* Paying tribute: giving the boss a cut of the deal.
* Piacere: "Pleasure to meet you."
* Pump and dump: standard practice for unethical stockbrokers. First drive up the price of a small stock by "encouraging" investors to buy it ("pump") and then sell you own shares ("dump") for a tidy profit.
* Puttana: whore.
* Rat: one who snitches or squeals after having been pinched.
* Schifosa: ugly woman.
* Shakedown: to blackmail or try to get money from someone; also to give someone a scare.
* Shylock business: the business of loansharking.
* Soldier: the bottom-level member of an organized crime Family, as in "foot soldiers."
* Strunz: strunzo — piece of ****.
* Stugots: from stu cazzo or u' cazzu, the testicles.
* This thing of ours: a mob family, or the entire mob.
* Underboss: the second in command to the boss.
* Va fa napole: "Go to Naples" (i.e., "Go to hell.").
* Whack: to murder; also clip, hit, pop, burn, put a contract out.
* Wiseguy: a made guy.

	10-06-2005 03:42									#2
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Awesome, this one is going in the collection.

	10-06-2005 04:01									#3
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Looks very interesting.

I hope that is an old screen shot. Otherwise alumni of Columbia Univ may put out a contract on you.

	10-06-2005 09:54									#4
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Looks really great, DLing now.

Just a note: Grand Central station is right, but Central station should be Penn Station.

Also I'm guessing Bulls Ferry is the condo complex? I live in Bergen County and I don't remember a town named Bulls Ferry unless the mob knows something I don't

Wow, it really gets me everytime seeing those skyscrapers; it's really great how you figure out how to get them

	10-06-2005 10:59									#5
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quote: Originally posted by The ANZAC Wow, it really gets me everytime seeing those skyscrapers; it's really great how you figure out how to get them

Amen to that

	10-06-2005 15:07									#6
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Thanks everyone, hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

@AGRICOLA:
That is indeed and old screenshot, but according to one of my many source NYC maps (see attachment) the Colombian University is pretty accurately placed.

@The ANZAC:
The same goes here. According to another map (see attachment), Bulls Ferry is located just north of Guttenberg. Maps however, may be wrong, and if they are, I guess this is liveable bugs

About the Skyscrapers, smiley is the big brain behind it. I won't take credit for that at all. All I did was chose a simpler sollution than he suggested in game. But the initial idea was his and the drawing is his as well. Salute to smiley!

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	10-06-2005 16:27									#7
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Heck, I don't have a clue as to where Columbia University is located in NYC. However, I do know that it is called Columbia U, not Colombia U.

P.S. I understand that Colombia U is a small institution of higher learning, located somewhere in Cali, Colombia. It offers specialized education in heroin chemistry, drug running and money laundering.

	10-06-2005 17:07									#8
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Tony Soprano's daughter, Meadow, attends ColUmbia, so that would make sense

And yes, I misunderstood, I now see that it is a typo.

	11-06-2005 04:08									#9
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You are a god of scenario design, Eivind IV.

	11-06-2005 08:28									#10
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Overall this is a very good scenario. The first turn to forever since I got to see barbarian (Hoodlum gangsters) moves and attacks. The police went nuts going after the ethnic gangsters and lost a lot of officers during the first turn but managed to occupy several ethnic neighborhoods. The ethnic counterattack was fierce. One police station was actually overrun. The police really aren't a threat after loosing so many men on the first turn. I really hope the recoup their losses because now taking over a police station isn’t that hard.

The other crime families actually lost some territory because they left only a car guarding their bases. Why does the AI do this? Anyways this scenario is good but the main problem lies with the AI police and ethnic gangsters being way too aggressive and not defensive enough.

Edit: Oh and the Constable unit (Cop with a baton) is able to do drive by shootings. Doesn't seem right to me.

	11-06-2005 09:26									#11
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Columbia U is derisively called Harlem U by people in New Jersey. The other Ivy League college in the state of NY, Cornell U, is known as Suicide U due to a famous gorge where people jump into.

quote: Edit: Oh and the Constable unit (Cop with a baton) is able to do drive by shootings. Doesn't seem right to me.

Yup, this ain't LA.

	11-06-2005 10:23									#12
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There must be some way from preventing criminals from taking over police stations. I mean mobsters taking over a police station would've been insane and stupid for any time period.

Maybe you could add some police unit (Police garrison?) that has 0 move, 99 defense, and not buildabe for every station?

	11-06-2005 10:48									#13
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I'd make it hard but not impossible to take over a precinct, after all, there were some corrupt police also.

	11-06-2005 11:29									#14
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Eivind, you did it again, what a cool scenario.
I do have to keep the sound low at times, I have some sensitive ears around LOL.

	12-06-2005 04:13									#15
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I don't know if I'll get time to play this much, but this is the most innovative scenario I've seen all year. Well done.

	12-06-2005 10:02									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley I'd make it hard but not impossible to take over a precinct, after all, there were some corrupt police also.

Actually, now that I think about it taking over a police station isn't a bad idea after all. I pretend represents the loss of funds in the police department thus forcing them to shut down a station.

My only gripe is the AI is stupid enough to attack cops. All but my own family have declared war on the police and it looks like they are all slowly losing. It's easy to take advantage of other families in their weakened state after the police help you out. Perhaps if you prevented the families from declaring war on the police it might help.

	14-06-2005 03:00									#17
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I’ve play tested the scenario some more and noticed some severe AI stupidity.

After playing two games the AI for the 5 families tend to lose their main neighborhoods because they leave only cars or other weak units as guards and send out all of their good units in attack runs. A solution to this would be to give more bodyguards and other defensive units for the 5 families, thus allowing them to retain their neighborhoods.

Around turn two and three almost all families declare war on the police leading to bloody confrontations between the five families and various cops. As fun as this may be, the penalties associated with killing an officer and the fact they outnumber everybody really weakens the 5 families by the 40’s. Every turn there treasury is at $0 and they are unable to build units fast enough to counter the police. If the human player avoids war the police he/she can easily take advantage of most families with little trouble. A solution to this would be to make several scenarios. Depending on who the player wants the play each scenario will be tinkered so that the AI families are unable to declare war on the police.

The police have some very odd habits concerning the FBI units. I spied one of their precincts and noticed 80 FBI agents stacked up and fortified. Same with the headquarters in Manhattan, a whole lot of armored FBI cars stacked up.

	14-06-2005 03:41									#18
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Bollocks! I friggin hate the mother ****ing stupid civ2 AI!

Sorry, got a little carried away there

	14-06-2005 03:48									#19
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I know how you feel.

I spent many hours on my Homeworld scenario even going so far as to replace background window images for pop ups and advisor screens. As much as I've worked with the scenario I can't get the AI fight competently and follow the story line.

	14-06-2005 22:46									#20
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Sorry to keep bugging you Eivind but I just love this scenario and keep finding ways in which it might (or might not) be improved.

As you know, after several turns the police tend to war with the 5 families and take control of a lot if neighborhoods which makes it no fun since attacking the police is a big no, no.

But I have a radical solution for this.

What if you made the police into air units? One police unit could be a ground unit with high defense and 0 movement in order to protect the police stations while the rest of the police could be air units and the police cars could be aircraft carriers. This way you ensure that the police cannot take any neighborhoods and destroy the 5 families (since air units cannot occupy cities), but they are still given the ability to fight criminal units. That way you keep the police from expanding but they keep their role at the status quo.

Just a thought.

	15-06-2005 00:12									#21
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That is a brilliant idea, Riesstiu IV! I'll give it a try and come back.

	16-06-2005 04:56									#22
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sweet. Elvind IV, I also like this scenario very much, and am following it's continued development! Good luck.

	16-06-2005 05:09									#23
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If you go with this idea for the cops, of course your will need to do something with 'SAM missle defense' analogous to 'civilians'. Maybe cops face a 'Warrant Request'.

A small recomendation since you're tweaking still; moltov cocktails shouldn't avoid killing citizens (it could still take out cars with a lower attack value and would be effective against city's with a lower attack value plus the ign walls flag). :thumbsup:

	01-07-2005 02:52									#24
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Sorry for taking so long, been really busy with summer vacation and everything.

Anyway, here's a little text patch to test the new police air unit try. Report back how it goes.

Cheers!

Last edited by Eivind IV on 11-07-2005 at 15:55

	09-07-2005 10:43									#25
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Hey nice to see you didn't give up. Sorry I haven't checked it out but earlier but I've been busy with work. I gotta help pay for university living expenses you know and sometimes that means overtime. Anyways now that it's the weekend I have a chance to look over your changes. I'm going to play 2 games before I get back to you sometime tomorrow.

I noticed there haven't been any downloads for modification yet. Come on guys give it a try! Eivind IV worked hard on this scenario.

	11-07-2005 08:11									#26
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Elvind, Cops load all units into cars and leave cities abandoned in the 2nd turn. Strategically poor move on their part to say the least. All cop stations should have at least one, strong defense/ move zero unit as a permanent defender i think.

Also, since the cops didn't last long enough for me to see their units in action, I'm not sure that their setting to 'air superiority' is going to do the trick; will setting them to 'attack', 'domain air' get them attacking ground units? like i said though, didn't get to see them in action, or at war.

Other mods are great! I like 'unrefusable offer' as a trade commodity. I think the air solution is going to work well, it's almost there!

Good Luck, looking fwd to future!

	11-07-2005 16:00									#27
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Allright gentlemen! Thanks for the feedback! Here's a little patch that upgrades the scenario to version 1.3.

* All cops now homed to NONE, effectively making them survice a police station take over.
* All cop "land" units are now air units with attack role.
* Some text changes here and there

Enjoy!

Attachment: mafia-v1.3-patch.zip
This has been downloaded 4 time(s).

	12-07-2005 06:17									#28
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Question, by "Central Station" did you mean Pennsylvania Station?