Coding buildings

[dvk901]

Is there anyone who has the know-how to code buildings into RTW, get them into EDB.txt, export_buildings, make some temporary building cards for them, and in general help me out with some of these new buildings?
I am having some serious 'Carpal Tunnel' issues that I am working thru, but anything that someone else could do would really help cut some of the constant workload I have.

We're going to have around seven buildings that Gotthard is working on, Medical buildings, and there will probably be others. Also, I really need someone to plug in all the Temple descriptions as well.
I'm sorry to ask this, but the amount of time I can spend on writing this stuff has been cut down because I just get to the point where I can't take tha pain anymore....and the list of things to work on just seems to be endless. If others could work on these things and pass them on to me then I could focus on getting Custom Battle tiles working....which is another whole 'project'.

Anyway, if there isn't anyone, I'll manage.

[Calvin]

Could we get someone like Wundai on the team?

[apple]

I could ask him, I work with him on Age of Darkness 2.

[Squid]

I can code buildings, what exactly is needed?

[dvk901]

I'm just thinking ahead right now. I just know there is going to be a bunch of them.

[dvk901]

Squid, I'd like to have this added, from post #4 here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228456

First Aid Centers
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The earliest developments in medical care and technology occurred for three reasons. First, better roads and governmental organization resulted in improved communication between far reaching settlements, allowing knowledge of skilled healers to spread throughout the province. Additionally, more efficient forms of food production left more people to specialize in service-based tasks such as medical workers. These specialisations in skill were vital if area were to have the experts needed to stop disease and treat ailments that affected the local populace. Finally, living in closer proximity meant disease spread more easily, and there were additional injuries from farming and construction accidents. At first aid centre was present a famous healer, wise woman, or someone who had medical expertise. It is where the sick and injured are brought to receive rudimentary medical attention, the best that can possibly be offered at the time with the knowledge and skills available. These places did not have the facilities to provide specialized or long-term care, just for emergencies and simple fixes so people with more serious injuries would often suffer and lack effective treatment.

Street Clinics
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In the first century A.D., Pliny wrote, "The Roman people for more than six hundred years were not without medical art but were without physicians." As populations expanded, this began to change dramatically.

As settlements continued to expand, so did the demand for dedicated medical practitioners to serve the population. The knowledge of procedures and technology began to spread, and some members of the population could make their living providing medical care to the town. This care would have included prenatal care for pregnant women, as well as providing a midwife for the birth, assisting the injured with additional short checkups and physical therapy, and providing folk cures for small inconveniences like nausea, headaches, and cramps were all jobs and enterprising entrepreneur could make a living by providing.

Excavations at Pompeii revealed that a physician’s house might have been more than just a place where he lived. They were structured much like today’s modern nursing home in order to provide care and relief to ordinary people coming in from the streets. All around the continent, at this time, doctors began to develop medicines from older teachings, founded mainly on Greek documents.
As in most areas of life, the wealthier members of society could afford the best care and comforts. They usually had personal doctors whose experience had proved their quality. The Emperors had doctors and several times they proved useful., Augustus' doctor saved him early in his life affecting the whole of Roman history

A poem written by Mæcenas, the friend and counsellor of Augustus, but it serves to reveal some of the most dreaded maladies of the time: -
"Though racked with gout in hand and foot,
Though cancer deep should strike its root,
Though palsy shake my feeble thighs,
Though hideous lump on shoulder rise,
From flaccid gum teeth drop away;
Yet all is well if life but stay."

Hospitals
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Experience began to show doctors that some procedures and remedies were more effective than others, and standardized practices began being taught in academies and schools. At the same time, burgeoning cities needed expanded coverage to deal with the additional problems large urban areas created, like water-borne disease, injuries from criminal/police activities, and even caring for orphans. More bed space was needed, and additional staff would be hired and trained to deal with the ever-increasing population base. These hospitals would have been able to provide long-term health care for the elderly and terminally ill (at great expense) and had facilities to mitigate the worst effects of outbreaks of cholera, dysentery, and other easily transmitted diseases.

Hospitals were originally built for the military. Under Gaius Marius, the Roman Army became the world's best trained and disciplined force, and some of this rubbed off onto the Medics too. The influence of superstitious quakery lessened and Roman Medicine took on a more practical approach. It was still a trial and error process, but the Medics were more observant and carefully noted down any treatment that worked and this knowledge was passed on and could be successfully utilized by the next doctor.

The fifteen-year civil war that directly following the assassination of Julius Caesar led to significant medical innovations which were necessary to save the lives of the troops and maintain army strength. The war was fought between the best armies of the world and yielded such high levels of injury that the newly emerged emperor, Augustus, formed a professional military medical corps. Before this, doctors had fairly low status. August, realizing that they were key in an empire and especially an army, gave all physicians that joined his new army medical corps dignified titles, land grants, and special retirement benefits encouraging more people to sign up to join the service.

For the next five hundred years, fuelled by the motivations and opportunity for medical advancement supplied by the many battles, and supported by the powers that be, this serious group advanced the study and practice of medicine to a level not seen again until late in the nineteenth century.

Medical Complex
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The height of medical technology in ancient times mirrored the development patterns we have seen over 2,200 years later, in three main ways. Procedures became better standardized, more effective, and cheaper, which increased medical access to encompass most socio-economic classes. Large medical complexes were built that included small centres for researching new methods to treat disease and injury, and to train medical staff in the treatments that proved effective.

Secondly, providing non-essential services to the upper classes began to take on larger importance. Small cosmetic facial surgery, special lotions and creams to enhance perceived youth and other choices easily recognizable today were offered to help the old look young, and the young stay young. This was a great source of revenue for large hospitals, and had the effect of greatly stimulating research.

Finally, standardized practices allowed the training of battlefield surgeons who could do emergency wok on soldiers to stabilize their condition, and allow them to be transferred to facilities where better treatment was available. The tools developed by the ancient Romans would used without fear by any modern doctor. For example, the ‘hemostat’, a tool out of a Roman era battle surgery kit, is used to stem the flow of blood from open arteries and veins. This is an exact clone of the tool doctors’ use in hospitals everyday, for the same purpose, over two millennia later.

By the late empire the state had taken more of a hand in regulating medicine. The law codes of the 4th century CE, such as the Codex Theodosianus show a picture of a medical system enforced by the laws and the state apparatus. At the top was the equivalent of a surgeon general of the empire. He was by law a noble and held the title of comes archiatorum or “count of the chief healers.” Under them were a number of officials called the archiatri, or more popularly the protomedici, supra medicos, domini medicorum or superpositi medicorum. They were paid by the state. It was their function to supervise all the medici in their districts; i.e., they were the chief medical examiners. Their families were exempt from taxes. They could not be prosecuted nor could troops be quartered in their homes. The archiatri were divided into two groups: the Archiatri sancti palatii, who were palace physicians and the Archiatri populares. They were required to provide for the poor; presumably, the more prosperous still provided for themselves.

Possible name variations:
·Aesculapium: hospital
·pharmacopolae: first aid center
·officina medica: street clinic

Along with some 'other culture' versions which maybe Marcus or The Sloth can come up with.

And, 'New barbarian feasts' from post #2 by The Sloth

I'm going to wait on the rest until I get the stuff from Gotthard because I'm not certain about how much room there will be.

[The Sloth]

I think I can come up with three levels for barbarian and nomadic medical buildings, but the descriptions aren't yet done:
- sweathouse
- healer's hut/tent
- grove of healing

I also have descriptions for a valetudinarium (roman hospital) and asklepieion (greek hospital). Both descriptions are in the buildings thread.

The things I'm worried about is that the medical descriptions focus exclusively on romans. It will be wierd to have an eastern medical building talk about Augustus and Marius. Also, I'm unsure about the last level, since it's apparently designed to represent medical care in the late roman empire (codex theodosianus), and is way outside our timeframe.

As for the feasts, I'd suggest to wait with these and first get Gotthard's resource buildings working, if he has finalised any of them. They're the main economic feature in RS2, and we haven't got too many building lines left.

[dvk901]

We have 13 left.