hi all,
I like the Earth1000AD scenario that comes with civ IV, however I want to play it without the 300 turn time limit and play it as just a conquest victory. Is there an easy way to do this? thanks in advance.

Yes, it is pretty easy.

First, find and open Earth1000AD.Civ4WorldBuilderSave.
It's in your Civ IV\PublicMaps folder.

Open this file in WordPad
You'll see this section:

BeginGame
Speed=GAMESPEED_NORMAL
Calendar=CALENDAR_DEFAULT
ForceControl=FORCECONTROL_SPEED
GameTurn=160
StartYear=-4000
Description=TXT_KEY_MAP_DESC_EARTH1000AD
EndGame


To make the game longer, add a line "MaxTurns=xxxx" where xxxx is the amount of turns you think you need. You can also change GAMESPEED_NORMAL in an other speed like GAMESPEED_EPIC if you want.

For conquest victory only, add Victory=VICTORY_CONQUEST

you will get a file (section) that looks like this:

BeginGame
Speed=GAMESPEED_EPIC
Calendar=CALENDAR_DEFAULT
ForceControl=FORCECONTROL_SPEED
GameTurn=160
StartYear=-4000
MaxTurns=800
Victory=VICTORY_CONQUEST
Description=TXT_KEY_MAP_DESC_EARTH1000AD
EndGame

Cool that worked, thanks alot! :)