Where might the test file for years be kept. For instance if I wanted to make it so the game went 1190 BAM- 5810 AM instead of 4000 BCE - 2050 CE, how would this be accomplished?

Thank you for any help.

-Sharule

First of all, what the heck is BAM and AM?

Try looking at \Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\Python\System\calendar.pyc

I couldn't figure out how to open it since it's a compiled python file.

In the XML\GlobalDefines.xml file, there is a line that declares the starting date.

In the XML\GameInfo\Civ4GameSpeedInfo file, you can alter the interval in years of each turn. Each GameSpeed likewise has different time intervals.

In the XML\Text\Civ4GameTextInfos file AD and BC are defined as string values, you can input "BAM" or "AM" or "ASAP" or whatever. Each of the two time periods also has a string value that is displayed for savegames.