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That's correct. During my games there are some 15 turns where all cities lose their building menus. However, just before they reach that condition, I switch from settlers to wonders + caravans. My memory is a bit foggy at the moment, and I've probably written the real answer here before, but the...

Here is a discussion of formulas including overflow conditions: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=235082

How does this affect the replay? Will it just pick each civ once? If so, which time will be recorded for their defeat? The last one?

I always wondered why respawning wasn't 100% early game. I also wondered why it was only sometimes civs spawned after year 0. Good info.

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Firaxis.

Just for curiosity's sake, what would be the top challenge? The act of writing raw 8086 assembler? Fitting everything into 16-bit segments? Extending the game to EMS, XMS, or 286-style DPMI to provide more RAM for the AI? The near term result of your research seems to be to produce a fully...

AI diplomats teleport. Yes, the AI "cheats" in general by having a different set of rules compared to the player.

I think most people interested in the military aspect of this game already avoid strategies like reloading and settler manipulation. That still leaves Chariot rushing. I wouldn't blame players for thinking holding back on unit production because of top-level design issues goes one step too far...

The easiest way to lock other civs out of their huts is to force them to spawn on the EARTH super-continent and use the save-swapping trick to overrun them with a single militia before they have a chance to move more than 1 tile away from their home cities. Save-swapping is tedious, though, and...

I always wanted a level 62 oasis town. Can't beat having 54 phantom taxmen! 19,530,000 population.

I'd say knowing this algorithm is covered under popular demand as there are/were multiple luck manipulators around. Based on thousands (upon thousands) of trials, I knew that cities generated only when a certain distance away. I was not prepared to see two conditions for mercenaries based on...

This form of copy protection was common at the time. Civilization was unique (or close to it) in that the questions could be answered from knowledge of the game. Most of the time one had to dig out the manual and flip to page X and read word Y. Those could be memorized, too, since there were...

A possibly useful resource: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/JPC.html It's a re-recording emulator used to make tool-assisted speedruns. I've never used this particular emulator, but everything else they put out operates at the frame level or better. I start building a Trireme at...

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Regarding clearing variables, using the same game swap trick (i.e. exiting the game then moving 0-3 to 4-8 then reloading from there) does not seem to offer the standard variability. That is, when using this trick, the pool of potential outcomes seems significantly smaller.

Is the map overwriting bug the cause of "scorched earth"? That is, when reloading a game there are forts and pollution tiles all over the place. There's also the shifting of railways and cities: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=227534

Sweet. This will shave literally hours off of luck manipulation trials over the course of a game.

Congratulations! May your Future Tech be plentiful and lacking pollution bugs.

Which sound driver are you using? EDIT: Missed that you specified the custom option. So I assume "Sound Blaster" means "Sound Blaster 16" configured with the custom sound driver and not the original "Sound Blaster" option.