CivAssist II

[Bede]

Originally Posted by Macezek

It bothers me how the same software can install differently on so many peoples machines, even though they all run the same OS.

That's what keeps people like me in beer and skittles!

[Papafish34]

Ok so here is what FINALLY worked for me. If you go to the actual folder with the civassist.exe file in it and select the properties there (as opposed to the start menu) you can get the compatibility option to run the program in XP or as administrator...now I have a civassist window open From here I'll work out the saves issue. This seems obvious in hindsight but for others who may be having issues there is what worked for me.

[Fo0dman]

i dont know if this has been asked, but i have .net frame 2.0 the newest one, and it will not run, should i also install the one that is need for this one. even though it is a lower version.

[gmaharriet]

Originally Posted by Fo0dman

i dont know if this has been asked, but i have .net frame 2.0 the newest one, and it will not run, should i also install the one that is need for this one. even though it is a lower version.

Yes, you need the older one. Unlike most programs, the higher-numbered versions aren't just upgrades of the lower. They are independent of each other, and they can co-exist on the same machine.

[Fo0dman]

thanks for da answer

[TruePurple]

Civassist doesn't take into account accelerated production setting, which makes much of its information under such setting wrong.

If it can't be made to detect such a setting, would you please add a manual accelerated production setting/option so its information can be correct under that?

[UnnamedPlayer]

i get the .net security policy problem.
i went in and altered the security settings to allow CAII full access, but it still gets the same error. i get the same thing as listed in the link below.
what do i do?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpo...&postcount=611

[ALA Gator]

Is there a way to estimate the possibility of enemy civs cities flipping to you?

[Abegweit]

Annarres' flip calc can be used for this.

[Shomy SoulBurn]

Originally Posted by sirdanilot

I just downloaded this program. It does start up, but when I want to open a civ3 vanilla save file with it, it says 'Unknown Save File Version. Please ensure that your copy of Civ/PTW/C3C is updated to the latest version.'
Well, I used to have the initial version you get when you buy the disc, so I installed V2.29f. But still no luck. It does show the right version name when I start up my game, in the bottom left corner. But CivAssist won't work...

edit: Ah, now it works. I like the program, but there is one very minor problem. The button in the game that gives you access to CA II covers the first strategic resource in the strategic resource box of a city when viewing the city information screen. So now, when investigating a city with my embassy, I couldn't see how much oil the egyptians had...

If you want me to I could make a screenshot of that.

Same here,and no sign of an answer. I have conquests,net frame 1.1 and a patch v1.22full for it downloaded from http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/patches/ (the latest patch i presume),i cannot run anything in xp compatibility as i already have winxp and i receive the message 'Unknown Save File Version. Please ensure that your copy of Civ/PTW/C3C is updated to the latest version.'

Might be worth to mention that i have problems with this patch,the date is all messed up (instead of 400BC i get 'nov',or 'Veii founded nov' and so on),and the main page of conquests is messed up as well (instead of 'new game' it says 'play barricade' )..

[Onipsi]

How are the civ colours determined in CA2? I'm asking this because I've changed them in conquests.biq, and CA2 doesn't match the current colours for any civ. Perhaps there could be a feature for this (selecting the colour you want, or matching the .bi{c,x,q} colours, something like these) in the future? Thanks.

[gmaharriet]

Originally Posted by Shomy SoulBurn

Same here,and no sign of an answer. I have conquests,net frame 1.1 and a patch v1.22full for it downloaded from http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/patches/ (the latest patch i presume),i cannot run anything in xp compatibility as i already have winxp and i receive the message 'Unknown Save File Version. Please ensure that your copy of Civ/PTW/C3C is updated to the latest version.'

Might be worth to mention that i have problems with this patch,the date is all messed up (instead of 400BC i get 'nov',or 'Veii founded nov' and so on),and the main page of conquests is messed up as well (instead of 'new game' it says 'play barricade' )..

You didn't say, so I'll ask... Did you buy Conquests as the separate expansion pack disk, or did you get it as a part of Civ Complete? If you bought it as a separate disk, I have no idea what's causing the problem, but if it's as a part of Complete, I may have some ideas for you.

Complete comes with vanilla, PTW and Conquests all fully patched. If you try to install a patch over the already patched games, it can cause various problems with the game...strange messages, etc. If that's what happened, I can only suggest uninstalling everything and then doing a fresh install to get rid of the unneeded patch. Then be sure you have .net framework 1.1, and then install CA2.

Good luck!

[TruePurple]

I hope ainwood hasn't given up on his program.

I've been having another very serious problem with the program. Seems to suck memory or something. With it running at the same time as the game it doesn't take long for it to lock up, I think from lack of resources(I think memory) Maybe its just not meant to work on win98?

[sercer88]

At risk of being called a thread necromancer I have decided to ask this question.

Is there any way this utility can notice when an AI has gpt to trade? If not, then is there a way to make it do so? (by re-writing, or something?) If so, then I also hope Ainwood hasn't forgotten about this otherwise extremely useful utility!!

[Papafish34]

@ Truepurple, I had similar problems with larger than standard map sizes in win98...but it ran fine on standaed map sizes Pent3 500mHz running maybe 500 meg of RAM (unsure on that number)

@Sercer88 Look in the report tab it will alert you when the AI has a lot of gold to trade.

[sercer88]

Originally Posted by Papafish34

@Sercer88 Look in the report tab it will alert you when the AI has a lot of gold to trade.

I know that. But I'm talking about gold per turn.

[Aunguna]

When I try to run the program, it generates an error message:

Process id=0xd38 (3384), Thread id=c24 (3108).

I'm running on Vista, with .Net 1.1. Any suggestions?

Edit: I figured it out. I just needed to run the program as an administrator.

[ThinkTank]

Has everyone ever though of porting CivAssist 2 to the Mac? For example, by first translating it to Java?

[Abegweit]

Why would you want to translate it? .Net runs on the MAC. The only issue is that some calls are made directly to the Windows OS, which a translation wouldn't solve anyway.

[ThinkTank]

Originally Posted by Abegweit

Why would you want to translate it?

To make CivAssist 2 work on a Mac.

Originally Posted by Abegweit

.Net runs on the MAC.

I didn't know that.

Originally Posted by Abegweit

The only issue is that some calls are made directly to the Windows OS, which a translation wouldn't solve anyway.

And apparently, neither does the fact that .Net runs on the Mac. My line of thought was: (1) I know Java; (2) translating VB to Java will make it crystal clear what OS dependent calls there are; (3) make a configurable component that does the OS dependent calls.

Now the fact that .Net runs on the MAC appears to make the problem considerably easier; we only have to take care of (3). How difficult would that be?