Pollution bug

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EarthGuy

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Ever when my civilization is big enough, (50 milion, 1850+) polution creeps up all over the place. This occurs without having any smokestacks. Sometimes getting 5 polluted squares at a time in random places.

Has anyone had the same thing?
 
Try the search function of the forum.
In the past there have been discussions on this so you should be able to find how people dealt with it. No solution for the bug though, it's a bug and Microprose isn't going to fix it anymore...
 
Sorry to say, everything I tried, this bug just keeps comming up. I have done everything, the 03 update, the 05 update, selling all of my factories, every city had reycycling and mass transit, you name it. Every game that I start has this problem. At some time between 1860-1910, I get al lot of polution. And I've had it. I playes my last civ1 game and I'm thinking about civ3.

Signing off.
 
pollution 's caused by the amounts of shields you produce, I always check if I produce pollution in Demographics.
 
Hmm... yeah you can do that. I am never troubled by pollution from shields. Just from nukes..
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HAHAHA.
 
Once the storm of pollution starts, every city has about a 50% chance of polluting regardless of smokestacks. Mass transit, recycling, selling mfg plants will not stop it.

I use the fast settler trick and the reload/move forever trick to treat the problem and keep playing.
 
The pollution bug happens when you develope future tech 60-70.
I assume it is FT64 that causes the bug. It is because technologies are represented as a binary string and probably 8 bytes are reservec for FTs. when you develop FT 65 it flips a bit at a memory location reserved for something else probably counting pollution.
there is no way stopping runaway pollution. it grows exponentially and will cover everything in a few turns.
the real cause of the bug was discovered by my friend a hardcore CIV1 fanatic spending months to find out the reason. his name is Ferenc Benko and he is a lawyer :)))
 
let me ask WHY THE HECK would you develop future tech 60-70? they don't do anything!! better put all the research on tax and luxuries when you get to future technology 1!

and by the way, i've never had this "pollution bug". i just made sure that i didn't produce an overwhelming amount of shields so everything will be polluted!!

MORE SHIELDS = POLLUTION

LESS SHIELDS = NO POLLUTION

works for me.
 
Mongols_rule said:
let me ask WHY THE HECK would you develop future tech 60-70? they don't do anything!
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wrong.
every new tech. rises civ. score.
 
Yeah, and they are the easiest way to do so once you are near the end of the game. When the asteroid inevitably hits in 5000 AD your game is automatically over, so you should develop as much as you can before thatn
 
What asteroid ??? Was that a joke? Or does the game actually end 5000 AD in any case?
 
That's what I love about Sid... it is very unlikely anybody would play till 5000 but he put an astroid there just in case. Sid rules.
 
Sorry. I have that effect on people ;)
 
I have played one game well past 10,000 AD. I conquered all but one enemy city, and built up every square. This was about five years ago, but I remember it well. I even built on the ice caps (earth map). It got boring after a while, but it was damn cool!
 
Hmm, from what I've heard over the years the 'astriod' doesn't exist. *sigh*
 
Nope, no asteriod. I had thought something would happen in the year 9999 like the game would freeze but it just kept on going. By this time, I had improved all the terrain and was just pressing the Enter key.
 
So when it hit 9999 it just slipped over to 10000?
 
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