8 Civs?

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Unfortunately, I do not think that this is possible. HOWEVER: in one of the graphics support files with civ 2, 9 different colored shields/flags are displayed. The two extra, are barbarian red, and brown. I'm wondering if it is at all possible to program the brown flag into the game. I've tried a couple of things, and will be pursuing it further. Comments?

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[MadMelkor]

Hippo i cn't help you on the programming part, but yes it would be great to play 8 civs !!!


if you do it !?!

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Yeah, it would be cool. But I'm probably just excited and overly-optimistic because I saw that extra color just waiting to be used.

I've now added 3 extra tribes to push the total to twenty four. Wearing the Brown flag are the: Candadians, Huns, and the Inuit. I've set their personalities, and all that stuff, so more updates soon

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[shadowdale]

Hmm - I would like to get to play the Danes, but the Red color is taken by the bloody Barbarians - how can I make them another color???

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[CornMaster]

You can just go in to the .gif (icons.gif I think) and change the colors. I changed the barb. to Red with a skull and cross. It's too small to get great detail though.

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[CornMaster]

Oh forgot to say that 8 playable Civs is impossible. I've seen people try that for months.....the closest they came was hex editing the save game file so that you could play as the barbs. If you gave the barbs a bunch of settlers and techs and put them in a scenario, you may be able to make the barbs. playable (as the 8th civ) but playing as Barbs. produces some odd graphics on the screen as well as Barb units SUCK!!! I take a Elephant and attach a warrior and I'm slaughtered!!! Anywho....

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[This message has been edited by CornMaster (edited February 20, 2001).]

 

[MadMelkor]

He hippo i am very curious about the personalitie of the canadians ?!?!

share it .

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Yeah, i think CornMaster's right. I can't get anywhere with the extra colour. As for the 'knucks, we're Rational, Civilized, Perfectionists.

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[MadMelkor]

Well i think you hit the nail on the head (dutch expresion) about the canadians !!!

LOL

 

[MrLeN]

I think that it has less to do with colors and more to do with the fact that everything on a computer runs in sets of 8.

eg (2,4),8,16,32,64,128 etc etc.

This is true for ram, colors and many other things. I am not an expert so I cant say what else it is from the top of my head. But this is what I have noticed.

My point is that I believe that there can be 8 civs 100%!

I also think that civ III will have either 7 and a barb race, or a combination of civs and barbarians up to the number of 16, and I don't think that color has anything to do with it at all.

I also think that in future we will see 32 civs, and possibly 128. I don't think there is need for more than 128.

MrLeN

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[vladmir_illych_lenin]

Barbarians count as the eighth civ. There's always a barbarian on the map, except in the beginning. When I kill a group of barbarians, some more emerges somewhere else.

 

[Jarred]

The 8th Civilization, the Arabs or the Incas, were removed from the game, sadly. In an email I received a while ago from Microprose included the statement

"The brownflags are no longer playable"

Meaning:

They were NOT the barbarians.

By the way, if you include "2 Civilizations" under the amount of Civilizations in the Game.txt file, you can actually select it as a playable option, as opposed to "8 Civilizations"...This is because this option makes logical sense in the programming, and probably once was an option that was removed.

 

[Jarred]

8 Civilizations should be possible, but tricky. You have to make the programming accept 8 different tribes. Then you must name it and then have it identified in rules.txt, and set its possible starting techs. This could be done through differentiation, but it should be incredibly tough without decompiling the programming (Which is readable; Because Assembler loses names, it becomes unrocognizable, but you'd get a bunch of no name variables in C++, which is the language it was programmed in (Microsoft Virtual C++)

 

[HIEROPHANT]

Originally posted by CornMaster:
Oh forgot to say that 8 playable Civs is impossible. I've seen people try that for months.....the closest they came was hex editing the save game file so that you could play as the barbs. If you gave the barbs a bunch of settlers and techs and put them in a scenario, you may be able to make the barbs. playable (as the 8th civ) but playing as Barbs. produces some odd graphics on the screen as well as Barb units SUCK!!! I take a Elephant and attach a warrior and I'm slaughtered!!! Anywho....

if my theory is correct if you could be the barbarian country they probably could not have wonders.

 

[Jarred]

Why not? Barbarians never change what their group units are unlessed forced...

 

[SunTzu]

There can always be 8+ civs they creators just have to want to make em.
When i used to play Age of Empires series all of my friends in my gaming clan made alot of mod-packs like creating a new color making BLACK a color to use.
It's possible

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[Jarred]

It is possible-but tricky.

 

[Cedric Greene]

Originally posted by MrLeN:
I think that it has less to do with colors and more to do with the fact that everything on a computer runs in sets of 8.

eg (2,4),8,16,32,64,128 etc etc.

This is based on programming in Bytes. One byte is 8 bits in size. You cannot make it larger than 256 (0-255) (This is why you can't have more than 255 cities because then the next city would equal 0 and why that the resource seeds in the map editor run from 0-255 and then repeat.) unless you use something else such as integer value. Bytes are used because they are smaller in size for programming and therefore run faster.

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