Bugfix Civilopedia

[BlackAdder60]

Whenever you play Civilization 2 and and call up the terrain type menue in Civilopedia, you will notice that the figures for the various terrain types are wrong and even weird.

I have found the reason why!!

(My humble appologies if someone else have discovered this before me, I am not trying to steal credit. I discovered this accidentally today, and rushed to help fellow Civers to help make a Great game even Better).

It would seem as if the ' ' (<SPACE>) character is a parsing symbol for 'GET_INFO.EXE', the Civilopedia reader.

TO FIX:
You must edit the 'RULES.TXT' (in the games root directory) file like so:

1) Open the file 'RULES.TXT' with a text editor.

2) Search the file for the line that starts with '@TERRAIN' .
Beneath it are the data for various terrain types.

3) On each *LINE* insert a <SPACE> between each comma and the
following digit so that X,X becomes X, X (NOTE space)

* EXAMPLE: *

Hills, 2,4, 1,0,0, yes, 1,10, 0, yes, 3,10, 1, Pln, ; Hil

* BECOMES *

Hills, 2, 4, 1, 0, 0, yes, 1, 10, 0, yes, 3, 10, 1, Pln, ; Hil


If there are other bugs in Civilopedia dispaly maybe they too can be fixed like so.

Sincerely hope that *somebody* out there have use of my discovery.

Greets
BlackAdder60

 

[Mercator]

I got rid of the Civilopedia ages ago, but that's excellent! I'm tempted to re-install it just to see the result.

 

[x22]

thank you, I will try it.
cruise missile civilopedia is incorrect too, uses data of transport.

Some other facts about get_info.exe:
- it is quite large
- it uses C:\windows\a3wdata directory for temporary files
which causes crash when you don't have write
access for this directory (on XP/2000/NT).
- this crash prevents civ2.exe from exiting normally.
- if civ2.exe cannot write to <civ>\pedia\get_info.txt
(access rights), get_info.exe is not used, you get plaintext
version of civilopedia (there are other ways to do it)
- it seems that it's not microprose program