This Civ2 executive file for version 5.4.0f MGE has been modified by adding additional code. What features have been added:
1. Applied NOCD patch and Civ2x64EditboxPatcher patch to fix crashes on 64-bit systems
2. This executive file contains the ability to listen to tracks from the MUSIC folder. Playable format WAV 44100/22050khz 8/16bit stereo/mono. Tracks are checked for a name in the form TRACK**, so it is advisable to start the initial track with 01 with the possibility of increasing to 99 pieces. Sound playback uses the standard game procedure sndPlaySoundA in asynchronous mode. A new track is played when the previous one ends, provided that a new player turn begins or any left mouse click on the map occurs. To play music, additional RAM is required in the size of the WAV file being played. The number of played tracks is specified in the rules.txt file using the @Cosmic parameter. There are currently 18 tracks in the archive
3. The font used by the game has been replaced with a thin, condensed Arial, the names of cities and some other game elements remain the same as Times. If the system does not have a Arial Narrow font, the game will use the Times font
4. The number of autosaves has been increased from two to five (**_auto, **_auto0, **_auto1, **_auto2, **_auto3)
5. Fixed a bug when deleting water units in one cell (previously, disbanding a water unit in a cell in which another water unit was present led to the removal of both)
6. Unlocked the ability to set the parameter value in the rules.txt file "Tech paradigm (higher # slows research)" above 10. Expanded the ability to set pays support values for different types of governments from 8 to 100
7. Added variable initialization that corrects constantly bad relations with AI (taken from FoxAHead)
8. The limit of text lines in the LABEL.txt file has been expanded to 900 lines
9. Now, when a unit of another race enters the city zone of another player with whom there is a peaceful or allied relationship, the worker processing that cell in the city will not be reset
10.Speed up the movement of units when the option is inactive "Fast piece slide"
11.Now the player will be able to see all units of other players in the stack if they are in sight, except for units in the city
12.In single-player games, it is now possible to change the government type of AI players through the cheat-editor
13.Fixed the removal of several air units located in the fortress when they are attacked by another air unit. Now, when one unit is defeated, all others will also be deleted
14.Added the ability to edit the terrain cell under the city
15.An air base located inside a city area will no longer provide maximum resources to the city. The city will receive only the basic resources of the cell with the airbase. The road will still provide commerce
16.Added the ability to lay out riverbeds and install cities through the cheat-editor SHIFT-F8 (to install a city, there must be any unit in the cell to determine the identity of the new city)
17.Two resources have been unlocked in the grassland, named Village and Settlement. You can set resources in the rules.txt file. Corrected pictures in the TERRAIN1.GIF file. Corrected the Civilopedia help to account for these resources correctly. Added the ability to display new resources using the map editor Civ2Map.exe
18.The defensive bonus that terrain gives to units has been fixed. Flying units will no longer receive the terrain bonus. For water and flying units it will be equal to the base value of 2 (100%). The river gives ground units an additional bonus of +50%
19.The defense bonus and movement bonus on resource tiles are now taken into account regardless of the base terrain in the Rules.txt file
20.Now, when you click on a cell that is not open by the player, if there is a unit or city of another player there, the map will still be centered. In open map mode, double-clicking on any open cell that was previously not visible will bring up the terrain information panel. In normal map mode, if a city or a troop stands on a previously opened area of the map, but they are not visible to the player, double-clicking on the cell will bring up the landscape information panel
21.The mechanism for moving units using the GOTO command has been fixed at the gluing point where the X coordinate changes to 0 in a round world. Now units will not move in the opposite direction
22.Added the ability to build a Harbor and an Oil Platform for cities if the city has access to at least one water cell in the coverage area. If there is not a single suitable area for the Super Highway in the city's coverage area (desert, plain, grassland), it will not be possible to build it
23.The check for AI capitalization by players has been changed; if there are few units left in the city, the capitalization mode will be reset
24.Fixed the display of the text string in windows called from the 'Advisers' menu (F1-F6, CTRL-D). The word Republic will no longer be displayed when using the Democracy government system
25.In the rules.txt file, a parameter has been added to the @Cosmic category that allows you to set the possibility of technology theft by spies when capturing cities or when interacting with them. If prohibited, instead of stealing technology, spies and diplomats of other states will inspect the city during peaceful relations and possibly sabotage during hostile ones
26.The music will stop when the diplomacy screen opens, when the window for calling council consuls opens, when the game is exited from the menu and when a video about a completed great project starts playing. Added an additional trigger for calling a new music when pressing any unit order button or just an action. Since the musical procedure used in the game cannot load each new track after the completion of the previous one, triggers for calling a new track upon completion of the previous one have been added (clicking the left mouse button on the map, pressing any order or action button, as well as at the beginning of a new player turn)
27.Added when you click on the button located near the zoom buttons (top left) of the map, random change of music track
28.The resource value of grassland has been changed, now by default it does not provide production in @TERRAIN, however, if there is a mark in the form of a shield on grasslands, the cell will receive an additional one production. If the shield coincides with a resource on a grassland tile (Village or Settlement) it will give them one more production, if not, then the production will be the base one, which is indicated for the Village and Settlement in @TERRAIN rules.txt. As a result, the innovation will be noticeable only on the resource cell of the grassland
29.The diplomatic background has been corrected when there is contact with another race that has a government type of communism or anarchy (file mk.dll)
30.Added alternative terrain and units to the ALT folder, as well as an option using portraits of leaders Stalin and Hitler when playing for the USSR or Germany (may be useful in World War II scenarios). These options are optional, if you want to use them, copy the contents of the folders to the game folder or ignore it
31.Added a message about the completion of construction of any city unit, not just non-military units. Depends on the active option "Show completion of construction of all units"
32.The number of displayed units in city support has been increased from 8 to 18 units (three rows of 6 units each). The number of selectable units from one cell has been increased from 9 to 18 units
33.The maximum size of a city in which all specialists can be managed manually has been increased from 36 to 52. At the same time, the 37th specialist will work together with 21, the 38th - in tandem with 22, etc. This had to be done due to limited address space
34.A variable has been added to the rules.txt file, which allows you to set a limit after which global warming will begin or disable it completely
35.Added a variable to the rules.txt file that allows or prohibits you from building nukes in cities
36.Added the ability to set the minimum distance between an existing and a new city in the form of specifying variables in the rules.txt file of the @Cosmic parameter v10
This Civ2.exe file is compatible with CivUIA patch
Installation
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update 22/04/24 ver12
1. Applied NOCD patch and Civ2x64EditboxPatcher patch to fix crashes on 64-bit systems
2. This executive file contains the ability to listen to tracks from the MUSIC folder. Playable format WAV 44100/22050khz 8/16bit stereo/mono. Tracks are checked for a name in the form TRACK**, so it is advisable to start the initial track with 01 with the possibility of increasing to 99 pieces. Sound playback uses the standard game procedure sndPlaySoundA in asynchronous mode. A new track is played when the previous one ends, provided that a new player turn begins or any left mouse click on the map occurs. To play music, additional RAM is required in the size of the WAV file being played. The number of played tracks is specified in the rules.txt file using the @Cosmic parameter. There are currently 18 tracks in the archive
3. The font used by the game has been replaced with a thin, condensed Arial, the names of cities and some other game elements remain the same as Times. If the system does not have a Arial Narrow font, the game will use the Times font
4. The number of autosaves has been increased from two to five (**_auto, **_auto0, **_auto1, **_auto2, **_auto3)
5. Fixed a bug when deleting water units in one cell (previously, disbanding a water unit in a cell in which another water unit was present led to the removal of both)
6. Unlocked the ability to set the parameter value in the rules.txt file "Tech paradigm (higher # slows research)" above 10. Expanded the ability to set pays support values for different types of governments from 8 to 100
7. Added variable initialization that corrects constantly bad relations with AI (taken from FoxAHead)
8. The limit of text lines in the LABEL.txt file has been expanded to 900 lines
9. Now, when a unit of another race enters the city zone of another player with whom there is a peaceful or allied relationship, the worker processing that cell in the city will not be reset
10.Speed up the movement of units when the option is inactive "Fast piece slide"
11.Now the player will be able to see all units of other players in the stack if they are in sight, except for units in the city
12.In single-player games, it is now possible to change the government type of AI players through the cheat-editor
13.Fixed the removal of several air units located in the fortress when they are attacked by another air unit. Now, when one unit is defeated, all others will also be deleted
14.Added the ability to edit the terrain cell under the city
15.An air base located inside a city area will no longer provide maximum resources to the city. The city will receive only the basic resources of the cell with the airbase. The road will still provide commerce
16.Added the ability to lay out riverbeds and install cities through the cheat-editor SHIFT-F8 (to install a city, there must be any unit in the cell to determine the identity of the new city)
17.Two resources have been unlocked in the grassland, named Village and Settlement. You can set resources in the rules.txt file. Corrected pictures in the TERRAIN1.GIF file. Corrected the Civilopedia help to account for these resources correctly. Added the ability to display new resources using the map editor Civ2Map.exe
18.The defensive bonus that terrain gives to units has been fixed. Flying units will no longer receive the terrain bonus. For water and flying units it will be equal to the base value of 2 (100%). The river gives ground units an additional bonus of +50%
19.The defense bonus and movement bonus on resource tiles are now taken into account regardless of the base terrain in the Rules.txt file
20.Now, when you click on a cell that is not open by the player, if there is a unit or city of another player there, the map will still be centered. In open map mode, double-clicking on any open cell that was previously not visible will bring up the terrain information panel. In normal map mode, if a city or a troop stands on a previously opened area of the map, but they are not visible to the player, double-clicking on the cell will bring up the landscape information panel
21.The mechanism for moving units using the GOTO command has been fixed at the gluing point where the X coordinate changes to 0 in a round world. Now units will not move in the opposite direction
22.Added the ability to build a Harbor and an Oil Platform for cities if the city has access to at least one water cell in the coverage area. If there is not a single suitable area for the Super Highway in the city's coverage area (desert, plain, grassland), it will not be possible to build it
23.The check for AI capitalization by players has been changed; if there are few units left in the city, the capitalization mode will be reset
24.Fixed the display of the text string in windows called from the 'Advisers' menu (F1-F6, CTRL-D). The word Republic will no longer be displayed when using the Democracy government system
25.In the rules.txt file, a parameter has been added to the @Cosmic category that allows you to set the possibility of technology theft by spies when capturing cities or when interacting with them. If prohibited, instead of stealing technology, spies and diplomats of other states will inspect the city during peaceful relations and possibly sabotage during hostile ones
26.The music will stop when the diplomacy screen opens, when the window for calling council consuls opens, when the game is exited from the menu and when a video about a completed great project starts playing. Added an additional trigger for calling a new music when pressing any unit order button or just an action. Since the musical procedure used in the game cannot load each new track after the completion of the previous one, triggers for calling a new track upon completion of the previous one have been added (clicking the left mouse button on the map, pressing any order or action button, as well as at the beginning of a new player turn)
27.Added when you click on the button located near the zoom buttons (top left) of the map, random change of music track
28.The resource value of grassland has been changed, now by default it does not provide production in @TERRAIN, however, if there is a mark in the form of a shield on grasslands, the cell will receive an additional one production. If the shield coincides with a resource on a grassland tile (Village or Settlement) it will give them one more production, if not, then the production will be the base one, which is indicated for the Village and Settlement in @TERRAIN rules.txt. As a result, the innovation will be noticeable only on the resource cell of the grassland
29.The diplomatic background has been corrected when there is contact with another race that has a government type of communism or anarchy (file mk.dll)
30.Added alternative terrain and units to the ALT folder, as well as an option using portraits of leaders Stalin and Hitler when playing for the USSR or Germany (may be useful in World War II scenarios). These options are optional, if you want to use them, copy the contents of the folders to the game folder or ignore it
31.Added a message about the completion of construction of any city unit, not just non-military units. Depends on the active option "Show completion of construction of all units"
32.The number of displayed units in city support has been increased from 8 to 18 units (three rows of 6 units each). The number of selectable units from one cell has been increased from 9 to 18 units
33.The maximum size of a city in which all specialists can be managed manually has been increased from 36 to 52. At the same time, the 37th specialist will work together with 21, the 38th - in tandem with 22, etc. This had to be done due to limited address space
34.A variable has been added to the rules.txt file, which allows you to set a limit after which global warming will begin or disable it completely
35.Added a variable to the rules.txt file that allows or prohibits you from building nukes in cities
36.Added the ability to set the minimum distance between an existing and a new city in the form of specifying variables in the rules.txt file of the @Cosmic parameter v10
Details: a value of 8 represents the distance of one square from an existing city
value of 20 represents a distance of two cells except the two outermost cells on the sides and a cell above and below (similar to the size of the territory that a city can handle)
value 24 represents a full-fledged diamond in the form of two cells from the existing city
value of 44 is the same as a value of 20, but three tiles away from an existing city
value 48 represents the same as the value 24, but three squares away
value of 76 is the same as a value of 44, but four tiles away from an existing city
value of 80 represents the same as a value of 48, but four squares away
37.Added the ability to create very large maps (up to 65535 cells in size) both in the map editor (Civ2Map.exe) and through the new game menu. Two templates for creating maps have been added to the menu when creating a map: very large and huge. Slightly increased the amount of land when choosing to create maps with a lot of land (v11).Although large maps work, the AI on such maps may play worse due to the large number of objects and large distances
This addition may break compatibility with the patch CivUIA, so file v10 (without large maps) including positions up to 36 inclusive is saved separately
38.Added a variable to the rules.txt file that allows or prohibits destroying units in stacks one at a time outside key points (such as a city, fortress, airbase) v12This Civ2.exe file is compatible with CivUIA patch
Installation
Copy all files to the game folder with file replacement
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update 22/04/24 ver12
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, which is good as we really need this these days as so many people are having problems with the music due to CD drives being phased out. Should there be any issues though I'd recommend you start posting your work over 
