Lord_Hill's latest activity
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread DOS Civilization 1991 Bug(s) discussion - What should be fixed in OpenCiv1?.I think you can argue the caravan exploit is a bug based on the manual explicitly saying it's for building wonders "Building Wonders: A...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread DOS Civilization 1991 Bug(s) discussion - What should be fixed in OpenCiv1?."buy switching" is a specific trick related to that (I think). You can take advantage of the way the cost of 'rush buy' scales down when...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread [CTP] ATTENTION: Civilization Call To Power 25th Anniversary Celebration - Communities, Fan Mods & Ports, 4K AI Upscale, Multiplayer Server, & More!.Always found this period of civ history interesting. The civ naming rights dispute seemed to inspire a fair bit of creativity, Alpha...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread DOS Civilization 1991 Bug(s) discussion - What should be fixed in OpenCiv1?.I did some more testing and it's more of a CivNet bug really. In CivNet, cities have a 2 square visibility field (CivDOS only has 1...
-
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Workarounds and suggestions for making Civ III run well in 2023.Don't forget the hardcoded resolutions you can change in the INI file only work when combined with KeepRes=1. So they're only really...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread DOS Civilization 1991 Bug(s) discussion - What should be fixed in OpenCiv1?.Well ignoring the fact that I'm using (my own) mod to make it look like CivDOS, it does draw a red square, but it also seems that you...
-
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread DOS Civilization 1991 Bug(s) discussion - What should be fixed in OpenCiv1?.Interesting, it's not so much a bug, it's a limitation of the UI. I'll have a quick look at what CivNet does, I suspect it draws a red...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Civ2 MGE several fixes and additions with support for music tracks.Thanks for that, so it is the same functionality as CivNet after all, just limited to additional windows.
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Open source rewrite of the original Civilization game (1991) - OpenCiv1 Project.The 474 and 475 part just refers to the type of media the game was distributed on. xxx.05 is the latest version regardless.
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Civ2 MGE several fixes and additions with support for music tracks.In CivNet, that button is used to cycle which units are currently visible (just yours, enemy units, all units etc). Instead of an icon...
-
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Civ 1 ports comparison.What I might do as a compromise for a windows mod is reuse the existing DOS tileset but change the palette to match pc98. Pc98 terrain...
-
LSo once I figured out the length problem, text works nice and easy! Sort of. Some of the diplomatic text seems to be missing from...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Copernicus obervatory bug.The question is around intent. Did the devs intend obsolescence when automobile is discovered and a game bug stops this happening? Or...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Civ 1 ports comparison.Unfortunately, the data is compressed, and not in the same way as DOS or Windows Civ, so unless there are some PC98 specific tools that...
-
LLord_Hill replied to the thread Civ 1 ports comparison.Cheeky preview of the first couple of units. I just wanted to show that the conversion itself is easy. This does not mean it's happening...
-
