Recent content by MTKnife

Oh! OK, that finally makes sense now. Thanks. MTKnife

Ah, OK. I'm still curious, though, why contact prevents regeneration. Am I correct that that's only true of the HoF mod, or is it true of Civ4 in general? Also, why would it matter that contact gets carried over into the regenerated map, since the first instance of contact stops...

OK, I tried a Huge Fractal map with 11 opponents, and it got through 10 generations before I stopped it. I then tried Huge Highland with Seas and I only got through about 7 generations before it stopped. I guess it's rare for people to play max opponents in HoF? MTKnife

OK, thanks. So what's the purpose of having it disable regeneration in the case of contacts, anyway? And how do other people who use max opponents (I like to use a trading strategy, and more opponents makes trading more productive) overcome the problem? MTKnife

Oops, you must have posted about the same time I was responding. :) I've seen at least one HoF posting with a Huge map with max opponents--I wonder if it's the type of map I'm using (maybe Great Plains or Pangea is safer?). MTKnife

OK, I just tried it with Huge Continents, and got the same problem. Then I went back to Huge Fractal, but only 11 opponents, and I got to the 9th generation of the map before I ended up right next to Isabella. This does seem to indicate that encountering other civs is the problem, since I'd...

Someone...someone.... OK, I was looking at the HoF readme, and I noticed that regeneration is disabled by any contact between players, including two AI's. (Why is that, BTW?) Is it possible that my map settings are especially prone to player-player contact on generation turn? I've been...

OK, I've tried one more thing: I discovered that the Civ 4 uninstall wasn't actually deleting anything, and therefore left the settings files in My Games in Documents and Settings (I'd been deleting the main folder, but not that one). After I deleted that one, I installed everything again, and...

Make that 0 to 4--the game I started just now, I wasn't allowed to regenerate even once. MTKnife

I've just installed the HoF mod for the first time, and I've discovered I can't use it because I can't regenerate the map--or rather, I can regenerate, but only 1 to 4 times, after which the Regenerate option is no longer there for doing it manually, and MapFinder won't do it either. There are...

Okay, got it fixed. I called 2K tech support, and they had me rename the "InstallShield Installation Information" directory in Program Files (it's a hidden folder), and book, it worked.

...and now I can't even get back to v1.52--I get the same error trying to install it (and I remember that, when I initially installed it, a manual install wouldn't work--I had to use the auto-patch, which I can't use now :( ).

Thanks, but nope, that doesn't do it--my Windows folder isn't misplaced, but just to make sure, I did try a couple of the suggested fixes. Besides, it's for the older version of InstallShield, and this is a brand-new patch. I then went and searched the InstallShield support for the specific...

I've noticed I'm not the only one having problems installing v1.61, but I haven't seen anyone getting the same error. Basically, InstallShield crashes right after starting, with the following error: An error {-5006 : 0x80030005} has occurred while running the setup. Please make sure you...

Sorry, I meant the unhealthiness detail. MT