Recent content by Quintillus

Let's see, over the past two months... June was a lot of EU4, playing as Genoa. It's now in snowball mode as Italy, only coalitions and the need to keep Britain on my side (to help counter coalitions) are slowing me down at all. But it was fun early on, balancing those Aegean and Black Sea...

That would be the Map --> Import Map option. It can be from any Civ3 map, and will also import cities and, where resource/unit/etc. names match, resources and units as well. Under Options --> Export to CSV and Options --> Import from CSV, you can import units from another scenario, so long as...

I've added links to the AtomicGamer spreadsheets. Can't remember why I didn't three years ago, I think at the time the focus was on the other ones. But they should all be visible now. The offer continues to add more people as editors, with jarred! now being one as well. I don't think I can...

The extracted version does not include the .ini, but once you run the editor once, it should be created. One case where it won't is if the folder where the editor lives is write-protected (including C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86) on modern Windows versions). It may also be that...

Theoretically, much is possible. Practically, the graphics required to render Civ3 maps (where base terrains mesh with other base terrains, and there are overlay terrains for forests, hills, etc.) has major differences from height-map based drawing such as in Alpha Centauri. It would...

The other aspect of that is that the poor reception on release and controversial mechanics, including that reviews got worse, not better, once people had time to digest the game a bit, has meant that some of those who modded for previous iterations wound up not buying in altogether. Which, best...

Jorsalfare is correct, that is where it is read from. If it's specified in there, it will be known, and the dialogue box won't appear. That the dialog box appeared at all means that the editor's auto-detection feature failed. Where is Civ III installed, and which version is it? The other...

Great to know that it worked, in particular on Windows 11! It should have, with the changes to support newer versions of Java last year, but I haven't yet switched to Windows 11 myself.

Europe trembles in the first decade-plus of the 1800s; a conqueror of unequaled ambition threatens to overrun the continent. No, that conqueror is not Napoleon, but the Golden Horde. Khagan Mamai I Temur-Chi, descendant of Genghis, soon-to-be-founder of the Second Mongol Empire, looked across...

WINE/Mac Test Version This version includes a potential resolution for players on Mac + Wine not being able to use the editor. Basically, if the editor attempts to find a file using the Aspyr/Mac method and cannot find it, it will switch to using the Windows version for that file and going...

Ah, that would do it! I've studiously avoided storing anything Civ III related in Program Files since about a year after Windows Vista (which was when I learned of the pain it could cause), so I didn't think specifically about that case. But that is one that I can add a check for. (Note to...

My feelings are similar to Verrucosus's. True, I usually start in 1444 (occasionally in 1453 or 1460, I think once in 1515), but an extra hundred years is a long prelude to the world becoming more interconnected. I'm sure I'll still have fun in those timelines, especially for countries with...

I know, hence the 😉. Although time-span wise, Project Caesar/EU5 is basically the last CKII start date + EU4. I'm still not sure how I feel about the 1337 start date. I suppose I got used to 1399 in EU3, it just seems... early?

When it detects a compressed file (which makes sense for the standard "conquests.biq"), the editor will try to decompress it to "._tmp.biq", and then read the decompressed file. Thus the error suggests that either: - It is unable to decompress it for some reason - There could be a read/write...

Between EU5 and Project Caesar, Paradox will have all sorts of new games this year and next ;). I'm looking forward to it, but at the same time feel like I still have mileage I can get out of EU4, despite it possibly having eclipsed Civ3 as my most-played game ever.