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AI doesn't raze cities. 2016-10-05

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It's true guys it works.

In the SOE testing up til now Rumania always razed the southern Polish cities. Now they are taking them and holding them. Even Germany would raze 1 or 2 smtimes, But not anymore.

We have no idea why it works on that c3complete exe and we really don't care. It's doing what the guy says it's meant to do and we're in love with it.
 
Boy Im missing out on all the good news Recon . Count me in on the next dis group meeting. I have Complete and no many things are differant then conqeust so IM not surprised at all. In glad this development struck so close to release time for you guys , Way to go ~Skyler~
 
Great, so now when playing SOE against Romania they won't raze my cities any more. :cool:
I'm just kidding.:D

Seriously, I think it's really good that it works. But I have C3C, I wonder if it works with C3C and not only with Complete. And how are you going to implement this in SoE? Are you going to put an exe in the zip? :)
 
Ok I am growing tired of explaining this so.............Civ3 Complete contains all versions of Civ3. When you start a game of Civ3 Complete it uses the CONQUESTS executable file. What this means is the same file used in complete is the one found in conquests. Although the complete version allready comes patched to the latest version because of its later release, other than that it is the same file.
Now the reason the patch worked for me is because when I purchase a game I do not like hunting for a CD especially on my laptop so the conquests exe I use is one previously patched to work without a cd. Because of that previous patching the patch that skyler released was able to work also.

Now I realize that purists feel it is wrong to use no cd exe's but if I bought the game and have it installed on one computer I do not see the harm in using one.
 
So the "No-raze"-patch doesn´t depend on the variant of C3C, but at time this wonder patch doesn´t work "for the masses" as you need an additional No-CD patch, what is a "No"-in this forum (and nothing we can spread along with SOE).

I hope, that Skyer2 reads this posts and finds a solution that his wonder-patch can find the pattern of normal C3C-exes and can be a patch "of the masses". :help:

The best would be, if FIRAXIS would invite Skyer2 to do this as an official patch for C3C. :)
 
BadKharma said:
Ok I am growing tired of explaining this so.............Civ3 Complete contains all versions of Civ3. When you start a game of Civ3 Complete it uses the CONQUESTS executable file. What this means is the same file used in complete is the one found in conquests. Although the complete version allready comes patched to the latest version because of its later release, other than that it is the same file.
Now the reason the patch worked for me is because when I purchase a game I do not like hunting for a CD especially on my laptop so the conquests exe I use is one previously patched to work without a cd. Because of that previous patching the patch that skyler released was able to work also.

Now I realize that purists feel it is wrong to use no cd exe's but if I bought the game and have it installed on one computer I do not see the harm in using one.
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I think you misunderstood me. I know very well what means Civ3Complete. I actually explained this to many noobs. I was unsure if there is the same executable file in Complete as in Conquests, and this is what I wanted to know, if the patch works with the executable from Conquests, because knowing Complete has a different folder structure I was not sure if it is using the same executable. :)
 
Where is Skyer, BTW. It has been 2 weeks since he posted.

Civinator, BadKharma, Mirc, I have been reading, and getting confused. (Must be old age)

Am I correct in paraphrasing this:

Regular CFC exe file: Skyer's fix does not work.
No-CD exe file: Skyer's fix works.

If that is the case, that means this fix is useless for 99% of the Civ III players.
Please tell me I am wrong, because I hate to be correct on this issue.
 
Hate to tell you but you are right.

Possibly you might be able to edit the executable yourself using a hexadecimal editor like skyker originaly did. But the Civ3C executable must protect itself from being written to by a seperate program ie the patch that skyler released.
And yes MIRC complete and conquests both use the same conquests executable when playing the game.
 
recon1591 said:
It's true guys it works.

In the SOE testing up til now Rumania always razed the southern Polish cities. Now they are taking them and holding them. Even Germany would raze 1 or 2 smtimes, But not anymore.

We have no idea why it works on that c3complete exe and we really don't care. It's doing what the guy says it's meant to do and we're in love with it.
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Let me see if I understand this correctly.
According to BadKharma's confirmation, your SOE scenario will only be playable, or at least have this fix, if the user is playing with a No-CD version of the .exe.

So to make this work for everybody, does not that mean that all would have to load a cracked version on their desktop, which is No-No #1 on this site?
 
Weasel Op said:
I use the no-CD patch for the same reason as BadKharma... I'll give this a shot. I wasn't aware that this patch was a "no-no" on the forum- in fact there's a front-page announcement from October '05 about a no-CD patch for international versions. (It's even referred to as a "patch" and not a "crack")
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A very good posting Weasel Op :thumbsup: Thank you that you have such a memory. Here is the link to that news: http://www.civfanatics.com/news2/archive.php?show=month&month=October&year=2005

Than it´s a "Yes, Yes" . :) :)
 
You are right, Civinator, there was a news article, but don't be too happy:

Forum Rules:
Zero tolerance on piracy.
Posting links to warez sites and program cracks (including no-CD crack) are not allowed on the forum. Anyone found guilty of participating in piracy activity on the forum will be punished.
 
I clicked on the link. It is in German, and I can't see any link for English instructions. That is NOT an insurmountable problem.

Because this is such an important patch for Civ III, I would suggest that someone should discuss with the admins and get clarification if they are comfortable with discussions/instructions on downloading this No-CD patch.

Consider the ramifications: EVERY complex scenario in Civ III runs into this problem, therefore EVERY scenario designer would want to use this, and EVERY person who plays scenarios will want/need to load the No-CD .exe on their machine, regardless if they are "international" or not.

And where is Skyer?
 
To All.

Good points i must say.

But did i ever say that anything of that kind was going to be posted here.

I just said the patch works and i love it.

And when the time comes for the SOE release and u want the full effects. Then it'll be up to u to find u a ( No-CD exe ) and patch it with this patch if u want is all i'm saying.
 
Another thing which should be "easy" for Skyer I think:

In the editor all flags for worker/engineer actions must be on, to activate the option "Terraform"

Without that, IA don't use the unit. For example, we cannot build a "railroad only" pionnier unit.

I hope Skyer can fix that...
 
It said nothing patched.
And someone said something like you need a no cd version.
I am confused. Can someone help me,I dont know how to make the patch work.
I have C3C 1.22 and I need a cd to play.
 
I edited out my email.
I got the the no raze thing working.
 
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