Help, please?! With a large world and a couple of one-city pet other civilisations, has anyone else had problems with going through all the business of getting the Apollo program and the relevant Science advances
and then the option to build the various spaceship components doesnt appear on the What shall we build? list? Its really annoying that youve spent all those years building up your civ, all for nothing! Its as though some glitch in the program has triggered the bloodlust option even though you havent asked for it. Another prob is with a large number of cities, all of a sudden your powergraph line takes a huge dive, and your score suffers accordingly. Anyone know any (not too technical, please!) ways round this? Thank you!
Anyone else problems with big games (eg no spaceships?)
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Are you POSITIVE the "bloodlust" option was NOT checked when the game was created? If you got the starting setup from someone else, or had set that On for your last game and used default settings for the next one, it could be On now.
The other problem sounds like it is related to exceeding the maximums for different counters. One of them, the one people notice most often, is the Treasury value, when it goes from around 32,000 to -16,000 all of the sudden. There is a NoLimits patch around somewhere which might fix this. I don't know specifically if it deals with the PowerGraph rating as well.
Are you POSITIVE the "bloodlust" option was NOT checked when the game was created? If you got the starting setup from someone else, or had set that On for your last game and used default settings for the next one, it could be On now.
The other problem sounds like it is related to exceeding the maximums for different counters. One of them, the one people notice most often, is the Treasury value, when it goes from around 32,000 to -16,000 all of the sudden. There is a NoLimits patch around somewhere which might fix this. I don't know specifically if it deals with the PowerGraph rating as well.
Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
On the inability to build the Space Ship, you could attach a saved game file and we may be able to clarify what the problem may be.
On the Power Graph, the downward spike occurs (in 2.42 Classic) when you exceed a "Power Graph score" of 4096. It has no direct effect on either your score, rating, or Power Ranking. If you're playing Classic and you play the game long enough, it will spike back upward when you exceed 8192.
(Since it really is not a "limit" kind of thing, I doubt that the "No limit patch" would effect the spike phenomenon.)
On the Power Graph, the downward spike occurs (in 2.42 Classic) when you exceed a "Power Graph score" of 4096. It has no direct effect on either your score, rating, or Power Ranking. If you're playing Classic and you play the game long enough, it will spike back upward when you exceed 8192.
(Since it really is not a "limit" kind of thing, I doubt that the "No limit patch" would effect the spike phenomenon.)
Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
Given the nature of the Spaceship problem, I think the first thing you might do is re-install the 2.42 Classic Patch. It's possible that one of the files governing the initial game start-up may be degraded; reinstalling the patch may solve the problem. After reinstalling the patch, start a new game, build a city, enter cheat menu, add all techs, build Apollo, and then see if you have the option of building the SS parts.
If this doesn't work, the problem may be one of the dll files, which would require a full reinstallation; but usually if they're out of whack, they cause the civ2.exe failure.
If this doesn't work, the problem may be one of the dll files, which would require a full reinstallation; but usually if they're out of whack, they cause the civ2.exe failure.
Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
ElephantU said:
Never realized that ... Do you suppose the AD1 exists because the programers assumed nobody could get a Space Ship launched prior to AD1, and therefore avoided the nuisance of writing a subroutine that would convert the BC years to one year intervals that count backwards?
