Changing the game year possible on mac?

[nobitacu]

Hello,

I've been looking for a editor which can change the game year in the game ever since civ 3 first came out... but I never had much luck to it...

Is there any program out there or anyway in which I can change the game year?

You see, I'm a person who likes to play the game for a long long long time, kind of try to keep the world at peace and stuff, and I don't want the game to force me to quit for a game over, I want to keep playing for as long as I want on my game...

Please help...

Thanks...

Ming

 

[dojoboy]

I don't believe there is such a program.

 

[nobitacu]

That just sucks.... it has been how long now since the game came out? They have all that for Windows, yet, nothing for Mac. Mac players always gets left out in the cold, sick of it...

 

[Trabpukcip]

hey man it's not possible on pc neither so don't grow angry for that, there's plenty of much better reasons...

 

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by nobitacu
That just sucks.... it has been how long now since the game came out? They have all that for Windows, yet, nothing for Mac. Mac players always gets left out in the cold, sick of it...

All the PC "cheat" tools were written by interested third parties. You have two options: find a Mac programmer who wants to wrote a cheat utility (I have neither the interest nor the time) or do it yourself. You can start by hitting up the authors of the PC cheat utilities for the saved-game specs that they're using.

 

[Sid]

I don't see the problem anyway: you can continue to play whether 'the game' says so or not. Just click "Lemme play just a few more turns" when Civ3 has performed all of it's victory dances -- that's if you win. If not, make sure you set it up with Victory Conditions that suit your style of play. For example: only enable Diplomatic or Cultural victory, make sure you build the UN, and play forever.

 

[nobitacu]

Sweet! I didn't know you can do that!

Thanks for letting me know!

^_^

Ming

 

[AlanH]

Originally posted by Brad Oliver


All the PC "cheat" tools were written by interested third parties. You have two options: find a Mac programmer who wants to wrote a cheat utility (I have neither the interest nor the time) or do it yourself. You can start by hitting up the authors of the PC cheat utilities for the saved-game specs that they're using.

I had a quick look at it just out of curiosity, and it appears that the date is encrypted in the file as well as appearing in clear as a turn count and a numeric date. The quick and dirty way to do it would be to keep an autosave from a date early in the game, for example 4000 BC, and copy/paste the relevant bits of it into your latest autosave using HexEdit. That will reset the later save to 4000 BC. Use autosaves as they are uncompressed. Hex editing a compressed save file would not work.

PM me if you want to know the address range to edit, but it's a few bytes after the second 'GAME' tag in the file. Usual health warnings - you should always keep backups of files you plan to edit, and I accept no responsibility for any problems you might encounter