Civ Assist II -all the tips and tricks ???

[darski]

I use this utility all the time but I am pretty sure that I am not getting the full benefit from it.
It took me a while just to find out that I could choose what would show in my alerts. (((sigh)))

I have this little bit of the trade options screen (I think) and for the life of me I don't know what the asterisks mean next to a Civ. so, I would like to know that bit please.

I also just recenlty discovered that we can learn a world's Seed number by checking tab 2 in CivAssistII.

I am wondering if other people have some good information and tips about using this utility that will let me get more from it.

 

[Vidar]

Have you read http://gotm.civfanatics.net/civassist/help/introduction.htm? I didn't find anything about the asterisks, but it tells you almost everything you want to know about Civ Assist II.

 

[Aabraxan]

Subscribing to this thread because I don't know what the asterisks mean, either.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I just took a look in my current game's Ca2 trade options. Everyoe has an asterisk except Russia, I am at war with them. I'd hazard a guess that it means trades are possible.

 

[Mathias]

Quite the countrary, it seems. After reviewing a couple of my archives, I see that the asterisk is removed when a valid trade route is established. The asterisk apparently doesn't apply to your enemies, as you obviously cannot trade with them while at war.

 

[nerovats]

The other might be having an embasy.

Does anyone know how to get civassist work on vista. In my case it's doesn't automatically open the new save when ending a turn. Probably because of vista's virtual storage.

 

[Tone]

Does anyone know how to get civassist work on vista.

Well I've got it working but whether I know how I did it is another matter! I did have to disable User Account Controls to even open it-right clicking to run as an administrator wasn't an available option. After that though I had no issues.

I hadn't even noticed the asterisks. I'll try and keep a lookout but I use MapStat for trading alerts.

 

[splunge the 2nd]

I've been unable to get CA2 to work with my games. I can manually load in a save but it doesn't update at the next turn and I'm playing on an XP system. Sigh..

 

[TheOverseer714]

It needs to be set "on lookout", which should allow it to catch new civ saves, which includes autosaves.

 

[Rodent]

* probably means you have an Embassy and a Valid trade route.

When you are at war, Embassies are closed.

 

[darski]

* probably means you have an Embassy and a Valid trade route.

When you are at war, Embassies are closed.

I'll check out this possibility in my current game. That might be it.