Civ II - Money

[melabam]

Since I am not getting a response in Civ II Forum. I have around 35,000 in gold in Civ II. I should be getting around 5,000 a turn in gold. It does not increment up. Why?

 

[Beeblbrox]

Because there is a cap due to integers not exceeding a certain number in programming. I expect you have 32,768 gp (or the correct binary number in that region). Spend it, go up a level in difficulty, or play Civ3 - you will never exceed that number in Civ2.

 

[Beeblbrox]

FYI of those even remotely interested, 32,768 is the correct figure. 2^16 =65536, however languages use 2's complement to represent positive and negative numbers, this basically means a 16 bit integer will represent a number in the range -32,768 through to +32,768, Civ2 uses standard 16 bit numbers and can therefore never exceed +32,768

 

[andvruss]

Ya, I had that problem too. I had that much cash, captured a city, then I plundered -65536 gold, so I had -32768 gold. I got that back to zero by letting the AI capture the city again.......weird.

 

[The Last Conformist]

-32,768 to 32,768 is 65537 numbers - both endpoints can't very well be included, unless they've done something seriously strange.

 

[LavosBacons]

I think the range is generally -32767 to 32768.

 

[Beeblbrox]

i stand corrected

 

[Mercator]

It's -32,768 to 32,767.

If you have MGE or ToT, the no-limits patch will fix this (should be among the civ2 downloads here).

 

[jadelicia]

I never knew about that...and I was getting up there in cash, and decided to blow a bunch on a few cities (bribing...). I was around 32 thousand or some odd cash... I'll keep that in mind now. By the way, wot is MGE or ToT?

 

[addiv]

Luckily I never get so rich that I exceed the maximum, so never had problems with this (except in scenarios).
@jadelicia: MGE = Civ 2 Multiplayer Gold Edition and ToT = Civ 2 Test of Time.

 

[mardukes]

Originally posted by Beeblbrox
i stand corrected

Not to worry! Usually those who tend to use the psuedo-word, basically, are psuedo-intellectual and not thoroughly knowledgible of which they speak.