Please, education me in the ways of patches. I've done file-by-file for a while now and it's not terribly time consuming, but it is mind numbing.
Civ4 BTS v3.19 Patch
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Please, education me in the ways of patches. I've done file-by-file for a while now and it's not terribly time consuming, but it is mind numbing.
What does no espionage option mean? No more spies?
Vortilex
Imperator Mundi
I don't think that's what they mean. I think they mean that civs no longer can get Espianage points (just a guess)
From what it sounds like, they "solved" the overflow bug by basically ignoring chops and whips from overflow calculations? So, if your base hammers and modifiers throw you into the threshold for gold overflow, that still counts, but you can't chop forests for gold anymore?
smackthewise
Prince
With 3.19, when you capture a city, you can take a look inside and then decide if you want to keep it or destroy it!!! THANK GOD! 
Dom Pedro II
Modder For Life
Ah, looks like they took that little snippet of code that came out a few months ago to deal with that.
Yes it was changed but it appears to be incomplete. I can't compile the DLL because it wants Windows.h.
Balderstrom
Emperor
Trading SS techs? Is this a change or a bug?
(Ragnar is my vassal, if it matters.)
Dude you need to find a better img-host, than one that has CamGirls and porn popups.
EmperorFool
Deity
Given that Alexman is a developer of the game, and he has said their intentions was to have the effect of the UP, I'm gonna go with the UP for BULL and consider it an unreleased official bugfix. Anyone have any qualms with that?
Patching is generally done using programs like "diff" and "patch" from unix systems. Diff produces a single file that contains all of the changes across multiple files in a format that makes it clear where exactly in the file those changes occurred. There are many presentation formats, but the idea is that someone reading the output and looking at the original files can figure out how to make those changes themselves.
Then patch is used to apply those changes to a set of target files that are also modified versions of the original files. As long as the target files are close enough to the originals, patch can figure things out. Conflicts arise when both the new and target files were changed from the original in the same place.
Using a source control program to do this is essentially the same thing. I called it a trick only because applying external patches is not really the point of SVN, but it is an integral feature.
EmperorFool
Deity
Are you saying that Ragnar should not be willing to trade the tech? I believe that AIs at Friendly are always willing to trade. I don't know about SS techs, but I know they will ignore their WFYABTA limit and probably the we-dont-want-to-start-trading-this-tech constraint as well.
VoiceOfUnreason
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That's not quite fair - they solved the overflow bug by adapting one of the popular modded solutions, but added a calculation error.
Balderstrom
Emperor
I'm disappointed. I went to his image, and I didn't get any girls and porn.
Strange, I got an underpopup, and a 5-10 second page delay w/ "cams" before the civ screenshot displayed.
Minor Annoyance
Deity
Damn this installer. I just wanted to look at the source code without installing it yet but the installed doesn't ask me where to install itand goes right to the installation, and the cancel button doesn't work. So now if anything (mods etc.) is incompatible I'll have to uninstall all of BTS and reinstall.
r_rolo1
King of myself
Until 3.17 the AI never trades a SS tech, no matter how friendly they are with you ( "We rather win the game" , the thing they say when they lock on any other victory condition, like when we ask them to stop a war with them pursuing Dom )
