Hans Lemurson
Prince
Nostalgia just called me back to Civ2, and I was very pleased to see that your wonderful Civ2 UIA project has been given new updates.
The GOTO lines and the City Trade-Paths are especially welcome, since in the last game I had left off on I had been struggling to figure out where to put the roads between all my cities in order to get trade route bonuses.
The little city preview window you can get by pressing Ctrl is nice too!
The latest note about fixing the "Overly Aggressive Civs" bug got me pondering the difference between a "bug" and a "feature". Is it still the same game without pointlessly homicidal AIs? What obligations do we have to past history when fixing obvious errors?
That then lead me to think about one of the other major bugs that has plagued Civ2: Pathfinding. GOTO orders will not cross the "International date line", and I think there are some other strange behaviors which hurt the AI's abilities to wage war and settle properly. If the problems were well defined enough to be fixable, would this be going too far and somehow violating the spirit of the game's history?
But regardless, I'm really grateful for everything you have done Mr. FoxAhead. You've made Civ2 much more playable and enjoyable.
I do have a question though about the Soundtrack:
I have a Civ2 MGE Disc Image mounted to the D Drive, and can get the Movies to play, but the soundtrack will not. Choosing "Pick Music" gives a message that "This option is not available unless the Civilization II CD in the disc drive".
Is there something I can do to make that part of the program aware of where the CD is?
The GOTO lines and the City Trade-Paths are especially welcome, since in the last game I had left off on I had been struggling to figure out where to put the roads between all my cities in order to get trade route bonuses.
The little city preview window you can get by pressing Ctrl is nice too!
The latest note about fixing the "Overly Aggressive Civs" bug got me pondering the difference between a "bug" and a "feature". Is it still the same game without pointlessly homicidal AIs? What obligations do we have to past history when fixing obvious errors?
That then lead me to think about one of the other major bugs that has plagued Civ2: Pathfinding. GOTO orders will not cross the "International date line", and I think there are some other strange behaviors which hurt the AI's abilities to wage war and settle properly. If the problems were well defined enough to be fixable, would this be going too far and somehow violating the spirit of the game's history?
But regardless, I'm really grateful for everything you have done Mr. FoxAhead. You've made Civ2 much more playable and enjoyable.
I do have a question though about the Soundtrack:
I have a Civ2 MGE Disc Image mounted to the D Drive, and can get the Movies to play, but the soundtrack will not. Choosing "Pick Music" gives a message that "This option is not available unless the Civilization II CD in the disc drive".
Is there something I can do to make that part of the program aware of where the CD is?