How do I change the Calendar?

[Mellian]

I swear I have seen thread or possibly somewhere during my xml explorations on how to change the calendar, but cannot find it and this msg board missing a search feature it seems, grr.

So yes, how do I change the calendar, like starting to 1AD instead of 4000BC at the least without needing to create a scenario?

-mellian

 

[Mellian]

Nevermind, figured it out. For others who would like to know, it is Globaldefines.xml in the xml directory, which uses txt definitons from civ4basicinfos.xml in the basicinfos directory.

yay!

-mellian

 

[MerakSpielman]

Neat! I always thought the game should start around 10,000 BC or so... we find ruins from pretty far back, after all. The thing is, "History" is the period of human existence that we've been recording events, and "Prehistory" is the period of time before that. Civ has always started in "Prehistory," having you research Writing some time after the game has started. 4000BC always seemed like a fairly arbitrary start date.

 

[J-Doggg]

Can some one please explain exactly how to change it. I am knew at this kind of stuff.

 

[Mellian]

Can some one please explain exactly how to change it. I am knew at this kind of stuff.

...you necromanced a two year old thread which in turn cause CivFanatics to notify me by email...to ask something that I already mentioned where to do it?

civ4basicinfos.xml in the basicinfos directory.

Since I haven't touched Civ4 for some months now, can't be of any further help.

-mellian

 

[J-Doggg]

Yeah... you said where to do it i would like to know exactly how to do it. Like I said i am new at this.

 

[OzzyKP]

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GlobalDefines.xml

(but don't change the original file)

Find this:
<Define>
<DefineName>START_YEAR</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>-4000</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>

And change the -4000 to whatever year you want.