How do you edit wonders\goverments

[causality411]

I would like to alter wonders and goverments. For example how do I delete a wonder or change it's effect. Such as Woman suffarge, change it so it doesn't act as free police station but rather as +1 happy person per city instead.

For goverments my example would be to change the maxium tax effort for Republic from 75% to 50%

Is it possible to do things like this?

 

[causality411]

also another idea of mine is changing the corruption level and bribery immunity for the Republic

 

[yoshi]

You can only do these things using CIv3's editor.

Civ2's Rules.txt file only allows you to edit food consumption per citizen, martial law, free units, base corruption, tech rate, prerequisites, leader titles per government, and government type name (in @COSMIC, @ADVANCE, and @GOVERNMENTS respectively) and most of these only apply to Monarchy, Communism and Fundamentalism. Nothing else can be changed.
And the only thing that can be edited for wonders in Civ2 is their names, icon (in Icons.gif), prerequisite and the tech that makes them obsolete.

 

[Morten Blaabjerg]

You cannot change the effect of a wonder or city improvement, but you can rename any or all of them, in the rules.txt. And you can disable them simply by giving them a pre-requisite of "no". You can change the icons of wonders and city improvements in the icons.gif file.

The same goes for governments - some effects can be changed however, as Yoshi states, see the rules.txt for more details. Often interesting effects can be achieved by renaming the governments and cleverly changing their statistics.

I strongly recommend you dive into one of the scenario creation guides in the 'civ2 reference' section of the main site, for more details.

 

[kobayashi]

Also the cost item for wonders is misleading. Maintenance is only charged for improvements and all wonders are free.

 

[yoshi]

If we got the source code released, one thing that could be done is to make all of the hard-coded government and improvement/wonder effects moddable as well as the ability to add new types.

 

[AGRICOLA]

A minor addition to

Originally posted by Yoshi
And the only thing that can be edited for wonders in Civ2 is their names, icon (in Icons.gif), prerequisite and the tech that makes them obsolete.

Hex editing can be used to destroy a wonder, revive a destroyed one or move it from one city to another.