I found out how to go back to 4000BC from 2020 AD!! (found out how to turn back time)

[blackjackel]

Yep, i looked for editors out there but they all didnt work i think because they were designed for civ and not civnet...

So i busted out a hex editor and sat there comparing savefiles hex values for about an hour, but it paid off! i found out how to turn back time, by hex editing the savefile you can continue playing after 2020 AD when it gives you the message "Your rule will end in 25 years" but the game will think it is 4000 BC.

Me and my freind are going to work on a program that will automatically edit any CivNet Sav file to make the game on that sav file 4000 BC, but there are some advantages/disadvantages to doing this...

First off all, science research will start working just like the beginning ( 8 turns to complete a tech advance ) Because apparently tech advances and time period are related, so you will start researching whatever you were researching before you edited the save file as fast as the first tech you researched.

Example:

Before editing the SAV file you were researching nuclear fission and it was gona take 200 turns, after editing the sav file it would take 8 turns, or however long it took you to research your first tech advance.

If anyone dosent believe me i can provide a SAV file that dosent show the civilizations beginning from the very bottom in 4000BC, rather, the power graph begins halfway and keeps going up (i know, very strange)

I am now also working on finding out what part of the sav file stores money...


I will post up the program here, if i ever make it

 

[eyeball]

Would it work for the Windows version?

 

[blackjackel]

as a matter of fact, that is all it works for, Civnet, i am not sure about winciv though...

 

[Portuguese]

But could you post links to that editors you found.
They would come handy

 

[GenghisK]

Type hex editors on google, man
Back to our problem, well it was a while since I found out that
Actually I could hexedit my money (32K gold seemed to be the max, because obviously the value was stored using a signed integer so if you set FFFF you'd get -32K) and even the turns. The turn system, indeed, was not based on the years but on turn. And the program would convert into the appropriate year, depending on the value of the current turn.. Not sure everybody got what I'm saying but anyway
I managed also to allow boats on land