[TOT] Is there a way to disable the "Future Tech 5" victory condition?

[Afterburner]

Haven't played Civ2 since before Civ4 was released. Bought an old copy off Amazon, but it was the Test of Time version, which I never played.

I was tooling along, racing to build my spaceship before France and the Zulus built theirs. It was neck and neck, but I had a slight advantage and was possibly going to pull out a victory.

And then I got this message, which just kinda sucked the wind out of my sails.

There is an Events.txt file in the Original directory with this victory condition. I went through and inserted a semi-colon in front of every line, thinking that this would work like a comment the lines out and prevent the game from running that code.

No dice, though. Still getting this victory condition. Very unsatisfying. Would rather lose the space race fair and square than win this way.

I'm hesitant to completely delete the file just in case it breaks something. Anybody know if that will solve the problem?

 

[Prof. Garfield]

There is an Events.txt file in the Original directory with this victory condition. I went through and inserted a semi-colon in front of every line, thinking that this would work like a comment the lines out and prevent the game from running that code.

I'm pretty sure that when you begin a game, the game saves the events as part of the saved game.

I found a delevent.exe program in @tootall_2012 's A House Divided, which I think will remove events from your saved game, but the readme doesn't explain how to use it. Perhaps someone else can chime in. I only had a casual interest in scenario making before we started using Lua.

 

[Afterburner]

I'm pretty sure that when you begin a game, the game saves the events as part of the saved game.

Yep, that looks to be the case. I started a new game and got an error message saying that there was something wrong with events.txt (because of all the semi colons I put in).

Thanks!

 

[Prof. Garfield]

I'm pretty sure you can just remove the file entirely (you can save it elsewhere as a backup if you're that concerned, or just name it something else). Or, set the future tech to 255 instead. I focused on the delevent part, since I thought you might want to finish the existing game, rather than start a new one.