MAO_ZEDONG bug corrected

Salamandre · Apr 19, 2006

Here it comes, hard to catch every glitch but it is done. Now everything related to Mao Zedong displays properly, the name, the civlopedia, the head. Enjoy!

After so many questions about the bug, am I alone to have "key_text_leader_CHINESE_LEADER" in game instead of mao_zedong??!!

All the files in XML regarding Mao were messed up with the 1.61 patch. Everywhere it was "Chinese_Leader' instead the correct name.That was signaled many times(http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=167000), or maybe you guys never had Mao in yours games with 1.61 yet. Try it and see! And I reinstalled the game 3 times so it was not due to 1.52 MODS.

Due to 500kb limit it comes in 2 files.

Willem · Apr 19, 2006

What bug? There was only a script change in the XML files that modders need to update.

InFlux5 · Apr 19, 2006

What are you two talking about?

Chieftess · Apr 19, 2006

You can use the upload link at the bottom of the page - that has more space. Anyway, I moved this to Creation & Customization. What exactly does it fix? And what version did you see this bug in? What is the bug, too?

Kael · Apr 20, 2006

Salamandre said:
Here it comes, hard to catch every glitch but it is done. Now everything related to Mao Zedong displays properly, the name, the civlopedia, the head. Enjoy!

After so many questions about the bug, am I alone to have "key_text_leader_CHINESE_LEADER" in game instead of mao_zedong??!!

All the files in XML regarding Mao were messed up with the 1.61 patch. Everywhere it was "Chinese_Leader' instead the correct name.That was signaled many times(http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=167000), or maybe you guys never had Mao in yours games with 1.61 yet. Try it and see! And I reinstalled the game 3 times so it was not due to 1.52 MODS.

Due to 500kb limit it comes in 2 files.

You probably have some files in your custom assets folder that are referring to Mao by his old name (KEY_TEXT_LEADER_MAO_TSEDONG). Hence the need to go through and change all references of CHINESE_LEADER to MAO_TSEDONG. I suspect you had a custom CIV4LeaderHeadsInfo.xml.

Firaxis switched all of the references so as long as you weren't using any custom files (mods, etc) you would have been okay.

Willem · Apr 20, 2006

InFlux5 said:
What are you two talking about?

In the new patch, any reference to Mao in the XML files was changed to Chinese_Leader. So any mods that uses old XML files that includes the previous entry will have problems.

Salamandre · Apr 20, 2006

Look people, I dont know what you are talking about :confused:

I installed the game after deleting EVERYTHING related to it, custom assets, everything, then installed the 1.61 patch. I open a new game and I have "text_key_chinese_leader" on the scores screen, in huge caracters, so it covers half of the map. Mao_zedong doesnt exist anymore in the new patch, instead we have a huge mess up.

I dont care if Mao Zedong is called "Chinese Leader" for x reasons, but I care when I get "TEXT_KEY_CHINESE_LEADER" in a "tested patch".

There is nothing to do with old mods, am I living on another planet to be the only one with this problem? :confused:

So the files I submitted are corrected, I changed some 70 entries about the so called "chinese leader" so now it shows Mao Zedong, as previously.

Gunner · Apr 20, 2006

I think you might try reinstalling again, because I don't think anyone else has that problem. I know I don't.

Willem · Apr 20, 2006

Salamandre said:
There is nothing to do with old mods, am I living on another planet to be the only one with this problem?

It seems so, it's the first time I've read about it.

Red Door · Apr 20, 2006

The Chinese Leader thing is so that Firaxis and Take-Two can sell Civ 4 in China. It's also why Communism changed to Utopia.

Salamandre · Apr 20, 2006

I dont see the point to change the name of Mao Zedong in a "patch" for selling the vanilla game with mao zedong inside in China. Is this a joke?

Dual · Apr 21, 2006

Salamandre said:
I dont see the point to change the name of Mao Zedong in a "patch" for selling the vanilla game with mao zedong inside in China. Is this a joke?

It seems China has some strict laws about using certain names in games. So Firaxis had to change some of them to get past the red tape and legally sell the game there.

It's part of the patch for us so that we have the same version as the newly made game cds destined for China. That way Firaxis only has to make one patch for everybody in the future. Otherwise they would have to keep two sets of code, and make a special patch just for China everytime they released one.

Salamandre · Apr 22, 2006

So they are ready to censorship all of us for a bunch of ******** chinese gouvernement?

Firaxis chickened with religions, now chickens with politic, do we have to agree? It seems to me unapropriate to live in Europe and play a game where I have Napoleon, Washington, etc., and CHINESE_LEADER. Ridiculous.

Dusty4prez · Apr 22, 2006

Or y'know they could just sell the copies with the patch already in the game...

Dual · Apr 22, 2006

Salamandre said:
So they are ready to censorship all of us for a bunch of ******** chinese gouvernement?

Firaxis chickened with religions, now chickens with politic, do we have to agree? It seems to me unapropriate to live in Europe and play a game where I have Napoleon, Washington, etc., and CHINESE_LEADER. Ridiculous.

I don't know if I would really call it censorship for us. The only way to tell they changed anything is to go into the XML files. Which the vast majority of Civ4 players are never going to do.

Firaxis just changed the key names in the XML. With the way things are set up in there the actual name displayed in the game can be different from the key name, and different for every language. The Chinese leader's name should still be showing up as Mao Zedong in the game for everybody but the Chinese players. If it's not for you, I would doublecheck to make sure you're not using any old modified files from before the patch. Maybe you have something in your custom assets folder?

If all else fails, you can try re-installing the game and patching it again.

Willem · Apr 22, 2006

Salamandre said:
So they are ready to censorship all of us for a bunch of ******** chinese gouvernement?

No, a potential future market of 2 billion people.

Firaxis chickened with religions, now chickens with politic, do we have to agree? It seems to me unapropriate to live in Europe and play a game where I have Napoleon, Washington, etc., and CHINESE_LEADER. Ridiculous.

It wouldn't be Firaxis that would be concerned about all of this, it would be Take 2. They're the ones that are trying to sell the game, so they'd be the ones concerned about the Chinese reaction.

Willem · Apr 22, 2006

Lord Olleus said:
1.2 billion not 2 billion. Actually its a lot less as china has relatively few people rich enough to afford a computer. I wouldn't be suprised if their were more pc in the US than in china.

Well I guess my population numbers are a bit outdated, it was close to 2 billion at one time. And you'll notice I said "future" in regards to the market potential. More and more Chinese are becoming affluent enough to be able to afford PC's. You may be right that there's more of them in the US right now, but that will not always be the case. Right now would be a good time for a gaming company to get their foot in the door, so they can establish a name for themselves in the future. And appeasing the current government is just one step in that process.

Teg_Navanis · Apr 22, 2006

Salamandre said:
I installed the game after deleting EVERYTHING related to it, custom assets, everything, then installed the 1.61 patch. I open a new game and I have "text_key_chinese_leader" on the scores screen, in huge caracters, so it covers half of the map. Mao_zedong doesnt exist anymore in the new patch, instead we have a huge mess up.

There is nothing to do with old mods, am I living on another planet to be the only one with this problem?

What language are you playing in? This kind of thing happens when a text key isn't defined for a language, thus it seems to me as if the bug was language-specific.

Rathelon · Apr 22, 2006

Lord Olleus said:
1.2 billion not 2 billion. Actually its a lot less as china has relatively few people rich enough to afford a computer. I wouldn't be suprised if their were more pc in the US than in china.

You would be wrong. China is a huge, modern nation with cities as large, or larger, than most other nations in the world. And, more population than any other country. They probably have more millionaires and billionaires than most other countries, as well. They are not just a billion rice farmers.

And, as far as the original topic, there was no Mao Zedong bug, and Communism was not changed to Utopia. I did a clean reinstall and patch to 1.61 and both are still in the game, just like before. It is a problem with old modded files that creates the text_key_chinese_leader thing.

Dusty4prez · Apr 22, 2006

Rathelon said:
You would be wrong. China is a huge, modern nation with cities as large, or larger, than most other nations in the world. And, more population than any other country. They probably have more millionaires and billionaires than most other countries, as well. They are not just a billion rice farmers.

And, as far as the original topic, there was no Mao Zedong bug, and Communism was not changed to Utopia. I did a clean reinstall and patch to 1.61 and both are still in the game, just like before. It is a problem with old modded files that creates the text_key_chinese_leader thing.

Yes, communism was changed to Utopia because I had to change the unit XML file to say that Spys require UTOPIA and not COMMUNISM.

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