MGE diplomacy (AI attitude) patch

[Ali Ardavan]

It is well known that the MGE version of Civ2 ruined the diplomacy aspect of the game by making the AI have the most negative attitude possible towards you after the conclusion of every transaction.

Patches have been developed to revert the diplomacy of MGE back to that of the classic. Here are the ones I found searching the forums:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=154251
http://patchesgames.blogspot.fr/2009/06/civilization-2-mge-ai-no-hostility.html
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=12855146&postcount=6
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=570939
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=9738897&postcount=26

(not sure if all of the above are unique; in fact they likely are not.)

Those who are using the patch, please tell us which one you are using and whether it has any side effects.

For example Jokemaster has reported a problem using the find city function with the first patch mentioned above: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14227860&postcount=7

Jokemaster, could you please provide full details of your observation regarding the problem here for reference?

Catalin72 mentioned that near the bottom of the thread where the fist patch above is presented, Duke of Marlbrough has said that: "Any 'unoffical' patches are not allowed for use during GOTM play". What is up with that? Is there an official patch? I did find this referred to as an official patch but not sure if it solves the AI attitude problem:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=52

 

[catalin72]

In conclusion,diplomacy patches can be used in GOTM ?

 

[Jokemaster]

For me, the attitude.exe patch didn't work, so instead I used the first patch to DL an already-patched EXE.
Whenever I try to use Find City, the difficulty level resets to `<nil> with essentially uncontrollable unrest and AI on massive steroids. Clean otherwise, but FC is borked.
Also worth mentioning is that my personal EXE can sometimes freeze when displaying heavy enemy troop movements. It recovers, but I miss movements and need to swap to non-patched.

The diplomacy patch is allowed and encouraged to use in GOTM's. Only problem is that getting people to declare war to you in the first 200 turns is a little bit tricky. (After 200 turns/starting the space race, they'll gang up on you regardless of version if you're ahead, so no biggie.) Personnally recommend keeping two different EXES since sometimes you'll need non-patched for whatever reason.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

In conclusion,diplomacy patches can be used in GOTM ?

Yes, as long as all they do is revert diplomacy back to classic.