Post War Mod(s)

[The Person]

ToT scenarios are not backwards-compatible. We could use the CivConverter to convert it to MGE format, but then we'd have to drop the underground map (which we still don't have any graphics for, BTW). The current version also includes features not available in MGE.

But there's still Cedric's patch...

 

[Chukchi Husky]

It didn't work in Test of Time...

 

[Broken_Erika]

Hmmm,
the terrain sucks, here is a better one, i forget where i got it

 

[The Person]

It didn't work in Test of Time...

Strange... I downloaded the file and everything works. Did you put all the scenario files in the same folder?

Hmmm,
the terrain sucks, here is a better one, i forget where i got it

I think that the swamp squares of your terrain look ugly. It is also a little bit too dark. I like lighter terrains better. But we could use your grasslands and forest graphics.

But there's another thing with your terrain files. They aren't in ToT format. (Compare any MGE terrain1 file with the terrain1 file in the scenario folder and you'll notice a few differences.) They can be used, but they produce a weird result. I would've used the CivConverter on them, but it doesn't work well with the XP command line (seems like I have to fire up my good old Win98 laptop).

Anyway, here's what you get if you use unconverted MGE terrain graphics in ToT:

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I looked at the map with the map editor, and noticed no rivers...

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Plutoniarivers.zip

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Strange... I downloaded the file and everything works. Did you put all the scenario files in the same folder?

Yes...

It comes up with the same error that appears when running normal Civ 2 scenarios in Test of Time, "Failed to load game: file is in obsolete format."

 

[The Person]

Do you have the 1.1 patch installed? (Game -> Game Options. Look at the title bar of that window.)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Do you have the 1.1 patch installed? (Game -> Game Options. Look at the title bar of that window.)

No... I have Version 1.0.0...

 

[The Person]

That's why. You need v1.1. It should be available for download in the Civ2 downloads section. If you can't find it there, check out Apolyton. (www.apolyton.net/civ2)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I downloaded it, and it worked...

 

[The Person]

@CH
That's great!

Anyway, I've made a map of the start locations. (It's very small, I know.) If you wonder why I put the PluEmp on that small island, it's because PE specifically asked for it.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Move mine up a bit onto the river valley...

 

[The Person]

It's done. (Hopefully I didn't put it too far up...) Is it OK if I put your cities in clearings in the forest?

 

[Joeb WK]

Heres that armoured squid someone wanted. Ive also given it a little laser gun.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Is it OK if I put your cities in clearings in the forest?

Yes it is...

 

[Broken_Erika]

some space units for you all

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

If you wonder why I put the PluEmp on that small island, it's because PE specifically asked for it.

'Cause that is where I really did start in the PW

@CH
Yeah, I didn't yet take the time to make rivers...

 

[Chukchi Husky]

@CH
Yeah, I didn't yet take the time to make rivers...

I added the rivers based on the location of forests, jungles, swamps and coastal features...

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I read somewhere that there's a converter that converts ToT scenarios to MGE files?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Yes but the scenario has multiple layered maps (a feature of Test of Time)...