Programming Error in Game!!

[Jasonguru]

I just recently started playing civ2 and have started to get good (even tho i have cheated a little). i was up to about 1750 somethin and was going gr8 and then all of a sudden my population went to 10,00 from the 300 odd million i had.

is there a patch to fix this error? also, how do i chabge the settings back in the rules file to the default or do i have to re-install?

any help on this stuff would be much appreciated

 

[funxus]

There might be a patch for this called the no-limits patch, but I don't know whether this patch solves your particular problem.

The reason, IIRC, is that the population is counted in ten thousands of people and the max value of a signed 2-byte number (32,768) multiplied with 10,000 is 327,680,000 people. Then the counter rolls over. In all HOF-games where this has happened to the population count, they sum up the population of each city manually to calculate an accurate score.

 

[Jasonguru]

tyvm 4 the reply. was wondering if you have a link to this patch or a link to see what it contains?

also would you know how to fix rules file up to get back to the default or do i have to re-install

thanks again

 

[ElephantU]

Check the Civ2 Downloads page from the CFC main menu to find the NoLimits patch. Be warned that it does not work with the NoCD patch - its one or the other.

You didn't save a backup of your RULES.TXT before fiddling with it? For shame...

Here's a generic one: OLDRULES.ZIP