Hi I'm playing a game on a large map, warlord 7 civ, barb raging hordes. I've read a nice article about quick expanding and was trying it out, with succes. I have conquered everybody except one city. I've build a spaceship but I wait to launch it because I am still developping my cities so they get maximum growth. This takes a lot of time, transforming all those hills, plains etc in gras-farmland. I'm in the year 1857 now. After a session I often retire after I have saved just to see my score and compare it with the first of HOF. I had over 300% , more than 6000p a population of 250 million(and rising) and was 'the magnificent'. Now something strange happened: suddenly my population is '10.000', I'm 'the worthless' and my percentage is -267% my score is +/- 7700 though. why does this happen? What to do about it? How do I get to know my real score?
scoring problem
- Thread starter wuzzie
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What version are you using? It sounds like you need to dowload a patch to fix the game.
In the game go to the 'Game' menu and then select 'Game Options'. It will show your version on the header of that screen.
You have an old version. You better update to version 2.42 then you're problems should be over.
From the readme.
Even when patched Civ2 still has problems with big numbers, especially with displaying them... 320 million is the highest population Civ2 shows. Go any higher and it will still show up as 320 million. Then after ~655 million it starts over again at 0 (and that pattern keeps repeating itself if you go even higher).
Your real population is probably about 796 million now (=141+655).
But your entire population still counts towards your score!
Your real population is probably about 796 million now (=141+655).
But your entire population still counts towards your score!
Yes this is. The max mumber of future techs you can discover is 255. After discovering this tech..the next future tech will be FT1 and you have less points....The developers thought that nobody ever would discover more techs then FT255....so they stopped making more techs after FT255. I don't know how it exactly works, but at some point you indeed get a boost of techs in one turn....in one game I had around 40 in one turn....
So I guess I can add 2550p to my score
If you're going for an high score it's the trick not to go to FT1 again.....
Ace
Emperor
The reason for the large number to techs in one turn is that about FT 167, the cost per tech rolls over to 10 beakers, just like your first tech. I don't remember the exact progression, but each tech costs more than the previous one. This can be as much as 32,000=/- beakers before it rolls over to 10 again. So on the turn it rolls over, since your generating several thousands of beakers per turn, presto, your starting over at only 10 per. (IIRC, the last time I did this, I got about 47 advances in one turn!)
The real trick, is creeping up on #255 without going over. As you found out, going over 255 FT costs about 1270 points.
The real trick, is creeping up on #255 without going over. As you found out, going over 255 FT costs about 1270 points.
