Some General Questions (My First Scenario)

[Alsbron QB]

Hello,

I am making a colonization Scenario on the GIGA WORLD map for mge and to be honest I may have delved into it a bit too soon.

How do I create Barbarian Cities in the exact place I want them?
How do I change the tribes color? (like the color of their flags or the font on the city names)?
Is there a program that can make revealing maps a bit more easy and faster because having to create and move around copters sure does take a long time.

Even though this is my first scenario I think it will be OK. I mean not anything like "Rape of Nations" or "Ascendance of Europe" but since its on a GIGA WORLD map it will be something different and new. I might release it here if I think its good enough but I am not sure.

 

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Alsbron QB
How do I create Barbarian Cities in the exact place I want them?

Two possibilities:
1. Create the city as normal. Leave it empty and put a barbarian unit next to it. Next turn, the barbarian will walk in... Voila, barbarian city.
2. Probably the better option. Use CivCity:
http://users.stargate.net/~harden/
Create a city as normal. Save the game, open your game with CivCity and change the owner to barbarians.

How do I change the tribes color? (like the color of their flags or the font on the city names)?

You have to change the cities.gif. The color of one particular pixel of the flags, and the colored bars above them are used for the various civ colors...
http://sleague.apolyton.net/Guides/sldt_flags.shtml

Is there a program that can make revealing maps a bit more easy and faster because having to create and move around copters sure does take a long time.

Nope... But, you can simply temporarily edit the rules.txt. Give a helicopter or fighter or so a movement of 70 or something. Or another possibility, temporarily change the movement cost of all terrains to zero. That way units can move infinitely... That doesn't affect air units though.

Good luck! Even if it doesn't quite turn into the best scenario ever, it's the best way to learn to create scenarios.

 

[Souron]

Is there a program that can make revealing maps a bit more easy and faster because having to create and move around copters sure does take a long time.

There's a reveal map cheat. It does not eveal the map in cities though.

 

[Mercator]

That option only works in cheat mode, you can't use it to permanently reveal the map in a scenario. For that, you can use an option in the scenario options though...

But in most cases people want to reveal only part of a map, like what you would expect to be seeing halfway through a normal game of civ2, just your own territory. For a scenario that means using helicopters or so to fly around the part of the map you want revealed.

 

[Catfish]

Originally posted by Alsbron QB
How do I change the tribes color? (like the color of their flags or the font on the city names)?

If you'd looked a few threads below yours, you would've noticed that someone had just asked that question. The article that Mercator provided isn't particularly well written, so if you find it confusing, try the other thread.

Originally posted by Mercator
Give a helicopter or fighter or so a movement of 70 or something.

The only way you're going to get a movement rate greater than 42 (without zeroing the movement cost of terrain), is to drop the Road Movement Multiplier below 3.