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HylandPaddy

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I have played Civ 1 for many years and i never had any clitches or blips with the game. But in my last couple of games strange things started to happen.

firstly, i was just playing normally when Napoleon wanted to speak to me, i accepted. when the parly screen came up the graphics were all messed up. in the corner of the screen was a box containing all the facial expressions (smiling, angry, ect) of the people that are usually standing in the background. At first i just accepted this as nothing. But later in the game when i went to the Intelligance Advisor, a wierd screen came up:
(it looked like a normal Intelligance screen but with different stats)

.At the top it said "Empire of the Zulus"

subject: the 8, Microsoft Corp.
Leader: > (the arrow was flashing grey & black)
Capital: NONE
Technology:
1
2
3
Labour Union
Robotics


(this is all i can remember)
the strange thing was i was the russians, the Zulus wern't even in the game.
and nobody had that technology yet.


Another anomaly i encountered was the "Bermuda Triangle" or should i say "Square". it was a single square just off the coast of Mexico (pacific side)
enemy ships attacked the empty square and were destroyed whilst mine just passed right through. i observed this many times in that game and made sure the square was empty when the enemy attacked.

Any idea how these phenomana occur or have you experienced any yourself?
 
Firstly, congratulations for playing so long without coming across a glitch. Civilization has quite a number of holes in its code, its a wonder you did it!

Secondly, welcome to the fora!

Thirdly, I've never hap'd upon such phenomena. My guess is that the game read off the wrong *.txt file or perhaps the *.txt file is corrupted in some way! You could always hunt through the txts to check it out.

The Bermuda Triangle you speak of (technically, Bermuda is off the USA but I digress) sounds new to me too. Its little random events like that that make me love Civ1.

Happy ruling!
 
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