"Rome 280BC" scn trouble

BeBro · February 14, 2001, 09:39

I discovered this scenario some days ago in the "for review" section of the sleague. The readme says it´s for FW, but I think it´s not, I believet it´s for MGE. I tried to convert it, but now I receive events errors on every start. Can 20kb events be too much for FW? Has anybody played the scn under FW and can help me?

I´d like to play it, it looks very good...

Cam · February 14, 2001, 10:29

BeBro - Thanks for the note. I must confess that I was led by the 'read me' which begins "Warning!: You need to have installed Fantastic Worlds for this scenario to work!".

Those of you who read these boards a little too thoroughly and often might recall I had problems getting Civ2 to run following my Windows 2000 upgrade, and had to take scenario information on face value. I've since got a 'work around' to succeed, and indeed suffered the same fate as BeBro, in that it does not seem to gleefully embrace Fantastic Worlds.

I'll make the edit to the info' on the league's site at the next update (coming soon...), although Rick Westera is contactable at rw@access.com.au if you feel inclined to raise this matter directly.

BeBro · February 14, 2001, 11:13

Thanks for the adress, Cam. I mailed some days ago to his yahoo.com adress, but I´m unsure if it has reached him...

Gothmog · February 14, 2001, 16:46

It's really an MGE scenario.

Prometeus · February 14, 2001, 16:53

Puff... I was fearing the living hell i'll never be able to review it... but i have MGE.

BeBro · February 14, 2001, 17:18

Damn MGE!

Yes, I also thought about writing a review for it, but if I can´t get it to run it would be a very short review...

These units created by Rick look really nice.

Gothmog · February 15, 2001, 09:22

It's actually an 'Ultimate Civilization' scenario or so I surmise from the labels.txt. When I tried to run it in MGE it crashed the first time. To make it run in MGE, you have to change the labels.txt.
You have to change the section where it shows
@LABELS
888

to this
@LABELS
873

I don't know what that number stands for. Does anybody here know?

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BeBro · February 15, 2001, 09:39

I also tested a bit, I can play now under FW if I:

-convert the .scn file the MGE converter
-reduce the events to 18Kb

SCDARS · February 17, 2001, 07:31

quote:

It's actually an 'Ultimate Civilization' scenario or so I surmise from the labels.txt. When I tried to run it in MGE it crashed the first time. To make it run in MGE, you have to change the labels.txt.
You have to change the section where it shows
@LABELS
888
to this
@LABELS
873

I don't know what that number stands for. Does anybody here know?

Yes, I do - it's the number off lines that follow... it's like the name of the Barbarian tribes one can edit or like

quote:

@HISTORIANS
11
Herodot
Thukydides
Plinius
St. Augustin
Gibbon
Toynbee
Lord Macaulay
Livy
Tacitus
Bede
Machiavelli

.

Gothmog · February 17, 2001, 09:17

I never realized there were so many lines in the labels.txt. Thanks for enlightening me.

Jay Bee · February 17, 2001, 09:28

quote:

Originally posted by Cam on 02-14-2001 09:29 AM
BeBro - Thanks for the note. I must confess that I was led by the 'read me' which begins "Warning!: You need to have installed Fantastic Worlds for this scenario to work!".

You can't imagine how familiar that line read to me

I went on to download the scen and... I was right, I actually had written that sentence

St Leo · February 17, 2001, 18:53

Ah, that explains the lousy grammar.

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