In the beginning...

Marquis de Sodaq · February 10, 2002, 23:31

...the united tribe of Apolyton parted with its nomadic ways. They had found a fine spot to build their first city. The council convened, and the future was discussed.

Game parameters:
MGE (the vote was close...)
Deity, raging hordes, 7 civs with restart
Normal+ map (60x90)
Starting techs: Alphabet, Code of Laws, Pottery

Tribe name 'United Apolyton Republic' did not fit in the custom menu, so I dropped the republic part. We are United Apolyton, dark blue.

On my very first start, we begin so:

Hydey · February 11, 2002, 07:03

nice spot to start .

Shaka Naldur · February 11, 2002, 07:45

finally

the location sucks a little, but if we have to settlers that´s good enough

is there a shield in the spot of the settlers?

shade · February 11, 2002, 08:12

-->MGE

Ok,can someone help to get my Civ2.42 to MGE...with a ptch or something???

Kassiopeia · February 11, 2002, 12:28

President, I assume that a poll on what the capitol should build once it is constructed is in order.

Shaka Naldur · February 11, 2002, 13:39

Quote:

Originally posted by shade
-->MGE

Ok,can someone help to get my Civ2.42 to MGE...with a ptch or something???

go here!

the web page is in spanish, go down the page and when you find Descargar you´ve got it,

and here you have another patch so you won´t need the cd to play

ixnay · February 11, 2002, 17:07

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur

go here!

the web page is in spanish, go down the page and when you find Descargar you´ve got it,

and here you have another patch so you won´t need the cd to play

I did that, but now my civ2 is in spanish...es una problemo...

Kassiopeia · February 11, 2002, 17:17

Does this MGE introduce how big differences in the tech tree, the improvements, units, wonders and their prerequisites? Can I work free of hindrance as a City Planner without it?

Gramphos · February 11, 2002, 17:21

What did you name the leader?

shade · February 11, 2002, 17:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur

go here!

the web page is in spanish, go down the page and when you find Descargar you´ve got it,

and here you have another patch so you won´t need the cd to play

thx Shaka

ok went there and found 4 zips-->just to make sure:I need them all 4???(probably)

Quote:

I did that, but now my civ2 is in spanish...es una problemo...

I already took a look in the zips,and if every thing is like I think you might be able to solve it:
just start all over
-->instal civ2 (your original)
-->extract the zips but DON'T EXTRACT the text files.since the patch is just overwritting this might be the solution...(just a guess,since I'm not ready sure you need the 4 zips==>probably)

Shade

ixnay · February 11, 2002, 17:43

I tried that, and I think some of the text files change with the different versions, as it would crash on startup unless I transferred the text files...

Anyone want to send me the english text files for MGE?

shade · February 11, 2002, 18:46

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Originally posted by ixnay37
I tried that, and I think some of the text files change with the different versions, as it would crash on startup unless I transferred the text files...

Anyone want to send me the english text files for MGE?

or just post them here so other ppl(me for example) can get them to.

An other little question:for our president:
Where/how(PM/Thread) do you want to get the final advice of your advisors?(and by when??)

Shade

Mercator · February 11, 2002, 19:15

You'd probably want to go here instead for the patch:

http://hometown.aol.com/cedricgreene

(Note that this is illegal and personally I find this so open appraising of such an illegal matter quite revolting

, but that's beside the point)

Marquis de Sodaq · February 11, 2002, 22:44

Quote:

Originally posted by shade
An other little question:for our president:
Where/how(PM/Thread) do you want to get the final advice of your advisors?(and by when??)

As soon as your polls close. That will save me the time of reading every poll thread to see if they are closed, and what the results are. A summary in a pm will be good.

Gramphos · February 12, 2002, 02:41

I think that the mge patch has English text files in it.

http://www.ina-support.com/faq/civ2golddownloads_pc.asp

you can give it a try.

Shaka Naldur · February 12, 2002, 16:33

Quote:

Originally posted by shade

thx Shaka

ok went there and found 4 zips-->just to make sure:I need them all 4???(probably)

I´m sorry, but i´ve never download the patch myself, I just know that it existed,

sorry

shade · February 12, 2002, 16:57

thx anyway for the link...

Shade

Marquis de Sodaq · February 12, 2002, 23:04

We have discovered monarchy! The Oedo calendar suggest that we will very soon have our first king. The game is paused for polling, as the tech choices available require citizen consideration.

We appear to be on our own continent. We will need to poke around the corners to make sure, but it appears we will need boats soon.

Both cities are producing settlers. Citizenry, think about where you want to expand our glorious realm!

Our world:

shade · February 13, 2002, 11:21

I'm interested in our current military(and science) status so I can try to figure out what to do next...

At the moment my only strategical suggestion is to build up a strong emperial centre on the island(ie first settle the 2 settlers on the island and afterward with the next generation of settlers go to the other islands(1 north of Sodaq and the one in the south of Apolyton)

Shade

Gramphos · February 13, 2002, 11:33

How long until we will continue.

As for the science status I know we have Monarchy, and then whe should have Ceremonial Burial as well, and maybe Warrior Code (if it is true that Feudalism can be researched).

Marquis de Sodaq · February 13, 2002, 13:31

Open the new polls today. That will allow me to finish our first 20 turns (3000bc) tomorrow evening (-6 GMT).

Shade, each city has one defender. There is a warrior exploring, tho he did not appear in the screen shot.

To the east is more ocean. (I moved the warrior to end the turn, in order to find out the available techs at our next turn.)

Map making may need to be made a priority in the next two or three techs.

Besides our 3 starting techs, we have discovered ceremonial burial and monarchy, and got warrior code from a hut.

shade · February 13, 2002, 13:48

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Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq
Shade, each city has one defender. There is a warrior exploring, tho he did not appear in the screen shot.

To the east is more ocean.

the unit probably was blinking...then they aren't captured by the screenshot.(same as with mousepointers)

thx for the update
I want a ship...USS Shadowski
(to boldly go where...)

Shade

Shaka Naldur · February 13, 2002, 17:14

Marquis, why don´t you post the savegame??

looks really good

do we know yet if we are in an island???

Gramphos · February 13, 2002, 17:16

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
Marquis, why don´t you post the savegame??

looks really good

do we know yet if we are in an island???

No, don't post the save. Noone shall be able to be before in the game. That must result in punisment.

Shaka Naldur · February 13, 2002, 17:20

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Originally posted by Gramphos
Noone shall be able to be before in the game. That must result in punisment.

I´m sorry but I don´t understand the meaning of this sentence

Gramphos · February 13, 2002, 17:30

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Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
I´m sorry but I don´t understand the meaning of this sentence

Well, simply, you shall not have a game to be able to explore the world and tell everyone where to go, and where to not go.

But as wise president yuo should have a backup save emailed to you once in a while. Maybe encoded with a secret password that two other cabinet members know, and in case the presedent doesn't show up the cabinetmembers gives you the pass and you can step in.

We need a high security level. Maybe each cabinet member should get a part of the password.

shade · February 13, 2002, 17:36

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos

Well, simply, you shall not have a game to be able to explore the world and tell everyone where to go, and where to not go.

But as wise president yuo should have a backup save emailed to you once in a while. Maybe encoded with a secret password that two other cabinet members know, and in case the presedent doesn't show up the cabinetmembers gives you the pass and you can step in.

We need a high security level. Maybe each cabinet member should get a part of the password.

A save would be quite usefull for the cabinet members,so they have a better view on what they control(eg the military advisor when there are >200 units in game...guess it would be interesting to see the president make a summary of that...

)

Shade

Kassiopeia · February 13, 2002, 17:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
We need a high security level. Maybe each cabinet member should get a part of the password.

I like the sound of that. And the password would be changed after every election to prevent the word spreading over to the people in form of bitter former Ministers.

Gramphos · February 13, 2002, 17:46

Quote:

Originally posted by shade
A save would be quite usefull for the cabinet members,so they have a better view on what they control(eg the military advisor when there are >200 units in game...guess it would be interesting to see the president make a summary of that...

)

Shade

Well, maybe then, but not now. Then the world will be explored, and most likely we will move the units in groups to make it esier to order the movement of them.

Gramphos · February 13, 2002, 17:47

Quote:

Originally posted by kassiopeia
I like the sound of that. And the password would be changed after every election to prevent the word spreading over to the people in form of bitter former Ministers.

The biggest probem would be to know what order to put the ministerparts together.