Another annoyed newbie question

woopwoopnigga · November 21, 2002, 19:36

Why do I never get any ruins in any of my games?? All help appreciated.

SEE BELOW FOR MY *****ING ABOUT MEDMOD

Maquiladora · November 21, 2002, 19:45

Do you mean you dont see any ruins to enter at all? or you never get any techs/units/money from the ruins?

woopwoopnigga · November 21, 2002, 19:47

yeah, there are no ruins on the map at all

Maquiladora · November 21, 2002, 19:54

Did you explore the whole map? Also are you using any mods, what map size/settings.

woopwoopnigga · November 21, 2002, 20:01

no mods, extensively explored, using huge map, usual settings, they ain't there

Martin Gühmann · November 21, 2002, 20:46

A small question on which difficuilt level are you playing, if you are playing on the two first ones you won't get ruins and will play against the same civs all the time.

-Martin

HuangShang · November 21, 2002, 21:11

yeah medium and higher only

Oerdin · November 21, 2002, 21:55

Switch to a higher level of difficulty or use a custom map for your current level of difficulty.

Maquiladora · November 22, 2002, 05:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
A small question on which difficuilt level are you playing, if you are playing on the two first ones you won't get ruins and will play against the same civs all the time.

-Martin

Wow i didnt even notice that or maybe i never played that difficulty.

Martin Gühmann · November 22, 2002, 11:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Wow i didnt even notice that or maybe i never played that difficulty.

Actual I did not find out it on my own I just read enough threads here about this topic. IIRC it is also in the FAQ but it is not in its table of content.

-Martin

woopwoopnigga · November 24, 2002, 20:55

thanks, that's probably it... being a civ fan but a CTP noob i decided to jump into the easy setting 1st

Maquiladora · November 24, 2002, 21:04

You will realise pretty quickly that "impossible" is rather easy too. Might want to try a mod.

woopwoopnigga · November 24, 2002, 21:07

I'm in the process of downloading MedMod at the moment, although my computer is being less than coooperative :P

Devil of Truth · November 25, 2002, 04:36

I’ve had some problems with MedMod too… but it’s definitely worth the hassle

. Just don’t forget to get Cradle and SAP!

woopwoopnigga · November 25, 2002, 05:39

On the subject of MedMod, I just spent the better part of a day on my dodgy computer with its dodgy internet connection downloading it from Wes's website, only to find that I'm always getting "Unable to find/load Targa" terminal messages, as well as "The program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down....
CTP2 caused an invalid page fault in
module at 0000:8367e202.
Registers:
EAX=8367e204 CS=0137 EIP=8367e202 EFLGS=00010282
EBX=00e70320 SS=013f ESP=00d4fcf8 EBP=00d4fd1c
ECX=8367301c DS=013f ESI=00f1e470 FS=5bdf
EDX=00000019 ES=013f EDI=00f1e5e0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 a0 04 20 67 83 04 ef 67 83 00 00 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
00608b1b 8367e204 00000000 00f1e470 00d4fd18 00f1e470 00d4fd30 0079af56 00000001 00d4fd3c 00623055 00000000 00f1e470 00f1e470 00d4fd8c 0079d2e8 "

WTF gives???? NOT HAPPY!

Maquiladora · November 25, 2002, 09:38

I had this problem when i unzipped the pics folder. Make sure you unzip the pics into ...\Call To Power 2\ctp2_data\default\graphics\pictures. By default the medmod "pictures.zip" will unzip them into a folder called "Med mod II Pics", then you should just move them into your pictures folder as above.

woopwoopnigga · November 25, 2002, 22:39

Yeah, figured that one out about 5 minutes after I blasted the forums lol cheers

HuangShang · November 25, 2002, 23:51

i never new....