Which source code should we petition them to release?

[DarkCloud]

Since they aren't likely to release any of the others, i voted for the oldest:

Civ I
MOO I
Colonization [Possibly the best of the 3 ]

Since we have the greatest chance of getting them
But In a fantasy world- Civ II would be great for the reasons that yaroslav stated... and they are still selling it... in bundles (I'd say in another 4 years it might be viable... although it wouldn't run on that year's current systems, likely )

[Panag]

Originally posted by H Tower
how would they ruin it? i'm betting that all those cheats Xin Yu found could be eliminated. there's a list as long the role of the civ3 democracy game.

hi ,

some people went a bit to far with civ II , in fact everytime you played a scenario you had to reinstall your original again if you wanted to play lets say MP , anyway we have enough options in the editor and more to come in the future , so why bother , .....

Mike from Firaxis gave ones a long explanation in a chat as to why they would not release the codes , its somewhere on this site , ...

have a nice day

[VetLegion]

panag

some people went a bit to far with civ II , in fact everytime you played a scenario you had to reinstall your original again if you wanted to play lets say MP

you werent supposed to keep scenario files in the main game directory you know. I played lots of scenarios and didnt reinstall once.

Mike from Firaxis gave ones a long explanation in a chat as to why they would not release the codes , its somewhere on this site

can you give us a summary?

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by panag


hi ,

some people went a bit to far with civ II , in fact everytime you played a scenario you had to reinstall your original again if you wanted to play lets say MP , anyway we have enough options in the editor and more to come in the future , so why bother , .....

Those guys reinstalled the entire game for a replaced terrain and units.gif!?Did they actually say that!? LOL

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by VetLegion

Mike from Firaxis gave ones a long explanation in a chat as to why they would not release the codes , its somewhere on this site

can you give us a summary?

You might be better off searching for posts by Mike.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by CapTVK


Those guys reinstalled the entire game for a replaced terrain and units.gif!?Did they actually say that!? LOL

I'm not sure......it doesn't sound that likely.....but that's what was said.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Mark_Everson
I voted for Civ II MGE as the most important. It is still modern enough to be of relevance, yet old enough to be even vaguely possible. Plus I was obsessed with it for quite a while! If the AI could be brought up to snuff I could see myself easily playing Civ2 today.

Yes, me too.

I hope you can succeed, but it doesn't seem likely. Going to have an e-petition with signitures?

I m just checking what the pulse of the fans is. But that would be the best way to eventually do it.

How about this for an idea with a little more punch. . . Ask the relevant company How Much Money they would want to do it. It might be a rather modest amount that would make the bean-counters smile since the games are essentially written off already. Then set up a paypal account for donations. Spread over a large fan base it might be doable. I think it'd at least have a better chance than appealing to their altruism!

Hmm, you know how InternetPeople are, we want it now and we want it free!

The smartest approach would not to let them know we care

'Dear Mr.Infogree, ups! ...I mean Infogrames, you can release civ2 code to us if you really really want to... I mean we got better stuff to do but if you badly want to disclose it... ahh well ok here is my mail'

Would it work?

Someone mentioned that they still sell civ2 in bundled packs or compilations. My question is, do they still print civ2 or are they just getting rid of old stocks?

And it is pretty surprising to me that they would still have stocks of civ2, I mean how many millions of copies did they make?

[Locutus]

Although I'd like to see Civ1, Col and CtP1 too, the code for CtP2 would be the most useful: it's a very new game (compared to Civ1 anyway), it's been abandoned by the developer/publisher, fairly minor changes to the code would mean huge improvements for the game, there's a fairly sizeable group of very enthousiastic people still slaving away on making the game as good as it can get and they would absolutely *love* to get their hands on the source and perfect it (even if it would take years)...

And I'd like to see the comments too

//more workarounds than you could shake a lemur poo at
-- St Swithin (Activision), tut2_main.slc

If the public code has so many, I wonder what the closed code looks like...

[DarkCloud]

Perhaps we could persuade them to sell the source code as a bundled program!

then everyone would get what they want!

[Panag]

Originally posted by CapTVK


Those guys reinstalled the entire game for a replaced terrain and units.gif!?Did they actually say that!? LOL

hi ,

well back then there where several people who a great deal of problems with mods and scenarios , and indeed most of the files where completely changed by the mods and scen's , some creators even put eastereggs the size of nebraska in them

have a nice day

[Panag]

Originally posted by DrSpike


You might be better off searching for posts by Mike.

hi ,

it was in a chat , we talked about it for a very long time

have a nice day

[Straybow]

You forgot Civ2 2.42 in there…

CtP2 has SLIC. Source code much less necessary than for other games.

[Locutus]

Although SLIC probably gives CtP2 more modding potential than all other Civ games combined (well, except for FreeCiv ), there is still a LOT that needs to be fixed/we would like to improve but which falls outside the scope of SLIC...

[DrSpike]

Go on, I'll bite.......what the hell is SLIC?

[Immortal Wombat]

A scripting language. Think Civ2's macro language crossed with Java.

http://apolyton.net/ctp2/modification/activision/slic.shtml