question on flags in cities.gif

[comte_umanov]

well, hello everyone.

yeah, I know, there can only be 7 civs and the barbs - but there is an extra flag in the cities-file. can it be released by changing the colour style of a tribe in rules.txt to 8 (instead of regular 1 to 7) without any problems?
who´s done that before?
thanks,

cu

[curtsibling]

The extra flag I think was a throwback to when there
was an extra civ in the early CIV2 development era...

I reckon it is a red hering.

With hex-editing, the barbarion civ can be changed to
have alliances with the normal civs, without any war.

This is useful to represent an extra civ....

[comte_umanov]

well, thanks anyway - I actually aimed on having more than the regular 7 flags.
I gave it a try, and switched the flag style in the rules.txt to an 8. nothing happend, civ went on. the tribes, which I gave the number eight just had the flags which they get when having number 7.