Civ II Unlimited

[Boco]

In case you haven't seen the thread, there's a pretty exciting development over at CFC: Civilization II: Test of Time Version 1.1 Unlimited

Originally posted by Elys
In current dev for both Civ 2 MGE and Civ 2 ToT:
- Increase the global max units from 2048 to 32000.
- Increase the max gold from 30,000 to 2,000,000,000.
- Increase the max map surface from 10,000 to 32,767.
- Increase the max population from 320,000,000 to 1.000,000,000.
- Increase time limit from 2020 to 9999
- Increase the Events memory to 212,960
- Remove the CD check.

[Harry Tuttle]

Ok, so what are the details? We've seen patches and "cracks" that can raise the various limits, but they've been buggy and will only work on systems with the said patch or crack. What does this do? Is it stable? Can it be widely distributed? What are the restrictions?

[Boco]

As you suspect, this is still in development.

A unique aspect of Elys' approach that I like is his "Loader" interface. You can distribute it with your scenario. The user runs the loader, then launches vanilla ToT or MGE. This gives the scenario designer some control over the version used for a particular scenario.

Elys is aware of other patches and is trying to take them into account (e.g. the No CD and low CPU burning patches). Both Catfish and Mercator are helping him test it, and he's been very responsive to there comments. As long as others help him, he'll likely continue the development. All in all, I like the odds of this one succeeding.

[Harry Tuttle]

Good. Success in programming and ease of use will make this a boon to development.

[techumseh]

Increase the Events memory to 212,960

[AGRICOLA]

Wow!

For TOT, if the unit limit could be increased and the events file enlarged, the AI would actually be able to conduct a pretty decent, semi-intelligent and reactive defence against human players.

Sadly, the more limited events language available in MGE would seem to rule out any such improvement.

[curtsibling]

Interesting...If this development could be implemented, then CIV2 would have a revolution!

Imagine inceasing the civ-faction count too!

High hopes for this one!

[McMonkey]

Best of luck with this project.

I am completely clueless when it comes to things technical but would greatly appreciate the extra freedom and possibilities this would allow in building scenarios!!!

Keep it up

[BillyBud]

Excellent news!

The revolution continues....

And don't forget: Elect Daleks for City Council....

[Harry Tuttle]

An increased event memory could mean actual strategic programming to counteract a human player. Cool.

[Von Bert]

Really a good news to see "our" game still alive !!
and 212 KB for events instead of 20.. . can really be used in a new style, especially w TOT flags i guess.

Would be super nice also an option that in battles force just 1 units to be killed at time as in fortresses.. or as in civ3 ( but not done covering the map of fortresses.. )