Remove "You have won the game" screen

[totalufo]

After I get so far, I end up winiing the game and it says something like. "You have found out why the universe exists at all" and after every turn, it keeps asking me if I want to continue. I do want to continue, I just want that annoying popup to go away so I dont have to keep saying "yes I want to continue"
Anyone know how to get rid of that?

[Barington]

This happened to me once; it seems to be triggered by the discovery of future tech 4 or 5 I cannot remember. Of course you have not actually won the game and I think scoring stops at this pont antway. Do not know how to stop it happening. You just need to win before things reach this point. Are you playing bloodlust rules; I should have though someone would get to Alpha C long before this. I only play bloodlust and deliberately try to delay science development.

[Prof. Wagstaff]

This is my first time here, and I came specifically looking for a thread like this. I HATE the "secret of the universe" game ending, because there's no info on what triggers it and therefore no way to predict/prepare for it. When I play, I like to prepare for the end of the game; starting with the year 200 or the launch of my spaceship or the reduction of my opponents to a couple of easily-sackable cities, I begin improving happiness more agressively, cleaning up pollution, etc. But there's no way to do that when the game just ends on you!

I don't think any particular advance triggers it; I think I'v had it kick in before I even got to Future technology. But I do know that the last time this happened (last night), I used the autosave to go back two turns, bring my science spending down to zero, and turn all my scientists inot tax collectors. That seems to have held it at bay, so I can get on with winning on my own terms.

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The world won't end in violence, it will end in family fun,
With Coca-Cola clouds behind a Big Mac sun...

[Julius Brenzaida]

Well, I don't like that way to win either.
It's too easy.
You can remove it by modifying the events.txt, though (everything is well explained, remove the lines or change the number of the tech up to 9999)

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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe

[Kestrel]

That is, as suggested by the previous poster, replace the last event in the Original Events.txt with something like this :


;
; Non-Conquest, Non AC Arrival Endgame
; ------------------------------------

@IF
RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY
receiver=anybody
futuretech=99
@AND
RANDOMTURN
denominator=25
@THEN
JustOnce
TEXT
^At the very moment the proof of the Unified Field Theory is to be
^demonstrated, the World Consortium Of Physicists makes an even more
^startling discovery- Why the universe exists at all.
^With this knowledge, life on earth progresses to a higher plane of
^existence where there is no longer any need for competition.
YOU HAVE WON THE GAME!
ENDTEXT
ENDGAME
endscreens=yes
PLAYAVIFILE
Scene6.avi
@ENDIF


This means that you can't win this way until you get to Futuretech 99 and then you have a one in 25 chance of winning this way.

(It might also be the lack of a "JustOnce" that is causing your repeat "Yes I want to continue" problem).

Regards,

Kestrel

[Angelo Scotto]

Are we talking about extended game or original game?
Because i had the same problem with original game (and this is really strange because it doesn't have events.txt), looking at the sav file i noticed that it contained an EVNT section!
(I wonder why, any idea?)
I used the FW delevents.exe file (i found it in RedFront scenario) and it worked but i'm still trying to understand why this has happened.

Angelo

P.S. Sorry, i misread Kestrel post, he is talking about original events.txt and i've found it, but my question remains, only a bit changed: WHY we need an events.txt in Original game?
[This message has been edited by Angelo Scotto (edited September 26, 2000).]