is C3C regional ?

[den]

Hello,

I'm a French player of Civilzation III.
I bought the US version of the game (+Play The World) when I lived there.
Now, I'm back in France, and I'd like to buy Conquests.

Is it "regional"? ie. will the French version of conquests will work with the US version of Civ3?

I can't buy from amazon.com (they can't ship to Europe) but I may buy it from amazon.co.uk. Will the UK version of Conquests work with the US version of Civ3?

I got the information that Play the World was regional. So I guess it is the same for Conquests.

Thanks for your answer.

Sincerely yours,

den

[alva]

From the chat:

[18:28] Just repeating a question, but: can a c3c euro version be installed on a US
ptw/civ 3 combo?
[18:29] And the question I've heard from French users - Will the French version be
able to play English mods and scenarios?
[18:30] I know that C3C was planned to be cross compatable with all
PTW/Civ3 variants
[18:30] <+bobT_Breakaway> The French version, as well as all other language versions have
units named in their native language
[18:31] Like Portugal on the Napoleonic Scenario?
[18:31] <+bobT_Breakaway> ini files may not work.
[18:32] but like Bob says the scenarios and mods need extensive work to
translate
[18:32] <+MikeB> The only change you should need to make is to go into pediaicons.txt and
change all the unit folder names to match the ones in your language. I don't know if this is
automatically handled or not (though I would guess it's not).
[18:32] <+bobT_Breakaway> yes
[18:32] <+Merepatra> Can we play "non playable civs" on scenarios changing
it in the editor?...yes you could change it in the editor to play them... but they aren't balanced to
be played
[18:32] <+MikeB> That only applies for vanilla civ3 units because we changed the system for ptw
[18:34] <+bobT_Breakaway> the other way you can get them to work in other languages, is for
modders to provide pedialcon, civilopedia and all other supporting text files in their language,
and make sure the scenario uses a specific scenario folder.
[18:34] *** Emperor1 (~yahoo@h24-68-71-156.vc.shawcable.net) 4[joined] #apolyton.
[18:35] Does the ground A-A work equally well against Stealth and non-Stealth
aircraft?
[18:35] <+Merepatra> Yes, I "lost" my Napoleonic Europe English version but I still have the
German version and I can play that ok in German in the English game as it has its own
scenario folder
[18:36] <+MikeB> I think in Conquests there is support for a partial civilopedia.txt (containing
only scenario-specific items) and maybe some other text files as well... but again I'm not

[den]

thanks for the quotation

I think I'd better buy the UK C3C as I don't want to have a mixed english/french version!

den