MAP: Marla's Earth Map - 204x256

[Panag]

Hi ,

a Q , what about changing the level for the nice barbarians and corruption .

i tried to put it to raging but it seems to work only if you do it in the screen of "the map" , that is the screen before the one where you can choose the civ you want to play , but if i do that , the whole map and rules seems to be "messed" up , so ?


have a nice one , DAY

[Panag]

Hi ,


well , what's up , on this thread , ....

okay , player1 , gramphos , i seen something funy , when playing on the map , when going to the industrial age , hmmm , well then settler gets the worker icon and the icon for the settler , well , huh , it just seems to go , 'blank' , i really believed that it was due to the comp or whatever , but , in the mean time i seen it with 3 others aswell , huh , one guy started on a new comp so it cant be due to some wrong files , i mean is harddrive was just formated from zero , hmmm , any one else seen this ?

oh yeah , the Piroque , could that be the problem ?

well , have a nice day

[Gramphos]

To get the icons right you will need to alter your units_32.pcx. This will however affect all games, also the one you don't play on this map, so an alerted image is not included.

You need to move the eight last icons on square to the right.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Gramphos
To get the icons right you will need to alter your units_32.pcx. This will however affect all games, also the one you don't play on this map, so an alerted image is not included.

You need to move the eight last icons on square to the right.

Gramphos , what ya mean , in plain english please , oh , our comp wizard , got it on his nerves from it yesterday , so lets see , i got an iq of about 5 , could i do it ?

so in other words , could you guide me true it ?


have a nice day !!

[Gramphos]

You need a program capable of editing PCX files without changing the palette. (PSP or Photoshop should do it)

1. Load the Units_32.pcx it the program (%Civ3Path%\Art\Units)
2. Select the eight last icons and move them to the right one slot. (Each icon is separated by a green line)

[Panag]

okay , now , i got microsft photo ed , and fore files one comp , units 32.pcx , okay , on of them contains "true icon sheet" , that the one ?
no green line

sorry for asking , but this is only in industrial ages with settler ,

the people here asked about it , and on some forums , on other sites , we where told we where nuts , so , you know what i talk about , right ?
i just got to ask

thanks , have a nice one

huh , what ya mean with all games , hmmm , it seems this is only on Marla's map , on other games no problem ! , random map or so , why is that ?

[Gramphos]

If that line aint green, its purple, or any other color, Palette index 254.

And it is not only the settler/worker icons that are affected, but also the icons for the leadre and armie, but they just get the wrong era icon, so it isn't so easy to notice.

[Panag]

gramphos , huh , now dont get upset or so , but would it be possible to post an example ?

by the way , thanks for your time , but on windows , i know nothing , so , if i ever can return the favor , say it !


have a nice day

[hammerquill]

I'm trying to start my second game with correct starting locations on Marla's glorious map, and encountering an IO error when loading the FIXED.SAV file. I had no such problem the first time I started one of these games, but this time it keeps on happening and I can't get past it. I've tried shutting CivIII down while running the correction program, and restarting the whole thing. Same trouble each time. The only thing I've done differently this time from the time it worked is to choose a different civ to play (Greeks) and to choose my opponents rather than make them random.

Any suggestions/fixes?? Is there a bug in the location fixer that's known?

[falsfire3401]

Big problem is still the fanatical rush to colonize Siberia. What if you replaced the forests with just plain tundra (for some of it, anyway), and then set Tundra to 0 for everything (only 1 shield, after mining). Would the AI still settle up there?

That sounds like a workable solution, *however*...you should then also change the amount of tundra in Canada. Canada is not a huge winter wasteland like some of our neighbours to the south seem to think. We get just as warm of spring, fall, summer as the northern U.S. does. We're only cold in the winter, when it's DAMN cold. March 25th, 2002, still waiting for spring-like weather

Anyways, from a gameplay perspective, if you make the change you suggested above it would totally cripple the Americans & Iroquois in N. America, due to how much of the map there is tundra.

Another thing I noticed, playing this map as the Americans, every single city I settled adjacent to a river still needed an aqueduct for growth > size 6. I've never experienced that "glitch" on a random-generated map.

And I, too, have experienced significant slowdown, even as early as the year 200 or 300 A.D. I have an Athlon 1400MHz, with 1GB of RAM, running Windows 2000 on a four-HD RAID-0 array, yet it still gets stupidly slow at the start & end of every turn, while it processes the unit movements, city build orders (not the interactive part, but the part where the game adds shields to the prod'n boxes of the various cities). I've never had a slowdown issue playing the game-provided HUGE maps...is it much larger than them? I didn't notice...

[Panag]

hi ,

well , it can be overcome , let do , they (the comp) puts only ever so many squares a city , give tundra zero food , remove game , and put forest like zero food , huh , that should do it .

okay , us and iroquois , hmmm , modify the map , put wheat on places ya want a city , in siberia or north america , i tried it , and it seems to work


have a nice day

[Atahualpa]

Please increase Movement Speed of Modern Naval Units!!!
5 Tiles for a Battleship is nothing.
It has to be more like 10 Tiles.
Same with Subs, Destroyers, Aegis Cruiser, Nuclear Subs and Carriers.

Frigates and Galleons should also be increased.

Galleys and Pirogues are just fine.

Air units are okay. Though maybe the bomber could get an increase by 2 tiles.

My 2 cents.

Apart from that: GREAT WORK!!!

ata

[EmprorCoopinius]

Hey, if anyone is still watching this thread who can answer my question, I'd be much appreciative...I started a new game last night as the Germans, got the correct starting position, no problem, but every time I went to build a new ciy, it always wanted to call it Berlin. Any idea what this is?

[Ninot]

i might know your problem Empror... is there a chance that there is an extra space after Berlin?

it has to be clean cut... check your editor to make sure you didnt happen to hit the space bar after Berlin...

[Ninot]

i have a question now... i edited around my Marla's bic a bit, and now my tech rate is highly speeded up. I used gramphos' CMT to add a few units and change one starting position...

and ive used 1.8 previous to my changes too

but i never before have had the priviledge of the Industrial age by 700 ad, on regent.

What could i have altered. Ive heard that the CMT sometimes speeds up the tech rate. Or is this crazy Ai trading that will be fixed on (hopefully) friday's patch?