Which Civ2 version?

[shade]

if you want to shoot me for this please don't

==>We could try to find a nut who could program a conversionprogram(this is if it's possible without loosing the important variables)
--> nothing fancy just something that reads the save and then converts it without scr*wing up....

Shade

[Marquis de Sodaq]

If we have more players join, we could eventually have separate games, one for each of the versions. I think we still have far too few for this now, tho.

Any other ideas for a solution?

[Shaka Naldur]

I think that MGE is the most usual one

actually i have the original and the MGE edition so I don´t care

[shade]

It is a problem of backward compatibility. The older versions (lower version numbers) cannot play newer version save games, but newer version can play old versions.

Knowing this,I think it's a logical conclusion to play with the oldest version(probably 2.42).Since the game has to be posted regularly so ppl can check what's going on.If it's posted in the oldest version everyone can load it and see what to do,and since only the president is playing only he/she has to create savefiles everyone can use.
I know playing like this has the drawback that only someone with the oldest version can be president,but on the other hand EVERYONE ELSE can do his/her job even if he/she has an other version.
(eg: someone starts with MGE and the cityplanner only has Civ2.42
==>forget the planning)

Shade

[Shaka Naldur]

do we use the original one then?

[Shaka Naldur]

but patches to update original civ to mge can be found in the net

just making things more difficult

[shade]

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
but patches to update original civ to mge can be found in the net
just making things more difficult

I know,but since it only is necesarry for the president to have Civ2.42 and the massive responce for the president post ....

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[Marquis de Sodaq]

As your new president , I need to play in version 2.42. My goons will retrieve my copy from a friend, hopefully by sunday evening (-6 GMT). Iirc, it is the Conflicts in Civilization version - that is 2.42, n'est-ce pas? That also gives everybody time to vote for game preferences if they have not already done so.

In any case, I will post a 4000bc save game. Let's hope that all wil be able to use it...

[Frank Johnson]

Bottom line - we want to exclude the fewest possible people from playing thus, the group with the fewest must be cast out.

I believe MPGE will be the most common.

[Scouse Gits]

For the record, Your Supreme Poobah, Sir, it transpires that Conflicts in Civilization is version 2.62 - and (IMHO) is more buggy than 2.42

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[Hydey]

If its version 2.42 I will have to try and find the CD as I last had that installed 2 computers ago.

hydey looks at huge pile of unlabled CD's and starts to cry.

[James Adams]

Which version is the standard CIV2

With no adds on?

[Marquis de Sodaq]

SG[1], it remains to be seen which version I have. Long ago I purchased the original version. Later I bought the CiC add-on. Later still MGE. Which of the first two I can shake out of my friend, I no longer know. With luck it is the first...

[Gramphos]

IIRC 2.42 is the latest patch to the original Civ2.