Host Tech Removal Tool

[kengel]

Since it might be useful:
here is a small tool which removes host techs for speed up game starts.
Unzip it into the civ2 main directory.

How it works?
1. Start a game
2. if host starts with techs: Save the game
3. Let all players retire
4. double click on "adv_term.exe"
5. it will prompt for the file name of the saved game, just type it it in (do not forget the file extension .net)6. Load the game as an usual internet game. The host techs are removed.

For the interested ones, the zip also contains the source code in C.

Enjoy!

[-Jrabbit]

If this works, you will certainly make Rah a happy camper...

[winzity]

It works!

And very nice to have the source code...

I know because we used it yesterday in our new Wednesday euro time "in game diplo" game.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101997

[rah]

It could be helpful, but our normal average for starts to get one without techs is 2, so I don't think this would save much time. And it's fun to hear people p*ss and moan about the start they didn't get.

But there are those nights where it takes 5-6 starts that I would kill for something like this. And I can remember one start that placed me on a one square island and gave me a heck of a lot of techs to compensate. Removing the techs whouldn't have helped that one.

[Hydey]

Originally posted by rah
And it's fun to hear people p*ss and moan about the start they didn't get.

Its fun to p*ss and moan as well

[-Jrabbit]

First time I saw this thread, I imagined a tech tool for removing the host...

[VetLegion]

Kengel, I have a related question.

I have looked at the source. You were obviousely familiar with the memory addresses of Tech values when you wrote this tool.

I wonder do you know if the problem with King Chat limitation (8 kb) could be solved in the same way, by finding the value (8 kb) in the exe file and then modifying it.

[Alexander's Horse]

too pissed to check

[CapTVK]

I remember the starting tech removal tool back from a year or two. Is this a new version?

[Zylka]

Originally posted by rah
And it's fun to hear people p*ss and moan about the start they didn't get.

Hmm. which players would those be?

I always thought techs were a way to compensate ****ty surrounding terrain? Might be a possible variable control to avoid tampering with

[rah]

Originally posted by Zylka
Hmm. which players would those be?

Everyone.

[Rasputin]

it maybe to compensate for bad starting position , but yet the host is predominatly the one that gets the techs

[-Jrabbit]

...and what the AI considers a bad position is at variance with what a human player might think.

[atawa]

Originally posted by Rasputin
it maybe to compensate for bad starting position , but yet the host is predominatly the one that gets the techs

The host is the only human player receiving techs, this is why clean starts were invented.

[rah]

yep. But I don't think Ras was thinking that one all the way through.