Multiplayer Strategy Guide

[david42one]

Hehe, I was confused too, before I saw the MedMod. Do alot of people play this? I must admit to never having tried a ctp mod, is this the best one?

[Mathemagician]

if you ask the ASs to attack someone they are at war with anyway, your relation to them will improve.
it might drop down later on when they realize you dont attack the third party yourself, but for the moment they pretty much fall in love with you.

but beware that the third party civ is actually one who does not like you else you might lose a good friend.

btw, AS = Artificial Stupidity
i dont think they deserve another desription sometimes.

[Keygen]

Originally posted by blackice

Yup just put it in space for instance over a city, then put it to sleep or ingnore it till the game is over...

Space units in sleep mode in space do spend fuels but in a very slow rate. They don't need to be above a city but anywhere in space.

[blackice]

True Troll but above the oppositions cities stops them from launching.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by blackice
True Troll but above the oppositions cities stops them from launching.

Sorry Pete, what was said by me that you agreed with??

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[Nimrod]

Originally posted by david42one
Hehe, I was confused too, before I saw the MedMod. Do alot of people play this? I must admit to never having tried a ctp mod, is this the best one?

Its the best one in my opintion Oh wait Its the only one I have tried But according to everything I have read, it combines several mods into one. So you could call it the most compresive. I certianly adds in places where Activision missed. Try it out.

[Mathemagician]

Originally posted by Nimrod


Its the best one in my opintion Oh wait Its the only one I have tried But according to everything I have read, it combines several mods into one. So you could call it the most compresive. I certianly adds in places where Activision missed. Try it out.

is it much work to go back from with-mod play to without-mod play ?

[Keygen]

Originally posted by blackice

True Troll but above the oppositions cities stops them from launching.

I had once enemy space fighers above a city and despite that I managed to launch a space fighter in space. I can't remember the exact conditions, it was long time ago.

[Nimrod]

Originally posted by Mathemagician


is it much work to go back from with-mod play to without-mod play ?

I new 2 CTP files on my hard drive. One for unmodded, and the other for mod play. That way I dont have to worry about the technocallities of switching between the 2. Except for a few file a person has to change manually, installation is easy too.

[Mathemagician]

you mean you have two instances of CTP ?
did you install CTP a second time ?
how can i do that ?
the CD wont let me install CTP a second time if there is already CTP installed.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Mathemagician
you mean you have two instances of CTP ?
did you install CTP a second time ?
how can i do that ?
the CD wont let me install CTP a second time if there is already CTP installed.

Just make a copy of your existing one under another name. Then, to switch between the two installations you just rename the folders so that the one you want has the right name. You can easily make a batch file to do the renaming for you.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Mathemagician
you mean you have two instances of CTP ?
did you install CTP a second time ?
how can i do that ?
the CD wont let me install CTP a second time if there is already CTP installed.

Just make a copy of your existing one under another name. Then, to switch between the two installations you just rename the folders so that the one you want has the right name. You can easily make a batch file to do the renaming for you.

[Mathemagician]

Originally posted by J Bytheway


Just make a copy of your existing one under another name. Then, to switch between the two installations you just rename the folders so that the one you want has the right name. You can easily make a batch file to do the renaming for you.

to make this clear:

i make a copy, just of my playctp.ext and rename the copy.
then i put it in another folder with another name.
right ?
so what do i put into the new folder ? just that .exe file or all the folder hierarchy with all other files as well ?

you mentioned a batch file doing the renaming. so do i have to rename each time i want to use the other one ?
i dont completely understand.

i thought no matter what i do to the game, the exe file would remain the same and just all the other file stuff would be changed, so i would need two totally independent installations....

[J Bytheway]

I mean copy the whole folder structure, from the base folder which by default is called something like Civilization - Call to Power.

As to the renaming: You can probably still run the other copy to a certain extent. IIRC I did this when I had multiple installs, but since the registry entries won't be pointing at the duplicate it won't be associated with save games, and patches etc. will not find it properly.

[blackice]

I had once enemy space fighers above a city and despite that I managed to launch a space fighter in space. I can't remember the exact conditions, it was long time ago.

Move one square and launch, but your still toast as they attack first now, unless you have 3 to one odds in your favor. You can move to other cities and launch. All these things create slow downs and losses that is the idea, especially later in the game.

If the aforementioned is done right, even ten major trade, production, wonder, science and or armed cities going down can cause a 10 or more turn delay. That factored in be it ahead or behind, you have an edge or the equalizer.