Number Of Civilizations!

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Locutus

So if anything, English is actually a dialect of Frisian

Yeah, I've seen those language charts with English and Frisian in their own little corner of the West Germanic languages, under the subcategory "Anglo-Frisian".


Always seems to me that it ignores the very strong influence of French vocabulary though.

[tlatoani]

Is there any way to choose the civilisations you're playing against without going into the scenario editor?

[Immortal Wombat]

no

[tlatoani]

"Q1: When I start a new game, I always play against the same civs (in the unmodded game: Americans, English, Greek, Scottish, etc). Why can't I play against random opponents?

A1: If you want to play with random civs (regardless of what mods you're (not) using), there are two things to keep in mind:

1. You have to play on one of the higher difficulty levels, IIRC Prince/Medium or higher.
2. You have to make sure NonRandomCivs in ctp2_program\userprofile.txt is set to No.

If both these conditions are met you'll play against different opponents every time you start a new game."

Not exactly what I had in mind. The question relates to playing
against random civs. What I'm asking is if I can choose the civs. That is to make them non-random, but the civs of my choosing.

[tlatoani]

Thanks IW, I had a feeling that would be the case

That's another for Activision (add a large amount of irony, which Mexicans know a lot of)

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by tlatoani
Is there any way to choose the civilisations you're playing against without going into the scenario editor?

I thought you could do this by starting a hotseat game but choosing only one human player (See the FAQ for how to enable hotseat).

[Maquiladora]

Yeah you can, you can also do it by choosing a LAN game.

[Immortal Wombat]

oops. yeah.

That should be in the FAQ as well.