No hidden techs in scenarios

[SlowThinker]

How can I set normal discoveries (no hidden techs) in a scenario? I wasn't able to find anything in Civ2's cheat and scenario menus.
I know it is possible to hex-edit but I prefer something easier. Is there any tool for that?

[St Leo]

Are you trying to edit techs in the basic Civ2 game or are you trying to strip an existing scenario of its tech tree?

[kobayashi]

I bet he means clear goody huts. (if so, it is in the cheat menu- under game parameters or something)

[Cyrion]

I think what he wants is having a "free" choice of the new tech to research, and not a limited one as in the "vanilla" Civ (where you can't, I think, research 4 techs from the same "family" in a row).

If this was your question, and if I'm not mistaken, you always have the "free choice" in a scenario!

Wow, 3 posts and 3 different interpretations of the question! And maybe not 1 of them is the right one!!

[Palaiologos]

I guess that this czech fellow simply wants to eliminate the chance of goody huts giving away techs. He still wants them to give settlers and stuff though.

I think there is no such way, apart from hex editing.

[Mercator]

I second Cyrion.

In scenarios, you can always choose between all available techs.

[SlowThinker]

Sorry, I mistyped: I want not to have a "free" choice of the new tech to research in scenario.

(In fact I use scenario mode to change some properties of a vanilla game - for example I clear huts. But then I want to set research back.)

[Palaiologos]

If so then go to cheat menu-->edit king-->set research goal.

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by SlowThinker
Sorry, I mistyped: I want not to have a "free" choice of the new tech to research in scenario.

(In fact I use scenario mode to change some properties of a vanilla game - for example I clear huts. But then I want to set research back.)

Seems I nearly got it right!

@Mercator: thanks for your support!
BTW: I just used your Mapedit for my scen, and it was exactly the needed tool, thanks!!

[Mercator]

If so then go to cheat menu-->edit king-->set research goal.

um... That would simply set the tech that should be researched next.

What happens if you don't set the scenario flag, nor even save the game as a scenario. Instead, load the savegame through the scenario menu option. And possibly rename the savegame extension to .scn.

[Michael Daumen]

Do you mean you want there to be only one choice of new techs at a time? Then you have to make sure that your tech tree is a series of single techs with only one prerequisite.

So if the first tech you can search is Threaten Saddam, make the next tech (Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction) have Threaten Saddam as its only prereq, and then the next tech (Invade Anyway) have Search for Weaps, and so on.

[SlowThinker]

Michael Daumen, no, this is not my problem. In vanilla civ you cannot research some techs although you have both prereq.

There is a flag in .sav (and probably in .scn (Mercator?)) that controls that property ('scenario' flag) and may be hexedited. But I want something easier than hexediting.

Originally posted by Mercator
Instead, load the savegame through the scenario menu option.

I dont understand. Scenario menu has a 'load' option?
My procedure: I have a .sav file. I load it, change things via cheat mode, then save as scenario (Unfortunately with scenario flag).

[Stefan Härtel]

I think I got it: The 'tough luck' thingy (some advances are not always available for research in deity).
BTW, forgive me a really, really, really stupid question.....
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What's vanilla civ?

[HisMajestyBOB]

The plain, first release of Civ2. No ToT, FW, MGE, etc. Just the regular Civ2.

[Palaiologos]

Originally posted by Stefan Härtel
I think I got it: The 'tough luck' thingy (some advances are not always available for research in deity).
BTW, forgive me a really, really, really stupid question.....
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What's vanilla civ?

That sort of thing happens in Deity? Never noticed.

Vanilla civ is - i think - the normal civ2 game.