Too many cities

[jasev]

I've just received an e-mail from ZenehegÃ, one of our spanish Civ2 scenario creators. He's trying to create a world-scale scenario and he's found that 'too many cities' error message. He asked me if there's a way to allow more cities.

I don't think it's possible, but if somebody know how to hex-hedit the file to allow it...

Thanks in advance.

[Mercator]

Nope, not possible.

[Heresson]

My constant problem

[jasev]

I thought so. Thanks anyway.

[AGRICOLA]

The CIV II software uses 1 byte to count cities. This means that the first city is number 0 and the largest number possible is 255 (ff in hexadecimal). Consequently, the maximum number of cities cannot exceed 256.

[Mercator]

255 cities... 255/FF is used for the NONE indicator.

[curtsibling]

I wish the creators would release the source code...

[Arthedain]

Yeah we had a chat about that yesterday..

[Elok]

Not likely. If they released the source code we might ignore CivIII entirely.

[Harry Tuttle]

Well the CTPII source code is out... Can anyone make heads or tails of it?