Retirement editting query

[Worth]

I have searched for the way to get rid of the forced retirement that limits game length for Alpha Centauri. What I found was someone's post that said

<<
Open your Alpha.txt file (located in the directory labeled "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri") with a tet editor, and in the first subsection called
#RULES, scroll down towards the bottom of this section till you see the following line:

2500 ; Normal ending year for highest 3 difficulty levels


Simply change the 2500 to whatever you feel comfortable with, and re-save the file. FYI.
>>

My problem is when I open alpha.txt there is no such line. I've not changed the file yet, and I did a Find on all the words in the above "2500 ..." line to find it and got nothing. I even opened the alpha.txt file on my CD and that doesn't contain the line.

Anyone know how I can actually stop the forced retirement function?

Thanks!

[smacksim]

Re: Retirement editting query

Originally posted by Worth
Anyone know how I can actually stop the forced retirement function?

There is no stopping it. But the lengthening suggested to you does work.

2100 ; Normal starting year
2600 ; Normal ending year for lowest 3 difficulty levels
2500 ; Normal ending year for highest 3 difficulty levels

change these to something reasonable.

[Worth]

My problem is when I open alpha.txt there is no such line. I've not changed the file yet, and I did a Find on all the words in the above "2500 ..." line to find it and got nothing. I even opened the alpha.txt file on my CD and that doesn't contain the line.

It's not under #RULES, and not in the file at all.

[Googlie]

These are the last five lines of the #RULES section of alpha.txt (I let the copy run on into TERRAFORMING):

1, 1 ; Numerator/Denominator for frequency of global warming (1,2 would be "half" normal warming).
2100 ; Normal starting year
2600 ; Normal ending year for lowest 3 difficulty levels
2500 ; Normal ending year for highest 3 difficulty levels
1 ; If non-zero, obliterating a base counts as an atrocity


;
; TERRAFORMING IMPROVEMENTS

Cut and paste the missing lines to your .txt, then alter the last two years from 2600 and 2500 to whatever you want (On my humungous maps, tech-retarded games I have them at 3100 and 3000 as those games take months to play in SP format)

G.