Preliminary release of Mars scenario (Take 2)

[J Bytheway]

Indeed. Don't tell me you didn't read the backplot. All that careful composition wasted !

[FlameFlash]

D'oh!

The problem is... the one text reader for Mac can't open that big of a readme file... I have to do it in Word and then the formatting gets screwed if I try to change the font so it's readable.

I'll look it over though, didn't know there was one.

[J Bytheway]

Is Word on Macs made by MS?

[FlameFlash]

Yep! Evil incarnate even has penetrated Macintosh.

[J Bytheway]

I'm surprised by that. though. Even notepad will open the readme on a PC, although you can't edit it.

The backplot is not very wonderful really, just a few lines to excuse some of the most blatant contradictions like the terrain, goods, the lack of Earth-intervention and so forth.

[FlameFlash]

ah...

[J Bytheway]

You gave me an idea - I've edited the backplot into the first post on this thread (you can read it there). It should have been there all along.

[FlameFlash]

*nods* Okay...

Yeah, but Macs rarely ever use .txt files so there's no major need for a good reader/editor.

[FlameFlash]

It's not working... it's saying that I'm missing a bunch of help files or something like that.

"_HELP missing."

And then it goes through all the units...

[J Bytheway]

That happens when you try to start the PBEM game? Hmm... Let me fiddle around - I'll see what I can discover.

[J Bytheway]

OK, I'd totally forgotten about this - sorry. When playing PBEM games with scenarios you can't simply doubleclick to open. It's a little more awkward. Create a new directory for the purposes of this game in ...\ctp_program\ctp\save\games\, called something like MarsPBEM, or whatever. Make this directory easy to get to (On a PC I'd create a shortcut on my desktop - I don't know what the Mac equivalent is).

Now each time you recieve a turn copy the save game into this directory, start up CTP and load it as if it were an ordinary single player game. This works fine for me.

Good luck.

[FlameFlash]

many thanks... I'll try that and see if it works.

[FlameFlash]

still didn't work... and my settlers have turned into slavers...

[J Bytheway]

OK, that means it's using the wrong version of units.txt.

Does the v1.21 hack work on Macs, and have you installed it - these symptoms suggest that you haven't.

[FlameFlash]

No I haven't because the 1.21 hack is an .exe which means I can't even open it.