Max City Size

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by percuno
It still "feels" that way though, because if I were to compare two single-player scores of two identically skilled players on two identical games, the "modded" one would by default be higher, because I have "changed the rules".

Well of course you can only compare games played with the same rhules. Otherwise you would compare apples and oranges.

-Martin

[percuno]

Well, the final result of all this "tweaking" was a save game file that crashed at year 2238 every single time, even if I went back a turn or two, I don't know if it mattered but it was when my largest city was about to click over to 67 from 66.

So I went back a turn, killed off the last enemy city and achieved my all-time highest score, then "continued the game", which still resulted in crashing in 2238

It seems that progressing to a certain specific unit was what caused it, because when I would reload the save I could move a few units before crashing, then one or two more, then just one, then it would crash right when I loaded the save game. This was with saving after each successful unit movement.

Of course in their infinite wisdom, the programmers produced a huge error message with a data dump that...could not be cut and pasted

[Martin Gühmann]

Well the savegame would be of more use so we could use the debug built to figure out what's going wrong.

-Martin

[percuno]

I'll see if I can make it happen again, might take a while as I am on a course.

[percuno]

ok, completely erased and reinstalled the game and patched up to the latest Apolyton version, played one game through to see how it goes, then made the following changes:

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buildings.txt
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IMPROVE_AQUA_FILTER
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 9
RaiseMaxPopulation 21

IMPROVE_AQUEDUCT
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 9
RaiseMaxPopulation 21

IMPROVE_ARCOLOGIES
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 16
RaiseMaxPopulation 21

IMPROVE_BODY_EXCHANGE
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 21

IMPROVE_DRUG_STORE
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 7

IMPROVE_HOSPITAL
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 12

IMPROVE_INCUBATION_CENTER
RaiseOvercrowdingLevel 21

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citysize#.txt
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CITYSIZE_ZERO through CITYSIZE_FIVE
BaseOvercrowding 6
BaseMaxPop 24

CITYSIZE_SIX
Population 101
MaxWorkers 101
BaseOvercrowding 6
BaseMaxPop 24

Note: Population and MaxWorkers are the sum of the RaiseOvercrowdingLevel values in buildings.txt + the BaseOvercrowding

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govern.txt
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GOVERNMENT_ECOTOPIA
TooManyCitiesThreshold 120

GOVERNMENT_VIRTUAL_DEMOCRACY
TooManyCitiesThreshold 120


We'll see what the end result is in a new game I am about to start.

[percuno]

Well it took forever, in between classes, work, child-raising and every other little thing, but I finally got a city to 100 population with all the changes listed in my previous post.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~pblonde2/POP100.jpg

Now to find time to mess with the aactual source code itself

[Ekmek]

Re: Max City Size

Excellent, we look forward to help on the code...