OFF: Civ II

[M Holmes]

Jon Browne writes:

> I have to wait until about 10.00 before I can start playing. Since CIV-
> II entered my life, I've learnt to get by on 3-4 hours sleep a night. I
> don't miss out on beers etc. though. Don't you find you can drink like a
> fish and not notice it (till you stand up) when you're playing?

The PC I play on is in the office so I haven't been fetching carry-outs
for my after hours sessions against the French. We do have a fridge
though...

> You're right about meals though :))

The first time I played Civ, I'd bought it on a Saturday afternoon and
wanted to have a look before going to the cinema with the SO. We took a
"quick look" at the program at 6.00pm. The SO went home at 1am while I
was in a tricky landwar so I said I'd just finish the enemy off on that
island and straigten out the economy a little. Af 10.00am she phoned to
ask if I might be considering coming back for breakfast.

The new version of Civ is definitely better but I miss the newspaper
headlines (which could be amended to "Princess Di has Two-Headed Baby!"
instead of the duller "Global Warming - Sea levels rise!") and I miss
the "Fast-replay" option that we used to get.

I also heard that if you alter byte 47 in the exe file (take a backup
first - I warned ya!) you can get multiplayer games. the Least bit sets
the Barbarians so you have to leave that alone, but the other seven bits
are for the 7 Civilisations. If the bit is off then they're AI's. If the
bit is on, then they're prompted for human play. So with a little effort
with a byte editor, you can get multi-player games. Can't wait for
CivNet II though.

I'd also wondered about doing a Mars scenario. Does anyone have any
decent terrain maps of Mars?

> Jon Browne

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