30-01-2001 10:36									#1
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Last night, I got an Idea: Since there is an eight flag (the brown one) in the cities.gif, what will happen if I insert number eight as civcolor for one of the civ's in the rules.txt.
I tried and, well the game didn't crash (good sign ) and it still didnt crash when I chosed the manipulated civ (the romans in my case).
But when I started I got the purple (seventh) flag.
Although I considered the Idea lost after this (although it might not be totaly over, anyone out there who can handle a hexeditor?) I also tried to edit the game.txt, I edited the "chose competition" dialog, and add an eight row. When I tried it in the game and chose to play whit 8 tribes I got seven. The new line was actually considered to be the last one.
So when I chosed the last one I could play whit 2 civ's (normally the limit is at 3), working downwards I could limit the number of civs to 1 (myself) this way. Although this is a new feature, it is quite the opposite of what I was trying to do and totaly usuless (unless you want to play a game whit only one opponent that is).
When you hit 0 the game crashes.

	30-01-2001 19:14									#3
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I did have the feeling that it would have been tried before, but I thought that it wouldn't hurt to report it annyway.
The zero terrain movement cost ( http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum4/HTML/001096.html?12 ) seems to have been largely unkown (I thought it was a new discovery to, how come that no guide mentions that feature) so this might have been news to some people.
[This message has been edited by Henrik (edited January 30, 2001).]

	01-02-2001 10:24									#4
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It is known to some, but perhaps indeed not to all.

If you are interested in writing one on the subject, I'm sure that the SLeague will be very interested to publish a design tip on the subject to make it more generally known than it is now.

	04-02-2001 05:46									#5
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And i thought the 8th. civ (incl. flag & all) was there for "schism" advent when all seven active players would still be there to witness one of their Capital-city falling under an invader's grasp!
I am pretty sure, it >could< be possible to actually use the extra brownie, since the "rules.txt" has the necessary provision.
As for making it, say, playable it is much more of a challenge to test.
The matter was discussed in great lengths (way back then), and i have yet to see someone code it into the FW (and further versions) files.