{"id":804,"date":"2005-11-03T23:08:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=804"},"modified":"2005-11-03T23:16:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T03:16:02","slug":"civilization-4-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Civilization 4 (V)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> have a long night programming behind me: hacking a file format of a DOS based accounting program. Fair enough: no game for me today.\n<\/p>\n<p>I did notice that my entries here about the black tile problems get more views than normal. For the people returning:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to Worldbuilder and use reveal all tiles. Note that you&#8217;ll still have a (little) &#8216;dimmed&#8217; playing field but at least you&#8217;ll be able to enjoy gameplay. Trust me: the game is worth playing, even with the playing field <em>revealed<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li>Send a scout out to the center of the world (that could have been a name of a movie&#8230;) and explore from there back to your city.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s another solution I&#8217;ve been charmed by: make corrections in the Python code (yes, Civ 4 uses Python!). Over at Civ Fanatics a smart member came up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.civfanatics.com\/showpost.php?p=3255287&#038;postcount=153\">following solution<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p><pre>\r\nmap = CyMap()\r\nteamID = CyGlobalContext().getPlayer(playerID).getTeam()\r\niH = map.getGridHeight()\r\niW = map.getGridWidth()\r\n\r\n# Check if we are the first team, \r\n# and if so put us in the middle\r\nif int(teamID) == 0:\r\n    return x >= iW * .45 and x < = iW * .55 and y >= iH * .45 and y < = iH * .55\r\n<\/PRE><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not having time to play with the code, I briefly glanced through WorldBuilder.py files and discovered other interesting things. If I have time&#8230;. only if I had time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a long night programming behind me: hacking a file format of a DOS based accounting program. Fair enough: no game for me today. I did notice that my entries here about the black tile problems get more views &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}