Patches, patches, patches.. which one are you using right now???

[Kilkakon]

Sometime soon I'll have to pick one and get it running on my laptop. :O

[Lord Avalon]

I voted scient's, but I do occasionally play Kyrub's.

[BlueTemplar]

You know, you could have at least posted links to the various patches and the descriptions of what they fix...

[gwillybj]

Sometime soon I'll have to pick one and get it running on my laptop. :O

ditto but desktop
I'm so used to everything as it came on the disk, I think I would be confused by anything else.

[Earthmichael]

I am using Yitzi patch.  It fixes the most bugs.

It also have some configurable great features, such as the ability to suppress rising water, but I seem to have been too brain dead to properly configure the game between myself and Roninscg, even though suppressing rising water was one of our goals.

Yitizi, can you remind us what Roninscg and I both need to configure to eliminate rising water?  Is it too late to avoid doing this to avoid further rising water?

[Buster's Uncle]

You know, you could have at least posted links to the various patches and the descriptions of what they fix...

Welome to AC2, Templar!  I've seen you around somewhere else, haven't I?

[gwillybj]

@Earthmichael:
In alpha.txt, under #RULES, almost at the bottom, just above normal starting year, is this entry:

1,1 ; Numerator/Denominator for frequency of global warming (1,2 would be "half" normal warming).

1,2 is 50% (half as often as normal), 1,10 is 10% -> (smaller fraction value = less often)
2,1 is 200% (twice as often), 3,2 is 150% -> (larger fraction value = more often)

[Yitzi]

@Earthmichael:
In alpha.txt, under #RULES, almost at the bottom, just above normal starting year, is this entry:

1,1 ; Numerator/Denominator for frequency of global warming (1,2 would be "half" normal warming).

1,2 is 50% (half as often as normal), 1,10 is 10% -> (smaller fraction value = less often)
2,1 is 200% (twice as often), 3,2 is 150% -> (larger fraction value = more often)

And (just to clarify) 0,1 is 0 times as often, i.e. not at all.

Though when using my patch it's nowhere near the bottom.

[BlueTemplar]

Welome to AC2, Templar!  I've seen you around somewhere else, haven't I?

Probably on Apolyton, or other SMAC forums/websites.
Or maybe these avatars will remind you something :

[Buster's Uncle]

I've definitely seen you around.  Would you like to be wearing one of those?

[Earthmichael]

I am currently using Yitzi patch 2.3, and have one request for Yitzi:


Yitzi, please add a version number to the terranx.exe, so we can easily check which version of your patch we are using.  Thanks!

[Yitzi]

I am currently using Yitzi patch 2.3, and have one request for Yitzi:


Yitzi, please add a version number to the terranx.exe, so we can easily check which version of your patch we are using.  Thanks!

You mean something that will show up in the game itself?  That would likely be a lot of work that could otherwise be put toward actually improving gameplay or giving more options.

Or do you mean something in the name of the executable?  That could be done, but would break all your links and shortcuts.

What I can do, though, is put a note at the top of alphax.txt and the patch notes that say which patch it is, so that you can look it up there.

Alternatively, I can make (and put on the wiki) a table of which "last edited" dates of the terranx.exe file correspond to which patch versions, so that you can just check the date in Windows Explorer and then look it up on the table.

[Earthmichael]

I thought you can just make a version number than is visible to Windows explorer, so when you check the version number with Windows explorer, it shows up.  I have no idea how difficult this is to do.

The note at the top of alphax.txt and the patch notes with the version number would work OK also, particularly if getting the version to show in Windows explorer is difficult.

I take it that we break things if you just rename the exe file terranx Yitzi 2.3.exe.

[Geo]

You mean something that will show up in the game itself?  That would likely be a lot of work that could otherwise be put toward actually improving gameplay or giving more options.

When starting up your patch, before the intro movie plays, there's a small popup stating 'Welcome to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'.
Perhaps you could put the version number there? I'm not totally sure, but that text line is probably in the 'labels.txt' file.

[Yitzi]

I thought you can just make a version number than is visible to Windows explorer, so when you check the version number with Windows explorer, it shows up.  I have no idea how difficult this is to do.

The note at the top of alphax.txt and the patch notes with the version number would work OK also, particularly if getting the version to show in Windows explorer is difficult.

I take it that we break things if you just rename the exe file terranx Yitzi 2.3.exe.

It probably wouldn't break the game itself, but it would break all your shortcuts.

As for showing in Windows Explorer, I'll see if I can do anything, but don't get your hopes up.

You mean something that will show up in the game itself?  That would likely be a lot of work that could otherwise be put toward actually improving gameplay or giving more options.

When starting up your patch, before the intro movie plays, there's a small popup stating 'Welcome to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'.
Perhaps you could put the version number there? I'm not totally sure, but that text line is probably in the 'labels.txt' file.

I'll check if it is in the .txt; if it isn't, though, then putting the version number there would be far too much work.