code:

---

trigger 'BeginTest' when (g.year == 0 && g.player == 0) {
   SetActionKey(1, "^a");
   DisableTrigger('BeginTest');
}
messagebox 'TestMessage' {
   Text(ID_TEST_VARIABLES);
}
trigger 'TestVariables' when (key.1.pressed) {
   Message(g.player, 'TestMessage');
}

---

And add to med_str.txt the line:
TEST_VARIABLES "NumberOfPlayers is [numberOfPlayers.value] and NumberWithMonarch is [numberWithMonarchy.value]"

Started a new game later. The game crash, while loading the game.

Started a new game. Turn on the cheat turn 1. I gave myself gold and PW only. Turn off the movies. Did not used the PW until I had a coastal City, and then only one city at a time. did not removed forest until I discovered Adv. Farm. No crashes at all. I'm in the 1800 AD.

All of my crashes, seem to happen when time start the next turn or a movie is going play. Had a movie crash while playing SMAC. I turn off the movie in that game also. No crashes since the movie where turn off. I had a problem with Civ 2, before patches came out with the Oracle movie crashing the game. I'm wondering if the new movie is part of the problem.

There are no new movies in the mod, however. The grand canal is simply Stonehenge re-named, and should play the Stonehenge movie like always.
If the game crashes when a movie is supposed to start, I doubt it has anything to do with the mod.

It might be a good idea to re-boot if the game crashes on you. It seems that if it has crashed once, it will probably crash again.

My problem with Med Mod 4 is cities revolting. I was playing Emperor level and was in the time frame where you have underwater colonies and just started having space colonies...anyway I had a Happiness rating of 93 and all of a sudden 6 of my cities revolted and went barbarian. Only two of the cities had done any prior rioting so it was kind of out of the blue. It's funny that Gedrin is working on a SLIC for cities revolting since it's been happening for me anyway (also happened once with MM3, half my cities left in one turn).

Is there a way to turn a computer player into the human player? If so I could take a look and see if I can find out what the computer player is doing that could be causing the recurring problem. Or I could upload the file to someone if they're interested in taking a look.

I contuinal to play the cheat game last night, no crashes.

In Aug., I upgraded my computer to a PIII 600 w/128 megs. of RAM. Also a new video card, Matrox Millennium G-400. I still have Sound Blaster 128. Also two weeks ago, my Hard Disk, DVD drive, and Modem went bad and had to be replaced.

Tonight, I'm going to start a new game w/o the movies and no cheats, to see what happens.

I have made the last non-future advances preqs for the first few future advances, so that now the AIs will have to get all of them before they can get more than 2 future advances in any category.

I have sent an email to Chris about getting a final version of the disseminate trigger that I want. When I get it, I will post it with the new advances file on my homepage.

Btw, I noticed that the Med mod 4 has been downloaded over a thousand times. I have received no news from anyone about it other than the few posts here. I don't know if this is good news or bad news. One person has voted on the mod since the 4.0 version replaced the 2.1 version, giving it a good mark.

Emperor
8 civs
Large map
Mainly land over islands
Sea in the middle

I have taken a different approach to this game.

I slaved, but not too heavily, and did not use the means to control where the slaves were going.

No mines in forests. I built 14 cities and will not build anymore.

On top of this, my closest rivals (Romans and Brazil) are my neighbors. We have been in several wars, but I take a defensive stance only.

The main difference is I haven't played the agressor as I have yet to try to take an enemy city away.

The Romans are running neck-and-neck with me in science, and might even be ahead of me now. As soon as they have access to a wonder, they start building it - and they managed to get LE and Newton. Lately I've only managed to get happiness wonders, which actually has been a godsend - two of my cities are a great distance away, and are always on the verge of rioting, even with all the available happiness improvements. The AI forced me to swich from Industrial Rev to the advance that gave me Napolean's Code because it was about to beat me to LE and I didn't have a backup wonder to switch to.

There have been lots of battles and I have to keep my eyes open all the time, as I am always ending up in a war with either the Romans, Brazilians, Egyptians or Thais. Fortunately, my spies have alerted me to enemy troop movements, but I have also seen many enemy spies around too. If not for the spies, I would of had enemy stacks knocking on weakly defended city gates. I've been able to shuttle troops around to cover those cities. but the attacks are relentless, and the enemy stacks have a mix of ranged and non-ranged units - so bombarding costs me as well as my enemy.

The AI has been smarter in troop movement too. Ther have been a lot more stacks, and if I bombard a stack it will withdraw, though not all the time.

Same thing on sea.

I was setting up to hit the Egyptians but I had to divert my forces because the Thais decided to attack me...

I have an permanent alliance with one civ and another has been all hearts with me since the beginning of the game. Several tech exchanges from them, but always at their prompting instead of mine....

I do have the advance exchange setup with the AI civs - I am hoping for no game crashes. None so far.

Yes, forcing the computer to research all the non-future advances first before it can go to future techs 10 might take care of that lockup problem. If the computer gets all the non-future advances, then all 40 of the future advances, well by that time it would have already won I would think.

Is there a way for the human player to take a look at what a computer player is researching and building? I could maybe see what is causing the lockups then.

On my stalled game I notice the computer seems to have all the possible technologies except the following:

cybernetics
unified physics
mind control
neural interface
life extension
technocracy
subneural ad
virtual democracy

This suggests the stalling problem might be related to the computer not being able to research cybernetics, which is a prerequisite for the others.

What do you think?

The first thing is that at various points, all of
my queues hiccup and I lose all production.

The second thing is that after a certain point in
a huge map game (somewhere over 140 cities) the
pollution dropped to zero. I wanted to get a good
feel for the balance, so I was playing at the second
level, but still.

Lastly, I have also seen the bug where SDI can be
built before it is discovered.