#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS HOW TO#
#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS ARCHIVE#
#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS ANDROID#
#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS PLUS#

#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS PLUS#

The biggest issue with giant map is there are only seven civilizations plus the barbarians (such as they are). If you do use a giant map, which I am for seven civilizations, then since they are quite isolated in the first several thousand years, then it may seem ' glacial' in terms of genuine conflict, but allows the civs to get stronger eventually by building infrastructure. Note by changing the rules.txt you can pick which seven civs show up, and I found the answer to configuring that right here on the forum as well as most of the details above. Now if I could get the unit graphic correct, I would be quite happy. It was no problem at all to make logical choices for unit stats, nor make the proper tech changes so units don't show up too early ( as the basic game is faulty). It was easy to adjust the tech tree, change the tech rate, create base cities for all the seven civs, add money, etc. But the graphics are wrong since I'm using the original unit.gif file. I created several units: a berserker from the Viking dark ages era, a samurai, a common early spearman in the early era, a spy satellite, and a nuclear sub capable of hauling around nukes (though I wonder if the AI will actually use it?). I have not have any success getting any graphics programs to correctly cut and paste.

#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS ANDROID#

There are lots of folks in the community who made unit graphics, and on a desktop or laptop system, it was easy to use Gimp and cut and paste from one unit.gif and into the original this is very difficult in my opinion on an android tablet. The must frustrating thing is trying to what formerly was quite simple.

#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS ARCHIVE#

Civ 2 is now abandonware and even is hosted at the internet archive (but stripped down of music files).

#ANDROID CIVILIZATION V BACKGROUNDS HOW TO#

You sacrifice five percent of stability doing this though.įeel free to send me a pm if you want tips on how to do this for free.

If you do this as I have, you can even stream music while playing Civ 2 which makes up for the lack of music from the internet archive. Second, many old tablets had very little usable memory because they we designed to be running many basic aps in the background such that 75% of usable memory was already allocated. Looking around the forum, and elsewhere, it seems there are two culprits. Recently I discovered that while the utilities on the forum don't work, you can use a memory ap to free up as much as possible, thus the system is now 99% stable. I have playing for two weeks, but along the way I had crashes. My Nook is a very low end device basically disabled from using anything outside of Google, but still I found free ways to make it work.Īdditionally you can use a free Playstation 1 emulator and go that route too, but I have little knowledge on the methodology. Even if you can't 'sideload' aps, you still can do it. It is not necessary to 'root' your android to do this. In ten minutes, I was playing a game, downloading new maps and scenarios, and using the built in editor to make my own scenario. The second way is to use one of the WINE emulators to create a windows environment, then load Civ 2. That has worked for several, but not for me. This allows a base upon which to then load a free Windows 3.11 legacy OS. Many techheads could use dos emulators as aps. Which mean despite originally coming out in 1996, it is superior to strategy games today! Shocking,no? I'm creating the topic as obviously many people have played Civ 2 (nearly a million in the fanbase) and would like to play it since it still is actually better than 99% of the current strategy games for the Android market. I hardly expected it to be possible, but here is a general method by which any android capable tablet (even my old Nook HD which uses the oldest obsolete OS ice cream sandwich) can run Civ 2.

Android civilization v backgrounds