userprofile.txt

[Floris O]

I have a few questions about userprofile.txt and profile.txt:

1. Which file overlaps which file? What if there are differences between the two?

2. Should I turn DebugSlic on?

3. How does cheatage work? It hasn't worked with me yet.

4. What does Prophylaxis mean? What does UseNiceStart mean?

[Floris O]

Hmm, doesn't anyone know the answers to the questions? Really!? Ah, come on, you can do it!

[kormer]

1. Don't know, would guess userprofile, but I doubt there are any conflicts.

2. Only if you are doing slic coding for a mod and can't get things to work, like me.

3. Cheatage is what happens when you ignore your girlfriend for too long by playing silly video games all day. Be thankfull you haven't run into it yet.

4. Prophylaxis is a drug used to treat a rare thyroid disorder, please read the label on the bottle before consuming pills.

5. Nicestart - just a guess, but in previous civs the other civs would immediatly send out massive hoards of nuclear weapons to obliterate you in the first turns of the game. I think it prevents the AI from doing just that and waiting till you get a good enough head start to beat them before they play rough, usually this take anywhere between 2-5 turns, depends how quickly you build a city.

[Locutus]

LOL, kormer. Let's see if I can give some more useful answers though...

1. I don't think anyone knows for sure exactly what the relation between these two is but normally userprofile.txt should be the most important one. Any changes you want to make should be made there, if you don't have any luck with that, try changing profile.txt as well.

2. Should always be on or many of the texts in the game will look weird.

3. I suspect it will make the game start in another age, so age 2 should make the game start in the modern age instead of ancient, but I don't know if it actually works.

4. Prophylaxis: no clue. Odd thing is that the default value was Yes in CtP1 and it's No in CtP2.

UseNiceStart: IIRC this gives the best of all available starting locs to human, turning it off will make this random, or something like that anyway.

More info: http://apolyton.net/ctp/modification/profile_faq.shtml (it's for CtP1 but a lot of it still applies to CtP2).

[heardie]

From a file. Its hidden good..

quote: # Number of players in the game, including the Barbarians must be a least 3 players and not more then 32, but with that many it will go verrrrry slowly and is not supported # NumPlayers= 6 AiOn= Yes UseNiceStart= Yes UseMapPlugin= Yes Difficulty= 2 RiskLevel= 1 Pollution= Yes UnitAnim= Yes #WalkAnim= Yes #AttackAnim= Yes GoodAnim= No TradeAnim= Yes WaterAnim= Yes LibraryAnim= No WonderMovies= Yes BounceMessage= No MessageAdvice= Yes TutorialAdvice= No EnemyMoves= Yes RevoltWarning= Yes EnemyIntrude= Yes UnitLostWarning= Yes TradeLostWarning= Yes CityLostWarning= Yes AutoCenter= Yes FullScreenMovies= Yes ShowCityInfluence = Yes AutoSave= Yes PlayerNumber= 1 DefaultCivIndex= 16 CivIndex= 16 Gender= 0 NoHumansOnHost= No LogPlayerStats= No # # Default Volume Levels # # Range is 0 (off) to 10 (loudest) # SfxVolume= 5 VoiceVolume= 5 MusicVolume= 7 XWrap= Yes YWrap= No #Automatically group units when clicked AutoGroup= No #Automatically deselect units after moving AutoDeselect= Yes #When using AUTODESELECT, automatically select the next unit AutoSelectNext= Yes #Automatically select a unit at the start of the player's turn AutoSelectFirstUnit= Yes #Automatically cycle turns after moving last unit AutoTurnCycle= Yes CombatLog= No UseLeftClick= Yes ShowZoomedCombat= Yes UseFingerPrinting= No UseRedbookAudio= Yes RequireCD= No Prophylaxis= No # # Screen Res Settings # TryWindowsResolution= Yes ScreenResWidth= 1024 ScreenResHeight= 768 ZoomedCombatAlways= No AttackEveryone= No # Turn this on to force civ db AI personalities indexes to match player indexes # (e.g. player 2 will get civilization #2 from the DB) NonRandomCivs= No # turn this off if you don't like cycling more than one turn automatically # the "multicycle" command toggles it in-game. AutoEndMultiple= Yes WetDry= 5 WarmCold= 5 OceanLand= 3 IslandContinent= 5 HomoDiverse= 8 GoodCount= 5 ThroneRoom= Yes # # If MaxPlayers > 0, revolts will add new civilizations up to MaxPlayers, # otherwise they will only add civilizations when there are fewer than you # started with. MaxPlayers= 0 MapSize= 1 AlienEndGame= Yes UnitCompleteMessages= Yes NonContinuousUnitCompleteMessages= Yes #Turn this on to store file names and line numbers. # Uses more memory, slows things down, but provides better error messages. DebugSlic= No #uncomment this to turn on diplomacy logging - debug exe only DiplomacyLog= No #uncomment this to skip past an age 1-5 - debug exe only CheatAge= 0 ShowTradeRoutes=Yes MapPlugin0=dll\\map\\geometric.dll MapPlugin1=dll\\map\\crater.dll MapPlugin2=dll\\map\\plasma2.dll MapPlugin3=dll\\map\\plasma2.dll OldRegisterClick=No CTP2Mode=Yes MoveHoldTime=500 EndTurnSound=Yes EnableLogs=Yes

[Floris O]

Thank you for the answers, by the way. But, heardie, what do you want to say with your post?

[WesW]

The userprofile.txt is created the first time you play the game. It contains all the game variables that you set in the start screens, etc.