Future Tech bonus score??

Tizzy · December 7, 2000, 05:48

I'm in the middle of a hot seat game - Prince level, 6 Civs left, 2 human players.
It's 860BC, and I'm the most scientifically advanced Civ, having just discovered Electricity.
Upon closing down last night, I retired instead of quitting to see the score, to find I had a Future Tech score of +5.
I obviously haven't discovered any future techs yet, so why the bonus?

Tizzy · December 8, 2000, 04:58

Has anyone seen this before?
I just can't work out why it's happening, but it was still there on retiring from the game last night.

Scouse Gits · December 8, 2000, 06:03

Sure you're not using a slight mod with one of the future Techs brought into play for 'jet fighters' for example - obviously this is not exactly the case, but perhaps an extra medieval tech has been inserted into the tree ????

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Tizzy · December 8, 2000, 09:19

Nope, no mods at all, just the standard game.
I've never seen it happen before either, and did nothing different in setting up the game to what I've done before.

WhiteKnight · December 16, 2000, 23:28

Word of warning!

Don't discover Future Techs after FT99! It will go back to Future Tech 1, and adjust your score accordingly!

I did that once, and was up to 99 with a bonus of 495pts. Discovered the next tech and my bonus went to +5pts.

When I get to 99 now, I just adjust science rate to 0.

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Vlad Antlerkov · December 16, 2000, 23:32

WhiteKnight: Isn't the FT limit like FT255?

I've been well beyond FT99 before...

Tizzy: Before you started the Hot Seat game, did you load up another game? I've seen Future Tech points carry over into new games in MGE... it's a bug that I don't know if MPS fixed.
[This message has been edited by Vlad Antlerkov (edited December 16, 2000).]

Tizzy · December 17, 2000, 19:03

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Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov on 12-16-2000 10:32 PM

Tizzy: Before you started the Hot Seat game, did you load up another game? font>

Nope, game fresh that day. Switched on the PC, and started game.
As for FT99 - never got to there, so not a problem

Lefty Scaevola · December 18, 2000, 01:15

in civ2 MGE the max FT is 255 (256-1) obviously the size of a bianary register.

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Bohlen · December 18, 2000, 12:34

Tizzy:

This happened to me once. I actually started a thread on it way back when. The best reason we could all come up with was that the future tech showed up in my newly started game because I was using the cheat menu in a previous game in order to build a scenario. I quit the scenario making and began a new legit game without restarting Civ. I think I may have been running MGE at the time.

Could something like this have happened? If not, maybe it's one of the many Hotseat quirks.

Tizzy · December 18, 2000, 12:40

I think it must be a hotseat quirk.
I hadn't been using the cheat menu or anything like that - it was a brand new game, started as soon as the PC was booted up that day.
The thing is, I could (just about) understand it if it had happened to both hotseat players, but it didn't - it only affected my score.