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The Age of Discovery Readme
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IMPORTANT:

FOR USE WITH THE FANTASY WORLDS (v2.7.81) CIV II ADD-ON DISK.
Although also useable with older versions of civ II, that has not been
tested, so I cannot guarantee anything. See under Installation for more
details.

Because I didn't want this scenario to be of an undownloadable largeness, I
did NOT include any sound effects, thus the game will use the standard Civ-
-sound effects, which may give very strange and illogical effects.
JUST TURN YOUR SOUNDS OFF or make your own ones and feel free to add them to
the ZIP file and distribute it. Thank you very much.

A later version of this scenario will perhaps make use of sounds, so keep
looking for new versions of this scennario.

My homepage contains all scenarios created so far by me and always the
latest versions of them, so please visit:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AHSHofelt

A scenario by Allard H.S. Höfelt (AHSHofelt@compuserve.com). If copied, this
.ZIP file MUST contain all the files it originally contained (as described
at the end of this text file). I am not responsible for any damage,
malfunction, etc. this scenario may cause. They contain icons created by
myself or from many places on the Internet. You may use any of my units
(marked with AHS) in your scenario, and probably most of the other units,
but I cannot guarantee that, for they aren't created by me. Thanks to you
all (I can't credit anyone, because I have forgotten and they're too many).


Installation:
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This scenario is designed for version 2.7.81 (the version of the Fantasy Worlds
scenario disk), but is also playable with version 2.62 (the version of the
Conflicts in Civilization scenario disk).

With Fantasy scenario disk: Just make a directory in your \civ2\scenario
directory named 1560disc. Unzip all files into this directory. Start Civ2,
select "Begin Scenario", go to \civ2\scenario\1560disc\ and highlight
CARIB156.SCN or NAMERICA.SCN

With v2.62: Do the same as above, but delete or rename the events.txt.
For the rest, it should work fine, but HAS NOT BEEN TESTED !!!


Background Information:
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In this scenario, the standard Civ game has been completely modified...
The tech tree is slightly modified, all buildable units are new and look
really good. Especially the terrain is completely new. New icons, cursors,
rules, etc. etc. Also all government forms have been renamed.
To quote Microprose: "Half the fun is finding out..."

The scenario is designed for Emperor level, and every civilization has a
good starting point, with enough cities, more than enough military units,
and plenty of possibilities.
However, for most fun it is advised that you do not play any native tribe.
It is not advised for any player to cheat, for this spoils the entire game. :-)


History:
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Anno Domini MDLXIII.
The New World has been discovered already 70 years ago. Some Spanish
colonies can already be considered old, and the time has arrived for new
countries to colonize the Spanish Main, to enrich themselves and to
achieve glory.

The political situation in Europe is fragile. Spain is in war with England
and the newly formed United Netherlands. Even if Spain is still the
undisputed leader in the West Indies, power can rapidly change hands,
as seen in Europe. However, recently, European governments slowly begin
to realize the importance of their colonies; Europe is beginning to supply
their colonies better and better. If you want to conquer, do it fast !!!
You can only play until 1759 !


Other things:
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IMPORTANT:
Because I didn't want this scenario to be of an undownloadable largeness,
I did NOT include any sound effects, thus the game will use the standard
Civ-sound effects, which may give very strange and illogical effects.
JUST TURN YOUR SOUNDS OFF or make your own ones and feel free to add them
to the ZIP file and distribute it. Thank you very much.

This .ZIP file must contain: (if it doesn't please e-mail me the address
where you got it incomplete)
CITIES.GIF
ICONS.GIF
TERRAIN1.GIF
TERRAIN2.GIF
TITLE.GIF
UNITS.GIF
ROME.SCN
EVENTS.TXT
GAME.TXT
ROME.TXT
README.TXT (this file)
RULES.TXT

This scenario is currently officially given the nice name 1.0.
This is my third scenario, and I hope you will like it. If so or if not so,
please send me a mail.
If you have any comments, suggestions, questions, complains, etc. please mail me
at:
AHSHofelt@compuserve.com

You can also visit my civ 2 units & other icons homepage at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AHSHofelt/

I hope you will enjoy playing this scenario and feel free to distribute it in any way
you like except the things mentioned above. If you encounter an error or something
or just want to make a change before distributing it, please e-mail me at the above
address.


Thanks to:
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Microprose (for this cool game)
Compuserve (for giving me Internet access)
Unkown (for having created many, many icons)
...
And of course 2 U, as a player of this scenario. I hope you like it (I do).
I'm glad you've actually completely read this file (I didn't expect it, because
I don't ever read these stupid readmes but I really had to make it I thought to
make this scenario complete).