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[doc ols]

One more thought...
If you destroy one of the enemy units and you can build another then perhaps it is a global limit which includes all enemy & your units, though this would be difficult to prove unless you have wiped out everyone else and still hit the same limit...

[doc ols]

Anapaest & others...

I never encountered this problem AFAIK...
Until recently I had a separate DOS boot on my laptop so maybe that's why.
You can get freeware (or at least freely downloadable) virtual machines now so you may be able to run a 'real' DOS install from a USB key/small partition.

Free VMs here:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/pc.shtml

It is certainly FAR easier to setup DOSBox and change setup etc. but it still isn't perfect. If you still have your old DOS install discs, though they are probably available online, you should be able to get this running nicely.
Maybe that should be my next project...

[Japo]

Originally Posted by burt777

No no no... I know the shields are one restriction, and you get the "unit was disbanded" warning if a city can not support it's units, but i'm referring to something unrelated to shields (or so it seems).
All cities can support all units (shield-wise), but i just get the warning 'our population can not support so many military units'.
I have 19 settlers, 19 caravans, 9 diplomats and 80 other units, the population is 6.860.000 people.

I lean to think that it's a global conventional memory limit. I didn't hit such in Civ1 but I did lots of times in Colonization, where it was very restricting (since a lot more info is stored about each unit than in Civ). If I'm right the limit is global, that is it doesn't depend on how many units you have but on how many units all players (computer-controlled ones included) have. The "population" would be just a pretext, a memory allocation error handler.

So one thing you can try is choosing a lower number of rival civilizations, so the computer players won't hog the memory. Another fix may be switching to the Windows 3.x version of the game I think.

[gregor]

or if this is the case he could just smash opponents armies to increase his own.

btw i never go to that limit.

[Elena]

I also have a limit of 126 military units. This limit doesn’t depend on total amount of units in the game or your population. My opponents have just a few units, so it can’t be a global limit. There is a similar limit in Railroad Tycoon (for trains) and SimFarm (for machinery), although it’s not mentioned in manuals too. So it’s probably just a game feature.

[Talin]

ive encountered this limit too.

[Elena]

My new record in Civilization :brain:
66 prosperous cities.

[Paco]

another Game with Extra-Error...

dudidum...

[vear]

I was wondering... was there ever a shareware version of the original Civ? The game itself isn't available here for good reasons which I totally respect and thus shareware is virtually the only free way to play the first Civilization instalment. So, does anyone know of such a release?

[Eagle of Fire]

Try FreeCiv.