Is this useable if you aren't using the 1.5.5 Beta? (I'm going to try anyway, but thought I'd ask)

OK. Quite sick of spies that literally stall my research completely, by constantly respawning and going from their cities 3-hexes away straight into mine. Over and over again. Is there a way to change the .xml or a mod that ONLY removes spies? I saw an earlier mod that remove spying but it went beyo...

I'm one of those who in the various Civ games would either get a mod to run larger map size or in Civ3 set it to custom and Civ3 let you define it, though your hardware would eventually not be able to process it (or you'd end up with the time between turns measuring in the hours). So, if it's possib...

Yup, Comodo + AVG + Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit = other programs work! Including Pandora. Is there a way to modify (or has someone already made a mod to do this) the size of the maps? I'd love to play on bigger maps. Is it a setting in the .xml, or would changing that collide with other things? I don'...

OK. AVG + Comodo Firewall = working Pandora. Admittedly, for anyone not familiar with Comodo's security products, the setting-up of the Firewall took a while. It's a lot more detailed and offers more control to the user than, say, Zonealarm (or Norton, or ...). But, once i allocated the .exes from P...

Just can't get Zonealarm Firewall to play nice. It keeps resetting the outer two columns of its program control to ? instead of leaving them checked. Irritating. So I can play with it on, just can't load. So I turn it off, start the game, load the game, and then drop back to the desktop to start the...

OK. Here's what was happening: Zonealarm Firewall has Program Control. In that area, there are four columns that are ?, check, or X. When you tell it to allow a program, it puts a check in the first two columns. For Pandora to work with ZA Firewall, all program files listed in ZA Program Control for...

Ugh. Couldn't load this morning. Shut down each piece of security then brought them back one by one, loading between each piece. The culprit now (and possibly always??) is Zonealarm Firewall. If I shut down Zonealarm and leave Bitdefender and Malwarebytes AntiExploit running, the game loads and work...

And I am breaking my "next time it won't be in tech support" comment, to answer Xilmi's last comment. I did indeed grab from #4 (while I had classes in German, three years of them to be exact, that was twenty years ago, and to call my German rusty would be polite) and not #5. Was the weird...

Panda as I said had a terrible drag on literally everything -- opening a browser, opening Word, etc. So it had to go. I installed BitDefender and it has not had any problems with Pandora. And it is much less a resource hog than Panda was. So I seem to be set. I had created a set of exceptions in AVG...

I have the answer. To all of it. I uninstalled AVG Free Antivirus and installed Panda instead. Switched to release Eclipse, updated. Ran the game, played 2 turns, the interface works (left-click moved stuff out of the production queue). Saved, dropped to desktop, went back into the game, load... all...

Oh, I am about to just give up on this game. So okay, I can save. I start playing, set up some things to build in the production queue. Realise that there's no manual whatsoever to refer to (a very bad thing), there's no place to look up how to for instance move things out of the queue. I assume jus...

Well, that was enlightening. I installed the game on my wife's laptop, then Eclipse, then updated Eclipse. I did not use Beta, nor did I use the files from the German site. So it's version 1.5.4 Eclipse. I played 2 turns, saved, then dropped to the desktop. Went back in the game, loaded... and it lo...

It works, so I'm not messing with it. I'll just keep hitting "skip". :) I am still going to try it out on my wife's computer, because I'm interested in seeing if it works or not. It's always (fun?) figuring out the interaction of different pieces of software, when one program has a problem...

er, wait a second. If the beta files from the German site work... WITH the security programs running, what's different about those files and the others? If it was the security program(s) causing the error, wouldn't they continue to cause the error in the beta files from the German site? I'll install...

Interesting. I can't exactly turn off the firewall (Zonealarm) and/or antivirus (AVG) for hours at a time. Not sure what to do in that case. It is functional as long as I don't let it update using the updater. I can put it on my wife's gaming laptop, but she doesn't go to work for another 4 hours, s...

OK. New result. Same installation from yesterday. I put the files from the German-language site you linked to into the binaries sub-directory. Launched the game and when the auto-updated immediately popped-up I hit "skip". Got into the game, loaded a game file from last night. It loaded. A...

I said that wrong. No load works except per-session once Eclipse is installed/updated. Base First Contact without Eclipse installed works fine.
Setting the updater to base game actually doesn't load right either. Base game works only if the expansion isn't installed.

Ugh, what a mess.

Attracting the unusual is my norm, I'm afraid. As I've said, I've reinstalled repeatedly, and tested each step incrementally. It only breaks with the install of Eclipse and its updating. With the files from the German website, it lets per-session saves be loaded. But no other loading. Meanwhile, if ...

Trying to attach a save file. It says "the extension pandorasave is not allowed" and won't let me attach the file. OK, it'll let a .rar file work, so I compressed it as one. Hopefully this works. And the same thing with the log files, it wouldn't take them, so I compressed them into anothe...