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Harlan
Does your latest research on pollution mean that in effect, one can turn off the global warming effect? Edit byte 33 to be 80 or greater, or does that byte reset to 0 somehow
Yes. If you turn byte 33 to be 80 you can switch off global warming completely. I'll try to explain it in some more details so that everybody understands it, even without knowledge of hex-editing.
The thing is, normally byte 32 and 33 both stand at 0. If there is pollution, byte 32 gets higher and higher, and at a certain amount global warming will happen. Maybe there is a x% chance of this happening determined by this byte. If global warming happens, byte 32 is reset to 00, and byte 33 is set to 01, which is logical, cause if byte 32 would not be reset to 0, there would be again a chance of global warming. This goes on and on, and byte 33 gets higher after every global warming.
However if you set byte 33 higher than 7F, the max, byte 32 will still get higher, of course still causing global warming still to occur, which causes the pop-up. Normally, it will cause a 1st, a 2nd, a 3rd.. to a 7Fth rate global warming, determined by byte 33, but since that is turned to a strange rate, nothing happens at all, and byte 32 is reset without anything happening.
Byte 33 remains at 80, and appears to remain so every time again.
This makes a foolproof anti-global warming tool that allows pollution. Two things still have to be taken care of, which could if used right give some extra fun. The icon for pollution itself, and the pop-up message (with a nice little logo of the game).