Ab Urbe Condita

[ROFL Copter]

I was starting to get annoyed by the whole AUC thing instead of real years, and I was too lazy to constantly do the math to convert. So I made a little program in C++ to convert the years for me. It works, and its helping me learn C++. Win-win. I thought I'd upload it here in case anyone else wanted it.

Here's the code too.

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#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    char again('y');
    while (again == 'y')
    {
        system("cls");
        int yearAUC, yearME;
        cout << "Enter year AUC: ";
        cin >> yearAUC;
        yearME = (753 - yearAUC);
        if (yearME <= 0)
        {
            --yearME;
        }
        if (yearME >= 1)
        {
            cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " BC.";
        }
        else
        {
            yearME = (yearME * -1);
            cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " AD.";
        }
        cout << "\n\nAgain? y/n  ";
        cin >> again;
    }
}

UPDATED! Now does the opposite as well, from Gregorian to AUC.
Here's the new code.

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#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int choice;
    char again('y');
    cout << "Would you like to convert to or from AUC?\n"
            "1. AUC to Gregorian.\n"
            "2. Gregorian to AUC.\n";
    cin >> choice;
    switch (choice)
    {
        case 1:
            while (again == 'y')
            {
                system("cls");
                int yearAUC, yearME;
                cout << "Enter year AUC: ";
                cin >> yearAUC;
                yearME = (753 - yearAUC);
                if (yearME <= 0)
                {
                    --yearME;
                }
                if (yearME >= 1)
                {
                    cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " BC.";
                }
                else
                {
                    yearME = (yearME * -1);
                    cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " AD.";
                }
                cout << "\n\nAgain? y/n  ";
                cin >> again;
            }
            break;
        case 2:
            int time1(0);
            while (again=='y')
            {
                system("cls");
                int yearAUC, yearME;
                if (time1==0)
                    cout << "\nUse '-' for BC. There is no year 0.\n";
                time1++;
                cout << "Enter year in Gregorian: ";
                cin >> yearME;
                yearAUC=(yearME+753);
                if (yearAUC <= 0)
                {
                    --yearAUC;
                }
                cout << "\nYear = " << yearAUC << " AUC.";
                cout << "\n\nAgain? y/n  ";
                cin >> again;
            }
    }
}

SECOND UPDATE!
I have fixed a few stupid mistakes in my code from the second version. I suppose I should call this version 2.1. Be sure if you want this to download this one. It was giving the wrong date whenever you tried to convert a date in AD. Really should've debugged a bit...

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#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int choice;
    char again('y');
    cout << "Would you like to convert to or from AUC?\n"
            "1. AUC to Gregorian.\n"
            "2. Gregorian to AUC.\n";
    cin >> choice;
    switch (choice)
    {
        case 1:
            while (again == 'y')
            {
                system("cls");
                int yearAUC, yearME;
                cout << "Enter year AUC: ";
                cin >> yearAUC;
                yearME = (753 - yearAUC);
                if (yearME <= 0)
                {
                    --yearME;
                }
                if (yearME >= 1)
                {
                    cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " BC.";
                }
                else
                {
                    yearME = (yearME * -1);
                    cout << "\nYear = " << yearME << " AD.";
                }
                cout << "\n\nAgain? y/n  ";
                cin >> again;
            }
            break;
        case 2:
            int time1(0);
            while (again=='y')
            {
                system("cls");
                int yearAUC, yearME;
                if (time1==0)
                    cout << "Use '-' for BC. There is no year 0.\n";
                time1++;
                cout << "Enter year in Gregorian: ";
                cin >> yearME;
                if (yearME >= 0)
                {
                    --yearME;
                }
                yearAUC=(yearME+753);
                cout << "\nYear = " << yearAUC << " AUC.";
                cout << "\n\nAgain? y/n  ";
                cin >> again;
            }
    }
}

[General Brittanicus]

AAAAAAAAHHHh, my eyes! Why did i look in the spoiler without first getting my crucifix and special opaque glasses on, i'll have to rinse my eyes out with holy water now, thanks a bunch. (I have to do c programming at uni as part of my course and i was hoping not to see it again until the second year started partly because the anti-christ/satan/personification of evil and c programming are the sme thing in my book .)

Anyway crazy ramblings over, nice work there ROFL Copter, have some rep for it.

[sithlord447]

i remember why i didn't take computer programming this year

[Nordmann]

Nice one, very useful too.

Rep on its way for sharing with the rest of us.

[ROFL Copter]

AAAAAAAAHHHh, my eyes! Why did i look in the spoiler without first getting my crucifix and special opaque glasses on, i'll have to rinse my eyes out with holy water now, thanks a bunch. (I have to do c programming at uni as part of my course and i was hoping not to see it again until the second year started partly because the anti-christ/satan/personification of evil and c programming are the sme thing in my book .)

Anyway crazy ramblings over, nice work there ROFL Copter, have some rep for it.

I tried to avoid this by putting it in spoilers! You should be more careful.

So now that a few people have downloaded it, does it work?

[Timefool]

Yeah it works. I could do the same thing for java but theres no way for everyone to run the program unless they have a java compiler.

[John Denver]

I've always used this site, has lots of others too
http://www.fusisoft.it/Antiquities/ErasConverter.aspx

[ROFL Copter]

I've always used this site, has lots of others too
http://www.fusisoft.it/Antiquities/ErasConverter.aspx

Mine tells you if it is BC or AD instead of a negative sign. Plus that site seems to be wrong. I know that 536 AUC is 217 BC, and that site is saying it is 218.

[Enasteron]

Thank you so much for that ROFL Copter you can't imagine how easier you made my life with this little converter

[Father Jack]

I believe the reason why AUC is used is because you will get a CTD in 55BC (or around then) which cannot be resolved.

[ROFL Copter]

I believe the reason why AUC is used is because you will get a CTD in 55BC (or around then) which cannot be resolved.

I've heard this too. It doesn't change the fact that it is a little annoying.

[Asterix]

I believe the reason why AUC is used is because you will get a CTD in 55BC (or around then) which cannot be resolved.

66 BC-its somewhere in the RS2 release thread i think.
in any case, how would this work? would this totally remove the AUC or something else? personally i really like the AUC because its realistic and very cool IMHO.

[Timefool]

Wow the code for C++ seems a lot more complex than it would be for Java:

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import java.io.*;
public class abUrbCondita {

/**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
* @throws NumberFormatException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws NumberFormatException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
double newline;
double number;

BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println(" Enter year in Ab Urb Condita:");
newline=Double.parseDouble(stdin.readLine());

number = newline- 753;

System.out.println("the year in the Gregorian calendar is " + number);
}

}

I just learned how to do that last week too

[ROFL Copter]

Mine takes in the number of the year in AUC, and then subtracts it from 753. Then it checks to see if it is below zero and if so adds one (because there is no year zero). Then if the number is above zero it displays it and puts "BC". If it was below zero it multiplies it by -1 to get a positive number out of it and displays "AD". That is why it is more complicated. Yours just takes in a number and does the subtraction. Also, mine is in a loop.

66 BC-its somewhere in the RS2 release thread i think.
in any case, how would this work? would this totally remove the AUC or something else? personally i really like the AUC because its realistic and very cool IMHO.

This is just a console program that you execute outside of the game that does the conversion of AUC to Gregorian for you. I couldn't get it in the game if I wanted to.

[Timefool]

I could do that too using the if-then-else statements but I was assuming people would understand a negative outcome would be BC/BCE.

[ROFL Copter]

You forgot to factor in the fact that there is no year zero, and the program will run like there is. You need to make it so that it will subtract one if the answer equals zero or lower.

[DarthLazy]

66 bc but the way to get around this is to skip a turn in the campaign, instead of a 3 digit year system specific to one faction that is super hard to keep track of.....

But ROFL copter has solved that. Thanks

[Brusilov]

66 BC-its somewhere in the RS2 release thread i think.
in any case, how would this work? would this totally remove the AUC or something else? personally i really like the AUC because its realistic and very cool IMHO.

It's not a specific date that RTW experiences a problem it's simply form that date onwards. My understanding is that it's tied into the civil war that breaks out in vanilla RTW.

It's part of the game engine and the way to by-pass it was the UAC system.

With the original RTW (1.2) there was a utility called Rome Sage that could be used to change various things in a save game which included the date. There were a number of occasions where I had to use this to move the date forwards in RTR 6 Gold. I could move the date forward a year or so, play a few years and then get another CTD. I'd then go through the whole process again. Eventually after the game went to AD there wasn't a problem.

Rome Sage does not work with RTW 1.5. I know there is an updated version out there that works with RTW 1.5 but I've heard it can mess up games.

I'd much prefer to have the minor problem of UAC than have to go through all the problems as before. Dates are just relative numbers anyway.....

[ROFL Copter]

It's not a specific date that RTW experiences a problem it's simply form that date onwards. My understanding is that it's tied into the civil war that breaks out in vanilla RTW.

It's part of the game engine and the way to by-pass it was the UAC system.

With the original RTW (1.2) there was a utility called Rome Sage that could be used to change various things in a save game which included the date. There were a number of occasions where I had to use this to move the date forwards in RTR 6 Gold. I could move the date forward a year or so, play a few years and then get another CTD. I'd then go through the whole process again. Eventually after the game went to AD there wasn't a problem.

Rome Sage does not work with RTW 1.5. I know there is an updated version out there that works with RTW 1.5 but I've heard it can mess up games.

I'd much prefer to have the minor problem of UAC than have to go through all the problems as before. Dates are just relative numbers anyway.....

Its still fun to compare yourself to the real thing. I just wanted to make that a little easier.

I'm going to shamelessly bump this to see if anyone else wants it.

[DUFFMAN]

Just for the record, AUC is as much ''the real thing'' as any other system, provided that it works.