According to Sid Meier's 2020 autobiography, there was never an overflow error related to Gandhi's aggression levels in Civilization; the entire story is a myth
Hey all! I've been reading Sid Meier's autobiography (it's quite good), and apparently the entire well-known story about Gandhi's aggression levels in Civilization I is completely made up! Apologies if this doesn't belong here, but I had no idea and thought others might be interested.
Meier writes in Sid Meier's Memoir! that there was never an overflow error, and that "That kind of bug comes from something called unsigned characters, which are not the default in the C programming language, and not something I used for the leader traits. Brian Reynolds wrote Civ II in C++, and he didn't use them, either. We received no complaints about a Gandhi bug when either game came out, nor did we send out any revisions for one. Gandhi's military aggressiveness score remained at 1 throughout the game." (p.263).
Apparently the entire thing started with a user named "Tunafish" in 2012, who made up the overflow error story on TVTropes.com. It spread from there to a Wikia entry, then eventually to Reddit, was picked up by sites like Kotaku, and then spread from there.
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