Rising Coastlines?

ainwood

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• Apr 26, 2004

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I was looking through the civilopaedia, and noticed this entry...

#GLOBALWARMING_RISING_COASTLINES
Coastlines are rising! Our scientist blame it on Global Warming...

I can't say I've seen that happen since civ 2!

 

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• Apr 26, 2004

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What happens when the 'coastline rises'? Does marshland disappear?

 

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• Apr 26, 2004

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I've has this happen to me once a long time ago in vanilla civ. The coast just moves up one tile into your territory.

 

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• Apr 26, 2004

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If we've almost all never seen it, then it doesn't happen enough.

 

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I assume global warimg must have to be really bad for this to happen...

 

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• Apr 27, 2004

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Welcome to the terrifying world of rising coastlines. It has happened to me twice. The first time it was in GOTM-15. Before:



And after:



Yay, Land Fish!

Note that I didn't even have any factories. Or even coal for that matter. I think that I was still in the Middle Ages at that point, with roads and calvary. When the AI was warring with railroads and tanks.

 

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• Apr 27, 2004

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The picture shows the coastline retreating, not rising.

 

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• Apr 27, 2004

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I experienced the same long ago in Vanilla Civ3. 2 of my coastal cities at that game got surrounded by land. I thought that probably a game file was corrupt, so unistalled/reinstalled Civ3. I think, that wasn't with patch 1.29f: I was playing with an older one.

 

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I though that land-fish were as a result of 'nuclear terraforming'!

 

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Originally posted by ainwood
I though that land-fish were as a result of 'nuclear terraforming'!

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They can also be a result of Global Warming if a coastal square turns to desert do to global warming. But that isn't 'rising coastlands', is it?

 

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• Apr 27, 2004

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I've seen it with "nuclear terraforming" too. I think it's due to the fact that certain terrain has to be bordered by another terrain. (i.e., tundra can't be next to plans).

 

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• Apr 28, 2004

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look at SOTD #18

 

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• Apr 29, 2004

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This is one thing I like about SMAC - you've got a bit more control over crazy stuff like rising and falling sea levels. "That's right gang - let's raise the sea levels and drown the believers!!"

 

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• Apr 30, 2004

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Originally posted by Chieftess
I've seen it with "nuclear terraforming" too. I think it's due to the fact that certain terrain has to be bordered by another terrain. (i.e., tundra can't be next to plans).

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Is there any idea what these rules are?

 

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• Apr 30, 2004

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Originally posted by ainwood
I was looking through the civilopaedia, and noticed this entry...

#GLOBALWARMING_RISING_COASTLINES
Coastlines are rising! Our scientist blame it on Global Warming...

I can't say I've seen that happen since civ 2!

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I would *guess* this message is just in the file - maybe it was once planned to use it, but there's actually no trigger/event to let it pop up in the final version.

Btw, when I installed vanilla, I noticed there were some multi-player related error messages in some text file - of course, vanilla came w/o multi-player support...