no aerial view on civ content

when I was playing one of the civ content like such as 1 MP Mesopotamia when I got to a city there's aerial view

City view and palace view are disabled in scenarios, I believe.

Levantine said:

City view and palace view are disabled in scenarios, I believe.

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how do I enable it

chicknex4 said:

how do I enable it

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AFAIK, you can't -- it's hardcoded.

The rationale (as I understand it) was to make modding easier for the (average) would-be Modmaker, because if someone wanted to add new building-types to a mod, they would either have to re-use existing artwork, or they would need to generate (additional) original artwork for that new building themselves. The former is aesthetically undesirable (it would result in the city-view ending up with (apparently) duplicated buildings), and the latter might require software/ skills beyond the grasp of Joe Average.

So city-view was unilaterally switched off for all modified .biq (game rules) files -- including the Conquests-scenarios created by Firaxis itself (similar to how the game also doesn't record highscores for any modded .biqs, including the Conquests).

Here you can read the story why the cityview is lost for C3C mods and scenarios - but not the C3C epic game:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=13510314&postcount=21