rally point help

[destiny999]

I'm usually play on large map and war type, however i'm having problem later on when i have lots of cities each producing malitary unit - is there a way to set up rally point for ALL NEW UNIT produced (from all or one of the city) to go to a certain point on the map? it really is a pain to redirect them all individually >_<


thanx

[DaveMcW]

Click the city bar.
Shift + Right-Click the rally point.

More keyboard shortcuts:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=138984

[destiny999]

thanx...i tried that but to me it seem only work in the early part of the game.....

i load old savegame which were quite later in to the game and try the same method (click on one of the city then shift and right on the tile i want to rally) it didn't work.. the yellow circle appeared but the newly built unit will not go to it it just sit there wait for my input

[The Tyrant]

Did you try setting another city as the rally point? Several people have reported that rally points don't work for them if they set a city as the rally point, but do work if they set a non-city tile as the rally point.

[destiny999]

hmm.... yea.. i think i did... thanx.. i'll try a new game later ^_^

[destiny999]

nop..don't work... again early in the game rally point works great..but it sopt working later in the game.. donno why.. oh well..thanx for the help ^_^

[weltenbrand]

Hold CTRL down, click on a city bar to select all citys (the bars are highlighted) then shift right click on a non city tile.

I had the impression, that I have to reset it if I build some new citys.

[DaveMcW]

What units are you building that won't move to rally point?

[ForbiddenPalace]

Uncheck "Units Auto-Promote" in the option -> game menu will work. What I tend to do is:

a. Uncheck "units Auto-Promote" and set the rally point
b. After X number of turns, I have plenty of units on the rally point and are not promoted. To promote them all at once, check "units Auto-Promote" box and end the turn.
c. In X+1 turn, all the units will be promoted and all the units produced in this turn need to be moved manually to the rally point. Uncheck "units Auto-Promote". End the turn.
d. Back to b.

[Calavente]

I may be stupid but :
Why do you auto-promote your units ?
it is a bit risky no?
you are confident in the computer's choices for promotion? You are not choosing promotion depending on your 'war-and-defense' strategies?

I heard that the best use of promotion is to earn xp, and when needed, uppgrade many promotion in one turn to respond to a certain threat. (it may be only one promotion or maybe more depending on the occurence of the threats). and though I am reluctant to not assigne promotion when they are earned, I think it a very good advice I try to perform, but relying on the computer ...eeek

[carl corey]

I have no idea why he'd rather auto-promote. It's like worker automation, I don't think the computer can do as good a job as you could. :shrug:

[lordofcivs]

Originally Posted by ForbiddenPalace

Uncheck "Units Auto-Promote" in the option -> game menu will work. What I tend to do is:

a. Uncheck "units Auto-Promote" and set the rally point
b. After X number of turns, I have plenty of units on the rally point and are not promoted. To promote them all at once, check "units Auto-Promote" box and end the turn.
c. In X+1 turn, all the units will be promoted and all the units produced in this turn need to be moved manually to the rally point. Uncheck "units Auto-Promote". End the turn.
d. Back to b.

You seem to me a newbie in Civ 4. Any ways, doing anything "Auto" is never recommended unless you don't know how to do that or what are their benefits. I would rather recommend you to Promote your units based on the strategies. Like if you have 10 Axemen, don't give all of them same promotions. Give some of them +Strength, and some of them should have +City Attack, etc. Give at least 1 unit in a stack a Medic promotion (as it helps to heal all the units in a stack very quickly).

[ForbiddenPalace]

I only use auto-promote when I want to play quick games. What I have mentioned is my gameplay style when I try to squeeze time to play a civ game and cannot afford to micro-manage every unit. I don't think auto-promote should be used in more strategic playing styles even though the computer's choices are reasonable in general. Auto-promote is only a feature offered by the game that I tend to use, and not because that I don't know promote based on the needs nor how to promote manually. I am not a hardcore player, but certainly not a newbie in terms of the basic gameplay.