tomart said:
"Alt-s lets you create signs... But you can also go to the strategic overlay. When you zoom out until you see the flat terrain change into a globe, it is one of the buttons in the lower right part of the screen. Only when zoomed out, you can draw on the map with the features in the strategic overlay. It also allows you to create signs, but it is easier to do that with Alt-s."
Thanks! I didn't have any success with Alt-s, but out there in orbit, the Strategic Overlay brings up Signs and Lines. It's kind of painstaking, but you can ju.....st about barely see where you're drawing...
But a few turns later, they've all disappeared. So it's just a temporary tool.
Thanks again.
Maybe Alt-s was not an option in one of the earlier patches. Have you patched your game?
The lines will not be saved in the savegame in the earlier version of Civ4, so if you save and reload, then they will be gone. They will be saved in the savegame in Warlords and I also seem to remember in the last patch of vanilla Civ4, but I'm not sure of that last part.
fool01 said:
I know the city name, I don't know where it is. Is there some method how to locate it?
First of all, welcome to civfanatics!
There are two methods that I could think of.
1) Zoom out far and look for the city on the map.
2) Click F1 and click the city on the city list. The game will move you inside the city if you click the button in front of the city.
Also, you'll get some messages about a number of your cities at the start of a turn (construction finished, borders expanded, etc.). These messages can be reread in a log that is accessible through a button at top left part of the screen or by pressing CTRL-TAB. If you click on a message related to a certain city, then the map will move to the location of that city.