Bug? Allow city on 'x' terrain function.

[Lab Monkey]

I toggled the 'allow city' city function to make desert and tundra off-limits, but in my current game the AI has several cities on tundra. Is the 'allow city' function for human players only, or is this a bug? The only other reason for this that I can think of is that you can still (like civ2) find a village in a goody hut (but I've never got one of these myself in Civ3, and the AI has over 8 of them.

 

[Zouave]

Originally posted by Lab Monkey
I toggled the 'allow city' city function to make desert and tundra off-limits, but in my current game the AI has several cities on tundra. Is the 'allow city' function for human players only, or is this a bug?. . .

Oh, that's just great. We were hoping we could do something to slow down the AI's crazy flood of settlers building towns everywhere. The initial land-grab is so tiresome. Now the "allow city" function only applies to the human?!

I'll have to re-edit my mod and test this one.


Enough Settler Diarrhea! I won't even look at the PTW box if it isn't fixed. (It won't be).

 

[Aeson]

It probably is the AI building cities on Forests, that happen to be on Tundra.

 

[Masquerouge]

I thought Forest was not a terrain type ? But rather something like cattle or wheat ?
I guess I was wrong

 

[Lab Monkey]

Well done, that man!

That's why they wern't building on deserts...

Firaxis really needs to look at this one, and to look at the base terrain when building a city.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

the forest thing sucks!

 

[IceBlaZe]

It sucks but it's true. A forest in a tundra has practically everything you need to build a small village in reality.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

IceBlaZe: yep

 

[Palcho]

Originally posted by Aeson
It probably is the AI building cities on Forests, that happen to be on Tundra.

Hmmm... interesting that.... I turned off the allow cities on Tundra and Desert too. I can't place them in the editor (just deletes the forest from the tile), but i haven't tested it in the game yet.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Zouave, if you dislike the initial landgrab so much, have you tried raising the cost of Settlers? A 50%-100% price hike should force the AI do decrease it's rate of expansion quite a bit. Or simply make Barbarians more dangerous - switch Warriors and Horsmen for Archers and Mounted Warriors, say, and remove the Barbarian combat penalties for all difficulty levels.