Do You Ctrl- G?

[royfurr]

Just curious. Do you play with the grid layed out on the map, or never, or sometimes?

Why or why not?



YES! I ALWAYS play with the Grid on- it helps me plan things!


SOMETIMES. I turn it on to check something and then usually turn it off.


RARELY. On occasion, I use it.


NEVER! The grid is for wusses and it messes up how the map looks!



(DARN! HOW DO you set up one of those nice radio button polls??)

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

NEVER! Wusses

Tis a blight on any self respecting map!

 

[Selous]

yea ...i use ctrl G .... but only when something is looking a little confusing and that city cetre must be in the RIGHT SPOT .... yea ... or whatever ... when it is real important i turn that bloody ugly thing on

 

[PirateMac]

Grids... Great!

Being a Merchant Marine and always using charts with a grid system (lat & long) I feel lost without it.

 

[FullofHoles]

I have nothing but hatred for a gridless world. My object, within any game, is to do everything possible to win. Any type of information that I have access to, I consider it in defiance of my principles to not use. Games that allow information BUT make it tedious to collect (gridless worlds in general, Jagged Alliance 2 in particular) only make me alternate between fury and tedium. I still gather all of the information, it just vastly decreases my enjoyment of the game.

JA2 could have been a good game if it had been grid-girt.



On a related issue, I have stopped playing Civ3 until they fix stacked movement. Hundreds of thousands of (imaginary) lives are at stake. I will be damned if I will overlook the slightest advantage merely because it is convenient to do so. Moving some 60+ workers every single turn is too tedious, but automated workers are not intelligent enough. Until stack-movement makes worker-handling less tedious, I will go back to Rogue Spear.

(Rogue Spear challenge for any other relentless perfectionists out there: Take out Siberia 1 as a veteran-30-tango-terrorist-hunt with only one operative! I did it. It only took me about 60 separate tries...)

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

poll should be augmented with:

YES! I have it on constantly so I won`t make mistakes moving my units....

really: I have it on all the time since my display somtimes is really hard to interpret (cheap Laptop 14``)

 

[Hobbes]

First thing I do when I load the game. A pretty map is for fancy pants artists.

 

[Cerryl]

I used to in the previous two games sometimes, to see how my cities are intersecting, but with CIV III it shows the outline when controlling a settler.

 

[Ripley]

I did for my first three games. I turned it off after that.

Once you get used to it, it's pretty easy to visualize the grid as if it were there.

 

[Shaitan]

I only use it occasionally. The map is pretty easy to interpret without the grids. About the only thing I need to check with grids is whether or not a tile has railroads going into it (when that annoying little miniscule curve of railroad in one corner or the tile icon is used).

 

[eyrei]

You can turn on a grid?

 

[Soufie77]

I used to play with grids only during wars when unit placement had to be more accurate. Nowadays, I've found that the best way to play is to use those circular highlights for units, as they give acceptable spatial awareness without ruining the graphics. They're also good for quick scans of the map to check for border incursions when you're in a rush. Some of the units can become a little bit indistinct when you're whizzing past them with jerky scrolling.

 

[Divis]

I checked the sometimes radial, because sometimes I play with it on, sometimes I forget... I do think it helps though, sometimes...

 

[Shaitan]

Originally posted by eyrei
You can turn on a grid?

Ctrl-G will toggle a grid overlay for the map showing each tile.

Or was that a facetious question?

 

[eyrei]

I new there was a grid, but I never bothered to find out how to turn it on, because I would never use it. I am trying to convince myself that I am really an immortal ruler of a civilization after all.

I am pretty sure Julius Caesar did not have a grid overlay for his map of Gallia.

 

[filmic10]

When you need to manuver a ship through a hazardous area, grid mode is the way to go.