How do I build hydro plants?

[BigDog]

Originally posted by Duke of Marlbrough
Are you saying that each city can then build a hydro plant, or that each city instantly has a hydro plant built for it? Either way, it shouldn't be the case. You could have a different version of the game also....

Yes, a hydro plant has appeared in each of my cities in the City Improvements column.
However, I cannot sell them, and they don't cost anything to maintain, so I suppose that means they are purely a graphical indication of the fact that the Hoover Dam acts as a Hydro Plant in each city (if that makes sense)

 

[Ace]

Originally posted by Goatman
Are you all saying that when you build additional forms of power, the lesser ones become usless? Does this include the manufacturing plant, because it seems to increase the production dispite anything else.

The manufacturing plant is NOT a "power" plant. it works with the factory just like a university works with the library. of the four power plants, (power, nuclear, hydro, and solar) only ONE can be used to increase shield production. If you build the Hoover Dam, a very good idea, you should sell all power, nuclear, and hydro plants you have built because they no longer do anything except cost maintanence coins. the solar plant is an exception because it reduces pollution. if you already have a hydro plant, or the hoover dam, the solar plant will not add to your shield production but it will reduce pollution so its a good idea to keep it.

I play at the diety level and have found that I rarely need to build solar plants. only reason would be excessive pollution and that can usually be dealt with without solar plants.

note, you do not get any shield increase from the hoover dam in a given city until you build a factory. the anti-pollution functions, but you do need the factory to get the production boost.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Originally posted by BigDog
Yes, a hydro plant has appeared in each of my cities in the City Improvements column.
However, I cannot sell them, and they don't cost anything to maintain, so I suppose that means they are purely a graphical indication of the fact that the Hoover Dam acts as a Hydro Plant in each city (if that makes sense)

What version do you have? It definately does not happen in my games. Are you using a Mac or playing TOT? If not, can you post a saved game that shows that?

 

[BigDog]

Originally posted by Duke of Marlbrough


What version do you have? It definately does not happen in my games. Are you using a Mac or playing TOT? If not, can you post a saved game that shows that?

Well, I'm not using a Mac, and pardon my ignorance but I don't know what TOT stands for - here is a saved game...(I hope it works!!)

 

[BigDog]

Originally posted by BigDog



Well, I'm not using a Mac, and pardon my ignorance but I don't know what TOT stands for - here is a saved game...(I hope it works!!)

I'll try that again - here is the same file zipped....

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Like I said, I think we have different versions of the game. I have MPG (Multi-Player Gold Edition). When I tried to open your saved game it told me it wasn't a saved game file.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Here's a shot of the city view of Lucky's GOTM 10 save. I disbanded all the units in the city or supported by the city and changed the production from capitalism to a solar plant. I also took the one square of overlap it had with an adjacent city away and let the computer redistribute the workers automatically (clicked on the city icon in the display). He has already built Hoover Dam, but it doesn't show any power plant type improvements as being built for that city (lower left corner box) or being available to sell. He aslo can't build any of them becasue he already has Hoover Dam.

I'll attach the saved saved in the next post (since you can only have one attachment per post).

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

And, you can see that his city (Western Sioux) produces 20 shields on its own, then has a factory (+50%) and Hoover Dam (+50%) for (20+10+10) 40 shields.

BTW, TOT is the Test of Time edition of Civ II.

This is what all of my games are like, so it seems very weird to me that it different elsewhere, but with how many versions of Civ II they put out it wouldn't be that surprising if they are each a little different. Oh well, maybe we'll never know exactly why it is that way. :crazyeyes:

 

[BigDog]

Okay - here's where I hide my head in shame while beating myself with a long(ish) length of PVC piping - in my search for a specific piece of info regarding hydro plants (which started all this) I failed to notice in the results that this particular thread is regarding Civ II - I'm playing Civ 3 !!

I apologise for wasting your time...(although if you want I can attach a screen shot of a Civ 3 city screen to give you an idea of the differences):crazyeyes

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Believe me it isn't the first time that's happened. I once made two or three replies in this forum about something before someone pointed out the question was for civ 3, not civ II.

I knew something was weird about hydro plants showing up when building Hoover Dam. Mystery Solved.