How do I tell latitude in game?

[Runner]

I like to put ironworks in a city that can produce the Space Elevator (within 30 degrees of the equator) . But I cannot figure out how to tell for sure what the latitude of that city is before plunking down Ironwork.

Sure, if the city is/was surrounded by jungles then obviously it is close enough to the equator to qualify.

But how do you tell if a city is north or south of the jungle? Knowing this after researching steel would be useful Right now I can't seem to figure it out until I research robotics but by then Ironworks has been built.

 

[KMadCandy]

oh how i wish i could from turn 1 in OCC games! but i really don't know the answer

 

[Gaius Octavius]

I suppose you could roughly estimate it since the latitude ranges from 0 to 90. Therefore, 30 would be about a third of the way up from the middle... assuming you know where the equator is to start with.

Honestly, I don't think you can tell in-game.

 

[OTAKUjbski]

This isn't an exact science, but it'll get you within a few tiles if you do it right:

1. Zoom all the way out to view the entire globe (<F11>).
2. Turn the tile grid on (<Ctrl>+<t>).
3. Click as close to the center of the globe/map as you can. The straightest set of lines is roughly the equator.
4. Find the map's north/south-most edge and split the difference from there to the equator.
5. That '50%' point is roughly 30 degrees latitude.

In case you're wondering how the eff this works, the usable tiled area from the equator to the edge of the map is 2/3 the distance from the pole. 1/3 the distance to the pole is 30 degrees. 1/2 of 2/3 = 1/3. Voila!

 

[LucyDuke]

But how do you tell if a city is north or south of the jungle?

I believe that if you display the resource bubbles, they point towards the equator. That is, the bubble is toward the pole, and the arrow is toward the equator. North of the equator, they'll point downward, and south of the equator, they'll point upward.

I think.

 

[r_rolo1]

But how do you tell if a city is north or south of the jungle? Knowing this after researching steel would be useful Right now I can't seem to figure it out until I research robotics but by then Ironworks has been built.

My rule of thumb:

Jungle up and/or ice down = south of equator

Jungle down and/or ice up = north of equator

I don't know about your map type, but I normally don't play on Ice age or Tropical, and in standart settings the 30º line normally lies on the desert belt. Of course if you have calendar use OTAKUjbski's suggestion, it's more accurate.

@LucyDuke

About resourse bubbles: It was like that before the 2.08 patch, but I think they changed it ( must confirm )

 

[KMadCandy]

About resourse bubbles: It was like that before the 2.08 patch, but I think they changed it ( must confirm )

yeah it was changed sometime, not sure if it was with original warlords or in the patch, but you can no longer can tell by the arrows in warlords. i don't know if they made that change in vanilla.

ok i decided to not be so lazy, and went and looked at patch notes. warlords 2.08 says "Plot indicator rotation no longer gives away your location on the map (north-south hemisphere)" and vanilla 1.61 doesn't say anything at all about indicators. so i guess you can still tell if you're north or south of the equator in vanilla.

 

[ggganz]

They point towards the center of the screen, no matter what you are looking at.