The AI had a city right beside a volcano. I took the city and was using it as a staging point. It was located nicely that I could launch a nice four prong attack on the next civ. As I was loading up the troops, the volcano went Pompeii on me. I lost about 30 troops in the lava flow. I had a good laugh about it.
I hate volcanos
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sabo
My Ancestors were Vikings
Oh well "Cntr-Sft-Q" solves that problem 
SwitchbladeNGC
Bird of Prey
How far out does the volcano effect? Also, do they distroy improvements as well?
wilbill
That Old Time Religion
Volcano damage can extend two squares out, I believe. The lava flow destroys the city entirely -- units, improvements and all.
Ben E Gas
King
sabo said:Oh well "Cntr-Sft-Q" solves that problem
What does ctrl-shift-Q do?
SesnOfWthr
True Believer
Ben E Gas said:
It quits out of the game.
But IIRC only cities/roads/units directly next to or two tiles away from the volcano are destroyed...
This is annoying, because if you had a road to your ally supplying luxuries, the volcano could make them very mad
CTRL+SHIFT+Q will let you board the Time Machine and go back in time using Autosaves (saves automatically every turn) and go back two turns before, and then move units safely out of the way.
This is annoying, because if you had a road to your ally supplying luxuries, the volcano could make them very mad
CTRL+SHIFT+Q will let you board the Time Machine and go back in time using Autosaves (saves automatically every turn) and go back two turns before, and then move units safely out of the way.
Zandrew
The Black Knight
huh? said:
Was the volcano smoking before it erupted? I've often noticed they'll smoke for a few turns before erupting, giving you time to evacuate. Does anyone know if they always smoke before erupting?
Zandrew said:
Actually, I think you get a message that the volcano is now active. Then a few turns later it erupts. I took the city during the time in between the two messages. I had no real intentions of staying in the city, but it was a nice spot to stage troops. Once the city was destroyed the area was consumed by the culture of the other civ.
SesnOfWthr
True Believer
The volcano will usually smoke, and you will see a text over it saying "the volcano is now active"
BTW - If you're going to use your "time machine", why don't you just use ctrl+L?
BTW - If you're going to use your "time machine", why don't you just use ctrl+L?
I had a worker moving over a volcano when it erupted, funniest thing i saw for a while "your worker has been burnt to a crisp" 
How often/long do wolcano's erupt? I saw a volcano on another island go off about 7 times in 10 turns.
How often/long do wolcano's erupt? I saw a volcano on another island go off about 7 times in 10 turns.
Locomotive
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I had a funny experience when I was playing Diety regicide. I had absolutely no chance at taking out the dutch (random map). I was dying and the germans were barely hanging on. Then my computer pauses for a good 2 minutes and says, "the dutch have been eliminated."
biggamer132
King
I remember in my last game that I had to evacuate a firmly French (me) city I had taken from the Zulu several hundred years before because the volcano just outside the city gates suddenly went active. Since I had a rather large troop garrison, some workers, and some improvements there, I had to get everyone out to the nearest French city and was thinking about selling off the improvements. Then, just when I thought my city was going to burn... the lava didn't go past the volcano tile. However, having an undefended city made the AI move a stack of doom into my territory a few turns later to try and take it, and the volcano that ended up wussing out gave me plenty of tank fodder.
Locomotive said:I had a funny experience when I was playing Diety regicide. I had absolutely no chance at taking out the dutch (random map). I was dying and the germans were barely hanging on. Then my computer pauses for a good 2 minutes and says, "the dutch have been eliminated."
So the king unit was killed ina lava flow and thus the civ eliminated? Do I start understanding?
By the way I figured that vulcano randomly destroys (and pollutes) the 8 (9 including the vulcano itself) tiles when erupting. And there is not always a warning. Can you confirm this?
Prince David
David di Xeno
I've never had a volcano erupt w/o warning, but according to the manual it's possible. If I'm founding a city I'll make sure to NOT start adjascent to a volcano. I will occsionally have one in my outer ring as they can give you three shields w/o improvements (which you can't so in any case), so they can be a nice, if risky, tile. Keep in mind that any population working a square hit by lava will be wiped out, too.
My worst expereince was my first game in 3C3 when I lost my #2 city. It cut off my route to two luxuries, cost me a couple of troops and a nearly complete settler.
My worst expereince was my first game in 3C3 when I lost my #2 city. It cut off my route to two luxuries, cost me a couple of troops and a nearly complete settler.
KabeDerlin
Prince
How do you make it save automatically each turn?
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