Losing partially completed buildings

[Eugenius]

Hello, my problem is when I begin working on certian buildings and especially wonders, if I switch production the option to go back to building these is gone and I lose the ability to finish it. Sometimes the building dissapears from the cities build queue other times it moves up the queue and sits there without the city recognising it. IE the city will prompt me to choose something to produce even though an uncompleted object is next in the queue

I play the game in fullscreen mode. I have not altered the game in any way and it didnt work pre 1.52 however I never tried 1.09 as that was obsolete when I got the game.

Im running a dell pentium 4 windows XP Nvidia GEFORCE4 MX440 2.8gigaherts + 2.8 gigahertz 512mb ram SP2 1024x768

 

[Finite Monkey]

Buildings partly completed lose a portion of their production the longer they go without being worked on. I do not know the exact rate, but this facet of the game is mentioned in the manual.

As far as switching to a building you don't want you should check your building queue. If you started a building then switched production mid way the building is still in queue. As soon as another unit/building is completed it goes to the next item in queue which might be your partially completed building. The game gives a little notice in the message area that this is what is occuring.

To complain about a game that you don't fully understand is less than productive. If you had left your first paragraph there and spared us the tirade I would have taken you a lot more seriously.

 

[linjon1]

"This is incredible annoying since the game sometimes automatically starts building a Heroic Epic right in the middle of a military buildup on my border,"

this doesn't happen unless you tell it to, or perhaps some automatic setting. I don't know as i never automate anything.

 

[Eugenius]

OK first of all I dont mean I lose some production or I lose the ability to pick it from the menu because it has moved up in the queue, I mean it literally dissapears or moves up the queue and gets stuck there with the city refusing to acknowledge its in there. And the bit about having the automated production on I do this because its the only way to get the building/wonder/etc back into production in the city. Even though I can't pick the building from the list to be produced the auto production will almost always move straight to partially completed things when it has the chance to pick something.

 

[CivalGanjaman]

try a FPS (First Person Shooter), there less complex