Metro in middle age

[GeneralMeng]

hi everyone, i was playing my civ3q and i am in the middle age and i am researching magnetism and suddenly a pullution pops out of nowhere and strike my city of shanghai, when i took a close look at it, it is a metro now, i don't even have hospital. this is werid. i know the cities likes to grow, but this is ?????? i attached a screen shot of it below

 

[zurichuk]

you have Shakespears Theater, I guess

 

[GeneralMeng]

yes i do, does it let you grow to a metro, i didn't know that. now i learned something new, next time i will build it in my capital city instead of other city, thanks

 

[Turner]

No guessing about it. In C3C, Shakespeare's Theater acts as a hospital.

You could save it for your capital, but I like building it in a high production city. This isn't always the capital, but usually close.

 

[Abaddon]

my god, why are there all those fortresses?

 

[thetrooper]

my god, why are there all those fortresses?

That was the first thing to pop up in my little, yet brilliant brain...

 

[Turner]

Really trying to defend that capital, I think.

 

[thetrooper]

More than the capital - it seems.

 

[The Omega]

Don't fortresses make it impossible to build terrain improvements on that tile? If so, why are you making so many fortresses? Fortresses around you're borders, I can understand, but in you're territory?

 

[thetrooper]

@The Omega: look at CIV2.jpg in the first post. There is a fortress on the mined mountain gem. A fortress doesn't affect terrain improvements.

 

[AA-battery]

my god, why are there all those fortresses?

I noticed that too, the only time I believe that you need those fortresses is when you are at war with someone and your borders are connected by a tiny connection between continents. Or if you inhabit a tiny island and its in danger of being attacked then you put them all over ther island and have units stationed so that only weak units (like marines) can attack.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Those fortresses would also make it difficult to attack enemies that are next to your city. They would get a defense bonus

 

[GeneralMeng]

yes i know, but the enemy would never get that far. my empire is too large and the border is well defended, in one city i have 30 riders garrsioned. the reason that i have so many fortress is because i have nothing for my worker to do, i have road mine and irrgation i all of my cities, and until steam power, all my workers are free.

 

[superslug]

the reason that i have so many fortress is because i have nothing for my worker to do,

You could form them into large gangs. Plant trees on a tile, chop them for the ten free shields and then redo the previous improvements all in one turn. 10 or 20 extra shields in one turn can really give a quick boost to a corrupt city in finishing an improvement.

 

[Vegasgustan]

You could form them into large gangs. Plant trees on a tile, chop them for the ten free shields and then redo the previous improvements all in one turn. 10 or 20 extra shields in one turn can really give a quick boost to a corrupt city in finishing an improvement.

You only get the bonus from the first forest. Anything after that and you are just chopping wood. If I am wrong, please someone correct me with proof.

 

[GeneralMeng]

good idea, i never thought of that. i rarely plant forest and only cut them when i have to. thanks. i just got steam power, and i am now building my rail road. so i will leave the fort building to my crusades. this game is going pretty well, in the start my cap has a river, two cattle and two silk in its work radius, it became the settler factory of my empire, even in emperor difficulty, i was able to maintain my tech research with the al. but i have no iron, the cloest iron is deep inside my enemy germany's territory. my first war i have to fight with archers and horse man vs swordsman. but i was lucky enought to beat them, i had lots of horse man and i went around the swordsman to avoid head on combat. i capture quite a few of germany cities and the iron, which turned outs to be 1 of the 3 iron on my continent. after that i am the biggest empire on my continent and the game was pretty much over, i continue to expand and attack my neighbour. and as you can see, my empire is now the biggest

 

[YNCS]

You only get the bonus from the first forest. Anything after that and you are just chopping wood. If I am wrong, please someone correct me with proof.

This is correct. You only get the 10 shields from the first forest.