new continent ?

[wolwal]

Hi,

has anyone seen new continents arising? I usually played it easiest level to maximize my points, and then, suddenly, there's a new continent at the Northpole with fields with extraordinary properties. I founded cities there and they grew like nothing, getting grains of about 34 or so per worked city square, similar with shields.

Regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Dack]

Wolfgang,
You could make this much more interesting if you would upload the map & sve file. The ones in the early part of the game and then the later ones showing this phenomenon.

 

[wolwal]

Hi Dack,

I wish I still had them, but it was about 7-8 years ago when I last played Civ 1, and since then I preferred playing Civ II. Maybe I'm giving it a new try to recreate the circumstances, but I'm not sure at all if it will happen. I can only remember that it happened two times.
The last time it was very frustrating. After some time the beneficial fields became negative of some sort. Luckily Civ 2 was out and helped getting over the frustration.

 

[civ2]

I know there are two (at least) ways to create some strange terrain.
1. Enable cheats.
Sometimes you get a north Pole messed up.
2. Become a super-civ.
Then use hundreds of nuclears on anybody (even barbarians).
Then you get a climate change several times - it destroys some good terain each time.
So you get a total swamp-desert mixture.
After some 20 times you get the same effect.
BTW I never tried to USE those terrs - I just saw a mess on the map.

 

[raimo_m]

Yeah, I now what you are talking about. If I remember right, the north pole extends north of North America, above Canada, to be exact.

The map gets disordered -don't know how to describe it- It's bit like the game area expands some way.

Some tiles might turn into pixel-mess.

This phenomenon might be related to your civilization growing too large. I have experienced it only in the late phase of the game.

 

[GoldBerg]

please post strange game events here
(read the how to there)
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=104554

 

[JanSobieski]

About seven years ago when I first played the game, I remember getting into the late game and seeing some weird terrain changes. For example, hills would pop up in the middle of the Australian desert and ocean tiles turned into swamps. Any other time I played I never saw that again and I stoped playing CivI about 4 and a half years ago so it's been a while since I've even seen the game. I'm not even sure if I'm remembering a dream or if I actually saw what I remember but now I want to play again just to see if I can get the terrain to change.

 

[JanSobieski]

I'm only 16 so 7 years ago meant I was pretty young. That's why I don't fully trust my memory.

 

[Marx]

The terrain type you mention is named 'terrain type'

Some strange type of a bug. I've seen this bug in one of the older versions of Civilization