Planting Forests?

[TBB]

Is there any way to regain chopped down forests? I mean other than the painfully slow natural regrowth?

I wonder because I usually chop down my forests for the hammers and to cultivate the underlying terrain. But once lumbermills get juiced up I kinda want them back.

Thanx all,

TBB

 

[HalfBadger]

I haven't found a way yet, however since they can give decent Food/Production output and health I don't instinctively cut them down right away.

 

[PrimeAPE]

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

- Jack Handey

 

[dh_epic]

That's the genius of Civ 4. Cut down trees and get an early production boost. But save some trees, and enjoy greater health, the chance for lumbermills, and even the benefits of the environmentalism civic.

There's tradeoffs to everything. If you could just replant trees, then chopping would be a total nobrainer, making the game dumber.

 

[snepp]

There's tradeoffs to everything. If you could just replant trees, then chopping would be a total nobrainer, making the game dumber.

Which leads directly to the chop/replant/chop/replant silly-ness from Civ3

 

[Dogzilla]

There's a mod for this:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=138242

 

[Shillen]

I'm finding it's best to mix and match with cutting down trees. Like I'll probably chop down 1/4 to 1/3 of my trees in the early game to give myself a boost. But I leave the rest of them up. I'll also be picky about which trees I cut down. I'm more likely to cut down forests on hills and mine them as I can get more production than the forest gives pre-lumbermills. I'm also more likely to cut down forests on a river tile, as you pick up a commerce. But the main reason I'll cut down a forest is if a city needs some more food to be able to work the other forests/hills in its radius, then I'll chop and irrigate.

 

[dh_epic]

You can usually get away with chopping trees on hills since mines are a safe bet early on. I also tend to chop trees near rivers, since they're great for cottages OR farms.

Replanting trees is a crutch for weak players.

 

[Arkalius]

Generally, whether or not you chop a tree down depends on one main thing. Is whatever you can gain by chopping down now (extra hammers and whatever improvement you will put in it's place) worth sacrificing the extra hammer per turn (and the 2 extra per turn when lumbermills show up)? If so, go for it.