Question about NON

[kashiek]

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere but I've looked everywhere and couldn't find anything.

Units in Civ II are accompanied by a three letter abbreviation for their home city (Ie, Rom for Rome). But some cities only create units with NON under them and no matter how many units I create from those cities, the cities never have any supported units, or at least none are shown in the support window of the city screen.

My first thought was that this was an effect from founding a city while under fundamentalism, but in a recent game where I had changed the rules.txt file I found this wasn't the case.

Can someone explain to me what NON means, why some cities produce units with that, and whether or not they require support of any kind?

 

[Magic_gorter]

Welcome Kashiek.

NON means that the unit has no home city. And this means that they do not require any support. Getting such a unit is very handy. There are a few ways to get such a unit. From huts or from bribing a unit. To determine to which city a new unit belongs it looks which city is the closest to the unit. If the nearest city is yours then that city will support the unit. However when an enemy city is closer you're unit will become a NON unit.

 

[Mercator]

What Magic_gorter said is true, but doesn't answer the question why some of your cities actually produce NON units.

It's a bug. I believe all cities beyond the first 127 produce NON units.

However, that bug was fixed. Download the 2.42 patch to fix it:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=58

 

[kashiek]

That's what I was looking for, thanks alot.