Quick Answers (formerly Newbie Questions)

[anarres]

WillJ, check my sig.

You are free to play games on or off the ladder, we have people of all difficulty levels and most of us play several at the same time.

 

[wildWolverine]

I think the answer is no, but is there any way to "ship" food from an overproducing city to a stagnant or shrinking city?

 

[Shabbaman]

No
Well, there is a way, but that's in fact cheating. You can build workers or settlers and add those to the stagnant city. Of course, these added civilians will die later of starvation.

 

[wildWolverine]

Two questions (1 gameplay, 1 forum posting)

1.) City Management: If I conquer a city, and it as 2 unhappy citizens in it (of opposing nationality), can I have three of my own workers join it to turn this into a normal, productive city? Or would this action just cause the 2 foreigners become resisters?

2.) Can I change the default setting so I don't have to manually uncheck the box so I don't get an email everytime someone responds to my post?

 

[Shabbaman]

1. They'd still be unhappy. To balance this you'd have to place 2 happy citizens, but to get that (by giving them luxuries for instance) you'd make the unhappy citizens content anyway, so your proposed strategy won't really work very well.
2. Yes, check the User CP in the upper right.

 

[Igmod]

I don't have PTW but I want it. Will Conquest include all the PTW features or will I need to buy both?

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by anarres
WillJ, check my sig.

You are free to play games on or off the ladder, we have people of all difficulty levels and most of us play several at the same time.

I thought that was just PBEM....

 

[Grille]

by wildWolverine:
1.) City Management: If I conquer a city, and it as 2 unhappy citizens in it (of opposing nationality), can I have three of my own workers join it to turn this into a normal, productive city? Or would this action just cause the 2 foreigners become resisters?

some additional info:
Resisters will only be "created" in the same turn you capture a city, their number wouldn't increase by time. But you want to get rid of them by garrisoning such a city (there's an interesting article about resistance quelling, check the link in WillJ's signature - right above this post). Resisters don't work tiles (no production of any kind, no food consumption, no happiness affections), but they do increase culture flip (CF) chances. CF chances are also influenced by citizens of foreign nationality. You may want to get rid of them - by starving population down to "1" (the last foreigner stays and will be assimilated to your nationality sooner or later). So adding own workers/settlers wouldn't be a good idea before you starved the city down to size one.

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by Igmod
I don't have PTW but I want it. Will Conquest include all the PTW features or will I need to buy both?

I would assume that you would have to buy both.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by sealman
I would assume that you would have to buy both.

Nope, Conquests comes with all of the PTW features, except for the user-created maps/scenarios, which you can download anyway.

 

[wildWolverine]

I'm not entirely sure that's a safe assumption... I've seen numerous posts (granted, I have no way of verifying them) that have stated the exact opposite -- that all features of PTW WILL be included in Conquest.

 

[WillJ]

@WW: Looks like you missed my post. All of the previews/press-releases have said that Conquests will include PTW's features (except for user-created stuff).

 

[wildWolverine]

<Must type faster> either that or hit refresh more often....

 

[Igmod]

I have another question:

Does the AI pre-build Wonders?

 

[morkaphi]

Originally posted by MadScot
Beaten by Grille.....the shame, the shame....

Originally posted by wildWolverine
<Must type faster> either that or hit refresh more often....

A major reason why I love CFC so much, the good folks.

 

[Grille]

Hehe, I will never ever give up my lame posting style, even if I drink morkaphi
BTW, morkaphi this one is dedicated to you::
But don't use this spoiler to "cheat" over there.

 

[morkaphi]

Hehe, I guess I am just not such a big time OT poster for most people to recognize me.

BTW... how can you provide the link and expect people not to cheat? I almost did it myself...

@Igmod: AFAIK, the AI doesn't prebuild wonders.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Does the AI pre-build Wonders?

Nope, they only have the 'cascading' effect of having to switch from one wonder to the next. (or getting a leader).

The AI doesn't use a palace as a pre-build for a wonder.

 

[drewshark]

I've heard it talked about but has anyone created a program that makes trading easier or that at least lets us see if another civ has a scientific advance w/out going through the diplo channels to see if technology has anything new in it for each civ?

 

[fnbrown]

How do you change your status message in your profile here at CivFanatics? I read the FAQ, but couldn't find the "Custom User Text" field...