Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Operc Etcagatal]

Its the capital city But i'll tell him he has to try it a couple of times with nukes and marines, thank you!

 

[TruePurple]

What are the factors for chances of a nuclear explosion from a nuclear plant, what are the odds? What is the result?

 

[TruePurple]

Manchester down near the bottom of the Continent of the attached save, the display tells me its producing 62 shields per turn. But it also tells me mech infantry will take 3 turns to produce. Can anyone please explain this strange discrepancy?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

All i know is that for every turn a city is in disorder, there is a chance of nuclear meltdown.

62 shields including those lost to waste.

 

[TruePurple]

Do you know if there is a chance of nuclear meltdown without any disorder?

How come cops sometimes add to the shield count if all they do is reduce corruption/waste?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

I think, but am not 100%, that disorder is required to have a meltdown.

Policemen will only cause a wasted shield to become useful. They won't add to the cities shield count. F1 shows a breakdown of the useful/wasted shields in a city.

 

[Mathias]

Policemen increase shields indirectly if you have factory/power plant in the city.

 

[TruePurple]

When police "decrease corruption" do they increase the "base commerce" before all the building boosters add in, or after? Cop specalists sometimes add more then 1 science etc in a very advanced city, but usually not much more then one.

 

[gwolking]

v1.29f

OK, here's a newbie question for y'all. I've searched the site until I'm going blind. I've seen references to this but no specifics on how to do it.

When you have a city whose population is a mixture of natives and foreigners (e.g., one that flipped to your civ and has grown since then) and have it build a worker, is there a way to determine whether that worker will be native (i.e., efficient and cost gold) or foreign (1/2 efficiency but no support cost)?

How about when you build a settler, can they be used to "drain off" the foreigners?

Thanks,

Greg.

 

[Operc Etcagatal]

I've got another question, never happend with me but still...
If I sign an mution pact with the romans for example, and he signs one with another civ, what happens if I attack that other civ, does rome attack me or them?

 

[Alphawolf]

In that case Rome will attack the first aggressor; if you attack first Rome declares war on you, if you declare war but they attack first Rome declares War on them.

I know the above is true and I think this is but I am not certain: A civ has to be attacked in its own territory to activate the mutual protection pact.

-the Wolf

 

[vmxa]

I've got another question, never happend with me but still...
If I sign an mution pact with the romans for example, and he signs one with another civ, what happens if I attack that other civ, does rome attack me or them?

If you attack civ B and it has an MPP with Rome that will trigger the ROmans to declare on you. You can attack civ B as long as their units are in your borders and not triger the MPP.

So what you do in that scenario is to kill units in your lands and send out a unit to their lands for them to kill. Now Rome dclares on them.

 

[thefusilier]

Easy question for most of you...

In the editor, under "Civilizations", and "build often/never" there is one called growth. What exactly is affected by this one... graineries and hopsitals?

 

[scloopy]

v1.29f

OK, here's a newbie question for y'all. I've searched the site until I'm going blind. I've seen references to this but no specifics on how to do it.

When you have a city whose population is a mixture of natives and foreigners (e.g., one that flipped to your civ and has grown since then) and have it build a worker, is there a way to determine whether that worker will be native (i.e., efficient and cost gold) or foreign (1/2 efficiency but no support cost)?

How about when you build a settler, can they be used to "drain off" the foreigners?

Thanks,

Greg.

The game I have going now in C3C is not building natives of the former owner, but I did make all the foreigners tax collectors and reduced the population by half before I let it start growing again. The first worker I built was a normal one (if ther is any such thing as normal). Don't know if this helps you or not.

 

[EMan]

v1.29f

OK, here's a newbie question for y'all. I've searched the site until I'm going blind. I've seen references to this but no specifics on how to do it.

When you have a city whose population is a mixture of natives and foreigners (e.g., one that flipped to your civ and has grown since then) and have it build a worker, is there a way to determine whether that worker will be native (i.e., efficient and cost gold) or foreign (1/2 efficiency but no support cost)?

How about when you build a settler, can they be used to "drain off" the foreigners?

Thanks,

Greg.

Generally speaking, the workers you build will be natives....until you only have foreigners left. Theoretically, and I believe TimBentley is the expert on this, there is a small probability that a foreigner may become the built worker.......but, for practical purposes, you should assume it's gonna be a native worker. Same theory for creating settlers.

There is a "silver lining" however.........I believe there is a small possibility that a foreign citizen may "convert" to a native each turn........so, if you leave the city alone long enough you will find that it contains all natives!!

P.s. What a coincidence that scloopy and I answered the same question in the same minute, 8 hours after it was posted!

@gwolking: Welcome to CFC.

 

[scloopy]

P.s. What a coincidence that scloopy and I answered the same question in the same minute, 8 hours after it was posted!

@gwolking: Welcome to CFC.

We are good. That is what it is.

 

[EMan]

We are good. That is what it is.

Can't disagree with you there..............But, Ummmmmmm, what exactly are we good at?

 

[Padma]

Moderator Action: Okay, scloopy and Eman, stop the spamming.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

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I just built my first ToA (took me a DG culture game to find a use for it ) and I was wondering: is there a way to build those temple things while you are under ToA effect? It would have been mighty convenient to learn education and start rushing (100s SCI) universities instead of colosseums - but not at the cost of 100 temples .

Thanks !

@gwolking:
About the foreigner question, I'll try being helpful by saying: IIRC, the LAST grown citizen in the town will go out as a worker/settler, and you can only "grow" native citizens, so you'll have to let them stagnate in food/starve while making them into workers/settlers to clear them and deal with eventual war unhappiness. A foreigner citizen will convert into a native eventually, but that I can't tell how. Of course, if TimBentley says anything, scratch everything I said

@TruePurple:
About the plant meltdown Q, IIRC a fixed, very low % chance of meltdown, and much increased during riots. The result is just pollution over the town's tiles. Couldn't tell if it's the "worked" tiles, the 9 or the 20, but my bet would go on the immediate 9 tiles.

 

[TruePurple]

ToA stands for? DG?

BTW, if a city is 1 foreigner and one native, the settler will be foreign and need no support.