Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Aabraxan]

There's a tech support forum. You might try there.

 

[splunge the 2nd]

Thanks, will do!

Edit: Nevermind, got it to work! Sorry!

 

[A Revolutionary]

I've seen references to renaming units (mostly in the Stories and Tales section) and I was wondering, how do you rename a unit? (I already know about renaming a unit that generates a leader).

 

[Bartleby]

IIRC it was added in PTW, but maybe it was Conquests (Or maybe it was in a Vanilla patch).
If you choose "show advanced worker buttons" or whatever in the preferences, there should be one that looks like "ABC" or something. That's it.

 

[Aceman101]

Ok. I built an Iron Works in one of my cities. After that I built a factory. If I build a power plant will it replace my Iron Works?

 

[MAS]

I know there are some mods or something that redo the graphics for strategic and luxury resources on civ3, I see the them all over on other people's screenshots. But I can't find them. Does anyone know where I can get then from?

You failed to say what kind of resource modification you are looking for!

But I'm going to assume you mean a graphical modification that shows little tags to more easily indicate the resource type...

Both of these will do that:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=72912

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=68971

 

[MAS]

Ok. I built an Iron Works in one of my cities. After that I built a factory. If I build a power plant will it replace my Iron Works?

Iron works is not a power plant. (A robotic plant isn't a power plant either) So no.
A city can have: 1 iron works1 + 1 factory, + 1 robotic plant, and 1 power plant. But you can choose what type of power plant...

 

[A Revolutionary]

IIRC it was added in PTW, but maybe it was Conquests (Or maybe it was in a Vanilla patch).
If you choose "show advanced worker buttons" or whatever in the preferences, there should be one that looks like "ABC" or something. That's it.

I found it.

 

[Ansar]

If you have a Factory + Coal Plant/Nuclear Plant/Hydro Plant in a city, and you build a Manufacturing Plant in that same city, will the Manufacturing Plant replace the Coal/Nuclear/Hydro Plant you already had in the city?

 

[A Revolutionary]

No, it does not. (I think)

 

[Onipsi]

Hello all, I'm new here. Great site.

My question is: what do these numbers mean?

Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, but I didn't find anything about it (couldn't think of keywords other than "lower right" when searching for it, though).

 

[A Revolutionary]

IIRC, that tells you how what percent (in increments of 10) of your income is being spent on what. The order is Science-Entertainment-Treasury. Right now it looks like you have science at 90%, entertainment at 0%, and the other 10% going to your treasury.

 

[Onipsi]

Oh, I see. Nothing big, then. Thanks!

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Once you have a manufacturing plant, you don't need the factory anymore.

 

[Tone]

If you have a Factory + Coal Plant/Nuclear Plant/Hydro Plant in a city, and you build a Manufacturing Plant in that same city, will the Manufacturing Plant replace the Coal/Nuclear/Hydro Plant you already had in the city?

No, it does not. (I think)

Correct. A manufacturing plant gives an additional 50% to the base shields generated. You need a factory to build it.

Possibly more info than you want following but here's an example of how the various buildings work:

Spoiler example :

For a city with a base sheild output of 40 per turn..

add a factory and it will rise to 60 (+50% to base)

add a coal/hydro/solar plant to the factory and production will rise to 80 (add 2*50% to base)

add a manufacturing plant to the factory plus coal/hydro/solar plant and production will rise to 100 (+3*50%)​

if you built a nuclear plant then the production would be 100 without the mp and 120 with it.

Once you have a manufacturing plant, you don't need the factory anymore.

I'm afraid that you are mistaken about this. Sell your factory after building the mp and you'll lose a stack of production as you'll lose both the factory and power plant boost.

 

[Aceman101]

Iron works is not a power plant. (A robotic plant isn't a power plant either) So no.
A city can have: 1 iron works1 + 1 factory, + 1 robotic plant, and 1 power plant. But you can choose what type of power plant...

Wow. So with an Iron Works the city production can be raised up to +300%.

What I mean by this is: Iron works 100%, Factory 50%, Nuclear Plant 100%, Manufacturing Plant 50% = 300%. That is astonishing!

 

[Jokeslayer]

Wow. So with an Iron Works the city production can be raised up to +300%.

Yeah, but you don't get to build the Iron Works that often.

 

[Aceman101]

Yeah, but you don't get to build the Iron Works that often.

True.

The last time I got an Iron Works was.... About 2 months ago.

Oh well, even without an Iron Works, production can be raised to +200%. Which is still a lot.

 

[EMan]

IIRC, that tells you how what percent (in increments of 10) of your income is being spent on what. The order is Science-Entertainment-Treasury. Right now it looks like you have science at 90%, entertainment at 0%, and the other 10% going to your treasury.

The order is actually Gold-Science-Happiness. So 9.0.1 would be 90% Gold/0% Science/10% Happiness.

 

[Jokeslayer]

True.

The last time I got an Iron Works was.... About 2 months ago.

Oh well, even without an Iron Works, production can be raised to +200%. Which is still a lot.

Iron Works plus nuclear plant is even rarer. I did have a city with 200ish production that way once, though. That was cool.