Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[vmxa]

Not really, though Despotism does have penalties for some improvements. Read Crackers Opening Moves for details. It is in the War Academy.

The thing to remember is not only what improvements to make, but when. You want to mine hills and mountains, but not immediately. Those task require more worker turns as does clearing tiles.

So do tiles that are needed most before those task in most cases. IOW maximize workers turns along with the return from the improvemnts.

 

[surplanter]

is there a way to get a city with a population of more than 255?

 

[Calis]

is there a way to get a city with a population of more than 255?

One city? No!

With only grassland around your city, all irrigated and with railroads you have a total of 82 food to your disposal.

That could feed a population of 41 citizens. For each cattle or wheat you can add 1 population.

EDIT: Sorry, double post

No problem. I merged them for you. --Padma

 

[Northen Wolf]

If you "mod" food income, then that probably is the limit, as civilization always has had computer byte type limits (255 as cities in original civ for an example.)

 

[Maduin]

Hi all, my first post, thanks in advance for your answers.

I have a good chunk of my civ in wetlands, I guess it's hot climate. If I clear out too much (many?) wetlands, will that reduce my chances of getting rubber later in the game?

I know if the resource is already visible and I clear, all is well. But does anyone know if resource locations are predetermined? If I clear wetlands will rubber appear on that new grassland? Or am I shooting myself in the foot for the later game?

Thanks!

 

[Turner]

Welcome to the forums!

The resources are placed at the beginning of the game, and changing them (clearing forests or wetlands) does not affect that. So you can clear to your hearts content and not worry about it not being there.

 

[Padma]

On the other hand, if a pre-placed resource depletes, it can only re-appear on a tile of the correct type. So I sometimes keep a jungle tile or two around in my empire, just in case.

 

[Maduin]

Thanks! Time to get choppin'

 

[Spoonwood]

Mine green/irrigate brown does work in despotism (other than food boni). But, in any other government, you want to consider more things like "do I want more growth or more production?" "What sort of victory condition do I want", "Is the city at or near size 12 and can use extra shields instead of food, since I won't get/can't get a hospital for a while?"

 

[againsttheflow]

FWIW, "boni" is kinda cool and funny but bonuses is the correct plural.

Just 'cause its been mentioned a couple times now and sounds scholarly but isn't.

 

[Northen Wolf]

I mine green and water brown, as a general rule of thumb, once most of my core is size 12, I relook and usually improve mining/watering, sometimes mining few grasslands or watering them to use unused hill.

 

[Spoonwood]

FWIW, "boni" is kinda cool and funny but bonuses is the correct plural.

The English term 'bonus' has 'bonuses' as its accpeted plural. However, the Latin word 'bonus' has 'boni' as its nominative plural. I suppose I used it in the accusative, so perhaps I should have said bonos. But, English feels as if it's all in the nominative case to me, so I stuck with that.

 

[againsttheflow]

Right, I figured Latin would be brought up but tried to assume we were all talking about English here... carry on.

 

[Padma]

We don't really want to discuss spelling/grammar on this site. While certain spellings/usages may grate on the "purist", we have a lot of "English as an additional language" posters here. So we go by the rule that if you can understand what the poster said, then leave the language use alone.

( And yes, this is an English language forum, so Latin rules don't apply. )

 

[Crowqueen]

What bonuses - apart from the obvious one to movement - do railroads give then?

 

[TheOverseer714]

Railroads increase the improvements on terrain by one. A mined bonus grass gains a shield, an irrigated bonus grass gains another food point. The exception to that is forest, which is why once rails are possible, chop all but forested tundra.

 

[Aabraxan]

FWIW, "boni" is kinda cool and funny but bonuses is the correct plural.

Just 'cause its been mentioned a couple times now and sounds scholarly but isn't.

The English term 'bonus' has 'bonuses' as its accpeted plural. However, the Latin word 'bonus' has 'boni' as its nominative plural. I suppose I used it in the accusative, so perhaps I should have said bonos. But, English feels as if it's all in the nominative case to me, so I stuck with that.

Well, I think I was the last poster to use "boni." I never was sure what the correct plural was, but thanks for sorting that out.

 

[TheDux]

Hi, I have been playing Civ3 off and on for about a couple years, not a serious player. Got it in a bundle of free games a friend's dad was giving away.

Anyway, while I was playing today i noticed that something happened that had never happened before. Make that something DIDN'T happen.

At no point did I get a Palace upgrade. Oddly enough, this was one of the best games I had played, ranked #1 throughout the game, Modern Age while others were struggling in Middle Ages.

So my questions are:

1. What are the conditions to get the upgrades?
2. Possibly answered above, but why did I not get any in this game?

I have searched several sites for information, even CivFanatics, but only mention I get is "Throne room has been replace by Palace Screen" and a screen shot of the Palace Screen.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ronanp]

my laptop has been causing problems of late and it looks like I am going to have to reinstall vista from scratch to sort the problem. I have no current game so I don't mind losing all of the saves but I would like to keep the page that has the scores of my top ten games are.

I have c3c any idea what the file is called and where it may be so I can back that up so I can load it up again after the reinstall

 

[vmxa]

HighScores.cv3 and CampaingRecord.hof. You may want the ini as well.