Leperflesh
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Hey, thanks man. That's exactly what I needed. I didn't even consider it'd be in some file, heh.
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Hey, thanks man. That's exactly what I needed. I didn't even consider it'd be in some file, heh.
Hi guys
On the 18 civ Earth map, can anywhere in Europe build the Space Elevator? Or an alternative question, is there any way of finding out the latitude of a particular city?
Having a building requirement that's impossible to check beforehand is extremely frustrating!
On the 18 civ Earth map, can anywhere in Europe build the Space Elevator? Or an alternative question, is there any way of finding out the latitude of a particular city?
Having a building requirement that's impossible to check beforehand is extremely frustrating!
SirLamphead
Prince
On the ship in enemy waters there is a cannon showing out of a gunport on the options bar (the one with fortify and move group options).
It denies access to food tiles (at sea of course) the enemy might have and takes away foreign trade routes.
No one in Europe can build the Space elevator.
You must conquer Egypt or something.
There is no option to check except a Globe and a Good eye for the mini-map.
How frustrating. Ah well, cheers!
Roland Johansen
Deity
This happens in BTS, because the features of forts have been increased in BTS. One of the new features of forts is that they serve as a resource improvement for every type of resource once the normal resource improving tile improvement for this resource has been invented. Forts however don't increase the tile output of these resource tiles. This means that they're ideal for resources outside of the fat crosses of your cities and the automatic workers will place them on such resource tiles. It makes these resources easier to defend and harder to bomb (forts are harder to destroy by bombardment than most other improvements).
It can also be useful to place them on resources before the special resource improving tile improvement is available. Using them in this way means that you'll be able to use the resource the moment that the special resource improving tile improvement is available. This means that you don't have to hurry to build the resource improving tile improvement. It is useful to do this for the resource oil because you can see it before you can use it.
Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
Yes.
Yes, provided they have a route (usually a road) and they're within your cultural borders.
But you really shouldn't be automating workers.
tranmerefan
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An enemy city whom I'm at war with is built on top of coal. What do I need to do to gain access to it? Just capture it?
Yep, no mine needed.
tranmerefan
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Awesome, thanks.
with all due respect, what do you mean?
IMHO "resource improvement" is a much clearer way of denoting the concept you are refering to, namely, the technology needed to improve a resource
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Actually, I believe you can count the number of tiles on the map and figure out the 30 degree latitude limit. It's not exactly convenient, but it should work. You should be able to look up the dimensions of a particular map type and size (for instance, here is a partial list, not including Warlords/BTS scripts), or just count them. Then divide the map into three latitude segments (which represent 90 N to 30 N, 30 N to 30 S, 30 S to 90 S), and the middle third of the map should be where you can build the Space Elevator.
Note that I haven't tested this myself, but I suspect it works. The only uncertain tile will be the one right on the 30 degree lines, and I'm not sure whether cities on that latitude line will be able to build the Elevator or not.
A question: Does the 30 degree latitude limit hold for maps like Highlands and Great Plains? IMHO it shouldn't, but I have a feeling it might...
CCRunner
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It's a random event so you can turn it off in the custom game menu. It doesn't turn that off specifically though, it turns off all random events in the game.
Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
I won't say I like this random event, but I look upon it as part of the price you may pay for fighting a war. Frankly, in Civ II this used to happen almost every time you captured a city in the late game, so I'm kind of used to it. Just bring along a few more defensive and counter-attacking units and you'll be fine.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Since it only happens when you raze a city and not when you capture one though, it could be seen as a bit unbalanced...
Alright
I got a little problem.
I have no idea how to take a screenshot. I'm using Vista here.
I have a laptop computer and it has the screenshot button as
home
[prt sc]
However if I try to press this in game (or anywhere else) absolutely nothing happens. Even comboes such as Shift + Prt Sc or Ctrl+Alt+Prt Sc have no effect whatsoever.
I've also searched for the allowscreenshots=1 in the ini file but found nothing of that sort.
Even my last straw, the snipping tool does not come up if I open civ 4.
Can anything be done?
I got a little problem.
I have no idea how to take a screenshot. I'm using Vista here.
I have a laptop computer and it has the screenshot button as
home
[prt sc]
However if I try to press this in game (or anywhere else) absolutely nothing happens. Even comboes such as Shift + Prt Sc or Ctrl+Alt+Prt Sc have no effect whatsoever.
I've also searched for the allowscreenshots=1 in the ini file but found nothing of that sort.
Even my last straw, the snipping tool does not come up if I open civ 4.
Can anything be done?
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