Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[Aless133]

Can I sell/demolish buildings?
Can I raze city?

Espionage: how to perform passive missions. I have enough EPs. For example "see demographics" - where?

 

[Psyringe]

Can I sell/demolish buildings?

Try to left- or right-click them in the list of buildings in the city screen. If that doesn't work, then you can't. I don't know it myself because I never saw a reason to demolish a building. They don't cost maintenance in Civ4

Can I raze city?

When you capture a city, choose "Burn, baby, burn!" to raze it.

Espionage: how to perform passive missions. I have enough EPs. For example "see demographics" - where?

Check the statistics screen, the respective civilization's graph will be there now. Passive missions can't be performed, their effect is automatic.

 

[Sisiutil]

Can I sell/demolish buildings?
Can I raze city?

Espionage: how to perform passive missions. I have enough EPs. For example "see demographics" - where?

1. No, unlike previous versions of Civ, you cannot sell buildings. There's no need, as buildings no longer have maintenance costs.
2. Yes, you can always raze cities you capture.
3. Demographics show up in the Info Screen (F9) on the Graphs and Demographics tabs.

 

[Aless133]

When you capture a city, choose "Burn, baby, burn!" to raze it.

I've just found this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=134455
They say I can't etc.
And I can burn any (even own) city any time or just after capture?

Check the statistics screen, the respective civilization's graph will be there now. Passive missions can't be performed, their effect is automatic.

Ok, it's clear now.
For all active missions I need a spy? And every mission will consume Spy?
Spy have to go to target city or just stay at enemy territory?
Do espionage missions have effect on relations with civ's or it's "hidden" and can't become a reason of a war for example?

quote from manual:

The longer a spy remains stationary in a tile, the cheaper Espionage missions performed against that tile will be

Sabotage improvement will be cheaper? What else?

 

[Aless133]

Can I view list of modifiers of relations with other civs?
Like:
-6 You declare war on us
+2 We have good trade
etc

I think I saw this somewhere...

 

[kcd_swede]

I've just found this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=134455
They say I can't etc.
And I can burn any (even own) city any time or just after capture?

Ok, it's clear now.
For all active missions I need a spy? And every mission will consume Spy?
Spy have to go to target city or just stay at enemy territory?
Do espionage missions have effect on relations with civ's or it's "hidden" and can't become a reason of a war for example?

quote from manual:

Sabotage improvement will be cheaper? What else?

You cannot raze a city you've ever owned, even when you recapture it. You can give them away sometimes, though. Or let them get captured.

Active spy missions require a spy. The spy is not consumed but returned to your capitol if the mission is successful. If not, the spy is captured (lost), and you get negative diplomatic points with the target civ. Sabotage mission is an active mission, and lives by these rules as well.

 

[Aless133]

The effects of small wonders are usually more city-specific and you can build at most two small wonders per city.

So there is limit of 2 NW per city???

 

[Psyringe]

So there is limit of 2 NW per city???

As he said, yes.

 

[Ansive]

Use the foreign adviser screen F3 to view the attitudes civ's have among them. Click one and hover over another.

 

[kcd_swede]

So there is limit of 2 NW per city???

Yes. The only exception to this is if you are playing One City Challenge. Then you can build up to Five NW in your single city. (Maybe more depending on some custom settings).

 

[fociwm]

I have a question. I'm new to Civ series. And at the time of CiV, I went to CivIV BTS because I didn't want to be bothered by many bugs. But, I'm happy, except some phenomenon that I still don't know why it happens, which is...

People disappears...????? After reading Sulla's walkthrough, I've been trying Saladin for three times at lower levels than Noble. My problem is, somehow the population in Mecca resets to 1 from 14 when I reach 1800AD or so. Then because of low production and population, I begin to lag in tech race.

I guess it might be because of obsolete wonders because of some tech advance, but I couldn't point out what it was (you know, I did just three games). I'm still trying to figure it out. It must be a very simple reason. What is it?

 

[kcd_swede]

I have a question. I'm new to Civ series. And at the time of CiV, I went to CivIV BTS because I didn't want to be bothered by many bugs. But, I'm happy, except some phenomenon that I still don't know why it happens, which is...

People disappears...????? After reading Sulla's walkthrough, I've been trying Saladin for three times at lower levels than Noble. My problem is, somehow the population in Mecca resets to 1 from 14 when I reach 1800AD or so. Then because of low production and population, I begin to lag in tech race.

I guess it might be because of obsolete wonders because of some tech advance, but I couldn't point out what it was (you know, I did just three games). I'm still trying to figure it out. It must be a very simple reason. What is it?

Are you sure you are looking at the right number to know the city population? Its the number you can see from the main map, inside the circle next to the city name. If the circle around the number is green, you have food surplus and will grow. If white, you are stagnant. If red, you lose food and will shrink if you don't fix it. you cannot shrink faster than 1 population point per turn, though.

There's only one way that pop could drop from 18 to 1 on a single turn (that I can think of), and that's if you got nuked by the enemy, like four times on the same turn on the same city... which seems very unlikely. You could be experiencing a glitch, if I have understood your description of events correctly.

 

[fociwm]

Are you sure you are looking at the right number to know the city population? Its the number you can see from the main map, inside the circle next to the city name. If the circle around the number is green, you have food surplus and will grow. If white, you are stagnant. If red, you lose food and will shrink if you don't fix it. you cannot shrink faster than 1 population point per turn, though.

There's only one way that pop could drop from 18 to 1 on a single turn (that I can think of), and that's if you got nuked by the enemy, like four times on the same turn on the same city... which seems very unlikely. You could be experiencing a glitch, if I have understood your description of events correctly.

I'm sorry for late reply. I was civ-ing. Anyway, thank you for your apply. I think you're right. That must have been two consecutive not-so-probable glitches. I played again from what I saved (I save frequently) before that event and this time there was no sudden population drop.

Thanks.

 

[Derakon]

One thing to keep in mind is that the city governor can and will make use of Nationalism's draft mechanic, which will drop your population by 1 per use. I don't know if they'll automatically whip (under slavery) too, though.

 

[Yxklyx]

Can I view list of modifiers of relations with other civs?
Like:
-6 You declare war on us
+2 We have good trade
etc

I think I saw this somewhere...

I see this but I have the BUG mod installed.

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

Can I view list of modifiers of relations with other civs?
Like:
-6 You declare war on us
+2 We have good trade
etc

I think I saw this somewhere...

Click on their name in the scoreboard. Or just hover over it.

 

[bgast1]

Dumb question I know, but if I wanted to bomb somebody with my stealth bomber. Exactly how do I do it? I've tried just about everything and can't seem to get it to work.

 

[Psyringe]

Dumb question I know, but if I wanted to bomb somebody with my stealth bomber. Exactly how do I do it? I've tried just about everything and can't seem to get it to work.

Select the unit, click on the "Air Strike" icon, then select your target. That's for "normal" bombers, I don't recall if there's anything special with stealth bombers (I rarely build them). The icon labeling is a bit misleading, since you have to select "strike" instead of "bomb" although you still want to do a bomb run.

 

[bgast1]

Select the unit, click on the "Air Strike" icon, then select your target. That's for "normal" bombers, I don't recall if there's anything special with stealth bombers (I rarely build them). The icon labeling is a bit misleading, since you have to select "strike" instead of "bomb" although you still want to do a bomb run.

What exactly happens when you do that? What should I see happen on my screen? I am totally new at this and still hoping to finish a game. I am just playing around to see what happens if I do bomb someone.

Actually if I don't get through this entire game, I am going to have to go back and relearn Civ III or play CivRev on my PS3

 

[Psyringe]

What exactly happens when you do that? What should I see happen on my screen? I am totally new at this and still hoping to finish a game. I am just playing around to see what happens if I do bomb someone.

An overlay of diagonal lines appears around the bomber, that's its range operational range. When you move the mouse over a target in this area, green markings will appear at the corners of this tile. Then you click the left mouse button, and the bomb run is performed.

The same is true for "bomb" (not "strike") missions, only that "bomb" missions target city defenses, not units.