Sorry, what would be ‘real’ computer gaming?
For the statistics regarding global warming I'll refer you to the abovementioned post. Planting forests, in any case, helps with increasing shield production e.g. on tundra but also to slow down possible invaders in places where you haven't managed to establish a mountain or ocean as your natural border.
Forested tiles (and I assume jungle as well) are affected first by global warming, and they get removed to show the underlying terrain. When they're all gone then the base tiles will degrade, too. So more forests help to preserve tiles from irreparable damage by global warming, but don't directly lower it (use Mass Transit and Recycling for this).
If you have loads of spare workers, can you prevent the irreparable damage buy reforesting tiles as they are cleared?
Yes, in my hof milked game I did this. I had all tiles outside of my or my enemies territory forested and would replant any deforested tile each turn. I never had a base tile degrade.
Large Cities!.........I was getting up to 30 Pollution tiles per round. Remember, I'm a Huge Map Milking Specialist, so getting to the Domination Point quickly and having all the tiles populated is a priority. (Admittedly, I should have researched Ecology and thus Mass Transit Centers earlier but I was busy building hundreds of workers and city improvements). The only improvement I build that increases pollution due to Production is the Commercial Dock. (Sometimes needed for city happiness on very small islands).
With railroads mined tundra is as good as forested tundra. But with global warming tundra can become grassland, which is a step up. So if you want to exploit global warming to your advantage this is the way to go. Please donnot try in real life.
Global warming should only become relevant after you have railroads and hospitals. This should also mean that you use a citizen on every tile you could in theory put forest on. But for anything but tundra said forest is a downgrade. Therefore you should only use forest on tundra or possible for strategic reasons, but the later can be done with barricades as well.
Interesting. In my games usually some AIs gobble each other up so by the time I hit Industrialization so planting forests is useful not just for shields on tundra, as I said earlier, but also to provide a barrier to movement that the AI cannot, unlike barricades, destroy with bombardments or pillaging.Large Cities!.........I was getting up to 30 Pollution tiles per round. Remember, I'm a Huge Map Milking Specialist, so getting to the Domination Point quickly and having all the tiles populated is a priority. (Admittedly, I should have researched Ecology and thus Mass Transit Centers earlier but I was busy building hundreds of workers and city improvements). The only improvement I build that increases pollution due to Production is the Commercial Dock. (Sometimes needed for city happiness on very small islands).
. In the editor´s Disaster Page the maximum eruption period can be set in years. This means, there is a random calculation in the game and that eruption periods of volcanoes in the game can be much shorter than the number set in the editor. 5000 years is the standard setting in the epic game (and in the CCM mod, too). It seems to be possible to set the maximum eruption period to even much longer and also much shorter eruption periods, too.Yes and I have found that if I run Many Workers/Enginerers on top of the Erupting Volcano after the first Eruption, the Eruption stops quicker.
Thanks, so I wasn't seeing things the other day. Do you happen to know whether the graphic after it happens is a rubbled square or a lava square? I should've looked closer at that opponent's city the other day, or rather their volcano.
