Refrigeration / Supermarket

[AK47]

Hi,

I shamelessly stole Julo's wonder idea and turned it into a new tech/improvement.
I'm using this for my next version of The Missing Links.

Tech: Refrigeration
(prereq Electricity + Sanitation)
Building: Supermarket
(prereq granary) increases effect of granary

Enjoy!



PS. The Missing Links 2 is available :here

 

[AK47]

this is the large Refrigeration icon:

 

[AK47]

and here's the supermarket:

 

[Yoda Power]

Nice

Where did you get the supermarket from?

 

[AK47]

and here's the zip with all the stuff...

 

[AK47]

the supermarket building itself comes from some Simcity fansite. I found it "by accident" when typing "supermarket" in the images lookup of Altavista.

 

[CCJ39]

nice, cannot wait to test and and upload the new version

 

[AK47]

Patience, my dear, patience...

 

[Warlord 101]

Any chance of a Zipped Version? I feel much more comfortable using .ZIP Files then I do with .rar files.

 

[CCJ39]

zip-files are much bigger than rar-archives, so I always use winrar instead of winzip, and with the small explorer-extension it's more usefull to me than winzip
but main reason is the better compression, so the mod was compressed with winrar +1MB more than with winzip, if I uploaded all files of my site with winzip instead of winrar I need 30-40MB more, so I can use this webspace for other useful stuff

hope you understand my decision

 

[AK47]

TML2 is a self-extracting archive; you don't need winrar anymore.
AK.

 

[warpstorm]

Originally posted by AK47
(prereq granary) increases effect of granary

How does it increase the effect of granary?

 

[spincrus]

Originally posted by warpstorm
How does it increase the effect of granary?

Hehe, good point. I wondered the same, too. Granary is only giving double growth when it's full. Is it going to be "quatriple (sp?)" or something? Maybe we better test it within the game.

 

[AK47]

I only made this yesterday, so I haven't had time to test it in game yet. I just gave it "doubles city growth rate", like granary.
I figured, if you have library/univesity/research lab , with each time "+50% science output", should work for this too ? Let me know if you have experienced otrherwise.
AK.

 

[Ankka]

Maybe it should be so tha if the granary halves the food needed to grow, the supermarket takes it down to 1/3 of the original amount...?

 

[AK47]

AAAaaaargh !!
I did a first test in-game, and at first sight, the supermarket doesn't make any difference.
Help !
Any suggestions ? Anyone ever tried to do this before ?

 

[CCJ39]

hm, maybe make it a small wonder and use option "city growth causes +2", but the wonder "Longevity" isn't useful then

 

[Warlord 101]

A possibility is that Hospitals make 1 or 2 people happy and Longevity increases Happiness of them or/and gives 3 happy faces in the city of origin to free up the +2 to cities for the Supermarket.

Or, if you have Conquests, why not have the Supermarket create a unit called "Goods" or something every 5 turns that has no movement, no attack, no defense or anything, but can be disbanded in the City to provide some shields towards production. Just a thought though.

 

[AK47]

thanks, some interesting thoughts.
Don't have Conquests yet, but maybe I should get it asap.
Still can't figure out why "doubles city growth rate" won't work on a 2nd improvement. Is it the same with for instance "increases luxury trade" ? Meaning it works for the marketplace, but won't do anything for a 2nd imrpovement with this ability?

 

[AK47]

Damn, Kal-El confirmed that both of these flags only will work on 1 building, but do nothing for a 2nd one.
I'll keep thinking for an alternative use. If someone comes up with any suggestions, pls post here.
AK