Screen Shot Question

[SerapisIV]

Can anyone tell what the plus-looking things next to the city names mean?

http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsize/80151/PC/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V/Screenshots/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-V-Preview-Gallery

 

[Fin]

Puppet cities.

 

[rastak]

Puppet cities I believe. IE conquered City States I guess.

 

[Giant Dwarf]

I think that's supposed to be the Ranged Attack for the cities. That is, if an enemy unit gets in range of one of your cities, that icon pops up under the city's bar and, I suppose, in this list next to the city's name. Then you click the icon, and you can choose to bombard the unit.

Edit: did you mean the brown crosses or the white circle with the + inside it?

 

[CommanderZ]

I guess it means that it is a puppet state (it looks like those things puppets are controlled with)

EDIT: three ninjas :O

 

[IdleEnergy]

I think that's supposed to be the Ranged Attack for the cities. That is, if an enemy unit gets in range of one of your cities, that icon pops up under the city's bar and, I suppose, in this list next to the city's name. Then you click the icon, and you can choose to bombard the unit.

Edit: did you mean the brown crosses or the white circle with the + inside it?

yeah, the white plus column header is the ranged attack thing you're talking about.

The brown crosses with strings are like this and mean puppet states, like others have said.

 

[Kimuyama]

What does the red-glowing chain next to Shanghai mean then?

 

[stealth_nsk]

What does the red-glowing chain next to Shanghai mean then?

Conquered, but not assimilated.

 

[t0mme]

Puppet cities I believe. IE conquered City States I guess.

I don't think it only applies to City States.

 

[stealth_nsk]

I don't think it only applies to City States.

Any city could be convert to puppet-state. You could figure it our from their names.

 

[SerapisIV]

Thanks. Puppet city makes a lot of sense.

Now with puppet cities, you don't control their mfg queue, do you control the units that they build or do they only build improvements, never creating field units?

Can you tell puppet cities what to focus on even if you can't choose the specifics, like choosing which governor-type AI is used (focus on gold, focus on prod, focus on culture, etc)?

 

[Thyrwyn]

Thanks. Puppet city makes a lot of sense.

Now with puppet cities, you don't control their mfg queue, do you control the units that they build or do they only build improvements, never creating field units?

Can you tell puppet cities what to focus on even if you can't choose the specifics, like choosing which governor-type AI is used (focus on gold, focus on prod, focus on culture, etc)?

As far as we know puppets only provide gold (maybe science?) - not units. You have NO control over puppet's management.

 

[Ddude97]

I'm pretty sure science is confirmed and maybe culture too.

 

[Thyrwyn]

mmmm...forgot about culture.

 

[Auncien]

I think once they're puppets they give you everything except production control over what they create.

 

[bernlin2000]

I'm pretty sure science is confirmed and maybe culture too.

That's something I haven't heard much about: you can't control their production, but can you still view the city and buy extra tiles for it?

 

[Thyrwyn]

The one reviewer said that if you click on a puppet, you get a pop up asking if you want to annex it instead of going to the city screen - so I would say the answer is "no" to buying tiles, etc...

 

[AriochIV]

The one reviewer said that if you click on a puppet, you get a pop up asking if you want to annex it instead of going to the city screen - so I would say the answer is "no" to buying tiles, etc...

I believe this is correct; the Puppet city is part of your empire for all purposes except that you have no control over it at all until you Annex it.

And I'm guessing a Puppet will never choose to build a Courthouse on its own... that would be too easy.

 

[Schuesseled]

The plus looking thing, is the wooden handle and strings indicating a puppet state, the chain indicates an annexed city.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

I believe this is correct; the Puppet city is part of your empire for all purposes except that you have no control over it at all until you Annex it.

And I'm guessing a Puppet will never choose to build a Courthouse on its own... that would be too easy.

Actually, Annexed cities are probably the only ones that CAN build courthouses. (unless the Courthouse has other benefits.... which would make Rome's ability interesting...build a Courthouse in rome for faster conquest.