Transform ocean

[JAC1]

Hi all,

Remember reading here about a line in rules.txt which can be changed to allow engineers on transports to transform ocean into land, but a quick search was fruitless. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Prof. Garfield]

Have a look in the rules.txt and scroll down to the terrain section. There are several columns; the last column tells what transforming the terrain will give; replace the "no" with the 3 letter code of the terrain you want to be transforming the ocean into (the code for each terrain is found after the semicolon). I don't know if the game will allow you to use the transform order on the ocean anyway, but that is how you would do it. Remember to make a backup copy of the rules text before editing.

 

[JAC1]

Thanks for your help Prof. Unfortunately the game won't let me transform ocean regardless of the value of that column. Seems to be something to do with it maintaining a list of landmasses and seas (coordinates are given as (x,y)z, where z is a unique code for the landmass or sea. Disappointing; was hoping to upgrade my transport chains to railways.

 

[mackerel]

I used this trick years ago, but it must have been a different version. I can't get it to work now either.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

Disappointing; was hoping to upgrade my transport chains to railways.

For the amount of engineer time that it would take to do that, you would probably be better off using a shipchain anyway.

 

[Ali Ardavan]

In Civ1 you could build a road/railroad on the ocean. You would not be able to travel on it, but you would get the benefits (increased resources).

 

[Catfish]

Unfortunately the game won't let me transform ocean regardless of the value of that column.

Did you try the irrigate or mining columns in the @TERRAIN table?