Unit Request Thread 3

[Ozymandias]

Hmmm, they were used in-game for delivering stuff, they were outside your control. Your 'settler' was a big lorry thingy.

I guess I was having a "SMAC" flashback.

 

[Takhisis]

Flashback, Cheatem? So this means you're up so late and you're not playing a Sid Meier game?

 

[Ozymandias]

Flashback, Cheatem? So this means you're up so late and you're not playing a Sid Meier game?

Nope, just C3C I loved SMAC but stopped playing when I found some important things the human player could do but the AI won't

 

[Balthasar]

Nope, just C3C I loved SMAC but stopped playing when I found some important things the human player could do but the AI won't

Then you might get a kick out of this article, Ozzy.

 

[Ozymandias]

Then you might get a kick out of this article, Ozzy.

Amusing -- Gracias!

 

[RickFGS]

Is it possible to create an underwaterlevel city as a unit, something like the Bulgarian project for the Seuthopolis site

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I would make it "immobile", "air dropped", able to carry 1 worker to build colonies for strategic resources in water locations...

 

[Ozymandias]

Is it possible to create an underwaterlevel city as a unit, something like the Bulgarian project for the Seuthopolis site

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I would make it "immobile", "air dropped", able to carry 1 worker to build colonies for strategic resources in water locations...

You do realize that the AI will never use this? -- Indeed, paradropping onto water is IIRC a no-no.

Best,

Oz

 

[Takhisis]

Then you might get a kick out of this article, Ozzy.

Amusing -- Gracias!

Yes, it's interesting to note that Mr. Soren Johnson evidently doesn't play his own games (HAMMERS? Seriously. ) and also that he has an idea of fun being 'playing the game exactly as he wants people to'.

You do realize that the AI will never use this? -- Indeed, paradropping onto water is IIRC a no-no.

Best,

Oz

What if it's an air unit?

 

[RickFGS]

Humm well, i can always use it for the multiplayer version of the scenario, and if it´s a air unit, it could move into position and fortify? i´ll have to test it, thanks for input

 

[Supa]

Or a water unit for that's matter. A worker can already work a sea-tile if he's aboard a water-unit and the terrain is properly set up.

Edit: Slight cross-post with Rick.

 

[Takhisis]

A worker can already work a sea-tile if he's aboard a water-unit and the terrain is properly set up.

I've somehow missed that over the years. University is perjudicial to one's computer gaming skills.

 

[Supa]

No, it's not.

 

[RickFGS]

errmmm, while we´re at it, is it also possible to make the roads that transverse water tiles to load up a diferent art work (pipelines come to mind)? prob not...

@also i believe the worker as to be a sea unit to road sea tiles yes??

 

[Supa]

I've probably haven't tested it since Vanilla but, iirc, any ground worker unit loaded into a sea unit can work a coast/sea/ocean tile if its properties allow it to be worked.

 

[RickFGS]

humm, nope a land unit can´t, only a sea unit..

 

[Takhisis]

But there's no AI strat for terraforming water tiles.

 

[RickFGS]

it doens´t have to be, i pre-assign a city in an ocean square with a food resource nearby for it to survive (example: kelp) to an AI civ in a scenario with a pre-design underwater graphic for it to look good, lets say the romanwall.pcx file.

I then add to a multiplayer scenario the air/sea unit "underwater level city" with the ability to fortify, the unit graphic if design correctly will cover the city graphic of my civ completly, give it a nice defense value to always stay on top, and i could have a sea city on top of a given strategic resource.

Pre-place airport there, and voilá, its now connected to the trade network....

Meanwhile i could give invisble immobile sea units to the AI preplaced on that city to defend it until i can capture it...

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Has anyone attempted to convert a Civ3 unit into a CiV unit? Is this even possible?

 

[Supa]

Moff > I don't see how that would possible unless the dev. release a really complete SDK allowing to modify the engine itself in order to render 2D sprites as units.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

That's a shame, I really like the look and feel of Civ3 units better than the new game. Unit rendering is more detailed on the 2D sprites than the 3D models.