Upgrade All (alt-left-click)

[alco75]

Two Crossbows on one tile ...
I alt-left-clicked the button to upgrade them all to Rifles.
My gold went from ~2000 to ~50.
I was left with no Rifles and no Crossbows in any of the cities that previously had Crossbows.
They all disappeared!
And all my gold was taken!

Strange, eh?
Is this a known one?

(Too busy to post screenies, saves etc, sorry.)

 

[gidds]

Uhh, use the autosave and go back a turn.

G.

 

[alco75]

Well that never occured to me. The point is, I reckon 'upgrade all' is broken. Going through 15 cities on a standard map and upgrading each and every defender manually isn't my idea of fun.

 

[gidds]

Well that never occured to me. The point is, I reckon 'upgrade all' is broken. Going through 15 cities on a standard map and upgrading each and every defender manually isn't my idea of fun.

Was only taking the pihss.. Anyway, ur right, its very annoying. I havnt found any fat option for upgrading units. Its a bit of a hassle, and I hope that there is someone out there that can tell me how to do so..
If I do find out during the weekend, ill drop a line here...



G.

 

[MrCynical]

Upgrade all works perfectly fine for me, and I've never had any disappearing units as a result. You are aware that since the units have been upgraded, they can't be moved that turn, and so don't appear on the map until next turn aren't you? Have a look in your city screen or end the turn and I think you'll find they're there.

 

[GIO888]

Hee Hee!

Sorry Guys. I only ever upgrade rota-ing thru the cities because I'm such a bad omnipresent eternal leader it's a chance to take a look at every city and bump some production at the same time!

MrCynical is 100% right by the way.

CIV ON!

 

[Bushface]

I had a stack of fortified and sleeping units on one tile and wanted to wake them all up. So I used "select all" by alt-click and then gave the "Wake" command. Every fortified, sleeping and sentrying unit in my empire woke up, and I had to go round restoring the status quo. But if I "select all" of a live stack, then just that stack responds. This is inconsistent, and a nuisance.

 

[Woody]

Two Crossbows on one tile ...
I alt-left-clicked the button to upgrade them all to Rifles.
My gold went from ~2000 to ~50.
I was left with no Rifles and no Crossbows in any of the cities that previously had Crossbows.
They all disappeared!
And all my gold was taken!

Strange, eh?
Is this a known one?

(Too busy to post screenies, saves etc, sorry.)

You are misunderstanding how the alt left click upgrading works.

First of all it applies to all units anywhere in your empire, not just the two that happen to be on that tile. It then upgrades as many as it can until you run out of money.(apparently at random, at least I havent seen any pattern to how it picks which units to upgrade)

Second it applies to any unit in the upgrade path. In this case any unit you have that could be upgraded to rifleman will have a chance to get the upgrade, it is very possible that no crossbows will be upgraded if you have other units that can get upgraded to rifles. If you happen to have some archers somewhere and they get picked as some of the units to get the upgrade they will use alot of cash since their upgrade "jump" is big.

To do what you want, ie only upgrade those two crossbows, you either have to do them one at a time or use the group unit type and then hit the upgrade button without the alt.

PS if you hold down alt and just hover the mouse over the upgrade button it will tell you how much gold is needed to upgrade every unit that can receive the upgrade.