View City option

[mna27]

I think they should add a View City button like in Civ 2. Remember? In civ 2 you could click a button and view your city with a lot more detail, and see all your improvements/wonders you had built.(the city view would take up the whole screen) Just zooming in to see your city like in Civ 4 was a huge let down in my opinion.

Also I was just thinking they should add the throne room like in Civ 2 also. As your approval rating would rise your people would upgrade your throne room from an ancient stone age looking room to a nice palace over time.

While I am at it i think they should add more game options, like no nukes and other stuff.

 

[nzcamel]

To me zooming in on your city and just seeing what you'd built was way more fun!
The seperate screen 'city view's' all looked alike & therefore were a more boring way of doing it.

 

[mna27]

but just zooming in doesn't show much, just like a coliseum crammed into a tight little city. With a city view screen you could make out each building a lot easier, like if you build the pyramids they are on the outskirts of your city, and you could see the streets to, not just a bunch of buildings crammed together in a small place, as it is I think they all look the same.

 

[mna27]

or maybe they could make it so you can zoom in even more, and when you roll over buildings with your mouse it tells you what they are, and the benefits they give you.

 

[henryMCVII]

I liked the City screen in former versions, even if they where not very usefull. They gave some nice feeling. Sort of feeling to rule an empire. Btw, I liked the palace screen as well.

 

[Sparthage]

I liked the City screen in former versions, even if they where not very usefull. They gave some nice feeling. Sort of feeling to rule an empire. Btw, I liked the palace screen as well.

They may have been simple extras, but I enjoy seeing something of a city picture too. The Palace is the same.

 

[nzcamel]

or maybe they could make it so you can zoom in even more, and when you roll over buildings with your mouse it tells you what they are, and the benefits they give you.

You can see that info in your city screen. I prefer my cities growing in "real" life on the main map.

Maybe they should bring back some kind of token meaningless Palace screen for all of you guys who like trophies, but they could do it way better - like having specific 'trophies' for achieving different things, some practical, some stupid..

 

[nzcamel]

but just zooming in doesn't show much, just like a coliseum crammed into a tight little city. With a city view screen you could make out each building a lot easier, like if you build the pyramids they are on the outskirts of your city, and you could see the streets to, not just a bunch of buildings crammed together in a small place, as it is I think they all look the same.

But that's how cities look from the sky lol. Maybe more customization on how our cities look on the map would be welcome in a future edition. I think they look fine just they way they are personally.

 

[mna27]

You can see that info in your city screen. I prefer my cities growing in "real" life on the main map.

Maybe they should bring back some kind of token meaningless Palace screen for all of you guys who like trophies, but they could do it way better - like having specific 'trophies' for achieving different things, some practical, some stupid..

your missing the point, maybe you never played CIV 2 but it showed a closer up view of your city with the improvements you have made.

 

[nzcamel]

your missing the point, maybe you never played CIV 2 but it showed a closer up view of your city with the improvements you have made.

I not missing the point, it was in both civ2 & civ3; in which your cities were represented on the map by a city 'token' (for lack of a better term) that gradually grew with ur pop, and changed with advances in ages, but was otherwise identical to every other city token on the map. The city screen u refer to was the same 2D picture for every city -plus or minus a river- with ur buildings pasted in there. To me it has been made obsolete by those buildings appearing on the main map now instead of a city token. That's way more interesting to me than a seperate screen. Each city on the main map is largely individual..

But hey, each to there own..

 

[Earthling]

The buildings appearing on the main map is absolutely awful for any functional purpose, is a graphic that almost preferably could be toned done for better machine performance as most of the tile animations are, and in short I would love to see a city screen return. At the least a clear way to list what's in a city should be developed, without having to have external mods. (I'm sure BUG does this somehow but I forget where.) It's absolutely an awful chore to zoom in on enemy cities and stuff to try to see what they have built - the information is supposed to be available as the cities are on the main map, but if each city everywhere let you view a detailed city screen that would be awesome.

Also, for those complaining about civ III being "boring" - really, they could just have slightly more complicated/organic graphics. A full screen city view I guarantee could be more detailed and interesting than what's on the civ IV map now anyway - which ALSO gets repetitive and isn't really that interesting, only for silly people who spend hours hunting for weird aqueducts or something

 

[nzcamel]

At the least a clear way to list what's in a city should be developed, without having to have external mods. (I'm sure BUG does this somehow but I forget where.) It's absolutely an awful chore to zoom in on enemy cities and stuff to try to see what they have built - the information is supposed to be available as the cities are on the main map, but if each city everywhere let you view a detailed city screen that would be awesome.

In your own cites 'city screen' there is the list to the left that lists exactly what you've built in that city.

I don't see why you should automatically see what's in other civilisations cities as you're demandng it. Certainly that wasn't a function of previous games. In cIV through your religion spreading you eventually can look into those cities that take on your religion. You can also look inside cities thru espionage.
It's good the way it is.

 

[Earthling]

No, that's the thing, in civ IV by default you CAN see the buildings in the other civs' cities because you can see them on the map. And again, I'm sure some mod makes it even easier, and it annoys me that the default way to do so is incredibly roundabout. Even spotting world wonders can get hard, and the game doesn't give you an easy way to see what city world wonders are in otherwise. I'd rather be able to pull that up on a city view than having to scroll through my notifications bar or write it down elsewhere.

For civ V, certainly it's debateable what role espionage and intelligence will play. But if it's intended and it probably is that you can see what cities have world wonders for instance, there should be an easier way to do so. I'd actually think this would go hand in hand with other welcome changes they hopefully have put in - relating to sieging cities, and not having the near auto-destroy of everything in an enemy city when you capture it.

 

[nzcamel]

No, that's the thing, in civ IV by default you CAN see the buildings in the other civs' cities because you can see them on the map. And again, I'm sure some mod makes it even easier, and it annoys me that the default way to do so is incredibly roundabout. Even spotting world wonders can get hard, and the game doesn't give you an easy way to see what city world wonders are in otherwise. I'd rather be able to pull that up on a city view than having to scroll through my notifications bar or write it down elsewhere.

If it's as easy as you say it is to see what other civs have built in their cities then what are you complaining about...? You're contradicting yourself.
I can see the wonders perfectly fine myself.
Have you tried rolling the mouse wheel...? The one that zooms you in so the city fills your screen...?

 

[Earthling]

I understand Maori or other tongues may be native to others, and I'd say of course civ V as various previous games will strive to welcome people who do not comprehend English as their first language. There is nothing wrong with mouse wheel or with the zoom and I'm sure such features will be consistent across different versions.

There is no way to get a list in print of what another civ's city has in it, and as that could get dull a full city screen would be fine.

 

[mna27]

my idea was if there is a full screen city view you could roll the mouse over the different buildings and it would tell you what they are and the benefits they give, not just having a list on the side of the screen. I think it would make it more interesting.

Also it seems like people are suggesting you shouldn't be able to see what buildings other civilizations have? Throughout history great cities were not a secret, people from all over the world could see the cities for themselves and the wonders they had.