Volcanoes are out of control!

[nihilistvoid]

So Im playing a civ3c game at 4bil years old, and have got about 8 or so volcanoes spread out around me, and they're ALL active! Does this mean they're going to be active the whole game and I better not build a city nearby, or will they ever calm the freak down? One of them erupts about every 2 turns!

 

[Jaybe]

Volcanoes are obligated to erupt 3 times every 5,000 years. The early turns encompass many years. In the late game, they may erupt not at all.

Don't worry about it -- unless you build a city next to one! I lost a city that way once (I needed the horses).

 

[KaNick]

General rule of thumb is to not build next to volcanos unless it is necesary. Although I have played games with a city next to a volcanos and they never erupted.

 

[Longasc]

I would not place a city directly besides one, but 1 tile distance between city and volcano did well for me in a current game.

Madrid, the spanish capital, however was bombed back to Stoneage three times already.

So I would say: Better not to build besides volcanos. You can neither road nor mine them, too.

 

[nihilistvoid]

But a one-tile space between them is out of harms way?

 

[Gogf]

No, volcanos have a two tile range.

 

[Longasc]

You would even need 4 tiles if you do not want your production harmed. All my cities besides volcanoes have a lot of workers repairing pollution/damage done by eruptions.

But Gogf is right, 2 tiles and at least the city can no longer be hit directly.

 

[nihilistvoid]

Damn volcanoes. They should at least provide a lot of food since volcanic ash makes incredible farming soil.

 

[Longasc]

fine vineyards, too. Think of the Vesuv.

 

[bradbowen]

Is there a command to automatically remove the damage from a volcano?

 

[Greyhawk1]

I've never seen a volcano erupt in any of my games. I left all the damage alone, didnt clear any of it away...do you reckon that stopped them erupting?

 

[BrianL03]

I've never lost a city to a volcano... just units. Maybe I'm just lucky *shrug*

 

[Bleser]

Originally posted by Greyhawk1
I've never seen a volcano erupt in any of my games. I left all the damage alone, didnt clear any of it away...do you reckon that stopped them erupting?

Probably not, you just got later in the game and there were fewer years passing per turn, thus fewer eruptions.

I had a game map onece with twelve volcanoes in two six-pack chunks (3 billino year old map) and it was crazy until about 10 AD, where everything finally started to calm down. It took a LONG time to clean up, too since they errupted on other mountains. As far as I know, though, volcanoes can only errupt on something within its one-tile ring, not two tiles.

 

[DragonRunner]

Volcano damage counts just like pollution damage-looks the same, does the same thing. If you have a worker on pollution patrol, it'll clean up volcano damage.