Weird observation - pastures

[shieldfire]

Just to set the tone for the future, as I'm quite new here, and my family thinks I'm weird (in a nice way fortunately).

As the "new" Civ IV GUI is fascinating (to me as a former Civ I player) I found the little sheep jumping about merrily all over the the tile. Building a pasture to improve my game, I find the sheep very sad, with almost no place to go and no one's jumping merrily about anymore.
It's not possible to change the size of the pastures I guess?
I prefer happy sheep to the poor sad ones.
Apologies for the weirdness.

 

[Refar]

You can change the size of the pastures graphic (scale it up), but it will not make the sheeps jump around again, as the running around animation gets disabled by building the pasture...

Perhaps if you ask in the creation and cistomization forums someone will be able to help.

 

[shmoolie]

Just to set the tone for the future, as I'm quite new here, and my family thinks I'm weird (in a nice way fortunately).

As the "new" Civ IV GUI is fascinating (to me as a former Civ I player) I found the little sheep jumping about merrily all over the the tile. Building a pasture to improve my game, I find the sheep very sad, with almost no place to go and no one's jumping merrily about anymore.
It's not possible to change the size of the pastures I guess?
I prefer happy sheep to the poor sad ones.
Apologies for the weirdness.

That's kind of the purpose of a pasture. To harness a resource. So sheep are the resource and they aren't free to roam at will anymore.

 

[shieldfire]

yeah, i know, i know. Just got a bit sad not seeing them happy.
But it is most likely just me.

 

[mrhoeivo]

You should play as an animal rights activist and just not harness them. Then you get to watch them jump merrily all game long.

 

[Sir Janus]

You should play as an animal rights activist and just not harness them. Then you get to watch them jump merrily all game long.

Somebody tried it - with some success - link here The PETA Alliance: A No-Animal-Cruelty Variant Report

 

[shieldfire]

Great link, at least good for a smile.
Next time... next time...

 

[AfterShafter]

Build a banana plantation... They happily hop out of the trees into their baskets once built. More than makes up for the sheep!

 

[ParadigmShifter]

The bananas are probably suicidal and want to be eaten though.

 

[Sir Janus]

The bananas are probably suicidal and want to be eaten though.

Here's one that's just been told that he is my breakfast.

And here is an unpasturized sheep

 

[brianb1974]

What if you mine the sheep hill? Do they still jump around?

I often mine sheep for strategic reasons. If your situation doesn't merit researching animal husbandry, putting a mine on a sheep hill makes a pretty nice working tile.

 

[mrhoeivo]

I often mine sheep for strategic reasons.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It's the last thing the enemy tanks will expect - sheep mines exploding!

Although if you place a (non-weapon) mine on a sheep resource you get the mine as usual but the tile is +1 food compared to a normal hill.

 

[Sir Janus]

What if you mine the sheep hill? Do they still jump around?

I often mine sheep for strategic reasons. If your situation doesn't merit researching animal husbandry, putting a mine on a sheep hill makes a pretty nice working tile.

(Possibly an urban myth) After invading the Falkland Islands (or Malvinas) the Argentinians put down a lot of land mines. After the British recaptured the islands, they drove sheep over the mines to clear them.

So after being mined the sheep weren't jumping much but they were still getting airborne

 

[brianb1974]

I was an intelligence officer in Bosnia. The practice is not an urban myth. Animals are an easy lo-tech (if not 100% reliable) way to clear anti-personnel mines. A decade after the war in Bosnia, there are still probably hundreds of thousands of land mines. Occasionally people get still get hurt by them (a few tens each year), but it's mostly wildlife and livestock.

And in response to the , paradigm shifter got it right. The mined sheep gets an extra food. While usually not as good as a pasture, it's almost as good and you don't need animal husbandry, which I usually delay unless obviously needed.

 

[Wolfshanze]

If you think penning the sheep is bad, then whatever you do, don't put a net around the whales at sea... they sure change when you do that!

 

[Slobadog]

Check to see if your city is working the tile the sheep pasture is on. That should get them moving.

 

[shieldfire]

The bananas are probably suicidal and want to be eaten though.

There is a very sheep joke you can make about that. But I won't

 

[shieldfire]

I was an intelligence officer in Bosnia. The practice is not an urban myth. Animals are an easy lo-tech (if not 100% reliable) way to clear anti-personnel mines. A decade after the war in Bosnia, there are still probably hundreds of thousands of land mines. Occasionally people get still get hurt by them (a few tens each year), but it's mostly wildlife and livestock.

I recently got back from Cambodia, and the situation is probably as bad there. You are even warned not to stray too far off the road or track or whatever.

 

[mrhoeivo]

I was an intelligence officer in Bosnia. The practice is not an urban myth. Animals are an easy lo-tech (if not 100% reliable) way to clear anti-personnel mines. A decade after the war in Bosnia, there are still probably hundreds of thousands of land mines. Occasionally people get still get hurt by them (a few tens each year), but it's mostly wildlife and livestock.

And in response to the , paradigm shifter got it right. The mined sheep gets an extra food. While usually not as good as a pasture, it's almost as good and you don't need animal husbandry, which I usually delay unless obviously needed.

Yeah I knew what he was saying, I just found it funny that he said he was mining sheep.