 |
|
ZENMASTER
|
|
rosh haayin,ISRAEL
Oct 2000
time: 05:14
|
|
what the F*** does it mean no city view
so why st. swithin led us on?!
you are doing it again activision
------------------
WHAT IS LIFE AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
GOI-FONG-TZA ZENMASTER
|
|
| |
|
|
|
ZENMASTER
|
|
rosh haayin,ISRAEL
Oct 2000
time: 05:14
|
|
well i can personally tell that winnie lee talked about it and if you look at first five gspy pictures
(a.k.a the first one) you can see a city view tab
------------------
WHAT IS LIFE AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
GOI-FONG-TZA ZENMASTER
|
|
| |
|
|
|
yes, that's what the inventory tab shows
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Tical_2000
|
|
Whats the big deal? If you want to see a city, book a helicopter ride and tour your hometown. What a whiner!
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Chronus
|
|
Hmmmm ... I'm a little concerned about the interface myself. Ralf pointed out the "screens within screens" and many tabs which kind of annoys me. I enjoy CTP but my greatest complaint is how difficult it is to get something done. Introducing the game to a Civ-lover friend of mine resulted in failure because he had to wend his way through multiple tabs to view the information he needed. In a nutshell, this is a good way to deter new players.
I thought I read somewhere that a simple, one city screen (similar to Civ2) was available as an option. MarkG, if you read this, can you verify? Thanks, in advance.
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
DarkOrder
|
|
Los Angeles, CA.
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
|
|
There is a city manager. In this window you can select the build menu which allows you to build units, buildings/improvments, and wonders. The rest of the stuff in the city manager are sorted through with tabs. There is an imropvemnets window (shows what buildings/improvements your city has), a specialists window (where you can set citizens to specialize in city happiness, food production, commerse(gold), science, and production. There is also the state of your city window that shows how happy your people in that city are and if they receive any bonus (+1 if you build a shrine) or negatives(-1 from pollution). To change cities there is a popdown city seletor (has arrows as well) that allows you to change quickly from one city to another.
There is no city "picture," you will be too busy keeping your cities running smoothly to need such a thing. Mayors are okay, but your cities will grow faster if you don't use them. I found using them only acceptable if I had more than 10 cities and suddenly went to war. The problem is, the mayor may take fifteen turns to create a city wall, instead of a samuraii. You can go straight to the build manager of a city without opening the city manager.
The fastest way to grow your empire:
1. build at least 5 settlers as fast as possible.
2. have a settler settle on a rich piece of land (15 Food, !5 production, 10 commerce), rivers through plains are ideal, with good land next to them.
3. Allow for expansion, don't put all fof your cities right on top of each other. This takes away from the resources being gathered.
4. Put all citizens into food production until your city is size 7 or you need units.
5. build food tile improvments as soon as they become available (farms or nets).
6. Make sure you leave a military unit to defend your city. Nothing worse than a barbarian wandering into an unprotected city and taking it over.
Any other questions
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Chronus
|
|
Is the player still allowed to assign keys to particular tabs and commands? I've been assuming all along that this feature is still there but I thought I'd ask anyway.
CTP was far more bearable when I was able to set up these hot keys myself (the defaults are painful to even think about). One nice feature about CTP was scrolling through the cities with a keystroke (not the mouse). I'm not aware of that feature in Civ2.
|
|
| |
|
|
|
DarkOrder
|
|
Los Angeles, CA.
Nov 2000
time: 05:14
|
|
well I will try:
If i click (double-click?) any of my cities on the map; what manager pops up?
The City-manager
You can select the build manager from the city manager at any time. I think it is easier to think of the managers as national. You can select between cities while in a manager very easily. So with a few clicks you can change from city build manager in city 1-** and set them all to build a building or unit.
You can access the build que for a specific city from the tabs UI as well.
|
|
| |
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:14.
Apolyton Time is 00:14. |
top of page
|
| archivepost |
|
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-11-2000 16:56
Dida, i didnt imply that playing hands-on, without using the queue-system was the "correct" (or "best") way to play the game. 
|
