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Building on a mountain with a good special near is great.
Last night I built a city on a mountain with access to 3 whales! I split useage after a point, but that was a powerful city.
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SandMonkey
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(i hope no one else said this, but....) isn't Denver up in the mountains??
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myrlyn
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Bloomington,Il
Jan 2000
time: 05:12
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Naw the whole Denver area is on the east slope of the rockies. Not much of anything up near the peaks.
Didnt the Peublo Indians build thier cities right into the sides of mountains??
"Here i am standing pretty, in this dust that was a city. "
Nena
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As far as I am concerned, anyone who builds cities on mountains is a wimp and a cheat - in the sense of acting against the spirit of the game.
Noone has yet named a major city built on a mountain. Those named are all towns. Who are kidding?
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myrlyn
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Bloomington,Il
Jan 2000
time: 05:12
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Then it is simple then Alexander. If you are
playing someone that builds a city on a
mountain QUIT.
Since this gets your goat so bad i imagine
people will do it do you on purpose.
Now how many people does a settlement need to go from town to city? I grew up in a town that
has over 30,000 in population and it is called a town.
I live in the city of Glasford, IL which has
barely 600 people I work out of the village
of Elk Grove, IL which has has over 100,000
in population.
Im sure if you want to do the research you could find many examples of settlements with populations over 50,000 people in theses mountain ranges.
Andes,Carpathians,Rockies,Pyrenees,aw heck with it do the research yourself
bye for now
"The war machine springs to life, opens up
one eager eye"
Nena
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My Wife Hates CIV
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Michigan
Jan 1970
time: 05:12
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What difference does it make? Your not taking out a city on a hill by force thats well defended. Mountains, to me, are just overkill in terms of defense. A hill city with coastal fortress and SAM can defend against anything. Even marines will sink battleship after battleship. Armor will do no good. Maybe if a dip or spy can take the walls down.
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MWHC is right, its overkill, so nerdy and defensive, as well as being unrealistic.
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Some of my multiplayer "friends", especially the mountain builders, are really enjoying watching me get bashed up on this thread 
Not a single supporter, YOU sheep!
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Convenor of the Threadjacking Appreciation Society (TAS)
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KhanMan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:12
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If you don't want to get beaten up in threads like these, don't post undefendable accusations. You said that the only reasons you have for calling this a cheat are:
1. all real world mountain cities are villages, or not "real mountains"
Specify the exact elivation and populations necessary to make a city a "real city in real mountains", and I *will* find a city that fits your nit-picking qualifications.
2. this gives a defender an unfair advantage.
To which I join everyone else in replying that one dip or nuke can take down nearly any city, regardless of where it is!
Of course, I don't think I'm the only one who's surprized to see you whining again about an unsupportable claim...Anyone remember the thread where Horsebrains here said civ2 is full of satanic messages?
Here it is, if you've forgotten:
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum1/H...html?date=19:58
"Small men with small brains deserve to be beaten"
-KhanMan
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Khanman LOL, I appreciate that playing a game in the spirit in which it was intended is a concept alien to most Americans. The virtue of not kicking someone when they are down also seems to escape most Americans too 
If I didn't have a point, you would not be replying. I think you do protest too much (sorry, another difficult abstract concept).
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Don't forget that the squares in civ are symbolic of the pre-dominant terrain in that area.
I think choke points and taking advantage of them by using the available terain adds an interest to the game.
I took out a reasonably well defended mountain city once by landing an engineer nearby, building a city, linked it to the mtn city by rail, docked the transport full of vet howies in my new city and pumped them into the mtn city 
All in one turn of course!!
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myrlyn
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Bloomington,Il
Jan 2000
time: 05:12
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Alexander,
So far i have found 13 settlements of populations over 50,000 that have mountain peaks within thier city limits and are over 5,000 feet in elevation.
Do these meet your requirements?
Also i have found 2 settlements of over 50,000 in population with mountain peaks within thier city limits and are 0ver 10,000
feet in elevation.
Would this meet your requirements?
The information is redily available on the net or at your local library. Do some research if ya dont mind.
bye for now
Myrlyn
founder of the build cities on mountains society
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Christ, 50 posts and nobody has come to my aid - you guys would kill Kenny (you bastards)
Firstly, Myrlyn, put up or shut up. I'll bet half of the 50,000 plus mountain SETTLEMENTS are in China or South Asia. 50,000 is but a village in China - do your own research on that!
Wes, don't follow the herd
Khanman, thank you you touched on one of my core arguments, namely, the cities in civ represent mega cities. They are VAST. For example, you couldn't fit more than one or two cities in an area the size of France. They really represent whole regions rather than cities, narrowly defined. And yet we have people mentioning Machu Pichu!!! A fort/citadel built on a mountain spur!!! I've seen photos of it, have you?
Well, what do you say to that!
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myrlyn
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Bloomington,Il
Jan 2000
time: 05:12
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Ok Alexander I'll shut up as soon as you do some research . These settlements are actully spread all over the world. You can find at least one on every continent.
You can insult Americans and me all you want.
It doesnt change the facts.
I remember another infamous person with the initials AH. He also whined and threw tantrums when he didnt get his way.
I am shutting up now. I know when im dealing
with a unbalanced personality. Bye........
Heil Horsie!!!!!!!!
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tobyr
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Princeton, NJ USA
Oct 1999
time: 05:12
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AHorse,
Jerusalem and Meggiddo (the site of the Armaggedon battle) are built on mountains, and I suspect they are not that unusual in ancient times.
Jerusalem's defense consisted of a wall around the city on three sides, enclosing the built-up high ground parts of the city, and enclosing the most important water source, which was on relatively low ground.
People surely did not live in the mountain's valley, because the simple sewer system consisted of letting refuse run down, on open conduits, into the valley.
- toby
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WhiteKnight
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of something...
Feb 2000
time: 05:12
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Yeah, there are alot of cities in the mountains today. Not as many as there used to be, but still a bunch.
I think its ok to build on mountains. I mean in ancient times that was one of their major defenses. Not so much in modern times, but its already been pointed out that by that stage of the game we have more powerful weapons to make up for it.
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