06-10-2001 04:39									#1
	Confirmed by Dan: Neat Little Feature Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

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	06-10-2001 04:46									#2
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The Quote by dan:

quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Psy Just noticed that a small number appears just to the right of the city name. E.g. 4 are displayed next to "Oil Springs" and 2 are displayed just right to "Grand River". Anybody have an idea of what they mean? Maybe they are showing how many turns till the city will grow again?! That would be a nice feature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are correct. The first number is how many turns until the city grows, while the bottom number is how many turns until the city finishes whatever it's currently producing. Also, though the screen of the week doesn't indicate it, the large city size number to the left is color-coded, so you can easily see if the city is growing, stagnant, or starving. Dan Firaxis Games, Inc.

Thats a nice feature.

	06-10-2001 04:48									#3
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The fact that Firaxis have put in details like that sure is an encouraging sign

	06-10-2001 04:51									#4
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It will sure keep you on top of things without too many clicks Good

	06-10-2001 05:12									#5
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Yeah, that is what I expected it was, no real surprises there, but agreed, it is a nice and handy touch to the game.

	06-10-2001 05:32									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Case The fact that Firaxis have put in details like that sure is an encouraging sign

I agree!

nice ease of use...that eliminates many clicks to find that info!
i wonder if the city building will be collored (like the +/- growth of teh population) if it was already built, too?

	06-10-2001 06:09									#7
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What's this? Dan posts on sites other than Apolyton??? How dare he!

	06-10-2001 06:12									#8
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It makes it much easier to manage your empire. Also Dan's post supports the theory that he 'downgrades' the images so we can't get much from them!

	06-10-2001 06:14									#9
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quote: Originally posted by SITS It makes it much easier to manage your empire. Also Dan's post supports the theory that he 'downgrades' the images so we can't get much from them!

i think what he meant is that the cities in the view were neither increasing or decreasing in size. imo.

	06-10-2001 06:21									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Akron

Very nice indeed.

	06-10-2001 06:32									#11
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It seems to me they're hiding nothing from us. For example, in one screenshot ( http://www.civ3.com/images/screenshots/mapscreen2.jpg ), you can clearly see some of the size numbers are white and others are yellow. So I think Nemo is right that they are all increasing or all decreasing or all staying the same.

	06-10-2001 06:37									#12
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Sorry, it was meant as light-hearted remark. Although I do find it hard sometimes to make the details of the shots.

	06-10-2001 06:42									#13
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Yeah, they compress the screenshots into an 800x600 image and put it into JPEG format, which takes out a lot of the details.

BTW, I sincerely doubt the screenshots indicate the game can be played on an 800x600 resolution because the normal Windows cursor is very tiny is those screenshots!

	06-10-2001 06:52									#14
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quote: Originally posted by JellyDonut It seems to me they're hiding nothing from us. For example, in one screenshot ( http://www.civ3.com/images/screenshots/mapscreen2.jpg ), you can clearly see some of the size numbers are white and others are yellow. So I think Nemo is right that they are all increasing or all decreasing or all staying the same.

Actually, the cities in this weeks screenshot are all increasing or they wouldn't have a number indicating how many turns until they grow. So white = growth.

In the screenshot Jelly references above, Zimbabwe, Kish and Nineveh are all yellow, and the turns-to-growth is "--" - the cities are stagnant. Thus yellow = stagnant.

Haven't seen it, but I would guess some shade of red = decline.

Thanks for pointing out that screenshot Jelly!

	06-10-2001 07:20									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Stuie Actually, the cities in this weeks screenshot are all increasing or they wouldn't have a number indicating how many turns until they grow.

Yes, I'll do the research and point out the details, but common sense is beyond me Thx for pointing this out.

	06-10-2001 07:47									#16
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Very intuitive, well done Firaxis

	06-10-2001 10:43									#17
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider Very intuitive, well done Firaxis

You are right, that will be very helpful in the game!!!

	06-10-2001 11:58									#18
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quote: Originally posted by SITS Sorry, it was meant as light-hearted remark. Although I do find it hard sometimes to make the details of the shots.

i agree. the www compression they use does not do any justice. if anything, it actually harms the effects of the graphics. (but it sure beats teh gaming magazine scans that may previewers have!)

	06-10-2001 13:15									#19
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Good thinking on the details. There's a lot of info that's available at a glance now.