16-10-2001 00:14									#1
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I was looking through the screenshots when I came across one with a blackened up tile. Looks like pollution:

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	16-10-2001 00:21									#2
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Pollution or Oil maybe?

	16-10-2001 00:40									#3
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Not oil, I attach oil.

It really look like some black clouds. It must be pollution.

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	16-10-2001 00:54									#4
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Ok, I hadn't seen the oil graphic.

	16-10-2001 03:34									#5
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hey, i think you're right. that's gotta be pollution

	16-10-2001 03:49									#6
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its pollution or a glitch in the graphics (but i would put my money on it beging pollution

	16-10-2001 04:05									#7
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Could very well be. That city is huge and it's the industrial era.

	16-10-2001 05:39									#8
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My vote would go for pollution as well.

	16-10-2001 05:42									#9
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Actually, it's a modern age screenshot, which is something we've seen little of. The date on it was 2000 AD.

	16-10-2001 05:49									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Akron Actually, it's a modern age screenshot, which is something we've seen little of. The date on it was 2000 AD.

Yah, that definetley looks like pollution! Great find

Really, that's a modern screenshot, where'd you get it? And do you think you could show us the rest of it?

	16-10-2001 05:59									#11
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If you look very closely, the mountain square on the bottom left of that screen shot snippet also appears to have pollution.

	16-10-2001 06:01									#12
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Yeah, I thought that square had pollution too, but I wasn't sure since it could be the shadow of the unit or something else.

It's the 2nd row, 3rd column on this screen:

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	16-10-2001 13:14									#13
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THEY'RE GIANT BLACK SNAKES!! AND THEY'RE HEADING FOR THE CITY! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

	16-10-2001 13:32									#14
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These snakes will probably be animated, no?

It will be lovely to watch plumes of black smog floating around my city tiles

	16-10-2001 16:18									#15
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Actually I think there is an altogether more feasible explanation for this, and a rather dull one. I remember when these screenshots were scanned out of a magazine. I think it is nothing but a crease in the paper

	16-10-2001 17:26									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I think it is nothing but a crease in the paper

But not when you consider that there are 2 (or three) squares of pollution in that screen. On a related note, i hope that the pollution is more obvious than it is in that screen - only after someone else pointed it out did i find that second square of pollution!!

	16-10-2001 18:27									#17
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Certainly not instantly identifiable on the busier tiles. Trying to find it on a railroaded jungle time could be tricky. Then again the tiles are much bigger in the game.

	16-10-2001 22:51									#18
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i don't know what it is but the black stuff on the mountain is the same shape as the other stuff. pollution seems a reasonable guess

quote: Actually I think there is an altogether more feasible explanation for this, and a rather dull one. I remember when these screenshots were scanned out of a magazine. I think it is nothing but a crease in the paper

the lesser deity of spam has spoken. cease your speculations before he strikes us all down with massive lumps of spam

	16-10-2001 23:11									#19
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It looks like two hedges with the shadows on the side facing us.

To me at any rate, it looks like some kind of raised surface with shadows.

	25-10-2001 08:07									#20
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Agreed, provost

	25-10-2001 08:16									#21
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Those "snake things" are hills

	25-10-2001 08:24									#22
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I don't know what the black lines are, but I know they're from older screenshots then the AVault preview and here's two screenshots that almost defenitely do show pollution

#4 - Sucky English Lands yet building Space Ship? (London pollution)
#5 - Spying on the French (Tours pollution)

Also, on the Tours screenshot, at the very far right, you can see half of another pollution tile. It's gotta be pollution. What else could it be? Maybe it's animated

	25-10-2001 08:27									#23
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Yeah, Serapis, that definitely looks like pollution. Probably, the one I originally posted was from an old screenshot.

	25-10-2001 09:46									#24
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I'd say that those black lines are just shadows of the hills, which were drawn too dark, so they look like pollution or something. Those are just hills.

	25-10-2001 15:03									#25
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No idea what that is, but looks too indistinct to be pollution.

	25-10-2001 15:16									#26
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Maybe there are different types of pollution?? It couldnt be a mistake, seeing as there are 3 tiles with the black squiggles on them.

	25-10-2001 17:00									#27
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Maybe they are shadows from the massive interstellar spaceship being constructed 20 miles overhead!