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Chieftain
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Oct 2001
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Does anyone remember the feature that was added in a patch in Civ2? When grid was turned on, the game would display your city's usable square radii and let you plan your city building a little bit more easily and to catch some holes in it.

Civ3 came with its cultural borders, but the city radius borders are gone. Where did they go? I often find myself having a gap inside my cultural borders where I could nicely place a city but I don't notice it until I'm at the dragging-on end game and building railroads on every square and notice, "Hey, there are 6 squares here that might make a nice city." And so I fill it in.

How many other people miss this feature and/or would like it (back)?

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i dont think many people play civ2 in the the civ3 form...

although i dont think there's a civ2 form...

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Oct 2001
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But it was a Civ 3 question anyway...

In answer to that question: No, I don't really miss it. In Civ2, I used to fit cities as close as possible without overlapping. In Civ3, I keep them further apart to push my border - so I don't really need the feature.

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Nov 2002
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1: There is a civ2 forum!! http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdis...hp?s=&forumid=3

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How many other people miss this feature and/or would like it (back)?


This is true, this is something I miss, this feature can help us to better manage our city-building.
But I've never really search in the Instruction Manual of Civ3 to see if this game got this feature...

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Nov 2001
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Lots of Civ3 players played Civ2, just not any more.
You can use Control G to get a grid. Then it is not hard to see where the workable tiles would be placed.

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True, it's not. But this is particularly useful in early game city placement (it's for city placement more than for improvement planning), before you have workers improving all the tiles and you are placing cities. It's one of those features that you're not sure about until you have it and then you love it.

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one more city out of 50+? I don't micro-manage that deep.. if it really were needed then I'd rather loose the game with dignity than use ICS to kill the computer, maybe in MP though.

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