11-10-2003 22:14									#1
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i am editing a map and see a selection for ruins. What exactly does a ruin do? Can you rebuild the lost city with a worker? Or get extra bonus for building there or moving to that location? I know ruins are destroyed cities/towns, but do they serve any purpose? Or are they just ruins and have no purpose? The square they are on does it give extra resource or less?

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Kronos

I looked in manual and have not seen anything on ruins, so im lost.

	11-10-2003 22:17									#2
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They don't do anything. They are there to show where destroyed cities used to be.

	11-10-2003 22:17									#3
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Ruins are just a cosmetic.

	13-10-2003 01:31									#4
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They're strictly eye candy and they'll disappear as soon as one of your Workers makes any kind of improvement on the square.

	14-10-2003 02:05									#5
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Though, if there's a ruin, there's a road. Once the ruin is irrigated (or mined), a road runs through it. But that's about it.

	14-10-2003 04:13									#6
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Yep, basically ruins offer a free roaded tile. I still think that they could make the ruins look more like ruins and not just a pile of rubble.

	14-10-2003 12:43									#7
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Check the download section, there's a nice little ruins mod there. It's basically the same ruins except the rubble are cleared away, sold as souvenirs I guess....

Edit: Wittlich, the ruins gives no free roads, the road is leftovers from the destroyed city.

Double edit: Oh God, what's happening to me? Am I becoming an anal retentive nitpicker?!? Sorry Wittlich.

	14-10-2003 18:16									#8
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No problem Bongo, I understand what you mean.

	14-10-2003 18:18									#9
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Don't ruins also offer some defensive bonus? ISTR there being a 25% bonus for ruins, although I could be wrong. That's a slight effect on game play.

	14-10-2003 18:24									#10
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I haven't noticed any sort of defensive bonus with ruins, but it does make sense that ruins should offer some type of added defensive bonus (small as it might be).

	14-10-2003 18:59									#11
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If you're figthing a WW2-style defensive war then ruins are the perfect hiding place for infantry(in RL that is). I haven't heard of any defensive bonus in civ3 though.

	14-10-2003 19:51									#12
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quote: Originally posted by bongo Check the download section, there's a nice little ruins mod there.

Can't find it. Link? Please?

Edit: Never mind....

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=76128

	16-10-2003 00:24									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Wittlich I still think that they could make the ruins look more like ruins and not just a pile of rubble.

Yeah, I cleaned up the ruin graphic and posted it somewhere, I should have a new one soon that just has skulls and impaled bodies..................

	16-10-2003 00:47									#14
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bongo and Stuie, thank you veddy much! That ruins graphic replacement is great!

	16-10-2003 04:27									#15
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quote: Originally posted by GhengisFarb Yeah, I cleaned up the ruin graphic and posted it somewhere, I should have a new one soon that just has skulls and impaled bodies..................

Geez, you aren't morbid are you?

	16-10-2003 07:20									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Willem Geez, you aren't morbid are you?

It just seemed more appropriate, plus its a real icebreaker for PBEM and Multiplayer games!

	16-10-2003 12:20									#17
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