Ability to tranfer production from one city to another?

[Grandpa Troll]

If I rememebr when I first started playing CIVII it was on Playstation.

I seem to remember I would build a caravan and send it from City "A" to City "G" and when it arrived if the city didnt need the particular good I had I could help rush buy a wonder or add this to my city production?

I am not positive but that would be pretty neat say if you could transfer food or whatever from one city to another

For instance if you had a mountain terrain with limited food a caravan carrying food would help offset this shortcoming

Gramps

[Adagio]

Civ on a playstation? You've gotta be kidding


Yes, they had something like that in Civ2, but I happy that they got rid of the caravan unit... that one was just annoying... though I do like the idea about city A helping city B, but I'd say it should be done from some option in the city screen (or something), not from units...

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Adagio
Civ on a playstation? You've gotta be kidding


Yes, they had something like that in Civ2, but I happy that they got rid of the caravan unit... that one was just annoying... though I do like the idea about city A helping city B, but I'd say it should be done from some option in the city screen (or something), not from units...

not for several years but it was what got me started first time playing 18 hours straight

[Wise Ass]

I've actually often thought about this. I think it's a really good idea. CTP had a system where all the food collected was then rationed out so you had less issues with starvation.

I think it's kinda stupid that some areas are uninhabitable just because they have no good food resources, some may be strategic points of interest yet building the city would be an economic drain.

[ruby_maser]

I would like, on turns when a product is completed, to have excess shields that are normally dropped be rolled over or transferable instead.

For instance, if you only need 5 shields to finish your new factory and you are producing 25 a turn, where do the other 20 go?

Instead, it could prompt you to designate a production-poor city to donate them too, roll them over for whatever is to be built next in that city, or anything really other than flush them.

[TechWins]

In realistic terms how does production get transfered? Production comes from better infastructure or more population. In Civ3 that would mean building a worker or settler in one city and having another city acquire those population points.

I don't like the idea of abstractifying the production system, personally.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by TechWins
In realistic terms how does production get transfered?

It can be called mining, harvesting, or making prefabricates - depending on what the company actually does. Many "factories" nowadays only put pieces together, without having to actually make them. This is not abstract, this is standard.

[Grandpa Troll]

another way is in my industry...

I am an area manager in the Ready Mix Concrete Industry

when we have a real big production day we "pre-load" or dry load the agregates and 50% of water w/ admixtures the night before so instead of say it taking 8 minutes per truck to load it now takes 3 minutes to load the cement on the mixer now when ya times that X 12 you actually pick up an hour and 10 mintues very critical in both starting jobs on time and efficiency

a big difference between production and efficiency

one could most certainly be a production leader but if the costs are exceeding the profit margin and no return on investment or worse a negative impact then you now start producing a bancruptcy

an efficient facility will have a much better chance of success

another way to look at it would be multitasking

if you ahead of the game and say whatever your facilities can do in a city they can do it with say a 60% waste maybe you then cut the workforce and have them on something else

This was kinda where I was heading

Gramps