Space Elevator

[robyn 3576]

Anyone know why a space elevator can be built in some cities and not in others? Is there something specific a city needs in order to build it?

[mantari]

PURE UNTESTED GUESS:

If I had to make the Space Elevator terrain dependent, I would link it to a very hard and stable ground. Maybe it needs nearby mountains or something?

[Addled Platypus]

could be something like cities that dont have enough "education"

any of those cities not have univeristy ?

[sidnitz]

My initial thought on this were that the city had to be relatively close to the equator in order to build the Space Elevator but this doesn't seem to be true.

[Manuel]

Now that would be an interesting; having the effectiveness of the space elevator based partly on the latitude in which you build it.

[Dis]

I've wondered that about a lot of things. I know there are many requirements for things to be built. I just knew why I can't build some things in some cities, but I can in others. I'd like to know this the easy way, without having to look it up.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Manuel
Now that would be an interesting; having the effectiveness of the space elevator based partly on the latitude in which you build it.

Well, actually, you can't build a space elevator anywhere but the equator. It won't work.

[Manuel]

I think we owe sidnitz a cookie then.

[sidnitz]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Well, actually, you can't build a space elevator anywhere but the equator. It won't work.

Oh, cool Nice touch then.

In my 3 games so far I had just got to the point where I was scoping out locations to build the Space Elevator when I started crashing every ten seconds so I hadn't really been able to do a thorough check on this.

[Nikolai]

I think Kuci is talking real life here. I have only bothered to build it once, but that was not at the equator.

[Stuie]

If you are in the city-view, there's red text in the mouse-over telling you what's lacking in order to build something. Is this not the case for the Space Elevator?

[sidnitz]

Hadn't noticed any red text indicators of what I was missing myself.

Kinda OT: Does the Space Elevator stack w/ labratories in its bonus to SS component production?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by sidnitz
Oh, cool Nice touch then.

I meant IRL.

[Quillan]

I might be wrong, but is the Space Elevator classed as a national wonder? If so, each city can only build 2 total, so a lot of your better production cities are likely full up already. I know in my last game, my highest production city couldn't build it, but the number 2 could.