What are those entities that produce your units called?

[Nacht]

It kind of annoys me that people keep refering to them as bases.

[MightyTiny]

Me too!

You can use cities as bases for troops in wartime, and you can base troops in cities, but CITIES they are, and cities they remain, even when used as bases!

After all, even during wartime, cities house civilian populations.

Of course, Bananas is acceptable too.

[EternalSpark]

Cities is the technically correct term, but they only feel like cities when the following has been reached:

1) Modern Era
2) Large population
3) Surrounded by Towns

At that point, they look/feel like cities - massive, obviously civillian, and hard to tell where they top and start. During earlier parts, they feel to me more like low-level bases than the civillian homestead I consider a City.

[Tattila the Hun]

Earlier on, they feel like towns.

[Blake]

Unit Pumps, duh.

[Tattila the Hun]

Barracks.

[Lambiorix_be]

Originally posted by EternalSpark
Cities is the technically correct term, but they only feel like cities when the following has been reached:

1) Modern Era
2) Large population
3) Surrounded by Towns

At that point, they look/feel like cities - massive, obviously civillian, and hard to tell where they top and start. During earlier parts, they feel to me more like low-level bases than the civillian homestead I consider a City.

Why should the era has something to do with being a city. A city is place that houses a lot of social an economic functions. So once a settlement has a library and/or granary (just examples other buildings are also good) it is city.

Bases are not found by settlers but by armies, the closest you can get to a 'base' in civ4 is the fortress. Civ4 is not a RTS games where army buildings construct units and thus bases can be constructed.

But i am not 'irritated' if someone calls a city a base. Live and let live I would say

[Zoid]

Re: What are those entities that produce your units called?

Originally posted by Nacht
It kind of annoys me that people keep refering to them as bases.

Who does? I´ve never seen that...

[Zoid]

Besides, everyone knows you get your troops from the Cloning Vats!

[LordShiva]

What are those entities that produce your units called?

Women?

[Urban Ranger]

Settlements.

[EternalSpark]

Originally posted by Lambiorix_be
Why should the era has something to do with being a city.

Just the graphical look. Before the Modern Area and before they are surrounded by Towns, they don't feel like the sprawling metropolis I'd need to see before I start habitually calling them cities.

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: What are those entities that produce your units called?

Originally posted by Dr Zoidberg
Who does? I´ve never seen that...

EternalSpark does it.

[Robert]

That's just players from other games that started to play civ and just took their vocabulair with them.
Just ignore them

[Last Conformist]

Specifically, they're SMACsters.