No cottage in the desert?

[nbarclay]

How much point is there to modding in an ability to have cottages on deserts? Initially, an extra specialist is worth more than a desert cottage. And since a specialist contributes great person points, a desert cottage would have to do a lot of maturing before working it would be clearly more worthwhile than an extra specialist.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Solver
Desert's useless. Unless you get Oil there - sad stuff. Well, desert on borders is marginally useful for forts.

yeah i know. It is useless. I live there.

Perhaps you should be able to build a casino in the desert...

[Dis]

Re: Re: Re: Re: No cottage in the desert?

Originally posted by Zoid


And what´s generating money from the cottage? Homemade pr0n?

Las Vegas produces a lot of porn. I'm proud of my hometown.

[Saurus]

Originally posted by johnmcd
Cottage on desert should be OK, but I do think it should grow at half normal speed or something, maybe desert tiles next to resources should allow cottages?

Any of the above would add random complications that would just leave the non hardcore confused though.

I like your idea.
Another good idea would be to limit cottage growth on desert to Hamlet or village. They cannot grow bigger unless after discovering some advanced technology like biology.

This makes more sence in fact as in the real world a dessert cannot really sustain large towns unless foodstuff and other things are imported, grown artificialy or with special equipment not available early.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Dis


yeah i know. It is useless. I live there.

Perhaps you should be able to build a casino in the desert...

Casino...?

[joncnunn]

Depends upon the map.

For instance, The Ice Age scenerio has no flood plains, just desert along the river and probably on purpose.

Originally posted by Dauphin
I have a desert tile bordered by a river in one of my MP games. It produces one commerce and that is it. I thought that it was supposed to be floodplain, but no!

Is that a bug? Or a sign that there be an as yet unknown resource?

[Harrier UK]

I would leave it the way it is or just allow cottages on an Oasis tile.

After all in real life the deserts are taking over the fertile land in most of the world and not the otherway arround. The only civs that have built cities in the desert are the super rich ones.

America with Las Vegas (to circumvent gambling restrictions in next door states). Or the Oil rich Arabs.

[padillah]

I took the easy way out and wrote a map generator so I can adjust the amount of desert in my map.

To a developer, that's the "easy way'.

"An optimist says the glass is half empty.
A pessemist says the glass is half full.
A programmer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

Tom P.

[Harrier UK]

Originally posted by padillah
A programmer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

Wrong, a programmer says that the reason the glass has a hole in the bottom is because that is what the system specification showed.

[Zoid]

And likewise it should be the optimist who says the the glass is half full...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by padillah
"An optimist says the glass is half empty.
A pessemist says the glass is half full.
A programmer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

That's an optimistic pessimist, and a pessimistic optimist


I don't see why we should be able to build cottages in the dessert, as there's not really much use for them there (looking at it from the real world point of view). But as has been said, maybe it could become possible with Refrigeration. Cottages on tiles with an oasis would make more sense though

[padillah]

Originally posted by padillah
"An optimist says the glass is half empty.
A pessemist says the glass is half full.
A programmer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

Originally posted by Adagio


That's an optimistic pessimist, and a pessimistic optimist

That's it, I'm not quoting anything anymore!

"If anything can go wrong, it wi..."

Tom P.
(damn keyboard)