space elevator latitude

[guermantes]

How can I determine what latitude a city is at in order to plan for where to build the Space Elevator...?

(I just won my first prince game but was almost in trouble for a while when I could not build the elevator in my main production city due to latitude...)

[Sarxis]

I dunno.

Hope that helps

Naw.. j/k. But seriously, I don't know that there is a way to know exactly what tiles are within the latitude limit. And I only found one thread on the the subject here at the Apolyton forums; but it didn't help either :/

[Dis]

just try to gauge it, what I do

[mkorin]

Goto the city screen F5, put the cities in descending ranking order for number of hammers. Highlight the first city, put the building screen in Wonder mode and just go down the list until you find the best city that has it available to build.
Mike

[wodan11]

I think he might want to know in advance. You can't do the queue trick until you research the tech. Knowing in advance allows you to pre-build a coal plant or such.

Easy way: visually divide the map in thirds. The middle third is what you want.

Precise way: do the above, but turn on the grid and actually count the tiles.

Wodan

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by mkorin
Goto the city screen F5, put the cities in descending ranking order for number of hammers. Highlight the first city, put the building screen in Wonder mode and just go down the list until you find the best city that has it available to build.
Mike

Unfortunately, that doesn't help when you're trying to decide where to put (for example) your Ironworks, long before you have the option to build the Elevator anywhere.

I usually plan long in advance where to build certain expensive late-game wonders (if I build them at all). If you want the 3GD, you'll need a river, lots of hammer-rich tiles, a city big enough to work those tiles, Forge, Factory, maybe a 1-off Coal Plant, maybe Ironworks. I imagine similar considerations would go into building Elevator.

And it's quite a pisser to have gone to the effort of building/rushing the Factory, Ironworks, etc only to find that the city can't do what you intended it to do.

[mkorin]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man


Unfortunately, that doesn't help when you're trying to decide where to put (for example) your Ironworks, long before you have the option to build the Elevator anywhere.

I usually plan long in advance where to build certain expensive late-game wonders (if I build them at all). If you want the 3GD, you'll need a river, lots of hammer-rich tiles, a city big enough to work those tiles, Forge, Factory, maybe a 1-off Coal Plant, maybe Ironworks. I imagine similar considerations would go into building Elevator.

And it's quite a pisser to have gone to the effort of building/rushing the Factory, Ironworks, etc only to find that the city can't do what you intended it to do.

You're thinking way too much

I generally put Forges etc in every city, thus I am ready for anything.

I don't get the whole city specialization thing. Also, I don't strain my brain, after all, the idea of a game is to relax.

And, yes, I win on Prince 85% of the time

[jkp1187]

^^^ Agreed! No sympathy for the meta-gamers.... not like the people founding a city in 1300AD said to themselves, "Hmm, we'd better found this city a few miles to the south, so that we can build a space elevator 1,000 years from now..."

[fed1943]

Sure, you should have founded it much earlier.

Best regards,

[Kuciwalker]

It's roughly the middle third of the map.

[guermantes]

Thanks to those who replied constructively... to each and every one their playing style, is what I say...

[Aradae]

Originally posted by jkp1187
^^^ Agreed! No sympathy for the meta-gamers.... not like the people founding a city in 1300AD said to themselves, "Hmm, we'd better found this city a few miles to the south, so that we can build a space elevator 1,000 years from now..."

You're telling me that's not why egypt was founded in the middle of a desert?

[Jaybe]

Egypt wasn't founded in the middle of a desert! It was founded in one of the richest river valleys in the world -- the Nile.

Besides, the Sahara desert is much larger than it used to be. Was it always a desert at all?

[Aradae]

Originally posted by Jaybe
Egypt wasn't founded in the middle of a desert! It was founded in one of the richest river valleys in the world -- the Nile.

Besides, the Sahara desert is much larger than it used to be. Was it always a desert at all?

I know, it was a joke

[guermantes]

Did I miss something? Did someone actually "found" Egypt?