Hiding fortified units?

[Reiko]

Sorry if this has been asked a million times but I couldn't find a topic on it.

How do I make units fortified in a city not appear over the city? There was an option in Civ3 that you can click where it would hide the fortified units but I can't seem to find it for Civ4.

I want to be able to do this for Civ4 because the map just looks too cluttered with planes circling the cities and tanks sitting up top.

[LzPrst]

not sure. but it would be far more interesting to know if there was any way of hiding units from spying...?

do you see all units in spied upon territory or just in the cities of the empire spied upon? or are all units seen? just thinking that it might be a good idea to hide troops in other nations' territories or even in ships outside your borders.... (obviously for MP purposes)

[Jaybe]

You can't find how to make units fortified in a city not appear over the city...
because you canNOT make units fortified in a city not appear over the city.

Civ4 is not Civ3.

To hide your units from (in BtS) espionage, fortify them outside city visibility. Two tiles from the city if niether the tile nor the city are on a hill, or farther. If you pack your city locations closely, your options could become limited.

[Theben]

There's a button that allows you to remove ALL military units from the map, but my guess is that isn't what you want.

[Supr49er]

You mean the "Romulan Cloaking Device" promotion?

[Jaybe]

I think Theben was referring to the "Bare Map" (Ctrl-B) toggle.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Supr49er
You mean the "Romulan Cloaking Device" promotion?

Only the Romulans get that, per an Algeronic Palace resolution.

[snoopy369]

He's referring to causing the units not to appear visually to the player (to reduce map clutter), not to hiding them in-game... but I think there's still no way to do that unfortunately.

[Reiko]

Originally posted by snoopy369
causing the units not to appear visually to the player (to reduce map clutter), not to hiding them in-game... but I think there's still no way to do that unfortunately.

That is what I was talking about. In civ 3 there was an option to do this for units based in a city. It didn't effect the game play, it just cleaned up the clutter on the map.

[ben_vii]

With the blue marble mod you can scale the units down, that might solve your problem.

[TieSolo]

How do you do that in the blue marble mod? Is that in the regular options menu? I would love to do that. Thanks!

[ben_vii]

No you need an extra app actually, I downloaded it with blue marble, I think it's called civscale. Let's you play around with the graphics a little bit.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Reiko
It didn't effect the game play, it just cleaned up the clutter on the map.

You could always go to a single unit graphic. I find the multiple units too cluttering myself so I go with the single.