Firaxis Needs Testers!

[Blaupanzer]

You can base 8 planes in a city with an airport. I think you also can base 4 air units in a fort(?)

Looks like they've stopped looking for testers, so this should be untopped.

[snoopy369]

The air unit limit is intended to weaken air units, which are clearly far too powerful I don't necessarily think it's the best solution, but it certainly does accomplish limiting their power

[Theben]

Just build forts and base your air units in them.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Originally posted by Theben
Just build forts and base your air units in them.

Exactly, which is what i do, which is why i said the limit is stupid, it just causes you a little more headaches having to build the forts in the first place, but i still always manage to bring to bear massive air power.

Civ4 and BTS in particular have tried to sanitise warfare too far !

Never mind forts why have'nt we got airbases ?!

[jkp1187]

Originally posted by ChrisiusMaximus


Exactly, which is what i do, which is why i said the limit is stupid, it just causes you a little more headaches having to build the forts in the first place, but i still always manage to bring to bear massive air power.

Civ4 and BTS in particular have tried to sanitise warfare too far !

Never mind forts why have'nt we got airbases ?!

Why do you need airbases when you have forts that can give you both basing options and defensive bonuses?

[Diadem]

Originally posted by Solver
So are those AIs your vassals?

Nope not a vassal. Just an open border agreement.

Maybe he had an airport, raising the limit to 8. Though you'd expect that would work for his units, not mine. Anyway I don't think he had flight already.

I wonder, does that mean he can't build air units of his own there, because mine are in the way? That'd be a nice exploit!

[Theben]

Originally posted by jkp1187

Why do you need airbases when you have forts that can give you both basing options and defensive bonuses?

As well as base ships and creat canals. It's just more tile upgrades, and needless ones to boot.

[Krill]

The argument went that Forts were crap, and hardly ever used, so there were given boni. I suggested allowing them to base place because in MP that meant splitting your army and making it easier to capture cities and win the game if your opponent used too much air power (otherwise a single unit could kill alot of air units). I only suggested this as a saving measure (because if it wasn't included then there would be a masimum about of air units one could use at any time).

[Krill]

Ass to needless tile upgrade, when they start coding civ five, I hope that the foraxis testers consider taking ONE thing from MoO3, allowing colonies to grow into cities. Make these forts cities, allow them some, all, whatever, of the boni from the current forts. Balance them, let them grow inot cities etc.

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by Krill
As to needless tile upgrade, when they start coding civ five, I hope that the firaxis testers consider taking ONE thing from MoO3, allowing colonies to grow into cities. Make these forts cities, allow them some, all, whatever, of the boni from the current forts. Balance them, let them grow into cities etc.

Not sure how this would work. MOO 3 was too much of a good thing, became very tedious rapidly, so I am not sure how "colonies" compare to forts. Forts give benefits but sacrifice productive possibilities on the tile chosen.