Rush buying Wonders help please!

[Grandpa Troll]

Ok, in Call To Power, maybe Quinns or Paul or Faded Glory, someone taught me an awesome trick, not a cheat, an excellent trick


It worked like this:

You take a city, maybe one that didnt produce real great, put a wonder in there, a wonder real far down the line

Then build many Calvary and when say London Exchange become available, I would disband the Calvary inside the city and you would get a fraction of production toward the city you disbanded the unit in.

Is this at all possible in BTS, disbanding and getting some partial credits for?

In Civ II, IIRC, on the Playstation version, you could build a caravan, send it to a city and use production from the caravan to help rush build what you wanted in that city..basically like a GE


This would be nice...

Thanks in advance!

Gramps

[Willem]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
Is this at all possible in BTS, disbanding and getting some partial credits for?

No. In Civ 4 you get nothing for disbanding a unit. The only way to rush build a Wonder is to use a Great Engineer.

[Jaybe]

... unless you use slavery or cash, which are quite expensive (wonders take a 1.5x premium).

For Manhattan, space projects (not including the space elevator), and The Internet, you cannot rush at all.

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks all

[Solomwi]

The exact trick you describe was available in CivIII, though.

[rah]

Isn't there a way to end your turn without a build in the queue that will store those hammers till you select something to build.

[snoopy369]

Nope, they killed that off in a patch.

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Nope, they killed that off in a patch.

So what happens to the hammers in an empty build queue? Or is such a condition not possible anymore?

[rah]

How about overflow? How much is allowed now before it's lost?

[Willem]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer

Or is such a condition not possible anymore?

No it's not. You need to have something in your queue, you can't just leave it empty.

[Supr49er]

Well, you can set it to , , or .

[Jaybe]

Build Science/Gold/Culture, and chop forest (sprouted by preserves). Chopped hammers are retained until you are producing something again, and are counted in full.

Overflow is counted in full regardless of amount, isn't it? Quite nice with a large factoried/powered/leveed/ironworked city.

[Blaupanzer]

I thought the chopped and overflow hammers were counted in the amount of culture/gold/beakers recieved from the city set to produce such. This game is full of surprises.

[DaveV]

Originally posted by Jaybe
Overflow is counted in full regardless of amount, isn't it? Quite nice with a large factoried/powered/leveed/ironworked city.

No, it's limited to the cost of whatever you're producing.

Edit: for example, you're at 12/15 on a warrior when a 20-hammer chop occurs. That makes it 32/15, and the overflow is limited to 15, so two hammers will be lost.

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by DaveV

No, it's limited to the cost of whatever you're producing.

Edit: for example, you're at 12/15 on a warrior when a 20-hammer chop occurs. That makes it 32/15, and the overflow is limited to 15, so two hammers will be lost.

Overflow beyond the limit used to be converted to gold; has this changed?

RJM