I think I know why coastal fortresses don't work sometimes. I've been working my way through BeBro's wonderful scenario, IMPERIUM ROMANUM, and I noticed that the coastal fortress in Rome never seems to work. While working on one of my own scenarios, I noticed the same thing. (The dialog box never pops up, and the units get killed more easily).
Intrigued, I did some searches on these forums to see if anyone had reported this problem. Several people had experienced the same thing, but there was no consensus about when this in fact happened. Some thought that coastal fortresses did not work in the capital city, others thought they did, but offered no explanation.
At first I liked the capital city theory, because it fit my experience, but further testing showed that this was not true. Other coastal fortresses in capital cities get the bonus.
Here's what I think is the real answer. Only in the first city of the city list do coastal fortresses not work. Very often the first city built is the capital city, so I can see why people thought this. How do I know it's the first city? I deleted the first city in my scenario, and rebuilt it exactly as before and it did not have the problem, however the new first city(previously the 2nd) in the city list inherited this problem when it did not have it before.
After all the time I've been playing this game, I just now notice this problem!
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Gothmog (edited February 19, 2001).]</font>
Intrigued, I did some searches on these forums to see if anyone had reported this problem. Several people had experienced the same thing, but there was no consensus about when this in fact happened. Some thought that coastal fortresses did not work in the capital city, others thought they did, but offered no explanation.
At first I liked the capital city theory, because it fit my experience, but further testing showed that this was not true. Other coastal fortresses in capital cities get the bonus.
Here's what I think is the real answer. Only in the first city of the city list do coastal fortresses not work. Very often the first city built is the capital city, so I can see why people thought this. How do I know it's the first city? I deleted the first city in my scenario, and rebuilt it exactly as before and it did not have the problem, however the new first city(previously the 2nd) in the city list inherited this problem when it did not have it before.
After all the time I've been playing this game, I just now notice this problem!
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Gothmog (edited February 19, 2001).]</font>
Comment