you can't mine hills, desert, or mountains under a city...
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Originally posted by cpemma
3 sorts of pollution,
Population - Mass Transit cures it
Industrial - Recycling plant reduces by 50%, Solar Plant by 100%
Radio-Active - Engineering clean-up team neededThis is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHand
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Re: Re: Old version
Originally posted by DaveV
Note that some combinations are not allowed: you can't mine hills, desert, or mountains under a city.
This also works before building a city. Move 2 settlers or engineers onto the hill. Set one to mine (FIRST), then build the city. The mining will continue and you'll have a city on a hill with a mine.
As to the original question, I have never ever built a power plant because they produce so so so much pollution. I do, however, almost always succeed in building the Hoover Dam...
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Have you tried building solar power plants? I was reading this file in my Civ2 folder about the changes between Civ and Civ2:
It mentioned Solar Power Plants and how they they eliminate the pollution caused by "too much future tech".
I don't know if it's the Future Technology advance that it's refering to (it was in quotation marks in the file as well), but if it is, then you need Solar Power Plants...how much Future Tech do you have?My warrior beat a fortified musketeer behind city walls in a city located on a mountain!!! W00t! If only the other 32 warriors had the same luck...
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The formulae for both population and industrial pollution appear to contain a modifier based on the total number of techs possessed by a civilization. This is how additional future techs can make it worse. There are also four key techs that increase pollution effects. (As I recall these are automobile, industrialization, plastics, and refining. Someone help here with a reference to the formulae, please.)
Hydro plants cut industrial pollution by 50 per cent as do nuclear plants. Note you can only build one kind of power plant at a time (with the exception of solar plants). Thus, if you want to change types, you must sell the current to start building the replacement (or to switch to the replacement if you started out building some other improvement.) HD represents a hydro plant in every city, so power plants and nuke plants are not available once you own it.
Solar plants are available with the discovery of environmentalism and can be built in cities that have a factory and/or manufacturing plant. If you have the tech and either production improvement in one of your cities, then you should be able to build it. Solar plants affect not only the city in which they are built, but also affect the formula for global warming in general, making it less likely.
Nuclear plants can melt down when a city with one is in disorder. Discovery of fusion power prevents this.No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author
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Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Nuclear plants can melt down when a city with one is in disorder. Discovery of fusion power prevents this."One day your life is going to flash before your eyes, make sure it is worth watching."
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Originally posted by EOL
Has anyone ever had this happen. I can't recall ever having built one so I have no idea what occurs, just some pollution or is it like a nuke's gone off?GM of MAFIA #40 ,#41, #43, #45,#47,#49-#51,#53-#58,#61,#68,#70, #71
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Once created the conditions for a meltdown deliberately in a game that had gone awry. Rasputin is mostly correct. The population/polution affects were like a bomb, complete with sound effects, but the troops in and adjacent to the city were unaffected. Note that if the disorder causes the government to fall, this effect can occur more than once in the same city. In such a case, sell the stupid plant!No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author
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Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Note that if the disorder causes the government to fall, this effect can occur more than once in the same city. In such a case, sell the stupid plant!
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Many (most?) nuclear plants have more than one reactor and corresponding cooling towers. Thus, Chernobyl goes on producing power despite the complete sealing of Unit Four. Three Mile Island apparently could have done the same, but this was politically unobtainable. In my very limited experience the meltdown didn't destroy any improvements. Civ II is not sophisticated enough to include repairs to improvements (or upgrades for that matter), so the disorder and meltdown only killed people and polluted the surrounding territory.No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
"I played it [Civilization] for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD." Iain Banks, author
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