Should players be allowed to build cities on Mountain hexes?

[KhanMan]

AH-Klesh said that an invading army wouldn't take the time to build granaries, marketplaces, and other niceties of cities.

I was merely pointing out that, when armies planned to stay permanently (such as the case I mentioned) they do, if fact, end up building an infostructure to support themselves.

I don't want to get into another "what is a city/piece of string" argument with you.

-KhanMan the paranoid expansionist

[Alexander's Horse]

quote: Originally posted by KhanMan on 03-20-2000 02:57 AM I was merely pointing out that, when armies planned to stay permanently (such as the case I mentioned) they do, if fact, end up building an infostructure to support themselves.

Yes Khanman, IT'S CALLED A FORT.

You wanna dig an even bigger hole for yourself? Here, have a shovel




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[mindseye]

I don't understand the requirement that the high altitude settlement must be a major city. When a settler founds a size one "city", I hardly think it represents a sprawling megalopolis!

Besides, as has been noted earlier, a mountain square in Civ2 doesn't represent 100% moutain peaks - it's a mountainous area which includes peaks. With this in mind, Kabul, Mexico City, Machu Pichu and others noted earlier fit the description perfectly.

This case is closed!

[KhanMan]

AH-Okay, so you're telling me that the cities of London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, New York, Hong Kong, etc...all are, to use your word, "forts"?

They all started out the fashion I set out, yet how can you call such big cities "forts"?

-KhanMan the mountain-lovin' civer

[Bird]

Now I get it, this thread is misnamed. It should really be "Why Not Barracks, Temples, Granaries, etc., in Forts?"

Personally, I'd name my first one after the fort in F-Troop, if I could remember the name of it.

[finbar]

Fort Courage. Hey, that inspires me to name my tribe leader Wilton Parmenter!

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[Bird]

Hehehe. I've already got a whole theme for my next MP game.

[Alexander's Horse]

If we're taking this regional view, mountains could actually be a disadvantage for defenders, especially if the surrounding mountains are occupied by the enemy So why should you get a defence bonus for them?


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[Sten Sture]

I think Bird-people can live on mountains and not be hungry all of the time.

[finbar]

I'm already working on my Dobbs, Agarn and O'Rorke units. Programmed always to be looking in the wrong direction, and the Sioux will be renamed the Hekawi, and the civ will be called O'Rorke Enterprises ... and the possibilities are endless.

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[Alexander's Horse]

Fin, do you think you could work Hogan's Heroe's and Gilligan's island into it too?


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[This message has been edited by Alexander's Horse (edited March 22, 2000).]

[The Mad Monk]

quote: If we're taking this regional view, mountains could actually be a disadvantage for defenders, especially if the surrounding mountains are occupied by the enemy So why should you get a defence bonus for them?

Tell that to the Swiss...

[KhanMan]

LOL!

This is the ultimate justice in a Horsey thread: they always ended up dead or hijacked!



Gilligan's Island, eh? I was thinking something more like "Return to the Blue Lagoon: The Wonder Years".

It would be a mod-pack built around two horny european teenagers, growing up on a deserted island...

*wink, wink*

-KhanMan the paranoid expansionist

[Alexander's Horse]

Nah Khanboy, I'm just lettin ya twist in the wind for a while


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[finbar]

Mmm. Let's see. The tribe's called the Minnows. Now, the Skipper's too fat and stupid to be the Leader, so therefore he will be the Leader. Gilligan? A Warrior. Always the first killed. MaryAnn? Sweet. She can be the lady in the logo during the game's start up. Ginger? Brainless, she can be a Barb Leader. The Professor? Tedious waste of space, he can be a catapault. Thurston Howell III? Another tedious waste of space, he can be strapped to the catapault. Mrs Thurston Howell III? I'd tie her behind the first horseman built.

Who else? Ah, the inspirational Wrong Way (I've forgotten his surname), played by Hans Conreid, who kept crashlanding on the island. Only he would be allowed to survive till 1 AD.

Hogan's Heroes? I wouldn't waste an off-topic post on it.