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    ruins?

    i am editing a map and see a selection for ruins. What exactly does a ruin do? Can you rebuild the lost city with a worker? Or get extra bonus for building there or moving to that location? I know ruins are destroyed cities/towns, but do they serve any purpose? Or are they just ruins and have no purpose? The square they are on does it give extra resource or less?

    thanks
    Kronos

    I looked in manual and have not seen anything on ruins, so im lost.
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    They don't do anything. They are there to show where destroyed cities used to be.
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    • #3
      Ruins are just a cosmetic.

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      • #4
        They're strictly eye candy and they'll disappear as soon as one of your Workers makes any kind of improvement on the square.

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        • #5
          Though, if there's a ruin, there's a road. Once the ruin is irrigated (or mined), a road runs through it. But that's about it.

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          • #6
            Yep, basically ruins offer a free roaded tile. I still think that they could make the ruins look more like ruins and not just a pile of rubble.
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            • #7
              Check the download section, there's a nice little ruins mod there. It's basically the same ruins except the rubble are cleared away, sold as souvenirs I guess....

              Edit: Wittlich, the ruins gives no free roads, the road is leftovers from the destroyed city.

              Double edit: Oh God, what's happening to me? Am I becoming an anal retentive nitpicker?!? Sorry Wittlich.
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              • #8
                No problem Bongo, I understand what you mean.
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                • #9
                  Don't ruins also offer some defensive bonus? ISTR there being a 25% bonus for ruins, although I could be wrong. That's a slight effect on game play.

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                  • #10
                    I haven't noticed any sort of defensive bonus with ruins, but it does make sense that ruins should offer some type of added defensive bonus (small as it might be).
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                    • #11
                      If you're figthing a WW2-style defensive war then ruins are the perfect hiding place for infantry(in RL that is). I haven't heard of any defensive bonus in civ3 though.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by bongo
                        Check the download section, there's a nice little ruins mod there.
                        Can't find it. Link? Please?

                        Edit: Never mind....

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Wittlich
                          I still think that they could make the ruins look more like ruins and not just a pile of rubble.
                          Yeah, I cleaned up the ruin graphic and posted it somewhere, I should have a new one soon that just has skulls and impaled bodies..................

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                          • #14
                            bongo and Stuie, thank you veddy much! That ruins graphic replacement is great!

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by GhengisFarb

                              Yeah, I cleaned up the ruin graphic and posted it somewhere, I should have a new one soon that just has skulls and impaled bodies..................
                              Geez, you aren't morbid are you?

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