OK, so what are these terrain improvements?

[Provost Harrison]

What I don't get is, why would someone mine grassland? It just doesn't seem a very sensible thing to do...

[korn469]

why would someone mine grassland? It just doesn't seem a very sensible thing to do

maybe they left the AI in charge of the workers for a few turns too many

but seriously i think it because there is iron there

Dan, do you have to have a mine and a road on iron before you can use it or is a road all you need?

[isaac brock]

What I don't get is, why wouldn't you mine grassland? I mine grassland all the time...

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by korn469
Dan, do you have to have a mine and a road on iron before you can use it or is a road all you need?

Go through the tutorial and you will see that all you need to extract iron is a road.

Either that or this is a new ability (you couldn't mine grassland before, it just produced forest) so you can extract a few minerals on a grassland tile if there are precious few minerals around, as appears to be the case in this Samarra.

[Admiral PJ]

i actually tghought those were millitary bunkers/bases on the original pic they came from.. it would be better if there could be more varied graphics for mines etc.. they all look so weird all lined pointing east/south(sic.) still they'll do for a strat. game.

I DO hope they make more non city structures like Forts etc , maybe even just modern forts/ rennaisance forts .. the colonie type is an excellent start.

[d_dudy]

look close and you'll see the mine shaft. but it would look more in place on the side of a hill. not that you can't mine on flat land, it just looks silly for the mine shaft to be above ground and then dive strait down.

if i had to guess i'd say this was an industrial city, not too worried about growing

[red_jon]

I would like it if you could mine flat land, like in CTP.

[aaglo]

Of course you can mine grassland! Somewhere beneath the earth there is somekind of bedrock. Dig there, man!

And as korn469 mentioned the picture in link http://www.civfanatics.com/cgi-bin/...civ3image17.jpg , it seems that some special resources (like coal, iron, other minerals) may be centered to certain places, just like in real world.