i hate mining grasslands!!!!

[Jon Shafer]

I think if a better mine graphic was developed I wouldn't have such a problem with putting mines everywhere... but those blockish globules seriously bug me. I'm about to go and replace it with a picture of a miner's pick if something isn't done.

[danimal]

Originally posted by LordAzreal
Squares inside a city's radius, all mined, irrigated and railroaded.

Outside of that, on the grasslands/plains, I plant forests. Apart from that, I leave it all alone afterward. If there's still jungle left in those squares, I leave it alone too.

That's what I think looks the nicest, while remaining developed.

That's what I think looks the nicest (he remarks with a lisp and limp wrist)

[DrFell]

I prefer not wasting production making things look good on the main map, to me what looks best is me being no1 in all the demographics as soon as possible.

[kittenOFchaos]

Where I site my cities is often done for cosmetic reasons

I loathe "mining" a grassland with a cow icon...it just doesn't seem right

I preferred the civ2 way of "developing" land...irrigation, mining and farmland with roads and railroads.

Without Snoopy & Co and their graphics mods this game has very dull graphics...customised it looks great, except for the roads and mines on grasslands.

[Random Passerby]

Bah! Bow down in deference to the famous beef mines and wheat quarries of mighty Babylon!

[Denday]

Re: Mines on Grassland bother you?

Originally posted by danimal
Who cares...I bet you go to the other beach?

This game is about winning...not pretty maps....It is about whipping butt. Production is King....produce more..build more...earn more...spend more.

"You don't like the mines on your grasslands because they look bad"....I am roflmfao. Maybe you should invite your friends over and dance to YMCA by the Village People..don't forget your Crisco.

Flakes are everywhere

I agree

Remeber you are a nation and you will do your utmost best to make it great you will not sacrfise your people to please you, there god. You will help your nation rather than hinder it if sacrfising your people in worth having pretty maps your strange.
No harm ment to civs which did sacrfies because they didn't know better. ( but you should )
its not some enviromental conservation group its war
( but it's ugly )
come on get a hold of yourself and why do you care what it looks like ( IT DOES NOT MATTER )
GROW UP It's not important

[Grrr]

It is important. It is what the game looks like, and how I feel about treating the environment.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Random Passerby
Bah! Bow down in deference to the famous beef mines and wheat quarries of mighty Babylon!

That is what everyone of mine has...if on grasslands.

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
Where I site my cities is often done for cosmetic reasons

That seems senseless. I place my cities based on strategic location, or proximity to resouces. Nothing to do with looking pretty.

I loathe "mining" a grassland with a cow icon...it just doesn't seem right

Why? Because it feels like your people are collecting petrified cow dung?

I preferred the civ2 way of "developing" land...irrigation, mining and farmland with roads and railroads.

Yep, we all miss that.

Without Snoopy & Co and their graphics mods this game has very dull graphics...customised it looks great, except for the roads and mines on grasslands.

I agree

[Grrr]

Why? Because it feels like your people are collecting petrified cow dung?

ROFTLOL

[Captain]

Originally posted by Grrr
It is important. It is what the game looks like, and how I feel about treating the environment.

agreed!



btw, I changed food consumed to 3, and made grasslands 3f, plains 2f, and floodplains 4f. +2 f on each for irrigation. other terrain tiles don't generate enough food to grow cities, you will need the above 3 to grow. Since food reqs are higher, your cities grow much slower so there is significant incentive to irrigate grassland, plains, and flood plains (even though irrig fp is weird, doens't it just get flooded?). I don't see anyone mining grasslands now. it's still possible, just not as useful as irrigating.

just an alternate solution.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Captain
btw, I changed food consumed to 3, and made grasslands 3f, plains 2f, and floodplains 4f. +2 f on each for irrigation. other terrain tiles don't generate enough food to grow cities, you will need the above 3 to grow. Since food reqs are higher, your cities grow much slower so there is significant incentive to irrigate grassland, plains, and flood plains (even though irrig fp is weird, doens't it just get flooded?). I don't see anyone mining grasslands now. it's still possible, just not as useful as irrigating.

just an alternate solution.

And then... what if there are no rivers/fresh water?

[Grrr]

You'll be stuck as a tiny civ.

But what if you get one of those great Jungle/Tundra/Desert starting locations.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Grrr
You'll be stuck as a tiny civ.

But what if you get one of those great Jungle/Tundra/Desert starting locations.

Then you restart.
There's no point in playing on a weed garden/iceball/dirt clod, ya can't prove a thing.

[Skanky Burns]

I mine wherever my citys gain from it. Aesthetics, bah! Who needs them?