Patch idea: Units need buildings

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Willem
as would UUs.

That seems like a pretty poor idea, IMO. UUs are meant to be upgraded versions of regular units; they have no drawbacks, only benefits. If you make a UU weaker than the regular unit in any area, you will be hurting the civ more than helping it. Imagine: We now complain about UUs that aren't much better than the base unit. With you idea, imagine the complaining of a unit that is actually worse than the base unit...

IMO, shields and production buildings make all of this building stuff categorically unecessary. I have yet to hear what buildings would add to gameplay that is not already covered by the present system... all I have seen is what they would detract.

[XarXo]

After you "build" a cavalry, the only thing that you need is food for the horse

[fittstim]

I think it's a good idea AND I think it would add to the strategy aspects of the game.

Think about it. You send out a settler into the middle of the jungle to set up a base camp (city size 1) and I'm supposed to believe that this place can immediately start popping out MA:s and nuclear missles or, even worse, Space Ship parts?

But I agree with all of the people who say that it shouldn't be overkill. No I just think that the factory requirement for a tank it reasonable.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by fittstim
Think about it. You send out a settler into the middle of the jungle to set up a base camp (city size 1) and I'm supposed to believe that this place can immediately start popping out MA:s and nuclear missles or, even worse, Space Ship parts?

First off, a town of 10,000 is hardly a base camp. Second, if you decide to build a missile or wonder, it takes a few hundred years. Which makes perfect sense... I mean, since your civ has all the resources, it should be no problem to have the resources ran into a small town and finish the job in say, 80 years. That sounds more than realistic to me. Why you would want to do it, however, is another matter altogether...