Goto Home City...

[Smash]

Because of severe unreliability the "go to" is rarely used by me.Perhaps later between cities that are railroaded.Its' just not reliable.

I may use it more if it worked properly.

[Hugo Rune]

See, that was my first reaction. Will the support model still be city-based? But the question is, how realistic is a whole-civ support model? Maybe a region-based model could be worked? How about a "go to nearest city in home region" command?

[markusf]

I think its a stupid command. I just hold down the mouse where i want it to go and then release it. Then the unit moves there. Way better then the go to command and its faster.

[Nemo]

I esp. used it when having to temporarily reinforce a city thats under attack, or a new city building defense units. I found it very useful. Using the mouse to go back home (or anywhere, for that matter), or picking from a list of cities (esp. when you are conquering the world) is annoying.

[L o k i]

I sometimes used it (ships mostly) if I got sick of moving my units, but sometimes its also a bit risky to use it because a lot of the times the unit will go the wrong way or take a long route. So it can be quite a gamble to use the GoTo.

One of the big bugs was when you told a unit to go from one city to the other, it wouldn't use the damn roads!! It goes over mountains or something! It worked good when railroads were built though.

[Joe Bourque]

No, I've never used the feature. But then, I never automate any units, so I might not be a good sample.

But, if it matters at all, (it's not what you were asking), I'll throw my vote in on the side of civilization wide support for units. Especially for the modern age, it just makes sense. Here's a weird idea: Maybe it could become possible to support a unit from the national treasury, with gold instead of shields. That way you could keep low maintence `national guard' type units supported by each city and support your more expensive stuff from your bustling economy.

Joe

[Daniel Frappier]

I have made the same suggestion, using gold for support would have many advantages among them realism and the fact that to afford a big army you would need a big economy, as it is anibody can have big army.

[Atahualpa]

The Problem with city-based support is that even your cities not next to the enemy border have to produce units, or else the cities next to the border run out of shields. For example you have a size 30 city far away from the border and there is a size 10 right next to it. Now, I would prefer to build all my units in the size 10 cause then I dont have to care so much about moving (=less micro). In Civ2 with railroads it wasnt much of a problem (except when it was on a different continent/island then it _was_ a problem).
Having units to move to the frontier is really lame and boring work. I like it more when there are wars right next to my border. There is a lot more action then.

I really dont like to see a city-based support model.

aTa

[Jon Miller]

Hi

I just clicked and held the mouse button

don't use anything more (takes too much time)

I am sure youo at firaxis will make a fun game but the national support idea does sound interesting (here we say I want I want of course, but it is you guys ob to make a fun game)

jon Millre

[Temudschin]

I don´t need this feature because I use the normal GOTO CITY command. That´s the way it is. But if it isn´t too much work keep that command.

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The ruler of the known world
Temudschin Dschingis Khan

[Christantine]

I only use it if the unit is far away and has one movement point but there is a straight path so I don't have to move it every turn.

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I came, I saw, I conquered...my allies!!

[Mongoose]

Never used it. Never will.

[Tiberius]

I never used it. (I'm talking about CIV2, because I don't like SMAC and I never finished it)
I usually use the "Goto" command, except when it doesn't work.

[Az]

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quote: Originally posted by Atahualpa on 05-27-2000 04:38 AM Does that mean that Support of Units again is handled not globally but by each city individually? bahh I hope not. Ata

from your mouth to the ears of Firaxis.

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about the topic :
I used it but I would use it more often if it's AI would be improved . ....

[StormLord]

Hi,

I never use that command. In fact, when I right click on a unit to get a list of orders I see the command and then I think: "Wow! What a useless command. HaHa! "

Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

Bye