You know, I was reading about the benefits of radartowers and suddenly I came up with a way to exploit this during war. The AI usually keeps it's workers in it's cities during war, so I wondered about this; What if you capture a city and use the captured workers to build several defensive radartowers, thus giving your battered forces a defensive and offensive edge. Would such a thing be considered an exploit?
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Why would that be an exploit? It would be intelligent use of resources at your disposal.
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No more of an exploit than any other use of captured workers. A unit can only get the benefit of one radar tower at a time though. In addition, they can only be built in your territory and the workers are used up in building them.Seemingly Benign
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Workers are used up in building them, like with colonies?
Interesting. Why?
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Originally posted by Arrian
Workers are used up in building them, like with colonies?
Interesting. Why?"Stuie has the right idea" - Japher
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Originally posted by Slax
I assume there will be no way to see what tiles are within your radar tower coverage (ie an overlay) ?
anyway, i dont see this as an exploit at all. gives me more uses for slave labor"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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Originally posted by dunk
And what happens if an enemy unit goes onto the tile your radar tower is in? If it's destroyed, then this is hardly an exploit.
curses! we'll never know!"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
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Hmmm, I can see already see the threads before me .
'Cheating AI!!!!' thread no. 356395689567259346 posted by a random newbie
"The AI uses my workers to immediately build radartowers in the vicinity of my cities, thus denying me the opportunity to obliterate them. How DARE they use this tactic which I have used against THEM countless times! Firaxis, fix this NOW!!!!! This intelligent behaviour of the AI is completely unfair to me, the human player, because it damages my inflated ego !!!!"
Should make an interesting read ........
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Speaking of overlays, it sure would be nice to be able to see an outline of all my cities' radii, so I could easily tell just by looking which tiles were within which city's radius.
But yeah, that would make too much sense."God is dead." - Nietzsche
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This would be good, but if you've played Civ for the past decade you can easily visualize the cross pattern.Seemingly Benign
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