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I haven't seen a similar thread on this. I don't understand why they did this. It's not like they didn't have flexiblity with the workes as workers normally build things without dying. Why did they do this?
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Well, they also disappeared when you built a colony in the "normal" Civ3 game (before PtW). Perhaps the idea is that you need manpower for operating an airfield, radar tower, colony etc. It is indeed a bit illogical, since you can build mines, forts and irrigations without loosing the guys, but hey - it´s a game
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I forgot about colonies. never used them
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The AI seems to love radar towers,but I have no idea why.Comment
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defence bonuses
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offensive bonus too.
25% bonus to units in it's rangeComment
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maybe it is just to balance out the game. the penalty rewards efficient, strategic planning and discourages random, wholesale proliferation of these things."The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." -- Abraham Lincoln
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I like wholesale proliferation. If my workers were idle I'd put them everywhere
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The reason you don't lose workers to work the mines and fields they create is because your City Citizens are working those.Originally posted by BeBro
Well, they also disappeared when you built a colony in the "normal" Civ3 game (before PtW). Perhaps the idea is that you need manpower for operating an airfield, radar tower, colony etc. It is indeed a bit illogical, since you can build mines, forts and irrigations without loosing the guys, but hey - it´s a game
Colonies, Airfields, Outposts and Radar Towers are all "field" bases for things that do, and should, require manpower to operate. The fact that these can be built nearly anywhere, particularly in neutral territory, dictates that your citizens in cities will not be the ones working these facilities the way they work mines and fields."Just once, do me a favor, don't play Gray, don't even play Dark... I want to see Center-of-a-Black-Hole Side!!! " - Theseus nee rpodosComment
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Actually Ducki,
You can't put radar towers outside of your territory in neutral territory, though I believe you can place them in outside of the city working radius. As long as it's inside your cultural borders.
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what exactly does outposts, and how do radar towers work if they come under enemy culture borders, and... can you pillage enemy field bases, what happens to the poor worker?The true way of sword fencing is the craft of defeating the enemy in a fight, and nothing other than this.
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Re: Why are workers destroyed after building certain things?
Hmmm, are they sacrificed to deity? (at least they should in Aztec Civ). Did they dead by incident during building activities? Is it a way to simulate the resources cost of the improvements, in a simplified game model?Originally posted by Dissident
It's not like they didn't have flexiblity with the workes as workers normally build things without dying. Why did they do this?
Chose one.
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if workers didnt have to be used up, there would be radar towers everywhere late game. an industrious civ would get 4 workers and pop a tower a turn."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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Outposts: pushes back the "fog of war" (line of sight - 2 on flat terrrain, 3 on hill, and 4 on mountain). Can be built within your cultural borders or within neutral territory.Originally posted by Usually Insane
what exactly does outposts, and how do radar towers work if they come under enemy culture borders, and... can you pillage enemy field bases, what happens to the poor worker?
Radar Towers: Gives a defensive and offensive bonus to the host nations units (a 2- tile radious around the tower). Can only be built within your cultural borders.
If either Outposts or Radar Towers end up being located within enemy territory (cultural expansion), they are automatically destroyed.
Yes, you can pillage enemy outposts, radar towers, field air bases.
When building any of these 3 types of improvements, your worker is automatically assimilated into the structure. If the structure is destroyed, so is the worker who build it, since the worker no longer exists (he's now the terrain improvement).
I hope this "cleared the mud" Usually Insane.
Edit: Typo concerning Outposts (Thanks UberKruX).Last edited by Wittlich; November 27, 2002, 15:14.____________________________
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i think outputs give 3 on hill and 4 on mountain, but feel free to correct me."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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