Strange lights seen near my cities

[Juggler_Bob]

Sometimes these strange purplish dust cloud things appear in terrain squares near my cities... Not usually within the city radius, but nearby. (Maybe I'll do a screen capture...)

They show up for a turn (or so?) and then they are gone. I can't make any unit interact with it, nor does it affect production in any way. Terrain info shows nothing out of the ordinary.

Got to be aliens

-Bob

[Ironikinit]

Ding ding ding. You just asked the question everybody asks.

The strange lights are fireworks. The citizens are celebrating WLTK day. See your manual page 118.

[notyoueither]

Naw. Ironikinit is from the Air Force.

It's aliens.

Salve

[Ironikinit]

Pay no attention to the loony. The lights are really the planet Venus.

[steelehc]

The lights are signal flares from enemy spies in your cities, signalling enemy attacks to be launched when your citizens are drunk because of celebrating WLTBD.

Steele

[Pythagoras]

dont listen to them its the 'king of the day' in that city. They are fireworks.
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or so Meier would have us believe...

[macaskil]

Of course they are really UFOs piloted by Aliens from Alpha Centauri. If you build the "Roswell" wonder you get two free tech advances from the Aliens.

[Blaupanzer]

Depends on the Age as to the cause.
Ancient -- The Gods
Medieval -- Witches
Industrial -- The Devil
Modern -- UFOs.
In all cases the citizens of the city below the cloud are bedazzled into producing less corruption.

[solo]

I used to think they were clues to the locations of strategic resources, but now know that they are used by Iroquois spies to relay information about your city and civ back to their compatriots. A careful study of each puff may help you decipher if the smoke signals being used are recommending a sneak attack.

[SanPellegrino]

I Like that one bout the Iroquois

but nobody mentioned the obvious: It's just smog from your crowded dirty cities

[Kc7mxo]

ooooooh! pretty smog!

[embermage]

wltk day! what bonuses does it have again?

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by embermage
wltk day! what bonuses does it have again?

Check out the last paragraph of the WLTKD section in the manual explains it. Page 119 in the US edition (last thing in chapter 11).

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by SanPellegrino
but nobody mentioned the obvious: It's just smog from your crowded dirty cities

Actually if you play as England. Your city is actually rolling thru the opening credits of Mel Brooks' Men in Tights. Everytime that movie plays they burn down the same village.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by steelehc
your citizens are drunk because of celebrating WLTBD.

Steele

We Love the Beer Day? I'm movin there.

Salve