Ocean Cities require shield support?

[Dreamer]

Have anyone notice that the default CTP unit.txt under UNIT_OCEAN_CITY, the flag for SHIELD_HUNGER was set at 3. Wonder why isn't so?

[Locutus]

Hmmm, I never noticed that until now. It may just be a typo from Activision, I can't come up with any other explanation. I guess the only way to find out if it really makes a difference is to reduce it to 0 and play a few games.
This would (partially) explain why people sometimes get incorrect numbers for total amount of food eaten and stuff like that.

Locutus

[ETB]

I thought that the shield_hunger and food_hunger values were simply the trigger points for sending the announcement screen to warn us human players that food (or productivity) was low. Am I missing something here?

[Dreamer]

Correct me if I'm wrong, to my understanding Shield_Hunger is the value of resources needed to support the particular unit, eg. Warrior need 4 resource to support.

[ghen]

My favorite way of taking sea cities is bombarding then drop a swarm from space