Cereal KiIIer
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Anybody else stuck at 56 000 citizens? Apparently it's all you can have.
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CivCity: Rome/Grand Ages: Rome |OT| Rome was built in a day
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XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I don't always understand some of the decisions the little people in COTN make in terms of changing jobs. :lol
Sure, I can understand moving from linen weaving to making papyrus. But then to move from those to hauling stone all day? :lol
Sure, I can understand moving from linen weaving to making papyrus. But then to move from those to hauling stone all day? :lol
SpacePirate Ridley
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XiaNaphryz said:I don't always understand some of the decisions the little people in COTN make in terms of changing jobs. :lol
Sure, I can understand moving from linen weaving to making papyrus. But then to move from those to hauling stone all day? :lol
:lol :lol
XiaNaphryz said:I don't always understand some of the decisions the little people in COTN make in terms of changing jobs. :lol
Sure, I can understand moving from linen weaving to making papyrus. But then to move from those to hauling stone all day? :lol
This picture reminds me of Passover!
CecilRousso
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Ranger X said:
Did it corrupt the saves or what?
SpacePirate Ridley
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Ranger X said:I didn't want to go to sleep until I have them.
I got them damned Medium Domuses!! 6h30am though... :lol
How do you have a hapiness of 100?
Where are the non workers fucking your plans?
They never seem to stop coming in my cities (well yeah, they stop coming, when I need them. Fuckers)
Huevos de Oro
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I finally completed the aqueduct and bath assignment. My first military assignment awaits me now. Is it hard?
SpacePirate Ridley said:
You mean vagrants or homeless people? Vagrants aren't damaging your rating, you can forget about them and not care. Homeless people however you can get rid of them, but I never ever got rid the of the unemployment complain.
To have your rating at 100 anyways (and always) you can compensate the unemployment stat by improving rations, and increasing wages. In that city I even could diminish the working hours! (I needed that so those stupid fucks have time to go to my temples and baths). Anyhow, rations and wages = you need to make money and build butchers. That's what I care about first when I start the city. Research for increasing research speed and then for money. Build your trade system.
zankara said:
Good question. If you are staying VERY close to the roots you probably know every game there is. Since you also stray a bit off the roots and go Anno, Tropico and Settlers, there might be potentially more but I wouldnt hold my breath for "good ones".
You know what? I would like a "civilization style" city building game set today. And hear me, this is completely different than Sim City, I want to the see the lives of all the inhabitants just like CivCity and their devellopment from a small village to a techno city.
I never ever seen such game and if it doesn't exist I really don't get why.
I never ever seen such game and if it doesn't exist I really don't get why.
zankara said:Thought that might be the case
I was thinking it would be cool to have a city builder set in an Aztec/Incan/Mayan Civilization.
I remember Tilted Mill holding a poll about that, too bad it seems only romans and maybe egyptians are popular, I would also love a mesoamerican city builder, I remember the biggest complain was the human sacrifices :lol these guys always try to be as historically accurate as possible.
zankara said:
Try Constructor; It's like Tropico, but in England suburb setting. I heard that it's quite hard, though...
jakershaker
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Children of the Nile is perhaps the best city builder I've ever played. The flow of the game and the attention to detail is amazing.
Best deal I've made on Steam.
Best deal I've made on Steam.
British Monsoon
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All this talk of the old Impressions games not being available as digital downloads got me thinking how much I wanted to play them again, so I managed to snag Pharaoh Gold, Zeus Gold and Emperor for a reasonable price on ebay;
Only installed Zeus so far, but managed to get it working in Win7 after playing with the compatibility settings, albeit under a horridly small resolution and I had to install a no-cd fixed .exe as the game refused to run from the disc (kept spitting out a 'wrong disc' error) - hopefully Pharaoh works too, I imagine there'll be no problem with Emperor though. Can't wait to dive back in, I'm definitely playing Zeus first as it's the only Impressions city builder I've yet to play.
Only installed Zeus so far, but managed to get it working in Win7 after playing with the compatibility settings, albeit under a horridly small resolution and I had to install a no-cd fixed .exe as the game refused to run from the disc (kept spitting out a 'wrong disc' error) - hopefully Pharaoh works too, I imagine there'll be no problem with Emperor though. Can't wait to dive back in, I'm definitely playing Zeus first as it's the only Impressions city builder I've yet to play.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Catshade said:
Constructor was awesome.
But its REALLY hard.
But yeah, the characters, the buildings, the sounds characters make, the music... its all really good.
Ranger X said:
Haha, yeah I am still around. Got to play a few other Steam Games from the sale. Right now I am VERY occupied with Europa Universalis 3. <3
But I am glad I got enough people to get into these city builders again to sustain the thread without me
SpacePirate Ridley
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Ok, I need help people. This is angering me.
City of Cologne in Civcity. Where to start.
-the fucking wood workers dont want to cut trees, they are near the trees but they just sleep for the eternity. FOR FUCKS SAKE THE WHOLE MAP IS FULL OF TREES!!! I have tried placing the sawmills everywhere on the map. They still dont work. Bug, idiocy of AI, whatever, this is starting to piss me off.
-The problem, I dont have eternity. I need wood FAST, becuase the game starts to throw at you more and more enemies, as fast as it can, and of course, you dont have time to have soldiers (not even if the wood thing worked). Great fucking programming RIGHT THERE.
-Ahh, and some clever man thought of putting all the resources in a zone YOU CANT REACH! Well, you can, in some shitty boats that go to fucking slow to make anything fast.
One of the worst stages I can think in any game ever. Maybe im doing something wrong, please enlighten me.
EDIT: Seems to be a bug. The game doesnt get wood anymore. Ive even load another city were the wood worked and the wood workers were sleeping. Going to restart the game, if it doesnt work, well fuck it.
City of Cologne in Civcity. Where to start.
-the fucking wood workers dont want to cut trees, they are near the trees but they just sleep for the eternity. FOR FUCKS SAKE THE WHOLE MAP IS FULL OF TREES!!! I have tried placing the sawmills everywhere on the map. They still dont work. Bug, idiocy of AI, whatever, this is starting to piss me off.
-The problem, I dont have eternity. I need wood FAST, becuase the game starts to throw at you more and more enemies, as fast as it can, and of course, you dont have time to have soldiers (not even if the wood thing worked). Great fucking programming RIGHT THERE.
-Ahh, and some clever man thought of putting all the resources in a zone YOU CANT REACH! Well, you can, in some shitty boats that go to fucking slow to make anything fast.
One of the worst stages I can think in any game ever. Maybe im doing something wrong, please enlighten me.
EDIT: Seems to be a bug. The game doesnt get wood anymore. Ive even load another city were the wood worked and the wood workers were sleeping. Going to restart the game, if it doesnt work, well fuck it.
SpacePirate Ridley said:
Wood Workers,
Sometimes they walk a fucking mile to go get wood, sometimes there's some bug where they don't move anymore. Anyhow, make sure they are near the wood (so they start working at all) and also make sure there's a warehouse near their camp. If you're sure all those conditions are met and they are still not working, blow them up and put another camp. For speed, place multiple camps close to woods as possible and put a warehouse right fucking beside their camps. This way you can move the wood with the warehouse mule that is 2-3 times faster than a wood dude walking a mile. Also, check the research tree and focus on researches that will lead you to "Forestry".
Mills,
They need to have a warehouse with wheat near them (or the farm itself I suppose). I've tested this and for Mills I am 100 positive there's a bug. Sometimes the Mills stops working even if there's a warehouse with wheat around. The solution is just like with the wood workers, blow it up and build another one.
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Important bugs + workaround
1- Where a production shop (carpenter,mills,winery,etc) or a farm (yes it happens with farms...) stops working for no reason. Blow it up and build another one. Make sure that it's not because there's no granaries or warehouse near them. Make sure that it's not because you miss the primary goods they need in order to work (carpenter will not work if there's no wood in a warehouse near, Wheat is needed for Mills, etc) This bug also happened to me with a bakery and a fruit shop. At least it's seems to be rare to happen for shops.
2- AIs not updating their envirronement. Sometimes you will want to build a new granary or warehouse near something because your other ones are full. Well, you might notice that X farm or production shop will not use your new granary or warehouse you just build. This is simply because more often than not, the AI doesn't update correctly their granary and warehouses locations. Here again, if you notice some farm is too dumb and try to put their goods in a warehouse or granary that is super far away, try either to create some movement of goods between your granaries/warehouse with their mule. If you decide it takes too much time or that you lose too much time because the damn farmer walks 4 miles to deposit their goods, blow them up and rebuild immediately.
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If you build your cities when keeping this all in mind and regularly giving a little check to your farms and production shops, you shouldn't have any problems and you will realise you don't even need that many farms at all. Always place your granaries and warehouses first. You can even have a network of them ready before expanding!
I am more than halfway through in the campaign mode and I never needed more than 2-3 farms or each kind for my biggest cities. Never needed more than 3-4 Carpenters and Mills. Also, focus on economics as fast as possible and also research constantly. Watch the research tree to always research what you really need next. Another advice I can give is the expand only if needed. Going too big makes the game actually harder. I always make the smallest cities possible.
I also had a problem once where some school stopped working. I am not sure there was a bug, at least I couldn't really verify and some times later it was working again so... yeah.
But anyhow, I always keep the possibly in mind that the "stop working" bug could happen with anything. Each time something is going abnormally wrong in your city, try to check if the bug might have happened unto something.
But anyhow, I always keep the possibly in mind that the "stop working" bug could happen with anything. Each time something is going abnormally wrong in your city, try to check if the bug might have happened unto something.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Yep, at the end it was a game bug, in all my saves the wood workers stoped working.
I had to shut off the game and restart it gain. Now it all works. Tried the blow up buildings also before shuting the game. Dindt work either.
But thanks Ranger for the solutions.
At the end I have finish the two Creta missions and now I understand the non workers that fucked up the city rating, now it never goes below 90.
Just fuck them and give the city lots of free time, food, and when you have more money up their salaries.
I had to shut off the game and restart it gain. Now it all works. Tried the blow up buildings also before shuting the game. Dindt work either.
But thanks Ranger for the solutions.
At the end I have finish the two Creta missions and now I understand the non workers that fucked up the city rating, now it never goes below 90.
Just fuck them and give the city lots of free time, food, and when you have more money up their salaries.
Huevos de Oro
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I'm starting Mediolanum. There's an iron area across the river. Can I just make the mine there? How is the iron going to reach my main town?
Hannibal is coming! :O
Edit: NVM I just found BRIDGES in my menu. Suck it, Hannibal!
Hannibal is coming! :O
Edit: NVM I just found BRIDGES in my menu. Suck it, Hannibal!
SpacePirate Ridley
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SteelAttack said:
I laughed way too much with this :lol
SpacePirate Ridley
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Well, my game has a bug.
Every time I have to start the cologne mission the woodworkers will not work, if I get out of that city and load another save were the woodworkers worked, they also stop working and sleep forever.
I have to shut the game and put it on again and start another different mission for the workers to work.
Im going to try opening a good save BEFORE loading the cologne mission, if that doesnt work, well, my game is fucked and i can finish it.
EDIT: WORKED!
And my game has crashed
Every time I have to start the cologne mission the woodworkers will not work, if I get out of that city and load another save were the woodworkers worked, they also stop working and sleep forever.
I have to shut the game and put it on again and start another different mission for the workers to work.
Im going to try opening a good save BEFORE loading the cologne mission, if that doesnt work, well, my game is fucked and i can finish it.
EDIT: WORKED!
And my game has crashed
Sgt.Pepper
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You...you can move houses?Ranger X said:
Huevos de Oro
Member
I think Hannibal didn't think much of my bridge building prowess. :'( I had to restart Mediolanum because I turtled with only one fort for the majority of the game. Yes, I am aware that mission brief clearly states you won't be able to make do with only one, but I got cocky after the first wave of foot soldiers got fend off quickly. Silly me.
I didn't know enemies would keep coming at me relentlessly like rabid dogs, by the third wave or so, they had fucking elephants and ever growing groups of soldiers, and my fort and armorers couldn't catch up, even though I started to build more frantically. Then my town got razed, my women got killed and my men got raped. I have to stop playing these combat sections as an RTS game.
I didn't know enemies would keep coming at me relentlessly like rabid dogs, by the third wave or so, they had fucking elephants and ever growing groups of soldiers, and my fort and armorers couldn't catch up, even though I started to build more frantically. Then my town got razed, my women got killed and my men got raped. I have to stop playing these combat sections as an RTS game.
Sgt.Pepper said:
Oh yes, and it's really important. When you click on a house, in its tab you will see a green arrow on the top right. This is for moving the house. This is super important because as they evolve, you can concentrate them into some spot and save space (when your hut reaches the hovel levels.) Second thing, when you start having hovels, moving them will leave some place so those houses that had a hard time to level up can, in their turn, be placed better so they evolve...
Here's an example of how much stuff you can concentrate on the same spot (vital for huge cities).
You that I have 2 highly concentrated quarters in this pic. Top and bottom left. Impossible to do without quite alot of moving.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Ranger X said:
:O So lovely city!
Toma said:
Yeah it's quite ridiculous how I find new stuff everyday. If only there was a in-game manual or something. I also think we miss stats and player feedback to properly manage a city. There's also some vicious bugs in there.
Steelattack said:
lol yeah, they attack infinitely. It's possible to conquer ennemi towns though. I just don't know how yet. Probably need a bigger army than what the couple of first military missions let me do.
Ranger X said:Yeah it's quite ridiculous how I find new stuff everyday. If only there was a in-game manual or something. I also think we miss stats and player feedback to properly manage a city. There's also some vicious bugs in there.
I just told my gf about the house moving thing and she said she knew and just never bothered to tell me.
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And woah dude.. that screenshot... Your city is beautiful.