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- From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
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- Subject: Re: CIV: Pollution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.094318.5628@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:43:18 EST
- References: <spencer.719999395@infs3> <lfts2vINNipv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov13.125226.90584@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <BxoE0L.D6u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BxoE0L.D6u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rcj41604@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Huh!?) writes:
- > che347r@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- >
- >>In article <lfts2vINNipv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, mbr@Eng.sun.com (Mark Bergman) writes:
- >>> Beware of one of the modern conveniences in life: cars. As soon as you get
- >>> automobiles, people in cities cause pollution. It still goes on even without
- >>> factories and alike.
- >>>
- >>> I see it as another part of the abstract gaming system of Civ, i.e. there is
- >>> a percentage chance of pollution appearing, once it is at all possible to create
- >>> pollution. The chance may be as little as 1%, but it can still happen. Now,
- >>> if you have say 25 cities, each of those gets a chance to pollute. Eventually,
- >>> the odds catch up with you.
- >>>
- >>> Anyway, make a bunch of settlers and clean up the mess. :-)
- >>>
- >>I had a big pollution problem recently. (civ vs4). I had about 60 cities,(1810)
- >>mostly well developed and the space ship was on the way. I started to get
- >>pollution spots outside cities with no smoke plumes (mass transit + recycling
- >>centre built). What started in a small way ended in environmental disaster
- >>as more and more cities started making a mess. The last few turns before
- >>Alpha Centauri produced 20-30 pollution spots each. What a pain, when you're
- >>trying to get a decent score. Is this a bug? Any ideas?
- >
- >>Evan che347r@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- >
- > This is the REALLY HIGH FUTURE TECH bug which, for some bizarre reason, starts
- > making pollution. I'm not sure if it's the # of lightbulbs produced for a
- > future tech overflowing or simply the # of the future tech itself...
- >
- > It's a really big pain...
- >
- > Huh!? rcj41604@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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- Try turning lightbulb production to zero, this solverd my problem.
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- John Stewart
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