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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Civilization Question - Extra Resources
- Message-ID: <C19oAF.1qq@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan22.152546.3460@bmers145.bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:51:51 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- fraserf@bmerh9a4 (Fraser Fulford) writes:
-
- >When you are building a large city improvement/wonder and you change
- >production to something cheaper than the resources you have accumulated so
- >far, what happens to the extra resources when the cheaper item is
- >produced.
-
- >For example;
-
- > I am building City Walls but the population grows and I end up with
- > uphappy people. So I decide I am going to build a temple. I was
- > almost finished building my city walls so I have way more resources
- > than required to build the temple. What happens to these extra
- > resources when the temple is completed? Do they disappear? Do they
- > turn into taxes? Do they become available for the next thing I build?
-
- You lose them. If you have bucks, you may be better off to convert to
- something about the same cost as shields you have, pay any difference,
- wait till the next turn when you get it, then buy the temple in your
- next turn (meanwhile, given the example, convert a few farmers to Elvii
- to keep the masses happy for the remainder of the turn). Then you
- can sell the 1st improvement back if it's something you don't really
- need. I use the barracks for this.
-
- Remember, buying an improvement from scratch costs more than buying with
- some resources accumulated. I think the cost is $4 per shield if no
- shields are yet accumlated versus $2 if you have any. So, instead of
- paying for the complete improvement right off, first buy something
- cheap (remember further, military purchases cost more per shield than
- improvements - I don't remember the ratio offhand), then in the same
- turn, buy the improvement that you're really after, like the temple.
-
- You can use caravans to build anything expensive, like city walls, too.
- Convert the city to building a wonder, say Women's Suffrage. Send in
- a few caravans and accept the "help with wonder" option. The shields
- accumulate for each caravan. Now go into the city editor and convert back
- to city walls.
-
- Just a few random thoughts ....
-
- --
-
- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
-