[spoiler] Ruff v COVID (and other political topics)

[Ruff_Hi]

I went through a lot of Civ4 background colors before landing on a nice deep rusty red ... only to find that I am ORANGE!

You will just have to live with the RED / ORANGE clash!

[Charriu]

The color can be changed by an Admin and Archery must be removed. That's a mistake by the mapmaker.

[Ruff_Hi]

The color can be changed by an Admin

YAY!  I want my Japanese Red!

But if that is too close to the pesky Russians ... I will take French Blue.

and Archery must be removed. That's a mistake by the mapmaker.

Boo ... now what am I going to do?

[Charriu]

and Archery must be removed. That's a mistake by the mapmaker.

Boo ... now what am I going to do?

Definitely retire and convert to AI.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Archery removed and now please select your color  

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[Ruff_Hi]

Gees - so many options.

Primary #17 unless that is Russia ... in which case Primary #4.

[Ruff_Hi]

Sigh ... lost Archery. Still Orange.

But what is this? I saw something about showing the number of people that have a tech. Is that what this is? Is there some limit to this showing (ie do I need EP visibility / chart visibility)? And does it only show against techs that I can research (that is how it appears). Why don't I see more than 0? Someone has to have different starting techs than I do.

[Cornflakes]

The number that you see is the same that you could back-calculate by hand via known tech bonus (record the GNP value with no tech selected, then again with each individual tech selected, and do the math). It is the number of known civilizations which have already researched a tech that you can currently research.

[Charriu]

This feature was requested by Cornflakes. It shows the amount of beakers in the last tick.



The known tech owners feature was requested by The Black Sword. The number tells you how many players that you have met do own this tech. This is no new information. Rather it's information already available through C&D trickery.

[Ruff_Hi]

That number of beakers in the last tick is a genius move! I am always micro managing to push that last little line just that little bit further ... and never know how many beakers I have to find. I am embarrassed the the BUG team didn't build that one in.

I added the era code and then promised never to use it as I think it is ugly.

The known tech item is a nice addition ... but you actually have to know a fair bit about the guts of the code to reveal it - I would consider that borderline spoiler information. Not that I won't take it!

What is the part on the left with the GPPs ... can you click through possible research options and see how the tech lightbulb changes? And how do you get that tech bubble to show? I do remember someone talking about clicking through the actual techs (big icons) and watching the GPP preferences change ... but never could be bothered to learn how.