Tile control for overlapping cities

[kryszcztov]

I don't see what the problem is.

You know that a city can only work tiles within its Fat Cross.

If a tile is inside your borders and inside the Fat Cross of a given city, it's available. Period.

Just like I know (or should know) how borders adjust themselves according to every city's culture and other civs... but some thought it'd be nice to display the borders on the screen... See ? Sometimes I mentally leave a tile out of the city's workers, hours before realising that this tile is NE-NE of the city tile ! I have bad eyes maybe, I also always display the grid and the resource icons on the map. All of this I call essential, friendly features. Go back to Civ3 and see how it was friendly in this regard (fat cross).

So where's the complication? There is no complication. It's simple and direct. I'm sorry if it wasn't also CLEAR in the interface, but now that you know, there shouldn't be any more problem.


- Sirian

No it's not simple. I still have to check every city around to see if each city is working a grey-out tile or not. Because I have no confidence at all in those governors, especially when they mess my tile assignement in every city after a revolution.

[Sirian]

when they mess my tile assignement in every city after a revolution.

Civ4 should remember your tile assignments across Anarchy periods. This is something I emphasized, and I have not noticed a problem.

If it's changing your tiles while you are MMing, that's a bug.

If you can come up with "Before" and "After" saved game files, showing that an anarchy period has ALTERED your tile distribution while micromanaging (governor = off) that would be helpful. Before you email them to me, though, post screenshots showing the instance.


- Sirian

[VoiceOfUnreason]

there is the danger of doing more harm than good by forgetting that a city has halted its growth.

Hmm. I wonder if
1) it would help to indicate whether the governors are running (possibly on the city itself [Main Screen], but I was primarily thinking about the domestic advisor).

2) If there is room to do that.

[kryszcztov]

Civ4 should remember your tile assignments across Anarchy periods. This is something I emphasized, and I have not noticed a problem.

If it's changing your tiles while you are MMing, that's a bug.

If you can come up with "Before" and "After" saved game files, showing that an anarchy period has ALTERED your tile distribution while micromanaging (governor = off) that would be helpful. Before you email them to me, though, post screenshots showing the instance.


- Sirian

Lemme tell you about the only game that I played on 1.52 so far : Adventure 1, just completed. In this game, I didn't touch anything regarding governors during the entire game, so I basically ran the game with your settings, right ? I moused over that though, and it was saying "Governor for XXX On" on each of the 8 or so governor options, probably indicating that all were Off, right ? Anyway I didn't encounter anything messing my tile assignment during the entire game apart from those anarchy periods. Not sure if that was the case on 1.09, I think there was no problem back then but I'm not sure at all, and won't test it now that I'm on 1.52.

This weekend I may open a random save from that game (I save every 20 turns generally), and swap civics and adopt a new religion, and we'll see.