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RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Nuclearcow — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:34:19 GMT

My pleasure, Mr. Dude! :cool:

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

OrlanDude — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:38:42 GMT

[quote][b]Nuclearcow (7/16/2008)[/b][hr][quote] . . .Lets say I take over a size 15 city from my enemy and his cultural influence is pushing in heavily on this newly taken city. I will often force all 15 citizens to be artists (requires Caste System civic, which I tend to favor for that 'labor' branch of civics). 15 citizens each making 4 culture is a very quick way to expand your cultural border and if you have the Free Speech civic, its doubly impressive. . .
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That's an excellent idea, I'm surprised I hadn't thought of that myself being such a culture monger. While I have put my population into starvation to increase my hammer production to rush a wonder or building I never thought of the culture benefit to a conquered enemy city. Thanks Mr. Cow.;)

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

jerm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:35:06 GMT

Another reason to starve population is to get a wonder or some other thing that you deem important to be finished faster. I've starved a population occasionally to increase the odds that I can beat a rival to a wonder or something else. Take laborers off the farms and put them on workshops or whatever. Another reason would be a race for a particular tech you put more scientists than you can technically handle for a few turns just to make sure you get (for example) Liberalism first. You should be careful not to starve them down a population point though and it's generally the exception to the rule. Otherwise you may as well whip them.

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Nuclearcow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:36:31 GMT

[quote]You wouldn't want to intentionally starve a city unless you want to starve a city due to unhealthyness or unhappiness (and you can't build buildings or move units to balance health/happiness).[/quote]Sometimes I will intentionally starve a city with nothing but artists.

Lets say I take over a size 15 city from my enemy and his cultural influence is pushing in heavily on this newly taken city. I will often force all 15 citizens to be artists (requires Caste System civic, which I tend to favor for that 'labor' branch of civics). 15 citizens each making 4 culture is a very quick way to expand your cultural border and if you have the Free Speech civic, its doubly impressive.

Definitely worth losing a couple or few population, in my opinion, to push out your cultural border and perhaps allow more city squares to be used.

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

PreLynMax — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:46 GMT

You wouldn't want to intentionally starve a city unless you want to starve a city due to unhealthyness or unhappiness (and you can't build buildings or move units to balance health/happiness).

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

tones — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:13:14 GMT

Now you're just messing with my mind you swine! No, that's not right... you bovine!;)

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Nuclearcow — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:17:33 GMT

[quote]Ha! The NC myth crashed and burned with Alpha :w00t: [/quote]I'm just lulling you into a false sense of security, Dr. Tones. :D

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

JSS — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:25:05 GMT

Thank you Mr. Cow. I'm glad you cleared that up for me. At first I thought pink might actually be supposed to be a good thing, but I couldn't figure out what. I now realize it's intended to be light red. I suppose they had to make the colours pink and light green to make sure the number was still readable.

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

tones — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:38:07 GMT

[quote]the NC myth is falling...[/quote]

Ha! The NC myth crashed and burned with Alpha:w00t:

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Copy and Paste — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:28:20 GMT

[quote][b]Nuclearcow (6/1/2008)[/b][hr]To be honest, when you asked it, I had to load a game to see what you're talking about and then realized I hardly ever paid attention to it and had to think about it for a moment. :P

I've noticed that of other questions people ask. Some things, I've been totally ignorant of and just played without paying attention to it. :P[/quote]

So you mean you don't know the game all by heart just like you made it yourself ?

the NC myth is falling...
;)

Welcome to 1BC JSS

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Nuclearcow — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:33:12 GMT

To be honest, when you asked it, I had to load a game to see what you're talking about and then realized I hardly ever paid attention to it and had to think about it for a moment. :P

I've noticed that of other questions people ask. Some things, I've been totally ignorant of and just played without paying attention to it. :P

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

cleopatra143 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:24:09 GMT

Welcome!! I'm so glad you asked this question :D

RE: City symbol colour meaning?

Nuclearcow — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:21:07 GMT

Hi JSS. Welcome to 1BC :cool:

The colors are to indicate that the size is growing (green), starving (red) or staying the same (gray).

Here are some examples:

Growing (Green):

Starving (red):

Staying the same. No growth or starvation (gray):

Hope that helps. Welcome again! :cool:

City symbol colour meaning?

JSS — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:48:36 GMT

I have noticed that the symbol for my city, i.e. the Star for my capital and the circle for other ones, in front of my city name sometimes has different colours. It is usually white, but sometimes it is green or pink. Does anybody know what this means?