Bug Questions

[Justus_II]

I have a few questions about apparent bugs, I haven't been able to find them in the Civfanatics bug report thread (which was updated in November...), and wanted to see if anyone else has seen them. I had to wait for Adventure 2 to finish before I could ask the first one, though!

1. Space Elevator on Highlands map: I was unable to build it at all during Adventure 2, and no one else did either. I thought maybe it was due to the 30 degrees from equator restriction being miscalculated on Highlands map, because my Texcoco city was pretty far south. But then I saw in Sirian's game that the AI did build it, so I don't know what the problem was? Maybe on highlands, the bottom of the map is the equator?

2. Space Ship completion screen: I never did see any parts appear, or changes to the screen. I have had lots of video problems, so it may be my computer, but has anyone else seen that picture fill in?

3. Clouds on Globe View: Is there a way to turn them off? Sometimes I can get a fairly clear shot, but usually the clouds cover the entire view (global warming?? ) and all I see are the city tags, no terrain.

Thanks for any help!

[Sirian]

1. Space Elevator on Highlands map: I was unable to build it at all during Adventure 2, and no one else did either. I thought maybe it was due to the 30 degrees from equator restriction being miscalculated on Highlands map, because my Texcoco city was pretty far south. But then I saw in Sirian's game that the AI did build it, so I don't know what the problem was? Maybe on highlands, the bottom of the map is the equator?

The Elevator has to be near the equator, latitude-wise, not the center of the map. For Highlands, that means you can only build it near the warm-weather edge of the map (which can be north or south). Yes, it's one more way that a tundra start on Highlands gets screwed, but hey. Highlands has varied terrain precisely to unbalance the starts a bit. (I'm a cruel, mean bastid.)


- Sirian

[BeefontheBone]

To answer the other two questions, I've never seen much change on the SS screen - it's certainly not as dynamic as the Civ 3 one was. IIRC it is possible to turn off the clouds in the .ini - if not, I must've read it in the Blue Marble Terrain thread.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

3. Clouds on Globe View: Is there a way to turn them off?

I don't know if/how you can turn the clouds of, but you might try using the camera flying mode to get good overview screenshots from above. Insert "AllowFlying = 1" into the "My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\CivilizationIV.ini" file (or change the entry from 0 to 1, if it's already there) and restart the game. Now you can press "ctrl-alt-f" to enable camera flying, which allows to zoom out very far without any clouds disturbing the view.

-Kylearan