July 20, 2001, 08:29
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Warlord
Local Time: 12:41
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Posts: 265
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Roads vs. Railroads
Why is it that the "go to" command works fine for sending units around when I have roads connecting cities but once I "upgrade" to railroads, the "go to" command sends the troops around on crazy journeys which ultimately end in the troop hopping into a mountain or swamp tile where there are no roads whatsoever?
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July 20, 2001, 12:32
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Prince
Local Time: 06:41
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Posts: 565
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I think it depends upon the version. With the regular version of Civ2, RR goto never presented a problem. After I bought MGE, I experienced the same problem as you -- making gameplay a chore. It was so irritating that I have since switched back to playing the older version almost exclusively.
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July 20, 2001, 16:42
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Emperor
Local Time: 13:41
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Posts: 3,079
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I also got the problem with FW. Dunno what causes it, though, must be some fault in the algorithm.
You can go around this problem by chosing intermediate destinations.
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July 20, 2001, 23:28
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Emperor
Local Time: 13:41
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
Posts: 3,658
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The Go To command - and its crazy antics - has always been a cause of complaint. Various patches for the various versions have claimed to have fixed the problems but it remains unreliable. It seems to be at its most unreliable in the vicinity of a map's line of (as it were) Zero Longitude. Certainly, crossing that line with a Go To command is fraught with danger.
As Mercator suggests, the best way around the problem is to send the unit on a series of shorter, preferably straighter journeys to its destination.
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July 21, 2001, 05:11
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Deity
Local Time: 21:41
Local Date: October 31, 2010
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Between Coast and Mountains
Posts: 14,475
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I hate the Computeres inability to work out that i have railroads and to use them as a priority , i find if i just issue the Goto command it doesnt work as welll as actually clicking and dragging with the mouse, but stil lthe damn caravans will leave the main route and decide to hop over some mountains instead... 
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