Is coal necessary?

odisseus · December 3, 2001, 08:27

Is coal necessary to mantain active my coal plants?

I know that to build coal plants i need coal, but ...

If i miss coal, are my coal plants still working, or not?

HugoHillbilly · December 3, 2001, 09:26

Yeah, your coal plants will still work if your source is used up. You just cannot build anymore. (Allthough any cities still working on the plant when your coal dissipates will continue working on the coal plant until its done.)

Nexus VI · December 3, 2001, 09:28

Absolutely incongruous though.

odisseus · December 3, 2001, 10:20

Nexus VI · December 3, 2001, 10:24

Da quello che ho capito, dovrebbero continuare a funzionare...

Io purtroppo non l'ho ancora scoperto visto che di carbone non ne ho trovato...

Saluti.

Wrong_shui · December 3, 2001, 12:31

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Originally posted by odisseus
Is coal necessary?

I think the only useful from coal is railroad

GodSpawn · December 3, 2001, 14:42

But railroad is, you have to agree, very useful.
Especially if you're tank-rushing your neighbors...

darthx86 · December 3, 2001, 14:48

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Originally posted by HugoHillbilly
Yeah, your coal plants will still work if your source is used up. You just cannot build anymore. (Allthough any cities still working on the plant when your coal dissipates will continue working on the coal plant until its done.)

The same is true with units. I was building musketmen in a couple cities when the saltpeter ran out, but they were allowed to finish.

RickBlaine · December 3, 2001, 14:48

I can't imagine playing without railroads in the later game. I abandoned a game that had been going well when, after researching steam power, I could not locate a coal deposit anywhere on a large map despite having current world maps of every civ that revealed all but a few mid-ocean blank spots and a slice of a moderate sized island.

IronSpam · December 11, 2001, 01:55

Yes, if the unit you're building depends on a resource and you lose your supply of that resource, any units that were started before the cutoff will be completed.

However, if you queue up (i.e., shift-Click) production of say four more musketmen in a city, those four units will be kicked out of the queue when you lose the saltpeter. I tried to see whether I could queue up production of infantry anticipating the loss of rubber for a while. It didn't work.

Expatriate · December 11, 2001, 02:39

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Originally posted by IronSpam
Yes, if the unit you're building depends on a resource and you lose your supply of that resource, any units that were started before the cutoff will be completed.

However, if you queue up (i.e., shift-Click) production of say four more musketmen in a city, those four units will be kicked out of the queue when you lose the saltpeter. I tried to see whether I could queue up production of infantry anticipating the loss of rubber for a while. It didn't work.

Maybe this was changed in the patch, but I have succesfully built Infantry after loosing my rubber supplies, simply by queing up a bunch of them the turn before I lot the supplies. I even had a city that built another improvement first and then went back to the que to start an infantry many turns after my rubber supplier stopped sending anything.

Militia · December 11, 2001, 06:48

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Originally posted by IronSpam
Yes, if the unit you're building depends on a resource and you lose your supply of that resource, any units that were started before the cutoff will be completed.

However, if you queue up (i.e., shift-Click) production of say four more musketmen in a city, those four units will be kicked out of the queue when you lose the saltpeter. I tried to see whether I could queue up production of infantry anticipating the loss of rubber for a while. It didn't work.

Why do you do that? Steal a coal resource from somebody else!!! I do that!!! Just send half of your troops to the site and build a new city or conquer one (I hate to trade with AI)....

Gyromancer · December 11, 2001, 18:12

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Originally posted by RickBlaine
I can't imagine playing without railroads in the later game. I abandoned a game that had been going well when, after researching steam power, I could not locate a coal deposit anywhere on a large map despite having current world maps of every civ that revealed all but a few mid-ocean blank spots and a slice of a moderate sized island.

I dunno, that sounds like a fun game to me. Imagine no railroads anywhere on the planet. And no more AI ironclads beating up my battleships...

Proteus_MST · December 11, 2001, 20:16

Sometimes the Ressources are clustered and easy to overlook.

Have you tried Ctrl+Shift+M to switch off all Tile-Improvements?
It makes searching for Ressources more easy.

star mouse · December 11, 2001, 22:28

Another thing that makes reasources easy to spot is to use one of the mods that changes the resource graphics. For best results, combine a graphics mod with Ctrl+Shift+M.