Plants and Factories

[wathombe]

Morning, all.

I'm new to Civ2, and just played the tutorial world to completion (winning, but lamely, reaching AC in 1979). While waiting the twenty years for my ship to make the journey, I mostly worked on cleaning up rampant pollution. For some reason, however, I was only allowed to build solar or hydro plants in certain cities, despite having all the necessary advances.

Clearly there is some sort of mutual exclusivity or prerequisite situation for those two improvements, but I can't find anything about it in the docs or civilopedia. Cany anyone explain?

Thanks.

wathombe

[Mercator]

These are the only things I can come up with:

- The Power Plant, Nuclear Plant and Hydro Plant are mutually exclusive (note that the Solar Plant isn´t in this list).
- Hydro Plants can only be built in cities with access to water (or something).
- The Hoover Dam counts as a Hydro Plant in each of your cities.
- You need a factory in a city before you can build a Power Plant ( but you probably also need it for the Nuclear and Hydro Plants).

Good to see a new Civ2 fan!
Resist temptation, don´t buy Civ3!

[wathombe]

Mercator:

Thanks. I suspected something of the sort, just couldn't find it documented anywhere. You'd think, with a two-hundred-page manual
and an encyclopedia, it would be listed somewhere.

Thanks for the welcome; I'm enjoying the game quite a bit. I'm a Warlords adherent of many, many years, and didn't think there were any other good turn-based games out there. Just started my second game on the Europe map as the Celts at Chieftan level, and took out the English. Trying a military strategy this time. Will be losing a great deal of sleep...

No plans to buy CivIII, ever.

Thanks again.

wathombe

[ColdWizard]

for hydro plants, you need to have built a factory and the city has to be near a river or mountain square. iirc you need a plant (nuclear, hydro, or power) before you can build a solar plant.