June 14, 2002, 21:33
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Is there any way?
To create a city that cannot be destroyed when it's occupied at size 1? (Since population reduces by one when a city is taken, I was wondering if there was a way to keep it from doing this).
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June 14, 2002, 21:38
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Warlord
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Re: Is there any way?
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Originally posted by DarthVeda
To create a city that cannot be destroyed when it's occupied at size 1? (Since population reduces by one when a city is taken, I was wondering if there was a way to keep it from doing this).
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I'm not sure, but this sounds like it would work. It depends on if you already know what civilization will be capturing the city. If you do, place an immobile unit of the future occupiers in the city by using the cheat menu. The city will still be in the other civ's power, and the attackers won't know that there is one of their units in the city until after it's occupied!
Edit: Never mind, forgot that I already have tried this and it doesn't work.
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June 14, 2002, 21:48
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Guess I'm going to have to learn CSPL after all
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June 14, 2002, 22:16
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Upon occasion . . .
I've seized cities occupied by barbarians that were at 1 population and the city did not disappear, but this doesn't happen every time, and I have no idea what conditions this event.
But it can happen.
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June 14, 2002, 23:23
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Has anybody, ever, gotten CSPL to work?
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June 14, 2002, 23:51
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I'd just like to say how much I hate borland. I finally got a cspl engine to compile. Now we're in business.
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June 15, 2002, 10:38
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The plot thickens around Kyokujitsu
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June 15, 2002, 11:58
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Give it city walls.
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June 15, 2002, 11:59
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Ok I've rigged CSPL to keep all cities at size two minimum, no matter how much they are bombarded or reduced to rubble, taken, and retaken.
Sigh. I really didn't want to use CSPL in Kyokujitsu because that meant that I'd want to use it a lot!
It's a lot easier to code in a macro language than C++ let me tell you, but C++ has a lot more functionality. It feels like I'm "cheating".
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June 15, 2002, 12:00
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Quote:
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Originally posted by Mercator
Give it city walls.
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If a city has city walls, that will prevent it from losing population when its defending units die. However, when a city is taken, it's population is reduced by one automatically.
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June 15, 2002, 19:05
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If you use a spy to capture a size 1 city, it dosen't disappear.
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June 16, 2002, 02:26
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Well it just took me twelve more builds to figure out that the name field of the City struct turns out to act like a bool instead of a char.
*strangles Angelo Scotto for making Darth think he could change the city name*
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June 16, 2002, 02:59
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Alright, since the documentation for CSPL is extremely misleading and I'm pretty fed up, I'll just use CSPL for keeping cities from being destroyed.
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June 16, 2002, 09:13
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Make it enough big to not allow it to decline to 1-size
city status. .
Barbarians don't destroy a city indeed.
City walls sometimes work, but if they are "plundered"
they don't.
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June 16, 2002, 12:07
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The combo of a C++ programmer and a ToT scenario designer is a rare breed. Angelo and Kull are very open to correcting the documention. With your skills, DV, you're fast becoming the beta tester that Angelo has needed all along. Drop them a line with your corrections. Although it's been painful for you, I think you could do a real service here.
Even with documentation flaws, CSPL's potential is very high. After all, from your own criteria, it appears to be your only resort for the size one city problem.
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June 16, 2002, 12:30
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Yeah I'll probably keep trying anyway
I was fed up after the 45th build last night and battling an ear infection.
I'll probably drop Angelo a line later today.
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June 17, 2002, 20:27
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