Is there a way to force a city to NOT build anything. Sometimes I'd like my cities to just accrue resources and not build units or buildings. The side benefit is that I don't have 20 cities annoying me with "... has already been built" messages.

I saw something about "Auto Build", but I forgot to look up what/how it works.

The quick answer is YES - but in the early game if you want to accumulate resource you can build a barracks and then sell it - giving you 40 gold for 40 shields - in the middle game if in doubt build a caravan and then build some more - in the very late game you can indeed 'build' capitalisation - which gives gold instead of shields ...

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quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 05-04-2001 02:23 PM Let's see if I can beat the Marquis this time -- The quick answer is YES - but in the early game if you want to accumulate resource you can build a barracks and then sell it - giving you 40 gold for 40 shields - in the middle game if in doubt build a caravan and then build some more - in the very late game you can indeed 'build' capitalisation - which gives gold instead of shields ...

So is there a way to build nothing just nothing,

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When you finish building something just ignore the "zoom to city" option and the next turn ignore the message "you have allready built so and so" it will keep adding shields/resources but will never build an item until you change it.

This ofcourse doesnt work with units, obviously

Anyway, Godot, the basic message is NO, you can't build nothing before capitalization, and there is no reason to do so, anyway.

I suspect Catullus is right in guessing that the nothing in the rules.txt prevents a crash - it gives the game something for default to prevent any division by zero type errors. Or something like that...

But if you are desperate for some reason to have the shields a city produces go to waste then (bitter) experience has taught me one or two methods to achieve that end.

Set the city to build a wonder, make sure some other civ is kind enough to complete it first, then let your poor city's shields accumulate precisely as long as you like - carefully not changing production to something which is not another wonder or a space ship part until the number of shields it costs to do so is horrendous.

Or how about building a unit and then moving all the workers onto ocean squares. If you want to duplicate my methods exactly, time your suicide unit's production to be complete just as your city is going to deliver a caravan. Then just press the enter button to complete your turn and watch the unit flicker fleetingly into - and then out of - existence. OK you didn't exactly build nothing - but it was a something that turned out pretty ephemeral.

Now, you may cheer at this point, your mysterious ends having been splendidly served. But if you are a traditionalist you resist the temptation to do so. Instead you will ritually shout "idiot" loudly and then **** and then some other things which I will not repeat.

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in theory (only an idiots) you could do this with temples too ?!