I think this picture makes it odvious that ICS not only is still there but also becomes stonger!

In this case the city has no general "gatherers." All of its citizens are being used to keep the city happy( 7 entertainers). While this keeps the city from revolting, your empire and city are not growing from this arrangment. No one should place a city in the desert unless they can place a bunch of farms/nets around it and put all of its citizens into food gathering/production. This city is needs to place a few citizens back into its general gathering (efficiency) and the rest into food (farmers). Building nets would be better than farms, as you receive more food from the ocean tiles than from the desert ones. Did this rant make an sense?

quote: Originally posted by Tilemacho on 11-11-2000 09:13 AM http://apolyton.net/ctp2/images/view.shtml?preview/day3-ics.jpg I think this picture makes it odvious that ICS not only is still there but also becomes stonger! Anyway I like ICS

Reguardless, Its Obviouse that the Game designers either

a) Dont realy understand what ICS realy is,(Doubtful, you would have to be a complete MORON not to understnad it) or

b) they DO understnad what it is, but thanks to the Popularity of CIV, they feel that Providing the City with its Free-worked tile is one of thoes things that you just dont dare touch

Granted, in the early days when they were first Writing CIV, they did not realise that ICS would become a problem, but they also had to keep the games as basica as posible, and Brian-Sid do have a point when they say that Cities Initly provide an inproved eficiancy to the People who build them Even without adding any inpovments,

Make a %-modifier to that damn central city-tile changeable in the .txt tweak-files. You could choose if any city-square could be 100% effective (default) or 80% > 60% > 40% > 20% effective.