1) Accumulates

2) Goes to military support (a la franchises, from what I have read somewhere)

3) Is wasted.

(1) should be easy to test, but I'm at work (your tax $$ at play). I did see, I think, accumulated production from a queue in a just-captured city, so seemingly empty queues might accumulate.

(2) Would kinda make sense, and so is probably wrong.

quote: As a city grows in population, its area of influence will eventually spread out even further, as much as two more tiles in every direction for extremely large cities.

so this is meant to mean that the city influence will extend three tiles from the city yes?

but, also from the manual (p27)

quote: Also keep in mind that a city's area of influence can expand considerably over the span of time. Although they may start of small and remain so for hundreds of years, eventually cities may grow to control every terrain tile within a five-tile radius of the city centre!

this seems to suggest that it will extend five tiles from the city?!?

As I am too impatient to wait until I have played a couple of games through to find out which is the truth can some one else please help me so I can plan where to put my cities - how large an area of influence do they get

i've taken over 60 cities and can't get anymore.

i'm trying to finish the game with the gaia controller but there's no way i can get 60% coverage because the map is gigantic and i can't build oblisks outside my borders.

quote: TooManyCitiesThreshold=1000

By changing the values you can make this a none factor. Raising all governments to 1000 should fix your problem, but make the game a little unrealistic... just like anarchy is... who ever heard of a peaceful transition from one gov't to another, the threshold should be low for that one at least causing riots... people hate major changes like that... and a civil war isn't always a bad thing is it

Hope that solves your question.

If you want civs with revolutions to split into another civ and not become a barbarian city, then change "maxcivs" to some number higher than the "number of civs" value.

You might want to check other threads that report some problems when the number of civs exceeds 32.

Well, given the info provided, I would reckon it may be that the program is seeking the CD for files and then crashes to the desktop bc it can't locate your CD in the CD-ROM. It may be going to the CD to get movies or sound files that aren't on the hard drive and then crashes to the desktop when it doesn't find them.

I would check your devices in system settings and you can also add device settings in config.sys and autoexec.bat to make sure your CD is identified properly. You probably have a CD driver install disk you can get that info from.

Other thing is that you may have another IDE device on that same cable? That may be the cause of the failure to find the CD.

Read the FAQ at ../../forums/faq.shtml
for more info.

at around city size 60 the city takes up just about all of the national border.