Houses: Houses population, basically functions as aqueduct sorta thing

Farms: do food, basically feeds and expandes population

Factories: actually putting the people into government work (you can only assign some factories to do work for you, others are private. Has to do with the government prob I mentioned earlier). Basically the blender that mixes resources from mines and people from houses into the good 'ol shields that can go into various projects

Mines: Collects resources and sent to factory

Marketplace: collects "trade". I know it sounds weird but marketplace collects the trade both from the terrain and from toher cities

Bank (money center? whatever?): converts trade into $$$. Basically limits how much of trade you can turn into hard cash

Reserearch center: same as bank cept for beakers

Theatre: same as bank cept for goblets

You can simply adjust a slider that would mark how much goes into building residential, how much into industri and how much into stores.

This is important since you can then specialize cities!

quote: Originally posted by Sirotnikov on 01-16-2001 05:38 PM You can simply adjust a slider that would mark how much goes into building residential, how much into industri and how much into stores. This is important since you can then specialize cities! I think this should be added to every city screen.

Always like an idea that uses sliders.

I like the idea of 'zoning' buildings. Maybe you could put different buildings in different areas, for example:

government area: 1. capital building. 2. government building. these two would be different, the latter would be the main offices, the civs memory home (a bunch of memory stuff to keep the spirit alive, it would include historical stuff that that civ did), your 'throne room' would be here too. the government building would have the House of Representatives and senate chambers (if playing with a democracy or republic), the high council chambers, etc.

residential areas: 1. houses. 2. parks, recreation centers, etc. the latter would (of course) house the people. the parks and such would be the stuff that kept the people happy.

quote: Originally posted by MrFun on 01-18-2001 08:36 PM Sounds like some of you want to add more and more complexity to the game and thus taking away the fun of the game. That is my opinion, anyways.

Never understand why complexity detracts from the fun.

quote: Originally posted by Brent on 01-21-2001 02:01 AM probably for the same reason that nobody likes games to be challenging, eh?

I want my civ game to be challenging, but I want it to challenge my intellect by f.e. having great AI, not challenge my patience by making me play mini-Sim City on every city in my civ game.