Stupid Question

[jrwsdev]

This is probably going to sound stupid, but I must be missing something simple. No matter the mode I'm in if I click a city 98% of the time it goes to military mode and selects the stacks garrisoned inside the city. When I want to view the cityscape this gets very frustrating. I right click to get rid of the units and have tried locations all over the cityscape icon on the map to find a sure fire way of viewing it, but to no avail. The spot I click that opens the cityscape one time doesn't work the next, instead I get the units. Of couse if there are no units this isn't an issue, but I'm thinking I'm missing something simple when units are present.

Thanks

[Philippe]

This is probably going to sound stupid, but I must be missing something simple. No matter the mode I'm in if I click a city 98% of the time it goes to military mode and selects the stacks garrisoned inside the city. When I want to view the cityscape this gets very frustrating. I right click to get rid of the units and have tried locations all over the cityscape icon on the map to find a sure fire way of viewing it, but to no avail. The spot I click that opens the cityscape one time doesn't work the next, instead I get the units. Of couse if there are no units this isn't an issue, but I'm thinking I'm missing something simple when units are present.

Thanks

It takes a bit of getting used to, and it's not obvious to me either.

The circle with the city content in it has a horizontal line running down the middle of it. If you want to see what you can build, put the overall mode into the economic state and click on the gears. The click on the circle of the city you're interested in, but be careful to click well above the horizontal line. This actually gives you build information for all the cities (go figure), but the way it works is that if you click on a category of things that are possible to build, the greener an area of the map is the more favorable it is to building that type of whatever in it. Of course, it may take you several tries to get the program to acknowledge a build order in that area because it's kind of squirrely. But that's another story.

If you just want to see what is built in a particular city and whether it is deactivated or not (which is why I usually go poking into that kind of thing), set the overall mode to economic, and be sure that the gear but is not pressed. Then click above the horizontal line in the city circle.

If during either procedure the program thinks your hand slipped and interprets your action as a click below the line (it probably makes a difference what kind of mouse you have), you'll be thrown into looking at the military units that happen to be sitting there.

My sense is that that horizontal line in the city circle was an unfortunate design decision. I think it makes more intuitive sense if you can only see economic things when you're in economic mode, or military things when you're in military. As it stands, it's much too easy to trip up and slip into military mode whether you want to or not.

Another of life's little annoyances, but I wouldn't have much trouble living with it if it didn't take so long to load the next turn.

[Sven]

look at the tooltip, if it display the unitsnames at the end a klick get the units, if they not isplayed you see the city.

[jrwsdev]

thanks for the tips.