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Maris posted 02-12-99 06:39 AM ET
Whenever I put a secret project in a queue for production, that base begins stockpiling energy, and never seems to finish building the secret. Is it me or the game?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-12-99 10:59 AM ET
I'm not too sure what you're talking about. If you're not currently building anything, click on the stockpile energy icon in the production field and change it to a project. If you ARE currently building something, use the queue.
jkm
firaxis games
Maris posted 02-12-99 01:55 PM ET
Uh oh, I was hoping that this might have been a common problem and someone who'd seen it before would know what to do.
After closer examination, it isn't just secret projects that give me the problem, it's anything with a queue name that's bigger than the field the queue has. You know, how it puts a little plus sign after the item name?
I can't hurry production on anything that is building an item with a name larger than that field, and it never gets built, just says that I am stockpiling energy.
I know this sounds weird, but I'm not crazy I put up screenshots on the web if you care to look at them:
http://members.aol.com/maris/junk/planet.gif
http://members.aol.com/maris/junk/base.bmp
(base is a .bmp because I was losing too much in Jpegs and Gif, sorry for the large size)
As you can see in planet.gif, Bibliotyek Letters and New Azramus both are listed as "(Stockpiling Energy)" But when I open up Azramus, (in base.bmp) the first item in the queue is "Merchant excr+".
This has happened to quite a few differnent cities
Have I found a bug?
-Maris
iratheous posted 02-12-99 02:00 PM ET
Well I had the same (or similar) problem. The problem is that my city was stockpiling energy and when I went into the city screen I selected "Queue" instead of "Change": and what happens normally is that the city will finish building what it is currently building BEFORE it starts on the first item in your queue. With stockpiling energy, this will never 'finish' so you have to manually selected CHANGE and choose what you want oit to build and then set a que. It will work on the queue after it finishes the first item you selected.
Hope this helps.
birder posted 02-12-99 08:13 PM ET
Playing my first game (not the demo) as the University, I too have a city, my first, stuck in stockpiling energy. I cannot change it (the change key is locked).
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Author	Topic: Stockpiling energy
Maris	posted 02-12-99 06:39 AM ET Whenever I put a secret project in a queue for production, that base begins stockpiling energy, and never seems to finish building the secret. Is it me or the game?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-12-99 10:59 AM ET I'm not too sure what you're talking about. If you're not currently building anything, click on the stockpile energy icon in the production field and change it to a project. If you ARE currently building something, use the queue. jkm firaxis games
Maris	posted 02-12-99 01:55 PM ET Uh oh, I was hoping that this might have been a common problem and someone who'd seen it before would know what to do. After closer examination, it isn't just secret projects that give me the problem, it's anything with a queue name that's bigger than the field the queue has. You know, how it puts a little plus sign after the item name? I can't hurry production on anything that is building an item with a name larger than that field, and it never gets built, just says that I am stockpiling energy. I know this sounds weird, but I'm not crazy I put up screenshots on the web if you care to look at them: http://members.aol.com/maris/junk/planet.gif http://members.aol.com/maris/junk/base.bmp (base is a .bmp because I was losing too much in Jpegs and Gif, sorry for the large size) As you can see in planet.gif, Bibliotyek Letters and New Azramus both are listed as "(Stockpiling Energy)" But when I open up Azramus, (in base.bmp) the first item in the queue is "Merchant excr+". This has happened to quite a few differnent cities Have I found a bug? -Maris
iratheous	posted 02-12-99 02:00 PM ET Well I had the same (or similar) problem. The problem is that my city was stockpiling energy and when I went into the city screen I selected "Queue" instead of "Change": and what happens normally is that the city will finish building what it is currently building BEFORE it starts on the first item in your queue. With stockpiling energy, this will never 'finish' so you have to manually selected CHANGE and choose what you want oit to build and then set a que. It will work on the queue after it finishes the first item you selected. Hope this helps.
birder	posted 02-12-99 08:13 PM ET Playing my first game (not the demo) as the University, I too have a city, my first, stuck in stockpiling energy. I cannot change it (the change key is locked).