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Arbanak posted 07-30-99 09:30 AM ET
I am just getting started with SMAC and am confused with terraforming. Why, despite the fact that according to the way that I read the rules on terraforming, a rainy square with a farm should produce 3 food, does such a square produce only 2? Or why does a square with a nutriet bonus produce only 2 food despite its climate or whether you have a farm there? Rocky squares seem to have similar problems producing minerals. Where is this limit of 2 coming from? Is there some technology I need to discover to get more than that?
SMAniaC posted 07-30-99 09:59 AM ET
Search your technology chart and look to Gene Splicing, Ecological Engineering and Environmental Economics...
tfs99 posted 07-30-99 02:47 PM ET
Nutrient bonus should give a +2 to food.
Restrictions should be lifted on bonus squares. I have built mines on rocky/mineral squares with road and got SEVEN minerals out before the required tech.
SMAX n ... Ted S.
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Author	Topic: terraforming question
Arbanak	posted 07-30-99 09:30 AM ET I am just getting started with SMAC and am confused with terraforming. Why, despite the fact that according to the way that I read the rules on terraforming, a rainy square with a farm should produce 3 food, does such a square produce only 2? Or why does a square with a nutriet bonus produce only 2 food despite its climate or whether you have a farm there? Rocky squares seem to have similar problems producing minerals. Where is this limit of 2 coming from? Is there some technology I need to discover to get more than that?
SMAniaC	posted 07-30-99 09:59 AM ET Search your technology chart and look to Gene Splicing, Ecological Engineering and Environmental Economics...
tfs99	posted 07-30-99 02:47 PM ET Nutrient bonus should give a +2 to food. Restrictions should be lifted on bonus squares. I have built mines on rocky/mineral squares with road and got SEVEN minerals out before the required tech. SMAX n ... Ted S.