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How to cancel a building construction? - 5/24/2007 12:25:44 AM

Billy_Yank

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I've began work on a new building in a city, but I'd like to cancel it before pressing the End of Turn button. Trying to stop it I've even ordered another one, and can't find the way to undo this.

I've tried to cancel the buiding with "backspace" but it does nothing.

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RE: How to cancel a building construction? - 5/24/2007 12:41:28 AM

Gil R.

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If you don't hit backspace right after ordering up the building, you'll have to hit backspace over and over until you get back to that move. Unfortunately, everything one does in a turn is remembered in the order it's done, so there's no shortcut to undoing buildings.

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RE: How to cancel a building construction? - 5/24/2007 7:07:20 AM

Gray_Lensman

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

If you don't hit backspace right after ordering up the building, you'll have to hit backspace over and over until you get back to that move. Unfortunately, everything one does in a turn is remembered in the order it's done, so there's no shortcut to undoing buildings.

Gil, there is a "bug" in the backspace sequence, but I haven't been able to pin it down. Every once in a while after backspacing, it messes up and doubles up on production in some cities after processing the "End Turn". It seems to happen when there is a military unit in the production sequence that you are backspacing back through. Symptoms show up next turn as 2 items of the same thing due at the same time in the some of the cities you picked new production for the previous turn (i.e. when you did the backspacing).

Can't give you a save file because, once you load the save file, the backspace capability is gone, so you'll have to duplicate what I've described here.

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RE: How to cancel a building construction? - 5/26/2007 11:11:13 AM

Mr. Yuck

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I'm having that happen with buildings. I went on a big mint-building spree at the start of a turn, then started plotting out some unit moves. My son woke up with diaper failure so I backspaced all the way thru the turn and saved before running his bath.

When I went back to the game later, I repeated the mint-building spree. 4 turns later I had 6 cities over their support limits by 1 mint each.

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RE: How to cancel a building construction? - 5/26/2007 6:43:33 PM

Gil R.

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Thanks for the reports. It's too late to make any changes to the patch, and since you're all playing with a version of the patch that is obsolete (compared to the one we've been testing internally) there's always the chance that this has been fixed inadvertently. So, what makes sense is for you watch for this after installing the final patch, and if the problem is still around please report it as a bug.

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