- Tile focus can damage the output of surrounding tiles
- Mines might temporarily/permanently reduce nearby food production or appeal
- Overfishing, Strip mining, Soil depletion
- Population explosions also increase civil unrest
- Corruption quickly eats away economic output
This is kind of represented as harvesting a bonus resource. Your workers can be spent chopping down forests, scooping up all the fish, deer or bannanas for a short term gain. Some of the AI are randomly assigned an environmentalist outlook that will sour relationships if you do harvest a tile.
> etc and mines and other production improvements had negative impacts on through pollution & other risks (eg offshore oil platform spills, etc).
Oil spills feel a little too random. In Civ 6, this mechanic would likely be implemented as water and appeal (tourism) reduction. Mines and quarries already have this implemented, each one reduces the appeal of its six adjacent by 2. I don't think oil rigs have any penalties.
> There could be techs & policies to mitigate these issues, but investing/adopting in them would be a trade-off on production & wealth.
Generally speaking, techs aren't optional. There are very few terminal techs, and that seems pretty intentional. As a policy card tied to the Conservation civic it might work. But there's already a tradeoff being made by having the improvements in the first place.
Convenient way to strangle enemies though, nuke their cities and they have a very hard time rising back up because they can't produce.
Even Civ 1 had global warming.
Oh, and the orange patches, the god damned orange patches. This thread brought back some really funny memories. It's almost as if I can still feel my frustration at that time.
For those wondering what the orange patches looked like in an older version:
http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/Vuldacon/Pollution....
If I remember correctly they started to turn deserted if overused like the yellow patches here:
https://www.civfanatics.com/images/civ3/industrialagesnumber...
And of course a quick search had me in laughter for a while:
"An option to turn off the %$!&! pollution"
"This has been mentioned before, but I'm bringing it up again anyway. In Civ2 the interface worked much quicker, and the city worker wasn't taken off the tile. Dump some engineers on it and bam! - problem solved. In Civ3 it goes something like this: spend a bunch of time hunting down some free workers on the slower map screen. Figure out how many it takes to clean up the square, move them there, and order them one by one to clean it up. Then, open your city screen. Put the laborer back on the tile (unless another city has taken over the tile at the start of the next turn - then it gets even more complicated). If you're using your workers on automatic (clean up pollution only) you still have to look at every city every turn, and if you have alot of pollution that turn, they may not clean it up in the order you like, causing the loss of shields, perhaps even delaying the production of something important for a turn. This is why I always have some free workers to pile on by hand anyway, even though it takes longer."
And finally, a future techy enters the stage:
"I agree that it becomes tiresome to chase pollution.
Edited my game so that pollution takes less workers to clean up. :mischief:"
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/an-option-to-turn-off...
I really loved that game! Though, it definitely was the reason for me not being ready on time for school :mischief:.