FAQ
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[edit] Gameplay
[edit] How to Start
A small tutorial is available at Tutorial
[edit] Buildings
Why do my communes keep turning into parks? I started with the default start game (Hit continue after start up) and built all sorts of stuff "north" of the default area, and kept building communes south following the same grid. The new communed kept turning into parks.
If a Commune is not producing anything for 10 years it is closed and the area turns into a parks They will stop producing if they can't deliver their goods because the roads and markets are full.
Is there a reason for disabling a category for a market?
Eg if you'd like to temporarily stop a factory from producing because you need ore elsewhere this makes sure they won't get any workers from the market.
It takes ages to get interesting buildings. How can I gain more tech?
Until you discover schools, monuments are the only way to in increase your techlevel.
Are different types of transport interconnected?
No, they are not. But markets can do the transfer between different types.
[edit] GUI
How can I see what is behind a high building?
Press 'h' key or click on the Hide high buildings icon button (next to i icon button) to hide buildings.
Where did all my money go?
If you did not spend it all on new buildings, then the financial report will tell you. It is the '$' (or your local currency) Tab above the minimap. Click this tab several times to see other reports.
[edit] Hall of Fame
Biggest or smallest or fastest victories... see Hall of Fame
[edit] Development
Is there anything I can do to help?
Look at the TODO or visit us at #lincity on freenode.net.
- Bug Reports are welcome, and patches too :-)
- People are needed for doing/maintaining translations.
- Graphics needs some fixes. (See bug 10457 in the Bug Tracking System at Berlios)
[edit] System Specific
[edit] Anything with Small Screen
To run Lincity-NG on a device which does not support 1024x768 (like some netbooks) you have to set the resolution manually until bug:15192 is fixed. To do so, you can start it once giving the right size as command line argument. It will be saved to userconfig.xml.
[edit] Debian
When compiling from source I only get a black screen in OpenGL mode on my Nvidia card. I use Debian.
Install nvidia-glx-dev and compile again.
apt-get build-dep lincity-ng This will install all needed packages to compile lincity-ng (because 1.0.3 is already a package in debian and nothing new is needed for 1.1.x :-)
[edit] Windows
It works on Windows 98 SE too.
I use windows, why is everything in English? I know there is a translation for my language.
You have to set the 'LANG' environment variable. Add something like set LANG=nl to your autoexec.bat.
Starting with 1.0.2. Lincity uses a new methode to detect the language. If you don't like the automatically detected language either rename the translation-files by hand or set LINCITY_LANG to the desired value. 1.0.2 supports ca, de, es, fr, en, nl and sv. See Translate.
Later versions of Windows don't need an autoexec entry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519
On Windows, console output is written to stdout.txt and stderr.txt, usually in the same directory as lincity-ng.exe. The .lincity-ng folder containing savegames and userconfig.xml is in the user's home directory. On XP default installation that is "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.lincity-ng\".
[edit] Command Line
What command line arguments does Lincity understand?
lincity-ng version 1.0.1 Command line overrides configfiles. Known arguments are: -v --version show version and exit -h --help show this text and exit -g --gl use OpenGL -s --sdl use SDL -S --size [size] specify screensize (eg. 1024x768) -w --window run in window -f --fullscreen run fullscreen -m --mute mute audio
