old dog, new trick 2025 edition
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
I've been playing this games called Civilization for more than thirty years. One minor feature is that you can alter the landscape of one of the game-board squares by planting trees or building irrigation. Today I discovered a way of converting one terrain I've never liked into one that I much prefer, though that is not directly part of the game. If you start with a "grassland" square, which is only good for producing food and not for producing minerals, wood, or anything else, you can plant a forest, which is great for production (and might have bonuses like deer). If you then cut down the new forest and a grassland square will not re-appear. It becomes a "plains" square, which has more mineral/wood production than a grassland.
