I have an option to clear ruins in one of my cities, however for the life of me I can't seem to find a place on the map where I can do that. Am I blind? What am I missing?

Mouse over each area until the tile cursor goes green instead of red. It can help to try and recall where you've seen ransacking take place

I suppose that's fine but there has to be a better way. Maybe something visual that indicates an area has been ransacked or something.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have commented on this issue before but I can't find my comment

so please excuse me if I'll say it again:

I think that after clicking "Clear Ruins" all of the Ruin Tiles in the City should be Highlighted (green) 

so that the player may choose which one of them he wishes to clear,

without having to mouse hover over all of the city tiles.

Thanks

I swear it's this and maybe 3 other UI things that keep turning people off this game. The gameplay's good now but they just don't need to care about some critical parts of the presentation.

Just don't do it, it's useless anyway. I have no idea why they even added it to the game.

DrCron wrote:

Just don't do it, it's useless anyway. I have no idea why they even added it to the game.

I second this. 

Someone told me it's about strategy - and you get a discount to building on it.

But I agree with you. They're just annoying and pointless. Especially when independent cities die and leave the whole territory filled with it.

I have to disagree here. If it were just cosmetic I would vote against it.

But it is a complex strategical decision whether to remove them or not.

If you're not interested, once you get a territory with ruins, simply find all of them and clear all of them at once.

That of course would be MUCH easier if the game highlighted them for you as was suggested.

vensa wrote:

I have to disagree here. If it were just cosmetic I would vote against it.

But it is a complex strategical decision whether to remove them or not.

If you're not interested, once you get a territory with ruins, simply find all of them and clear all of them at once.

That of course would be MUCH easier if the game highlighted them for you as was suggested.

Well I  guess it is but not really that deep. It does take time to clear ruins. I feel it be better if clearing ruins gave you some science or something. It's better to just build buildings over them or next to them if you want to stretch some buildings to a strategic location. Then you should only remove them when they are blocking fims. Otherwise your just wasting a bunch of time and turns. 

DrCron wrote:

Just don't do it, it's useless anyway. I have no idea why they even added it to the game.

Dayvit78 wrote:

DrCron wrote:

Just don't do it, it's useless anyway. I have no idea why they even added it to the game.

I second this. 

Someone told me it's about strategy - and you get a discount to building on it.

But I agree with you. They're just annoying and pointless. Especially when independent cities die and leave the whole territory filled with it.

Clearing ruins isn't pointless. Ruins block exploitation, you have to clear them to benefit from those tiles.
The ones in the distance aren't doing anything but you should clear the ones on would-be exploited tiles.

Besides that I wish that
A: they were more visible both when selecting to remove them and just in general.
B: there was an option in the build queue to just remove all ruins in a territory with one click, for those occastional times where I don't have anything else I want to be building in that region.
C: there was some kind of benefit to leaving ruins, to make keeping vs clearing an actual choice to make instead of just "always clear them sooner or later."

Probably better to build on them, than clear them. You got a cost reduction for building on ruins.