That would be the Like modifer (F2). Just press F2 after selecting select by color (or fill style or line style, etc) and CC3+ should ask you to pick an entity to take the property from.

Unless you need to spend a lot of that on a graphics card (which won't do anything for CC3+, but if you plan to use the computer for gaming, you may want one), the 13th generation Intel i5's are pretty good, both in actual performance, and value for money. If you can get an i5-13600K, I would go for it.

Recommend getting 16GB of RAM. CC3+ itself can't use more than 4, but your OS and other programs want their chunk of it, so 16 allows CC3+ to get it's fill. Probably best to go with DDR5 these days for the future, but if the budget constrains you, you are better off going for DDR4 ram instead of scaling back the CPU.

I also recommend having a NVMe system drive, and make sure it is big enough to install CC3+ on it. Personally, I recommend 512GB+. CC3+ do use RAM caching, so it won't be terrible on a slower drive, but getting the extra speed is good.

For the rest of the components, get what you can. You don't need a huge PSU (unless you are also getting a powerful graphics card)

Extra storage, more ram is always good.

Nothing special about city maps, the special thing here is the building symbols. Symbols with shading maps (Like all proper CD3-style buildings) don't get redrawn at the end of the effects pass like other symbols do, this is to preserve the shading effects that have been applied to them I suppose. You can of course disable this behavior for all symbols with the DELAYDRAWSYM command.

That's a pretty good question. The earliest map I could find in my collection that I actually made and used for a game is dated 2005, but that was not the first time I used CC.

I think my first encounters was with the cut back version - Campaign Mapper - which shipped with the Core Rules 2.0 product back in 1999. I remember picking this up pretty early after it's release. I think I also got the FR Atlas around that time, probably around 2000.

Most of my early maps were simple modifications of the FR Atlas maps.

Today I am adding Pappy's Pub by @Shessar:

I can't make all potential useful topics sticky, the front page would just be a long list of stickies, which is not very user-friendly. Instead, it is listed in the resources category, which you can find directly from the left-hand navigation menu (Helpful resources and FAQ link)

Tools menu -> Options -> Pick cursor aparture

🎬️ Videos: Fixing Selection

At times you may find that selections doesn't work properly. For example a command that expects you to select something (such as the erase command) just seem to terminate without allowing you to selecting things at all, or it might appear to select things automatically.

This is caused by the fact that CC3+ has different selection methods for different purposes, and sometimes the wrong one may be enabled (often caused by a macro that didn't complete properly).

To fix it, select Options from the Tools menu, then hit the Select method button and make sure that the selection method is set to "dialog or Popup". Make sure to just hit OK to exit out of the dialogs, and your selections should work as before.

If you don't mind using the CC3+ command line, this can also be fixed by just typing SELBYD followed by enter.

?️ Further Reading: Selections

City of Medulzan, by Quenten:

I find those old symbols really nice. They're a bit tricky when exporting in high resolution due to their use of zero-width lines, so it works best when you view it at exactly 100% zoom.

Kind of. The List command in CC3+ gives a lot of detailed information about entities, and it can be exported to a text file that shouldn't bee too hard to parse programmatically.

If that does not cover the need, it is also possible to write your own extension for CC3+ that can walk the entity list and generate whatever output you need, but of course, that does require a bit of programming.