@ OP:
suggest picking up EUI (enhanced user interface mod) - scrolling over a tile gives very specific information about what the improvement, including Great Person tile improvement, will give from the tile yield.
@ beetle: If you only have 1 horse/cow/sheep in range of the city, I feel that a stable isn't worth the investment but acknowledge that it's more player preference than indisputable strategy, with the X-factor being how much you plan on utilizing the unit-production bonus in that city.
Furthermore, you have to read the fine print when considering planting Great Person improvements on any tile with a resource. The thing to look for is whether the prerequisite is "improved source of..." or "quarry/pasture/etc." A great person tile improvement counts as a resource tile with an improvement, but obviously not as a quarry/mine/pasture/etc. Examples:
-the stone circles pantheon applies to "quarries," so an academy won't add the 2 faith.
-Attila's production bonus applies to "pastures" so an academy won't add the bonus hammer.
-circuses require an "improved horse or ivory" so an academy WILL unlock the building on a horse or ivory, and WILL provide the strategic resources of horses, but WILL NOT grant the ivory luxury.
suggest picking up EUI (enhanced user interface mod) - scrolling over a tile gives very specific information about what the improvement, including Great Person tile improvement, will give from the tile yield.
@ beetle: If you only have 1 horse/cow/sheep in range of the city, I feel that a stable isn't worth the investment but acknowledge that it's more player preference than indisputable strategy, with the X-factor being how much you plan on utilizing the unit-production bonus in that city.
Furthermore, you have to read the fine print when considering planting Great Person improvements on any tile with a resource. The thing to look for is whether the prerequisite is "improved source of..." or "quarry/pasture/etc." A great person tile improvement counts as a resource tile with an improvement, but obviously not as a quarry/mine/pasture/etc. Examples:
-the stone circles pantheon applies to "quarries," so an academy won't add the 2 faith.
-Attila's production bonus applies to "pastures" so an academy won't add the bonus hammer.
-circuses require an "improved horse or ivory" so an academy WILL unlock the building on a horse or ivory, and WILL provide the strategic resources of horses, but WILL NOT grant the ivory luxury.