If you're talking about barb cities, yes the condition is 2 per civ on average.
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)that kind of contradicts using it as a commerce city, though, doesn't it? With stone and gold it produces 45h in 5 1/2 turns.
Well, dang, let's crank out some cities and get the barbs populating that big huge empty continent...
That's still probably only 4 barb cities which could spawn there (note 110 unowned tiles per barb city). And the RNG may have a word in that also (7% probability per turn).Well, dang, let's crank out some cities and get the barbs populating that big huge empty continent...
We should run a quick test on this (gifting settlers). I thought we shared their maintenance or something like that?
You're probably thinking of vassals in warlords, where the num cities maintenance takes into account vassal cities also.
Well, even if we don't go for the ***, it would still be nice if we could occupy bad lands with our friends and don't have to pay maintenance or constantly raze new settlements.
Does our island count as empty for this? In which case, could the barbs settle the gold (or copper) after all?
Does it appear in the diplo window?
Even I concede that that would be a good reason to build SH
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), so we make max use of 40% prerequisite bonus. 2 river tiles in the capital and the clam should do the trick. But we then need the odd turn at 0 research to pay for the distance maintenance in the second city.I didn't try the WB thing. How long did you wait after getting them a settler. A settler needs an escort to venture out and units assigned to city defense duty cannot do this (and as far as I know, the AIs don't change this assignment).Not only that - the barbs won't accept any unit gifts (even if you set the barbs up with a whole bunch of gold in WB first) - so we can't gift them a SOD either.
And if a barb settler is created in WB it just hunkers down in the nearest barb town.
Pity as it was a great idea
