Things you only just now realized
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Koiranputki
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Hmmm...I wasn't aware of that... Does it have to be worked by the city? I assume so...that it can't merely be within your empire's borders...Or..???
[Edit: An additional thought...did you have to be right next to Old Faithful?...if so that probably means it's being interpreted as a mountain...which seems odd to me.]
And while were talking about this stuff, are there other natural wonders that might allow buildings without the requisite tech? [You would think Krakatoa would be a good candidate...one of the cities in my current game has Gibraltar...but I didn't notice anything unusual...the mountain with it qualifies for Machu Picchu...which I was expecting anyway.
[Aside: at least some of the other so-called natural wonders mountains don't seem to qualify for Machu Picchu....I think Sri Pada didn't allow me to build Machu Picchu...]
Yzman
Deity
There are a few natural wonders that count as mountains for that purpose...I read them in a previous topic but can't remember what they are now.
Edit: Found a post about it.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=469632&highlight=mountain
Edit: Found a post about it.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=469632&highlight=mountain
blackcatatonic
Queen of Meme
Also that Great Admirals can enter Ocean tiles when they spawn, even if you don't have Astronomy yet, so you can use them for exploration purposes.
dac050
Warlord
This has to be one of my favorites. However, I didn't "just realize" this. I learned it from CivFanatics. Thanks!
It makes sense for mountainous wonders to count towards observatories, however, old faithful is hardly a mountain.
Well, today I discovered that if one city state conquers another, and you then buy the conquering CS with Austria, you get both city states. Two for the price of one. Not sure if it works that way if you take the CS by conquering it, but you'd think it would, given that it works that way in the above scenario. Someone should test that.
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Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Well, it's more useful than it should be since Subs aren't as invisible as they should be.
Tachii
Procrastinator
Confirmed: Settling on Stone enables me to build Stone Works right off the bat. Should work for Stables and Mint as well.
hobbsyoyo
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Well, it is sitting on top of a supervolcano!
I just discovered a sort of hidden benefit to the Dutch.
First of all, the polders are already just so, so awesome. I am in love with them. Like, erotically.
And as I was conquering another civ over the past 2 days, I did something I almost never would do otherwise. Pillage. Typically I'd never do that because I'd just be pillaging stuff that would have soon been mine. That's stupid. I might make the rare exception when they have a strategic resource that is giving them a clear advantage, or when I'm just about to sue for peace anyway, but that's it. However, this civ was built on floodplains and I knew I'd just be replacing those farms with polders anyway, so I let my knights have fun.
Being able to pillage a ton of farms where I'd never consider doing so otherwise with a civ that is already an economic powerhouse is just lol on the cake.
Maybe it was a bad idea since I still tanked the population temporarily, but I assume it tanks enough when I conquer it anyway. I'm not sure exactly how the math works out there. Plus it should catch up quick, because polders.
First of all, the polders are already just so, so awesome. I am in love with them. Like, erotically.
And as I was conquering another civ over the past 2 days, I did something I almost never would do otherwise. Pillage. Typically I'd never do that because I'd just be pillaging stuff that would have soon been mine. That's stupid. I might make the rare exception when they have a strategic resource that is giving them a clear advantage, or when I'm just about to sue for peace anyway, but that's it. However, this civ was built on floodplains and I knew I'd just be replacing those farms with polders anyway, so I let my knights have fun.
Being able to pillage a ton of farms where I'd never consider doing so otherwise with a civ that is already an economic powerhouse is just lol on the cake.
Maybe it was a bad idea since I still tanked the population temporarily, but I assume it tanks enough when I conquer it anyway. I'm not sure exactly how the math works out there. Plus it should catch up quick, because polders.
Tachii
Procrastinator
I pillage farms all the time if I don't feel lazy. You don't want a puppet to have good growth. And puppets will never use 3 food farms or 3 hammer mines (unless they have no gold tiles) anyways. Most of the river farms should be converted to trading posts anyways.
Paratroopers can paradrop into a tile that is already occupied by a military unit that you own. Since they always have movement after a paradrop, I guess the programmers figured they could drop into an already occupied tile, then move out.
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