ACK! AI PUPPET building Units.

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My spy just observed Persia building a Mech Infantry being built in one of their puppet cities (Osininka; it IS a large city). Also, it's got an Artist specialist (3 GA points and no wonders in the city). I'd thought their puppets would follow the same rules as the player.

I wonder if the puppet indicator is in error.
 
No, puppets will build Units. My puppet cities began building units once ALL possible buildings were constructed.
 
I've seen puppets "build" units or science or wealth.

It never gets finished or does anything, but if they think it is in the best interest of that city to do it, it'll try.

It's actually really annoying sometimes, particularly in coastal puppets that love to try to build workboats.
 
Wow, I've never had a unit pop out of a puppet, certainly never a fishboat which would be awesome (once had to move a fishboat 19 turns to get some whales on the other side of my continent). And since puppets often never build Opera Houses I have had some just sit unproductive for turns and turns.
 
Aw, they won't build Opera Houses? I thought puppets would eventually build everything available to them. That's disappointing.
 
GhostSalsa said:
Wow, I've never had a unit pop out of a puppet, certainly never a fishboat which would be awesome (once had to move a fishboat 19 turns to get some whales on the other side of my continent). And since puppets often never build Opera Houses I have had some just sit unproductive for turns and turns.
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When they are unproductive, they are attempting to do something they can't. If you annex them, you can see what they're doing (maybe even if you just look at their city screen, I noticed it when I started annexing puppets that seemed to be doing nothing though).

You see nothing because they are working on something they can't do, and they seem to get stuck on it for several turns even if they have something else to do...
 
Puppets can build UTOPIAN PROJECT :mischief:
In one of my game, after I've completed five policy branches, I wondered why I couldn't build Utopian Project in my capital. Later I realized it was being built in a puppet city and it would take 35 turns to finish while my capital took 12. :lol:
 
Lordleoz said:
Puppets can build UTOPIAN PROJECT :mischief:
In one of my game, after I've completed five policy branches, I wondered why I couldn't build Utopian Project in my capital. Later I realized it was being built in a puppet city and it would take 35 turns to finish while my capital took 12. :lol:
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I definitely wanna see a screenshot of that. Not that I don't believe you, but because it would look funny.
 
crawf0rd said:
I definitely wanna see a screenshot of that. Not that I don't believe you, but because it would look funny.
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That happened when I was playing vanilla and sadly, I got no save of that turn. :(
 
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