Banana gives bonuses only in forests?
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danedwardsuk
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Well you're kind of cutting the banana trees down 
morchuflex
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Shhhhh! What are you talking about?
alpaca
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You only get them after declaring independence. The British Empire, after all, obviously never traded slaves.
Syndrome" in Col.Thundercracker
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Presumably, they exist unseen in the game, and become those two colonists per colony you get if you select the "All Men Are Free" civic during your revolution.
And who, at last, start working (+25% yields) when you select the "Enslavement".
P.S. the whole Constitution concept seems not well thought-out and polished for me.
alpaca
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And who, at last, start working (+25% yields) when you select the "Enslavement".
P.S. the whole Constitution concept seems not well thought-out and polished for me.
The whole constitution except for "all men are equal" is totally pointless because you're just piling all available resources into the WoI and after that you win.
IMHO one should always consider the post-war period aswell.. and a time when ones cities span the whole of the americas..
Then, a +25% rawmaterial is worth a lot more than ~30 ind servants as a once upon a time bonus.
alpaca
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And, in gameplay terms, I should consider this why? There is no post-war period because after the war you will have won. If we'd be talking about victory after the war has been fought, that's another issue but we shouldn't discuss a theoretical way of what the game might or should be but the way it is now
Onionsoilder
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Actually, isn't it weird that banannas exist at all when you first arrive? They were imported from Asia.
Cotton and sugar cane too... Those were imported from Asia. It makes no sense that bananas, sugar, and cotton exist from the start... but oh well. It's funny how a lot of the true new world origin resources just don't enter the game at all, except for tobacco and corn. They could have had everything from potatoes to peppers, from tomatoes to dyes.
This is also where the idea of being able to build cash crop plantations, such as cotton, sugar, etc, instead of having actual resources for these things, should come in play. The entire new world has already growing wild cash crops that need proper care and tending to even exist? It's just ******ed.
Actually - yes.
You always can imagine banana/cotton/tobacco etc bonus just as 'a place with unique fertility that is very suitable for cotton/tobacco/bananas'. There currently may be no bananas at all, but it will grow nice, if planted.
And then the illusion is gone when you discover that the natives have this mysterious ability to be able to train you in farming crops that they've never ever seen before...
