Accidentally sold your last copy of a lux...

[zxcvbob]

and don't have any spare happiness. Can you break the deal w/o declaring war by destroying the tile improvement? (then you can build it back) I wouldn't do this if I'd sold it for a lump sum, but I've had AI's offer to buy something from me for GPT only to find out afterwards that I needed it.

 

[Sclb]

Build a fort over the lux, then the deal breaks.

 

[DanQuayle]

One of the reason I switched to EUI
You can see all new duplicated luxuries right away and never have to make a lux deal after ending a turn.
For some reason, the luxury count in the trade screen seems to not update within the same turn which can induce you in error if you are not careful.

 

[Nigel_Tufnel2]

I screw up regularly when an AI asks for what appears to be a continuation of a trade deal (almost always agree without thinking), but it's a continuation of a FORMER trade deal... Suddenly I have none.

 

[zxcvbob]

Build a fort over the lux, then the deal breaks.

Don't even have to finish building it, just one turn destroys the previous improvement. (then you have to build it all over again, not just repair it) I just wasn't sure if that would break the deal.

 

[poxpower]

Don't even have to finish building it, just one turn destroys the previous improvement. (then you have to build it all over again, not just repair it) I just wasn't sure if that would break the deal.

So wait you could just park a worker on a mine and basically farm 240 gold every 6-7 turns from AIs?

 

[claudiupb]

So wait you could just park a worker on a mine and basically farm 240 gold every 6-7 turns from AIs?

Yes, but that is considered a massive exploit.
You could also sell your last copy if you see a barb coming towards that lux and you are unprepared, this way at least you get something for being pillaged. But this is also considered an exploit.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I have never even considered that! Personally I don't mind using exploits at all, but on the downside I really value my worker activity and I'd much rather get all my tiles working before doing smth like that. If my workers aren't busy though.. Getting 240 gold every 7 turns sounds neat

 

[poxpower]

I have never even considered that! Personally I don't mind using exploits at all, but on the downside I really value my worker activity and I'd much rather get all my tiles working before doing smth like that. If my workers aren't busy though.. Getting 240 gold every 7 turns sounds neat

You'd obviously just build a worker for that. That's 35 gold per turn, there's nothing else in the game that's even close to that good until late-game cargo ships.
Why waste time building banks and markets, just build workers and camp ressources lol.

Maybe one game I'll try that to see how ridiculous it can get.

 

[cain3456]

William of Orange is laughing at all of you...

 

[EthelredFTL]

So many things in this thread that I never thought of. At least I may take away that I can build a fort over the lux to break the deal - tho honestly I'd probably just let the turn turns pass and fulfill the deal.