Recent content by Agent_TBC

I know rivers are one way to link cities, along with roads and coastline. And I know that rivers in your territory give a movement bonus (and neutral rivers give a movement bonus with one of the laws that I always take). My question is whether there is any utility at all in building a road...

You can get most of what you're looking for with the Tile Yields overlay. It's hotkey M or you can shift-click the button in the bottom right under the minimap to keep it toggled on. It will show you the resources and which are upgraded. For instance, it will show either ELEPHANTS for...

I've generally taken polytheism + slavery to this point (slavery for the orders, poly for the shrines) but as I've moved up the difficulty setting it's become harder to manage happiness until the late mid-game when you start stacking major happiness stuff. So this game a free event allowing me...

Is there any benefit to founding a city directly on the coast as opposed to a hex or two inland such that its border includes some water tiles? There are buildings and improvements that can only be built adjacent to the city center, and founding directly on the coast reduces the number of...

Whenever a spy of mine successfully completes a mission but is detected the popup says the spy is promoted from Spy Recruit to Agent and I should use the action button to choose a promotion, however there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. When the spy escapes and returns to my city they do...

I feel like I'm clearly missing something because I can't see any way to invite another player to join an existing war? I can propose a joint war against someone we are both at peace with, but I can't see how to try to bribe them into joining a war I am alreadly engaged in, nor how to offer to...

...That is in direct conflict with what the game tells you. If you look up Domination Victory in the Civilopedia it says that you only have to be the only civ still in possession of its original capital. It *specifically says* that a third party civ can own another civs capital and you will...

Ok I loaded up the save, I own both Pokrovka and Ra-Kadet and the game is not ending, even though Egypt and Scythia are the only other Civs in existence.

This seems like a stupid question but I can't seem to get the Domination Victory to trigger in my current game. I'm Barbarossa and am obviously still in possession of Aachen. The only two other civs left are Scythia and Egypt. I have Cairo from Egypt and, what, Ephesus from Scythia? In any...

Faster unit movement (animation) is also my #1 wish for quality of life. Right now the choice is between instantaneous (ie no animation) and absurdly and painfully slow. If I move a ship 6 hexes I have to tab out and so something else while I wait for it to finish.

Thanks, the math and stuff looked right to me but I didn't want to go on a resource harvesting spree without double checking I wasn't crazy. PAVE THE PLANET.

So am I wrong in that you're often better off harvesting resources and putting farms or other improvements in their place in the mid and particularly late game? I've got a city with a bunch of banana resources which is great early on but it looks to me like once my farms start getting...

Right, what the heck is up with showing the second-to-last thing you've built? It's useless.

OOH SNAP, Germany wasted Carthage. Thumbs up to you dudes.

In my game I had 12/12 trade routes for a very long time. All of a sudden it drops to 12/10 and when a trade route expires I cannot make a new one and I can't for the life of me figure out why I lost 2 trade route capacity. I'm not at war and nothing got pillaged. I didn't replace any tile...