Silmarillion
Chieftain
Hello. This is my first thread in Bug Reports, so I apologize if I do something incorrectly here. But what I just witnessed over the last few turns regarding Cultists and their Relics of the Void went so far beyond the normal brokenness of the game (like the "Stop asking me" for Friendships not working) that I just had to document it.
Okay so, I hadn't used Cultists for many weeks, but in my most recent game, I decided to give them a shot when Gaul plopped down a City in a spot I really wanted (in my save, Lisieux in the North-West of the minimap). Over about a dozen turns, I shovelled about twenty Cultists into the hungry maw of that 2-Pop-City, but nothing happened, with the City's Loyalty always remaining at zero. Since I have no idea how Loyalty works, that wouldn't have been enough to report it as a bug... but then I finally noticed that all those tasty Relics of the Void that I allegedly got... never appeared in my Cities (which all should have space for them, obviously, with the Obelisks).
Well, that's not exactly true. I did actually receive two Relics out of the twenty or so, in my two nearest cities to the Cultist Carnage, Calcutta and Kyoto. But apparently, each time I "received" a new Relic, it just overwrites one of those two. You can see that for yourself: in my save, there's the Relic of the Sightless Worm in Kyoto, and I have a Cultist with one charge remaining next to Lisieux. If you use that last charge, you receive the Relic "Hint Guide: Civilization II" (which would make me laugh under different circumstances) in Kyoto, overwriting the Sightless Worm. Apparently, this had been happening with all those twenty Cultists, but I hadn't noticed at the time.
So, am I just overlooking some basic mechanic, because I'm an idiot? Do the Relics have only a tiny radius in which a city can get them? Did this happen because a couple of turns before this, I manually placed one of the Relics in my St. Peter's Cathedral, in a very distant, different City?
That was a lot of text, sorry. I hope this might be helpful or at least entertaining to somebody.
Okay so, I hadn't used Cultists for many weeks, but in my most recent game, I decided to give them a shot when Gaul plopped down a City in a spot I really wanted (in my save, Lisieux in the North-West of the minimap). Over about a dozen turns, I shovelled about twenty Cultists into the hungry maw of that 2-Pop-City, but nothing happened, with the City's Loyalty always remaining at zero. Since I have no idea how Loyalty works, that wouldn't have been enough to report it as a bug... but then I finally noticed that all those tasty Relics of the Void that I allegedly got... never appeared in my Cities (which all should have space for them, obviously, with the Obelisks).
Well, that's not exactly true. I did actually receive two Relics out of the twenty or so, in my two nearest cities to the Cultist Carnage, Calcutta and Kyoto. But apparently, each time I "received" a new Relic, it just overwrites one of those two. You can see that for yourself: in my save, there's the Relic of the Sightless Worm in Kyoto, and I have a Cultist with one charge remaining next to Lisieux. If you use that last charge, you receive the Relic "Hint Guide: Civilization II" (which would make me laugh under different circumstances) in Kyoto, overwriting the Sightless Worm. Apparently, this had been happening with all those twenty Cultists, but I hadn't noticed at the time.
So, am I just overlooking some basic mechanic, because I'm an idiot? Do the Relics have only a tiny radius in which a city can get them? Did this happen because a couple of turns before this, I manually placed one of the Relics in my St. Peter's Cathedral, in a very distant, different City?
That was a lot of text, sorry. I hope this might be helpful or at least entertaining to somebody.
Awesome question.
Is that a known Thing that I was too stupid to read in some description of something? That Cultists are bound to their birth city like archaeologists? Very possible. If so, I deeply apologize.
