Fish Man
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I found a hilarious (and pretty rare but cool and potentially useful) way to contact other civs in iso.
If a city that you found is a bit close to another civilization, occasionally a popup will show asking if you want the liberate the city. Under no circumstances would you normally want to do this, but here's the thing: the governor might ask this of you regardless of whether you met the civ in question or even are physically capable of reaching/contacting them. So in a recent Saladin game, I met the Maya because upon prompting I gave an island city to them, even though said island was separated from the main Mayan landmass by a good 4-5 tiles of ocean. Free intercontinental international trade routes and potentially the ability to backfill a solid 40 turns before I would normally be able to? Sign me up!
(In this case, I refused because it was actually a pretty good spot and I didn't want to ruin relations by recapping it even though that would be easy. Plus I was only a couple turns from optics. But still - a pretty awesome if unusual find.)
If a city that you found is a bit close to another civilization, occasionally a popup will show asking if you want the liberate the city. Under no circumstances would you normally want to do this, but here's the thing: the governor might ask this of you regardless of whether you met the civ in question or even are physically capable of reaching/contacting them. So in a recent Saladin game, I met the Maya because upon prompting I gave an island city to them, even though said island was separated from the main Mayan landmass by a good 4-5 tiles of ocean. Free intercontinental international trade routes and potentially the ability to backfill a solid 40 turns before I would normally be able to? Sign me up!
(In this case, I refused because it was actually a pretty good spot and I didn't want to ruin relations by recapping it even though that would be easy. Plus I was only a couple turns from optics. But still - a pretty awesome if unusual find.)
