After years of playing, since the date the game was released ......
I FOUND THE HOLY MOUNTAIN!!!!!!
Spoiler :
Alas, I already chopped several forests top the left of it
At least it has a few lake tiles, and I built the Statue of Liberty so it gets a free specialist.
TIL that if you have "No Vassals" checked, then you can settle the new world on Terra and pay no Colony Maintenance costs.
Thank you for thisTIL that if you have "No Vassals" checked, then you can settle the new world on Terra and pay no Colony Maintenance costs.
That is so cool!
I had no idea it came with its own picture.
Yes, I think No Vassals turns off Colony Maintenance. I will keep that in mind for botm.
Ah, but you only get the sustained peace bonus with foreign routes, right?This was new to me, and apparently also to many other SGOTM players - Trade routes get no bonus at all for being foreign. The only bonus is from sustained peace. After a war they usually won't be worth more than internal trade routes (and rarely form) until 25 turns of peace. All there in the tooltip, of course, but who would ever read those.
Yes, of course. This is the bonus that normally boosts foreign trade routes. The difference is that it is not a bonus that applies directly because trade route is foreign, it also requires sustained peace. Sustained peace bonus increases 3%/turn, capping at 150% (it is always 150% if you have never been at war). Normally a trade route will have +25% modifier for connection to capital. When sustained peace bonus reaches 75% in 25 turns, this bonus, together with connection to capital bonus, combines to +100% and you get one extra commerce from the trade route.Ah, but you only get the sustained peace bonus with foreign routes, right?