Antiquity Sites are Untouchable? That's Pretty Inconvenient.

[steveg700]

I'm playing Russia, been getting plenty of great writers, painters, and musicians. No real need for archaeological museums, but that civic is a necessary stop on the path to getting to broadcast centers.

So, now that antiquity sites are revealed, the tiles appear to be locked down. Can't improve them, can't district them. Pretty frustrating. Anyone know tricks for getting around this?

 

[mnf]

Sounds like the only good way to take care of that is to mod a Builder action to destroy antiquity sites...

 

[Ozisl]

Yea, I noticed this... antiquity sites are really, really freaking annoying.

Another thing for the community to fix.

 

[CaiusDrewart]

Yep, this is a pain. Particularly since an archaeology museum and an archaeologist are a huge investment if you're not playing culturally.

 

[redwings1340]

Yeah, I've found it annoying too. Not gamebreaking, just frustrating.

 

[Ozisl]

It isn't entirely game breaking, but it can be city breaking... I've had a city with several antiquity sites around it, preventing the building of districts (to be fair, also usually cornered off by ocean and desert)

Why we can't go all ISIS and blow up antiquities, I don't know.

 

[steveg700]

It isn't entirely game breaking, but it can be city breaking... I've had a city with several antiquity sites around it, preventing the building of districts (to be fair, also usually cornered off by ocean and desert)

Why we can't go all ISIS and blow up antiquities, I don't know.

Yeah, I had made a ring of mines around my planned industrial district, and then it was all broken up by the antiquity sites.

 

[redwings1340]

I guess for now, it's good to have one archeological museum in your empire, just to get rid of any super annoying antiquity sites that may pop up?

 

[Siptah]

You just need one or two museums to get rid of the most ill-placed archeological sites. Doesn't seem too hard to do and may be worth the investment. If the AI was better with digging up sites, you could also just open borders or hope whoever built the wonder that allows digging up sites in foreign territory comes for a visit.
Come on, it's really just one or two district places in underdevelloped cities... If at some point district cost is dependend on how many of this district you've already built, it's not even an investment any more.

 

[bladex]

Anyone know tricks for getting around this?

build archeologists and dig them up

 

[Baleur]

Do they give anything before being dug up? Like culture output or something to at least make a surrounded city somewhat semi-useful before investing in archaeologists?
They should, frankly.

 

[bladex]

they pretty much do nothing except get in your way unless you dig them up

 

[Cymsdale]

Yeah, I had made a ring of mines around my planned industrial district, and then it was all broken up by the antiquity sites.

This may be a good case for "pre-building" a district in a spot you plan to put it. Alternatively, you could place a builder improvement there temporarily.

 

[Disgustipated]

I try to delay this civic until I have most of my tiles already improved. It is annoying. My current game I only had two pop up in tundra and snow.

 

[Big J Money]

It is annoying, but the alternative is someone destroying the artifacts that someone else wants to get, which is unbalanced.

In order to destroy one you should pay the same cost as the person who puts in the effort to harvest it. And since archaeologists are much more expensive than builders, it's not fair to let builders take them out.

Really the solution here is you should build a museum to get rid of them. There can't be that many you want to improve.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Sounds like the only good way to take care of that is to mod a Builder action to destroy antiquity sites...

UNESCO would like a word with you . . .

 

[andydtoma]

But in real world there are infrastructure projects that are long time halted by unexpected archeological findings. I like this similarity.

 

[bbbt]

I don't know why the removed the ability like in Civ 5 where you could make them into tourist improvements, it seems like it would work well with the current model.

You could also unearth them and then sell them to the AI.

 

[joncnunn]

[QUOTE="bbbt, post: 14542386, member: 251092"
You could also unearth them and then sell them to the AI.[/QUOTE]

In Civ VI, you can only dig them up if you have a place to store them so there's no real point in selling them to the AI if you've gone to the trouble of building the theater district + archaeology museum + archaeologist.

 

[bbbt]

[QUOTE="bbbt, post: 14542386, member: 251092"
You could also unearth them and then sell them to the AI.

In Civ VI, you can only dig them up if you have a place to store them so there's no real point in selling them to the AI if you've gone to the trouble of building the theater district + archaeology museum + archaeologist.[/QUOTE]

I usually have tons of sites, so I was thinking of having like one museum and a mercenary archaeologist - i.e. dig up, put in the museum, sell it. Repeat like ten times. But you're right that's it's probably wouldn't pay off the investment of hammers -and archaeologist only last what, 3 times I think?