Arioch's Analyst Thread

[Ahriman]

I think its almost certain that the Legion requires iron. Now, whether or not the Ballista does is something different.

Krakatoa

This I think.

 

[beestar]

Does this mean that the road builder pays the maintenance, no matter whose culture eventually engulfs the road tile?

 

[12agnar0k]

It could be pompei, you know the volcano doesn't have to exist today to be in on the start of the game at 4000BC .

 

[12agnar0k]

Does this mean that the road builder pays the maintenance, no matter whose culture eventually engulfs the road tile?

If it is taken over by someone else territory, that player would be maintaining roads he/she controls so in that case the maintenance would cease and become the other players responsibility.

 

[Ahriman]

Krakatoa is an island, Vesuvius isn't. [And Pompeii is a town, not a volcano.]

But more importantly:
http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_terrain.html#natural_wonders

We have it confirmed.

 

[Niniux]

If it is taken over by someone else territory, that player would be maintaining roads he/she controls so in that case the maintenance would cease and become the other players responsibility.

Are you sure? That doesn't make sense to me. We'll have to see, but if your roads are taken by another Civ, I'd assume you'd just cancel your maintenance of them and they'd disappear. Or is that not how it works?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

So, if I wanted to bankrupt another civ, I could go all road spaghetti in his territory?

 

[Ahriman]

You can't build roads in another player's territory anymore.

 

[Tomice]

So, if I wanted to bankrupt another civ, I could go all road spaghetti in his territory?

I really hope the devs have as many ideas for weird exploits as we have, and fix them!

 

[Calouste]

I really hope the devs have as many ideas for weird exploits as we have, and fix them!

I'm pretty sure the gameplaying community will come up with some exploits that the devs didn't think about, for the simple reason that it is a few million players against a few dozen devs (maybe a few hunderd including beta testers).

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Well I think the rules would be

If you build the road, that makes you the owner
If a road you currently own is in someone else's territory, they become the new owner (and they stay the new owner until the road is in another someone else's territory... if the road goes into neutral territory again, then it stays the same)

 

[12agnar0k]

Krakatoa is an island, Vesuvius isn't. [And Pompeii is a town, not a volcano.]

But more importantly:
http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_terrain.html#natural_wonders

We have it confirmed.

What was pompei's volcano called then, it was the first time the name volcano was used due to being the volcano first discovered. Surely it had a name, and wasn't just called volcano .

 

[Dark_Jedi06]

What was pompei's volcano called then, it was the first time the name volcano was used due to being the volcano first discovered. Surely it had a name, and wasn't just called volcano .

He said it right there...Vesuvius.

 

[Psycedilla]

Well I think the rules would be

If you build the road, that makes you the owner
If a road you currently own is in someone else's territory, they become the new owner (and they stay the new owner until the road is in another someone else's territory... if the road goes into neutral territory again, then it stays the same)

naa, think its eaiser than that, whos building what doesnt matter, i guess each turn its a check counting each roaded tile in your cultural influence. so if you capture a city, you get that city's road maintanance as well

 

[12agnar0k]

Ah ok Vesuvius, typical of the romans to choose a latin name ^>^.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Modern Italian name for it is Vesuvio (Latin -us endings become -o in modern Italian). It's still active, btw.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

naa, think its eaiser than that, whos building what doesnt matter, i guess each turn its a check counting each roaded tile in your cultural influence. so if you capture a city, you get that city's road maintanance as well

However, you can build roads outside of your cultural influence... those have to be counted somehow.

And when you take a city your cultural influence encompasses those new tiles so of course you would become the new owner.

 

[Dargoth]

A tiny screenshot with part of the Mediterranean map pack. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything larger yet ...

Ive heard of the Americas map pack and the middle east map pack...but which store is offering a Mediterranean map pack?

 

[SJSerio]

A tiny screenshot with part of the Mediterranean map pack. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything larger yet ...

Interesting... I see the Straight of Messina. Too bad this isn't a full world map! That has never been in a Firaxis/Microprose produced Earth Map.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Well, they have world maps this game (that vary by scale). Maybe on the largest, it'll have the straight. Of course, on smaller maps, this is harder to represent.