Cannot figure out Commercial Hub adjacency bonus

[sanchopanda]

Hi!

I cannot figure out this adjacency bonus. The lens shows +3, I have the 100% policy card enabled, so its +6.

Why is this only +3? Two districts and four adjacent river tiles. Shouldn't this be something like +9? Even without the mountains it should be +5. Have I misunderstood what river tiles are? Or is there a limit of one?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Hactar]

The river adjacency only counts once. If it’s on a river tile, you get +2. The number of adjacent river tiles doesn’t matter.

 

[Uberfrog]

To add to the above, I believe it doesn't even matter if there are two separate rivers bordering your Commercial Hub (as rare as this is) - you get a maximum of +2 for any number of adjacent rivers.

 

[DJ_Tanner]

To add to the above, I believe it doesn't even matter if there are two separate rivers bordering your Commercial Hub (as rare as this is) - you get a maximum of +2 for any number of adjacent rivers.

Correct, even if you build in between two different rivers you only get the adjacency bonus once for +2.


Also OP you mentioned mountains, those do not count towards commercial hubs only towards Holy Sites and Campuses.

 

[sanchopanda]

Thank you for the clarification!

This is weird because the Civilopedia states "+2 Gold from each adjacent river tile". "Each" sounds very much like... well... each

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

Thank you for the clarification!

This is weird because the Civilopedia states "+2 Gold from each adjacent river tile". "Each" sounds very much like... well... each

Well, sure. If you're going to go all literal.

I'd guess it was originally going to be +2 per adjacency, then after playtesting the developers decided to nerf it, but never updated the reference text which would already have been written. Possibly the text reflects their intentions and it's the implementation that's wrong, but if that was the case I suspect the code would have been corrected somewhere along the line. Paying someone to update the text in all of their various language editions would be lower down their priority list, so I can see that not getting updated. I don't agree with not updating it, but I could see someone making the decision not to worry about it.

 

[Onii-chan]

+2 from being next to a river, +1 from being next to 2 districts (city center and encampment), so +3 total and then doubled to +6 with the policy card

As mentioned above, multiple river tiles do not stack as far commercial hub adjacency bonuses are concerned, and mountains don't benefit them at all

 

[RealHuhn]

Which makes the free market requirement (+50% for CHs with +4 adjacency) kinda useless. The only way to get +4 is placing it on river next to a harbor which is not very optimal for more than one city (with Reyna adjacency bonus).
Or in huge clusters of districts which often isn't the best choice either.

Does it trigger for all CHs when you run the +100% adjacency card as well?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Thank you for the clarification!

This is weird because the Civilopedia states "+2 Gold from each adjacent river tile". "Each" sounds very much like... well... each

Yes, the tooltip for the Commercial Hub in the build list says that as well. I was expecting it to be changed for R&F, but it apparently wasn't.

 

[myclan]

Which makes the free market requirement (+50% for CHs with +4 adjacency) kinda useless. The only way to get +4 is placing it on river next to a harbor which is not very optimal for more than one city (with Reyna adjacency bonus).
Or in huge clusters of districts which often isn't the best choice either.

Does it trigger for all CHs when you run the +100% adjacency card as well?

Yes when it combines with the +100% adjacency card. So it means you need 2 policies to get the gold and because bank/stock exchange is too expensive I just find this policy stupid.