Cities founded later should have some things already built

[lutzj]

If you start a game at an age later than Anceint, when you found it, you get some free buildings and population points. I think this should pretty much be the default assumption, so that I don't have to waste all that time checking them and growing them from scratch when I found new cities in later eras.

It's already in there if you START in a later age. If you start in Ancient and go to Modern and build a city, it will just be a normal city. (I guess they decided important sites would be settled by then.) Also, conquered cities lose most of their buildings for balance and realism reasons.

 

[warpstorm]

Looking at the history of the town I live in, it started with a handful of people and slowly grew adding amenities gradually over a period of around 100 years (I've heard that it started as a crossroads where there was a tavern in the middle of farmland). Since I live in the USA this was obviously not in the Ancient era.

Let's just say that I disagree with the OP.

 

[BigBirdZ28]

This is something we need badly.

As someone who only likes to play very long, drawn out games, building new cities becomes a real pain.

 

[rysmiel]

As someone who only likes to play very long, drawn out games, building new cities becomes a real pain.

What do you like about long drawn out games, then, if you don't mind me asking ?

Building new cities and getting them up to scratch is a large part of the appeal of a long game to me, and really, a solid large empire should not have any problem bunging out a settler, a couple of workers to add population to get it up to a reasonable size, a couple of workers to get the surrounding terrain up to scratch, and enough cash flow to buy the relevant start-up buildings within a few turns in any Civ game that does a good job of supporting solid large empires in the first place.

I'm quite fond of the notion of advanced settler types that get a certain amount of basic buildings or other benefits for founding cities late in the game; just not seeing how your objection fits together.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Whenever there's empty space with a necessary resource in, just like in Civ III. Churchill, on Hudson bay, was essentially founded after WWII.

Not just in the back of beyond either
Milton Keynes is a city founded as a 'New Town' after WWII in the UK

edit: also 1 turn covers many years in the early game, much less later on so effectively your granaries are built a lot quicker plus with US you can always rush buy

I think it would be a bad idea and wouldn't want it in the 'Official' Civ but if someone wants to try and mod it in good luck to them.

 

[Scilly_guy]

Whats with having to build supermarkets everywhere, I mean they're business, maybe you could found a supermarket chain which builds 1 in the largest city with out one, every few turns, if corporations were well implemented it could be like that.

How SHOULD corporations work? I think they should be national and you get to decide on the name and ethics.

 

[TheDS]

Well, no, you can't "always buy" buildings. First, I'm usually still running Rep, cuz I'm an SE kinda guy, second, I usually can't afford to spare the income - it's needed to upgrade units, and third, HOLY CRAP stuff is expensive! Sure, I can usually afford the first handful of buildings, but after that... Forges and Factories aren't cheap. Heck, I don't even whip much beyond that point. My only hope is to get Cristo and do the one-turn swap and then try to rebuild my economy from the losses US inflicts. (Not many Towns - could you guess?)

 

[bestbrian]

It's alive..IT'S ALIVE!!!