Colonies are cool!

[Watiggi]

For the record too, in my Victoria game, my first colony was America I don't know whether that was intentional though or just luck.

 

[El Koeno]

For the record too, in my Victoria game, my first colony was America I don't know whether that was intentional though or just luck.

I got America twice, while creating colonies with the Dutch. So it might not be a coincidence.

 

[DrJambo]

Colonies are a great addition and one that the AI seems to be able to use ok too. Mansa just made Egypt in my game. Just remember that when you're beefing them up or helping them to get going that they can still win!

 

[Martinus]

Nice screenies, Watiggi. Talk about the British Commonwealth.

I had a similarly fun game founding colonies as Dutch. Tonight I'm gonna play a Terra game with Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

 

[El Koeno]

Colonies are a great addition and one that the AI seems to be able to use ok too. Mansa just made Egypt in my game. Just remember that when you're beefing them up or helping them to get going that they can still win!

I've just seen Alexander create the Byzantines. As Persia I just created Arabia. How are these civs chosen? Is it random, another civ out of your cultural group, or is there some list that game uses?

 

[lionheart]

The colony system is interesting, but it doesn't quite do what you ask it to do, which is somewhat frustrating (at least in my case)..

For instance, in a game as the Dutch on a terra map, I had established a very important city in the middle of the new continent that acted as a landbridge between the two large oceans, while it was also surrounded by two spice plantations and two tobacco plantations.

After establishing four other cities on the northern part of the continent and getting hit by the maintenance penalty, I decided I wanted to release those four cities, while hanging on to that central city. So, I went to the domestic advisor screen, selected the four cities I wanted to release and clicked the release button..

Unfortunately, instead of just releasing those cities, I get the option to release / gift a multitude of cities, so I click the option for the ones I thought I had selected. George Washington then greets me very amicably and I move over to the new world, only to see to my horror that the central city had also been given away!!

(Aparently you can't specify exactly which cities you wish to release, which is a shame..)

I accepted the situation and moved on to colonize the lower half of the new world, with the inention to release those as another colony as well. This I did and when I chose to release them, instead of forming another Civ, those cities joined America, even though I had specified that I wanted them released and not gifted away!

So, suffice to say that I'm ok with the colony feature (despite the fact that I think overseas maintenance is ridiculously high at times), but I think from now on I might decide to stay away from Terra maps and the likes..

 

[futurehermit]

I believe you can only create one colony per landmass. You SHOULD be able to specify which cities though, from what I've been reading so far (get the game probably tomorrow)

 

[SkippyT]

I'm not sure if this has been brought up, but I think that vassals should be of the same ethnicity as the founder, for example England will found France, Aztecs would found Maya and Khmer would found Korea.

 

[suspendinlight]

while it was also surrounded by two spice plantations and two tobacco plantations.

Sorry this is OT but there is a tobacco resource? Is this new for BTS?

 

[wilcoxchar]

It would be awesome if you could make civs that were specific to being released as colonies, and even better if you could specify which civs could release that civ as a colony.

 

[mice]

(Aparently you can't specify exactly which cities you wish to release, which is a shame..)

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You can specify which cities. Just hit the fist icon and you get a screen with all the give awayable cities.

Other post, no there is no tobacco.

 

[lionheart]

Sorry about the tobacco, I keep forgetting what the resource is named.. The spices and the other one (with the blueish leafs)..

Anyway, regarding the colonies, I know I can select which cities I want to liberate, the problem was that I had selected four cities (using the ctrl-key in the Domestic Advisor Screen), specifically meaning to exclude the city I wanted to hang on to.. When I got the list of options, I automatically assumed that the one in top (which listed ALL five cities on the other continent instead of the four I had selected), was the correct one.. So when I clicked it, assuming I'd still have my precious city with me and found out I didn't, naturally I was a little dissappointed (to say the least)..

This is an option that I personally would like to see appear in a patch or a mod, because it's a little unusual that we can choose which cities we want to release, but we can't exclude cities from release..

Also, Futurehermit; you were right about the one colony per landmass.. When I opened WorldBuilder and replaced the one tile land connection with a coastal tile and repeated the release colony action, I released Germany under Frederick the Great.. After reconnecting the land, I am now the proud leader of two colonies on the same continent..

 

[anandus]

and the other one (with the blueish leafs)..

I think you mean dyes

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Earlier I mentioned that I hoped you get +1 for every city you liberate, well you do !

 

[Watiggi]

Keep an eye on it. I think it might decrease as time goes by (the + liberated cities modifier), but I'm not sure exactly though.

 

[morchuflex]

In the Domestic Advisor (little house icon), the button on the lower right corner of the window.

Call me dumb, but I can't see said button. All I see in the lower right corner of the F1 advisor (that's the right one, isn't it?) is the word "exit"... And still, I have cities on 3 different islands. What am I missing?

 

[Watiggi]

Eh, make sure there is at least 2 of those cities on one island, then the button will appear.

Also, if your cities are near another civ, then the button will appear too allowing you to 'liberate' them to their empire.

So, if those 3 cities were on 3 seperate islands, no where near any other rival civ, then the button wont appear. The button appears on the immediate left of the exit button, so you were looking in the right place there.

 

[lionheart]

Select a city in the Domestic Advisor tab (F1) and, if it has a red fist in the same bar (towards the end), a red fist button appears below and you can liberate / release that city..

 

[morchuflex]

Eh, make sure there is at least 2 of those cities on one island, then the button will appear.

Thanks! I added a second city on one of these islands, and it worked.
Too bad you can't release individual cities.

 

[Ellada]

Playing earth map made made from AU ARMAGEDDON at http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=232775
Playing with Dutch i have central/east/north europe with 6 cities built in north americe, but i can't seem to grant them colony status, the button in domestic screen doesn't show...... it's obvious europe and north america should be considered different islands, not?
The game started with 18 civ's, one is destroyed (russia).

What am i doing wrong?