Creative Constructions corporation conundrum

[clif9710]

I have a two great engineers and I want to build Creative Constructions with one. I have most of the CC resources, any one of which by itself should do, and I have the necessary technology - combustion. When I select the great engineer in the unit list, the CC icon is present but unavailable. No other civ has built CC.

Using the BUG domestic advisor economic screen, it shows that I cannot build CC in any city, though I have met all the requirements. What gives?

 

[Dr.Null]

To found a corporation, you need several ingredients:
- 1 Great Person
- 1 Corporation technology
- 1 other technology, like Combustion
- 0 State Property civic

Communists can't conceptualize Creative Construction.

 

[Protozoan]

Mining Inc is better in general than Creative Construction. Why are you going for the latter?

 

[mariogreymist]

There are a few reasons one might go for CC over Mining -
Lots of stone & marble, little coal, gold, silver.
Long, contested borders with a need for more culture.
If going for space, Sushi/CC/Jewelers yields 50% more corporate income than Sushi/mining. (if not going for space, > )
And the most obvious: someone else already got mining.

 

[MrCynical]

Check you're not running State property. On some old patches there's a bug with Mercantilism which will also stop you founding corporations.

I'm not too keen on Creative Constructions unless I'm aiming for a culture victory. Resource distributions generally make it implausible it would give better production than Mining Inc. Sushi is normally more than adequate for culture otherwise.

 

[clif9710]

tnx all. State property was the problem. I'm just learning how to use corporations so I grabbed the first one I could create. In this game I am far ahead of the pack so any one of the possible victories is quite possible. Culture looks good, except for a legendary city held by another civ, I'm ahead on my second and third culture cities. CC should help me out.

 

[mariogreymist]

If you can build CC, you can build Mining Inc (Railroad is Mining's prereq, which is a prereq for Combustion, which is CC's prereq). Generally speaking, in about 97/100 games, mining>CC. If you're going for culture, CC is a valid choice. And if you're going culture, the important thing is whose 3rd city will cross the legendary line first, not whose first or second city will do so.