Oddible
signal / noise > 1
I may be seeing things wrong here but if I build a railroad on a tile that already has a mine, does it improve the production on that tile?
Do railroads give tile production bonuses?
- Thread starter Oddible
- Start date
FeiLing
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2012
- Messages
- 2,087
No, roads and railroads do nothing to your tiles apart from the faster movement on them for units. No +gold for roads. No additional production for railroads. They actually cost you maintenance (-1/-2 gold per turn per road/railroad). However you do get quite a large amount of gold per turn (unless the cities are very small) when you connect a city via roads (or railroads or harbors) to your capital (trade routes).
And you also gain a production bonus of +50% (oh yeah!) in cities that are connected to your capital via railroads. Again however, the stupid capital itself does not get that bonus. Lets call it a minor design flaw/oversight they couldn't spent a minute on yet to fix it.
Hope this reminds myself of actually trying to make another city instead of my capital my production Mecca next time (like for e.g. not building the Ironworks in the capital).
Question to all CiV veterans: If my capital is on a small island, I basically won't ever get to enjoy the railroad bonus even if I connect all other cities with each other and them to the capital with an harbor?
And you also gain a production bonus of +50% (oh yeah!) in cities that are connected to your capital via railroads. Again however, the stupid capital itself does not get that bonus. Lets call it a minor design flaw/oversight they couldn't spent a minute on yet to fix it.
Hope this reminds myself of actually trying to make another city instead of my capital my production Mecca next time (like for e.g. not building the Ironworks in the capital).
Question to all CiV veterans: If my capital is on a small island, I basically won't ever get to enjoy the railroad bonus even if I connect all other cities with each other and them to the capital with an harbor?
Several patches ago, the rail bonus was downsized from +50% to +25%. The initial bonus was causing the capital to be one of the weakest production cities after rail as the capital isn't eligible.
Harbor connections count towards rail bonus.
So if your capital on its own landmass has a harbor, then you'll get the rail bonus to other cities with harbors. (And cities with rails leading out of those harbors to other cities)
Harbor connections count towards rail bonus.
So if your capital on its own landmass has a harbor, then you'll get the rail bonus to other cities with harbors. (And cities with rails leading out of those harbors to other cities)
King of Prussia
Prince
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2011
- Messages
- 476
Actually the city gets a 25% bonus for having a city connected by RR(plus the trade route with the city and capital connected)
Jon beat me to it. rats
Jon beat me to it. rats
and additional info.
Gort
Emperor
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2010
- Messages
- 1,518
It's still pretty stupid that the capital itself doesn't get the 25% production bonus. If you really want to be stingy, go ahead and make it so that the capital only gets the bonus when it's linked up to another city by railroad.
As it is, it makes it a stupid idea to try and make your capital your best producing city, because it's always going to be 25% behind your other cities.
As it is, it makes it a stupid idea to try and make your capital your best producing city, because it's always going to be 25% behind your other cities.
headcase
Limit 1 Facepalm Per Turn
Or give the cap 4% production per city connected (adjusting for world size). Trade uses the same (illogical) system of each trade route giving a bunch of gold based on the size of the connecting city, and a much smaller amount based on the size of the capital, which adds up for each route.
Similar threads
