Forest Preserve spread rate bonus too low?

[KrikkitTwo]

What is really needed is the ability to put preserves on NON forested tiles

Preserve-> enabled on Forest/Jungle, Grassland, Plains, Ivory, or Fur

Preserves give these benefits with Forest/Jungle
+1 Happy*
+1 commerce with River*
+1 Free Specialist with National Park*
+1 food, +3 commerce with Jungle
Increases expansion

Preserves also give
+2 commerce with Environmentalism*
+4 Commerce with Fur, Ivory [ecotourism]


If a Preserve tile is adjacent to a Forest/Jungle And being Worked it would "grow" like a cottage. After it was worked for 30 turns it would 'aquire' the Forest/Jungle it was adjacent to [perhaps Jungle could spread in 15 turns]

(30 turns of working a 'no extra yield' tile would more than make up for the 30 hammers you could get by chopping it)

 

[Alsn]

A related question, can forests grow on camps(since you can have camps in forests without chopping the forest down)?

Edit: nvm my question was answered in the few hours i was reading the thread.

 

[ModernKnight]

Hey Ori (or others),

Am I understanding right -

For clarity, let's call the vacant tile (with no forest) the target tile, and the adjacent tiles with forest the source tiles...

Am I understanding right: It doesn't matter if you have (rail)road on the source tiles, only the target tile, right?

Also: I can't figure out how to get rid of roads I made Neither my engineers nor military units seem to be able to do it.

 

[ori]

you are right with the first and you cannot with the second - thats a design "feature"...

 

[ModernKnight]

Thanks, Ori... huh, another little game within the game (how to make roads or not, and harvest forests or not, if you want to encourage them for harvesting).

I have been watching my (Tiny) games over the past week and can't recall a clear instance of a forest/jungle growing diagonally. (This was news to me; I had blithely assumed diagonals contributed.) Each time I've checked, I've only found them growing to the "four points of the compass" (N S E & W), as stated in this thread. Working with this info, and the road info, I think I have seen a distinct rise in the amount of forest growth - at least early in my games, before all but the forlorn places get wall-to-wall development.

Is it just me, or does the rate of spontaneous growth slow down later in the game? Even my "sculptured harvest lands" (checkerboard squares of roads+forest vs. blank tundra) just don't seem to grow as much late in the game. Or maybe it's just that, ultimately, my harvest lands are only a small fraction of the all the wild lands that once seemed to grow like crazy before I tamed most of it.