Forest Spread/Ancient Forest

[Charybdis]

Currently up to turn 776, is a little corner of my empire with no tree's on it next to 3 ancient forest's. Since I went FoL not a single forest expansion has occured. Is this typical?

 

[Demus]

it's still chance-based. Building improvements on those tiles nullifies that chance, and building roads lowers it. If you've got FoL, build some priests and have them cast bloom to create forests.

 

[Charybdis]

These are unimproved tiles.

They're not within any city range/tucked back in a mountain range, so bloom'ing them isn't necessary. But I find it odd that none of my unimproved tiles have had a single forest expansion in almost 750 odd turns (I had one expansion near the start of the game).

 

[Yaotzin]

Ancient Forests don't expand.

 

[Vorpal+5]

why can't we bloom outside borders? I don't see how it is such powerful?

 

[Demus]

because of the bonus (mainly) elves get from forests. A nation with loads of woodsmen 2 units would LOVE to see the entire globe covered in forests.