Housing/Amenities/Tourism from unique improvements

[Archon_Wing]

So do you need to actually work the unique improvement (say stepwell) to get the housing?

 

[Browd]

No, you do not. You have to work the tile to get other yields, however.

 

[acluewithout]

Do people like the unique improvements you get from city states?

Ive played around with the giant heads, monestary and alcazar a fair bit - they have terrible yields, although the alcazar is not bad (culture). They’re kinda handy if you have some flat tiles that have special yields (eg because of a natural wonder).

They are lots of fun though, particularly where your civ doesnt have a unique improvement. I wish the monestary and alcazar gave a little housing or something, or they maybe all had some adjacency bonuses. But either way, theyre good fun.

 

[iammaxhailme]

Do people like the unique improvements you get from city states?

Ive played around with the giant heads, monestary and alcazar a fair bit - they have terrible yields, although the alcazar is not bad (culture). They’re kinda handy if you have some flat tiles that have special yields (eg because of a natural wonder).

They are lots of fun though, particularly where your civ doesnt have a unique improvement. I wish the monestary and alcazar gave a little housing or something, or they maybe all had some adjacency bonuses. But either way, theyre good fun.

Giant heads are great if you're doing either religious or cultural victory. I never bother with alcazars or monastaries. Are those all of them...?

 

[acluewithout]

I think so.

I think Alcazars and Giant Heads also give tourism, but I haven’t been able to test it.

Monestary is probably the weakest - extra religious unit healing is a bit underwhelming...

 

[Chefofrats]

Giant heads are nice on flat desert tiles in Petra cities if you can't build a civ's UI there.

 

[Softly]

Do people like the unique improvements you get from city states?

Ive played around with the giant heads, monestary and alcazar a fair bit - they have terrible yields, although the alcazar is not bad (culture). They’re kinda handy if you have some flat tiles that have special yields (eg because of a natural wonder).

They are lots of fun though, particularly where your civ doesnt have a unique improvement. I wish the monestary and alcazar gave a little housing or something, or they maybe all had some adjacency bonuses. But either way, theyre good fun.

I find them useful for Petra/St. Basil/Russian Tundra cities when I want to work flat tiles but can not place farms. To be fair though they could use a buff especially considering how powerful some of the other city state bonuses can be.

 

[shaglio]

Do people like the unique improvements you get from city states?

Ive played around with the giant heads, monestary and alcazar a fair bit - they have terrible yields, although the alcazar is not bad (culture). They’re kinda handy if you have some flat tiles that have special yields (eg because of a natural wonder).

They are lots of fun though, particularly where your civ doesnt have a unique improvement. I wish the monestary and alcazar gave a little housing or something, or they maybe all had some adjacency bonuses. But either way, theyre good fun.

One of the things I dislike most about CS Unique Improvements is figuring out the actual yields. I'll meet and new CS and find out its suzerain bonus is a UI, but then I have to go digging around the clumsy Civilopedia to search for what it does. Couldn't they just have a mouse-over on the CS's screen that tells me?