How does "proving the world is round" work?

[noontide]

And what is the benefit? I tried to send my ship to go around and return to the same city but nothing happened.

 

[VainoValkea]

You must be the first to have some explored tiles of all longtitudes. What is the actual benefit, that I don't know.


EDIT: also, funnily, proving that the world is round is normally only possible in the renaissance era with caravels, instead of using mathematics like the Greeks did in the classical era in real life...

 

[Hayt]

Benefit is +1 movement for naval units, at least in G&K it was.

 

[VainoValkea]

I figured it would have to do something with ship movement, but it's mentioned nowhere in the game nor in Civilopedia. A disgracefully poor example of documentation again...

 

[Loucypher]

Benefit is +1 movement for naval units, at least in G&K it was.

No it's not. That's residue coding that's left out, there's no REAL benefit.

 

[Worlds_Crossing]

No it's not. That's residue coding that's left out, there's no REAL benefit.

Which is a real shame, really. Ferdinand Magellan is notable by his expedition which proved the world round, to the point that past civ games had his journey as a wonder. We can agree that granting +1 movement to all naval units is a tad much, but why not something simpler, such as a free Golden Age or extra range for Cargo Ships?

 

[njmfff]

Both free GA or CS range would be way to powerful at the beginning of the game, when you "prove that world is round" and so would be +1 movement for naval (especially if you play as English, build GL and take Navigation).

So far, I think it's just funny as Easter egg and I would personally love if there are more of these. You don't get any benefits from it, but it's still funny to see.

 

[Aaron90495]

+1 sight for all naval units wouldn't be OP and would be a nice reward.

 

[Tatran]

This is the code and you will find it in the GlobalDefines.xml.
Change value to 1 and you will have +1 movement point.

<Row Name="CIRCUMNAVIGATE_FREE_MOVES">
<Value>0</Value>
</Row>

 

[Pythakoreas]

^^
So apparently devs already thought it out.

 

[Lochlann]

^^
So apparently devs already thought it out.

More like the coding was already there from Civ IV, where this was implemented. (And which I rather liked.)

I've got kind of an odd thing in my present game. Huge map, Continents, and one of the continents has no sea passage either north or south, while the other continent has a passage on the south only. So sea-only circumnavigation of the globe is impossible; the most I can do is go from the eastern end of one continent to the western end of that same continent. No way to return to the same coast.

No big deal, just really annoying, except for one thing: I swear that I never saw an "X has proven that the world is round!" notification. Even without any tangible reward, I usually try to be the one to circumnavigate first, just 'cause it's cool, so I've always got my eyes peeled for the notification, but...there was none. I'm in the Atomic age now, all ocean tiles explored (except for ice-locked areas), and still nothing. I suppose it's possible that I just missed it, but, that'd be pretty weird.