How exactly do luxuries work?

[tx138]

I know how luxuries work, but do they have a cumulative effect if you have like 6 Furs? To get the benefit of the luxury do I only need one? Or do the benefits of the luxuries increase because I have more then one of the same luxury. If I have like 6 furs, should I keep all the furs and get any benfits they give or can I trade or give 5 of the 6 furs away and still keep my people just as happy.

 

[Mercade]

You need only one luxury of a type to keep your people happy. Six furs make your people just as happy as one fur, namely it makes one person happy. It is having more different luxuries that makes people more happy. One fur + one wine makes two people happy. Starting with the third luxury you have in a city, if you have a market place, it will make even more people happy per luxury. So yes, you can trade your excess furs (every fur over the first one you use yourself). Trade them for luxuries you don't have for instance. This will make your people more happy.

 

[Ribannah]

Having more than one of the same luxury has no effect. You can try and trade it to your neighbours if you are connected to them by road, harbor or airport.

 

[maddogmark25]

how do you get luxuries in the first place? (im brand new to the game)

 

[ainwood]

Simply make a road to them from your city / capital.

If the luxury / resource is outside your cultural boundaries, then you will have to use the "build colony" option for your worker on the luxury tile (which converts the worker to a colony, so you lose it by the way). If it is inside your cultural boundary, all you need to do is road to it.

 

[Ribannah]

Note that only cities that are connected to the luxury will profit from it (no matter how long the road). This is one reason why it is very important to connect all your cities to each other.

Connections can also run through a rival empire, as long as you are at peace with them.

 

[Turner]

Originally posted by ainwood
If it is inside your cultural boundary, all you need to do is road to it.

This confounded me my first game. I couldn't understand why I couldn't build a colony to saltpeter, when it wasn't within a city boundry. It was inside my territory. . . Oh, the joys of that first game.