Humankind Quick Questions and Answers

[9gkj548hkm20vk79dj689bnj4]

1) In the neolithic age, when I click "auto explore", usually my scouts beeline right towards the goodies/rewards. Is this a bug or a feature? Something has got to be wrong when other players are choosing their first civilization like 8-10 turns into the game.

2) Is there any way to alert myself that there are enemy units in my territory? In my most recent game, a group of mercenaries just silently landed on my shores and marched inland to attack a nearly-undefended city. I simply didn't notice it. But I don't feel like scanning my empire whole every turn.

 

[NombreyApellido]

almost ashamed to ask... what does the golden laurel wreath on top of an empire's sigil means

i just want one

 

[fortydayweekend]

Any further news on what exactly triggers the "leadership" civic? In my current game, it's not triggering when I want it to (around turn 25) but the frustrating thing is: I usually just get it that early, without even knowing why!

Here's a theory: It can only trigger after you have won a fight with the AI? in my current game, I have avoided all fights (even the early ones) because I simply bought non-aggression pact immediately. Or do you have specific indications it's related to population? I have read theories that it's related to number of cities, stability etc. but seems all speculative to me (my theory is speculative as well, just noted a difference).

The first 2 civics are easy: they trigger upon reaching 8 pop in total (it will require a full turn later). Usually you can get these super-early by just settling 4 pop immediately in each of your initial cities. You can get the "multiculturalism" or whatever it's called by just taking a neutral city. professional army civic - not sure what triggers that, but usually comes early as well.

Nope, no idea. I got through to Contemporary with only 4 civics becoming available. New game and I have 20 available by Medieval.

Being ahead seems to limit civics becoming available, if you're behind you get a lot of them.

Also when I have 9 AI I seem to get fewer civic choices than with 5.

Some seem pretty obvious (e.g. have foreign culture in your cities, get Multiculturalism) but it doesn't seem to be a simple if.. then trigger. There are multiple conditions, maybe depending on other empires, and maybe some randomness too.

1) In the neolithic age, when I click "auto explore", usually my scouts beeline right towards the goodies/rewards. Is this a bug or a feature? Something has got to be wrong when other players are choosing their first civilization like 8-10 turns into the game.

2) Is there any way to alert myself that there are enemy units in my territory? In my most recent game, a group of mercenaries just silently landed on my shores and marched inland to attack a nearly-undefended city. I simply didn't notice it. But I don't feel like scanning my empire whole every turn.

1) I think has been removed in latest patch. It was a good way to get lots of curiosities if you wanted to linger in Neolithic a long time, and then again in ancient/classical. I had stopped using mostly though as it doesn't help you find mammoths and good city sites which are what you want if you're only doing a short Neolithic (10 turns or so)

2) currently, no.. every turn I set the zoom onto whatever portion of the map I'm interested in and watch for enemy movement. If you're at war you have to be thinking about the fog and possible lines of attack, posting a disposable unit like a scout somewhere to keep an eye out is helpful. Also the AI often takes the most direct route from their cities to yours so you can use the pathing guide to work out which way they might come. That said I've noticed more roaming armies lately.

 

[need my speed]

Did I just hear 'Spancil Hill' while playing the Celts?

 

[tsf4]

Performance get worse for you all with latest patch?

 

[fortydayweekend]

Has the latest beta/patch broken the tooltips for replacing yields?

If I'm putting a quarter on top of an exploitation that is already giving food/industry yield, the large hover tooltip implies that all the food/ind will be lost, while the smaller one has no negative yields other than stability.

After placing the actual yield is often halfway - eg market quarter on river will show 3 food for infrastructure + feudalism, but not the 8 or so it had previously when it was just an exploitation.

Is anyone else noticing this? It also means the auto-suggested tiles for placement are no longer the "best immediate choice" because they're not taking lost yield into account.

I've only noticed this on the beta, I haven't tried with the new official patch.

 

[EscapedGoat]

Has the latest beta/patch broken the tooltips for replacing yields?

Yes. This is in the live patch as well, extremely irritating, essentially breaking the default suggestion functionality. While this is not always the optimal placement, it REALLY speeds up the game not having to calculate this manually all the time, and most times it is adequate. Hope they fix it soon.

 

[9gkj548hkm20vk79dj689bnj4]

yeah now I can't see how much new districts will decrease yields. in the words of Jay Sherman, it stinks!

 

[NombreyApellido]

quarters and movement points seem wrong too

 

[fortydayweekend]

Even worse, the numbers don't even add up properly for the positive yields, let alone the negative ones

 

[Tigranes]

almost ashamed to ask... what does the golden laurel wreath on top of an empire's sigil means

i just want one

Yes, same question. At first I thought they indicate territories obtained by winning a war or wrestling away by expansion as opposed to peaceful land grab by outposts founding. But human player never gets one ..

 

[NombreyApellido]

ot must be a vestigial feature from previous versions because i'm seeing it right now on a territory on which i just won a 3 round battle and have been ransacking the outpost for 2 turns already

it appears always on outposts only, seen it "exchanging hands" between opponents

looks nice

 

[NombreyApellido]

Performance get worse for you all with latest patch?

in my end, something doesn't seem ok looking at the memory usage in task manager as there are moments when the game is iddling and the readout keeps climbing at a steady pace of 0,1MB per second or so without using its built in browser or anything other than the core game w/o connection to G2G

seen it using above 5GB by turn 50 when coming back from a coffee break only to go down to 1,5GB afterwards

always locked at 30fps, 32GB memory i7, 1080 GTX now using hdmi audio after giving up on a discrete audio card

 

[9gkj548hkm20vk79dj689bnj4]

Is there any reason why my capital would be stuck in a permanent state of rebellion no matter how many stability districts, infrastructure, and projects I do? The stability says "zero but moving up to 70 or so" but it DOESN'T move. Building garrisons, building a city watch, enacting games, nothing changes it.

This has to be a glitch.

lol I'm not continuing my current game if my lousy capital is spawning rebels constantly.

EDIT: reloading the save seems to have fixed it. so strange.

 

[Tigranes]

ot must be a vestigial feature from previous versions because i'm seeing it right now on a territory on which i just won a 3 round battle and have been ransacking the outpost for 2 turns already

it appears always on outposts only, seen it "exchanging hands" between opponents

looks nice

I think it's just a emblematic symbol for Nomad special ability outpost, like Ordu. Same laurel used to mark emblematic district.

 

[NombreyApellido]

my lake baikal is labelled praire by default and when testing its movement cost is zero... i can't set it to lake because of its coastal location (i didn't pick it)

is there any way to set its three tiles to "impassable" or some other flag to avoid units going through it?

tagging @Elhoim @Gedemon

edit: as a temp fix i set its tiles to mountains, visuals are ok if wonder is placed afterwards

 

[Tigranes]

Why do they have Mumbai as the first city (capital) for Indians and Dilli only the second?

 

[Atlas627]

Why do they have Mumbai as the first city (capital) for Indians and Dilli only the second?

Northern cities are probably all covered by the Harappans, Mauryans, and Mughals?

 

[Tigranes]

Northern cities are probably all covered by the Harappans, Mauryans, and Mughals?

Oddly enough, no. Mughals have Agra for capital and Old Delhi appears as Shahjahanabad.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

How do I prevent my settlements getting influenced by other empires?