Is the effect of the Chateau known yet?

[Zet]

My go to source of BNW info doesn't know what kind of bonus the Chateau actually gives or what type of terrain it must be built upon.

http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_bravenewworld.html#new_improvements

Does anyone know?

 

[bdporter]

All we know is that it's culture-oriented. I would assume it can be built anywhere.

 

[Talcove]

Perhaps it will be similar to the Chateau in the Into the Renaissance scenario. If I remember correctly it replaces the Castle and give +2 culture. Perhaps they just took that and made it a worker improvement rather than an actual building, and added some tourism/replaced the culture bonus with a tourism one.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Perhaps it will be similar to the Chateau in the Into the Renaissance scenario. If I remember correctly it replaces the Castle and give +2 culture. Perhaps they just took that and made it a worker improvement rather than an actual building, and added some tourism/replaced the culture bonus with a tourism one.

It doesn't replace castle, as it's UI, not UB.

 

[crawf0rd]

It doesn't replace castle, as it's UI, not UB.

read the whole thing

 

[slowmotion7]

It would kind of make since if it replaced the plantation with an added culture bonus, but none of the unique improvements replace existing ones, and it would not be as useful if it was that restrictive. However, the Portuguese unique improvement is rather restrictive, and useless in a game without city states.

 

[kingchris20]

a game without city states.

 

[stealth_nsk]

read the whole thing

Sorry

It would kind of make since if it replaced the plantation with an added culture bonus, but none of the unique improvements replace existing ones, and it would not be as useful if it was that restrictive. However, the Portuguese unique improvement is rather restrictive, and useless in a game without city states.

First, no UI is replacement to existing UI, they are additions.

Second, the game is not balanced for playing without city-states. It's balanced around average size Continents/Hemispheres map with default setting. Without city-states Greece, Austria or Siam would be much weaker.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Well possibly it could be restricted by some thing like Chateaus may not be adjacent to each other. They are giving culture, and per city culture seems to have been reduced. So a simple 2 culture with 'not adjacent'. (Or possibly like celtic faith, 2 culture if surrounding tiles are undeveloped)

 

[slowmotion7]

First, no UI is replacement to existing UI, they are additions.

Which is what I said.

Second, the game is not balanced for playing without city-states. It's balanced around average size Continents/Hemispheres map with default setting. Without city-states Greece, Austria or Siam would be much weaker.

I'm not complaining, I am just saying the chateau being so restrictive is not a reason to discount the theory. Most like it will probably just be a non-hill inland improvement. Have any of the pictures placed it on a coast or hill?

 

[EEE_BOY]

I would guess it is a unique antiquity site.

 

[awesome]

I expect that it'll generate tourism.

 

[triheptyl]

A fort replacement that generates culture, I'd say.

 

[awesome]

It can't replace a fort. And there's already a unique improvement with defensive bonuses.

 

[Arachnofiend]

I expect that it'll generate tourism.

Later yes, but not when you first build it. The tool tip for the hotel says that it gives 50% tourism on tile improvements that yield culture, listing Landmarks, Maoi, and Chateau. So we know that the Chateau gives culture, we just don't know how much or where you can build it.

 

[BTA51]

If it gives only +2 culture it would be pretty weak since a Moai can get you like +6, +7 or something like that if you build a lot of them together. To get +2 with a Moai you only need to build two of them next to each other...

 

[stealth_nsk]

If it gives only +2 culture it would be pretty weak since a Moai can get you like +6, +7 or something like that if you build a lot of them together. To get +2 with a Moai you only need to build two of them next to each other...

We don't know how much it gives and what else it gives. I think it could provide some defensive bonus, for example.

 

[Liufeng]

My go to source of BNW info doesn't know what kind of bonus the Chateau actually gives or what type of terrain it must be built upon.

http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ5_bravenewworld.html#new_improvements

Does anyone know?

If you to ask these kind of questions, please do it on the thread "questions about BNW that don't deserve their own thread" instead of starting a new one. Be nominalist and do not multiply entities.

Peace^^

 

[AriochIV]

If it gives only +2 culture it would be pretty weak since a Moai can get you like +6, +7 or something like that if you build a lot of them together. To get +2 with a Moai you only need to build two of them next to each other...

Yes, but you can only build Moai on the coast, whereas you can probably build the Chateau almost anywhere. I'd guess the Chateau gives +2 culture; I think more would be too much, given that the Chateau appears to be spammable.

 

[Calouste]

We don't know how much it gives and what else it gives. I think it could provide some defensive bonus, for example.

Chateau, although it literally translates as 'castle', more often these days is applied to country houses without any defensive structures. In France, all fortified castles that weren't needed for the defensive of the country were razed on the order of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1630s, as the aristocratic owners of those fortified castles had the nasty habit of rebelling against the King on a regular basis.