Little questions & answers thread

[Cymsdale]

Since buying a building seems to increase the 'population' of a town, does it have an effect on how much food is needed for the next population? Does this mean if you're buy production focused (and thus gold focused in a town) buildings in a town, you're harming the town's grown, and you are harming yourself by buying them early, or does the food cost only scale with actual organic growth?

 

[Evolena]

Since buying a building seems to increase the 'population' of a town, does it have an effect on how much food is needed for the next population? Does this mean if you're buy production focused (and thus gold focused in a town) buildings in a town, you're harming the town's grown, and you are harming yourself by buying them early, or does the food cost only scale with actual organic growth?

No, the growth only takes into account the Rural population.

 

[Uberfrog]

That’s just the spotlight for a regular slot. You can slot in as many copies of the same factory resource as you have resource slots in the settlement. The “factory slot” is just a fancy way to show what resource you can stuff into the settlement.

Oh!!! I was so confused by this - I was wondering why the factory only had one slot. Who knows how many wasted resources I had… another UI success…

 

[Horatio Thorne]

Can someone explain what all this legends and mementos stuff is about?

More importantly though, can anyone explain exactly how happiness works? I understand that excess happiness goes towards celebrations and more social policies. I don’t understand the penalties for negative happiness.

My towns only had negative happiness during the plague crisis, and it didn’t seem to really do anything. They got a big red hand with a number 4 beside it. No idea what the big red hand means. I thought the 4 might be a timer, but it didn’t change and then eventually it was just gone. At one point I got a message about a city in unrest, but no explanation as to what that means. I tried typing “unrest” into the civilopedia but obviously that brought up nothing.

I have been unwilling to ever go over the settlement cap because I have no idea what unhappiness does or when it becomes a problem. I have googled and searched and found nothing helpful.

Has anyone noticed that on the map you can see “open ocean” but the game talks about “deep ocean”? After the game helpfully informed me that my ship would take damage ending its turn on “deep ocean” I made sure I was on the presumably safe “open ocean” instead. Imagine my surprise when my ship was damaged. Irritating that they can’t keep their own terminology straight. All the silly little typos bother me too. It just makes it look so rushed.

 

[Krikkit1]

No, the growth only takes into account the Rural population.

and the specialists right?

 

[Jeppetto]

Can someone explain what all this legends and mementos stuff is about?

When you click on your profile you may preview Challenges, special things and tasks to be achieved while playing generally or as specific leader, rewarding you XP toward Foundation or the Leader. At specific XP milestones (Levels) you unlock some reward, usually cosmetic, sometimes a Memento or Unique Attribute Unlock.

You may, If you so elect, choose up to 2 Mementos to play with. They provide benefits that may further diversify your experience, how you want to play. Or are needless addition on top of game balance you may ignore. May be disabled in MP.

 

[Evolena]

and the specialists right?

Ah, I forgot about them. I think they count for the growth, but are they Rural or Urban for the religious conversion?

 

[Cymsdale]

Ah, I forgot about them. I think they count for the growth, but are they Rural or Urban for the religious conversion?

The tile itself is urban.

 

[rogerdude]

The governments that you choose at the start of each era only semm to have efect for 10 or 20 turns, no?

 

[Siptah]

The governments that you choose at the start of each era only semm to have efect for 10 or 20 turns, no?

10 turns for every celebration. Depending on your bonuses and play style, that might be the majority of the era...

 

[Jeppetto]

Also aren't there Narrative Events related to them?

 

[peter79]

So in the screenshot below I'm trying to shoot the independent peoples settlement however despite having hull movement points the option to fire is greyed out. Are the trees blocking my shot?

Moderator Action: Merged this into the 'Little questions & answers' thread. - Methos

 

[CoconutTank]

From my experiences so far, yes vegetation will block LoS for ranged attacks.

 

[Horatio Thorne]

In multiplayer is it possible to tell the game whether to start near other human players?

 

[peter79]

Thanks thats what I though just wanted a second opinion.

 

[Vandlys]

So in the screenshot below I'm trying to shoot the independent peoples settlement however despite having hull movement points the option to fire is greyed out. Are the trees blocking my shot?

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As far as I know this has been a staple of the series.

Flat land can look over flat land.
Flat land cannot look over trees or hills.
Hills can look over hills, but not over trees on hills.
Nothing can look over mountains.

 

[Evolena]

However, I've had cases where only 1 of my 2 range units had a line of sight, but using the Focus Fire ability from the Army Commander allowed them both to fire (and gain much more XP than with 2 individual shots if it were possible, but that's another story).

 

[CoconutTank]

So regarding Prussia's UA: +1 bonus combat strength per other Civilization that they have a Unfriendly or worse relationship with.

How does that work against human players? AFAIK the relationship score only exists so that human players can understand the diplomatic motivations of AI players in single player mode.

If an AI player chooses Prussia, how is my relationship score with that AI player determined/displayed? Is it based on how much I annoy them instead of the other way around?

And if a human player chooses Prussia, how is their relationship score determined against other human players in MP?

 

[Eramas]

Let's say that I have a Farm that gives 6 Food and I want to build a Unique Improvement on that tile. Two questions:

1. When I build a UI on that tile, I keep 6 Food and add whatever the UI gives me on top of that, correct?
2. Let's say that I build a Grocer (+1 to Farms, etc.) in the Modern Age. Will it also boost the Farm that I changed into that UI (so 7 Food + UI bonuses)? I'd guess not, because it is no longer a Farm, but I remember reading somewhere that the game remembers that it used to be a Farm, so I'm no longer sure.

If no one knows, I'll test the second point myself. I'm asking now, because I need a few more hours to get to the Modern Age.

 

[Siptah]

So regarding Prussia's UA: +1 bonus combat strength per other Civilization that they have a Unfriendly or worse relationship with.

How does that work against human players? AFAIK the relationship score only exists so that human players can understand the diplomatic motivations of AI players in single player mode.

If an AI player chooses Prussia, how is my relationship score with that AI player determined/displayed? Is it based on how much I annoy them instead of the other way around?

And if a human player chooses Prussia, how is their relationship score determined against other human players in MP?

The modifiers still exist in MP and are important for forming alliances etc afaik. There‘s just no value for violating/adhering to the agenda.

It may sound stupid at first (and especially when you consider that they don‘t allow to set teams at game start), but such systems work relatively well in other games.