I was able to secure a monopoly last game I won. I had 6/10 of the nodes controlled, and when I moved a great merchant over my industry it gave me no option to make the monopoly.
Is there a guide out there on how to do it?
Keep in mind there are two things: monopolies and corporations.
Monopoly is just a status you are awarded when controlling >50% resources in the map. It shows in the global resources screen, and provides gold and tourism bonuses.
Corporation is the building that improves an industry. It is the one created by great merchants on the map. Base requirements are having 3+ Improved resources of the type. Note there are limitations, however. Only one corporation for each resource is allowed in the map at any time. Therefore:
- you cannot build two corporations of the same resource type
- in the (now improbable unless multiplayer) case other player has built the resource corporation, you need more resources than him to “steal” the corporation. (You will build it, he would lose his).
Corporation increases the industry bonus for the city it is located in and allows to build products.
Now, if you were trying to build a corporation, and not a monopoly and had more than 50% resources in the map and no other corporation built, there is no reason you should not be able to build one, and it must be checked.
Keep in mind there are two things: monopolies and corporations.
Monopoly is just a status you are awarded when controlling >50% resources in the map. It shows in the global resources screen, and provides gold and tourism bonuses.
Corporation is the building that improves an industry. It is the one created by great merchants on the map. Base requirements are having 3+ Improved resources of the type. Note there are limitations, however. Only one corporation for each resource is allowed in the map at any time. Therefore:
- you cannot build two corporations of the same resource type
- in the (now improbable unless multiplayer) case other player has built the resource corporation, you need more resources than him to “steal” the corporation. (You will build it, he would lose his).
Corporation increases the industry bonus for the city it is located in and allows to build products.
Now, if you were trying to build a corporation, and not a monopoly and had more than 50% resources in the map and no other corporation built, there is no reason you should not be able to build one, and it must be checked.
It sounds like you are doing all the right things.
But just in case, do you have 3 sources of that luxury?
Did you already use a charge on the merchant?
I don't think they did. There is a mod fixing it with some side effects...
Are you sure you don't already have a corporation in that city
I don't have any corporations at all, just industries.
Mine seems to be broken somehow. I have 9 copies of whales, and 3 copies of turtles, and I get no tourism benefit from either of them. I even have industries on both, although that isn't supposed to make any difference. The report screen says I have all the copies on the map of both of these, including a couple of other resources. I'm also running zero mods. I'm playing as Kupe.
It's based on total number of luxuries? I thought it was total number improved by civs. I had 9 improved, nobody else had any. Well, that would explain it, since I can see at least 9 more on the map that I don't control.There are normally only two sea resources on the map. There may well be c. 24 instances of each. > 60% of 24 would be 15 instances.