Need help on economic victory

[peter79]

So I got the 500 railroad point and spawned my world banker. I got him to one of the AI's capitals and triggered his ability. I now have to do the same for 3 other civs. Trouble is I have no idea where there capitals are. I only have open borders with one of them not the other 2. So I'm currently blindly moving my banker around the map. Is there any wonder, policy, diplo option to reveal the locations of all capitals?

Thanks.

 

[self biased]

you don't need open borders to move the banker unit into someone's territory.

Hopefully you have enough explored to where finding the remaining capitals isn't too cumbersome.

 

[Siptah]

does the satellite project still uncover the whole map as in previous games? I haven’t paid attention, because I always scouted the whole map in exploration age with ships and missionaries. If it does, this could be a quick way (assuming you have a decent science output).

 

[Cymsdale]

My world banker had a button that just let me warp him to each capital. Unless the capital is in unexplored area I guess. Did you not explore during the age of explore?

 

[HelloIAmW]

does the satellite project still uncover the whole map as in previous games? I haven’t paid attention, because I always scouted the whole map in exploration age with ships and missionaries. If it does, this could be a quick way (assuming you have a decent science output).

It does.

 

[Datian]

I'm struggling to get the railroad points.

If I understood correctly (and I'm pretty sure I missed something), you need to :
- unlock the railroad tech and build railroad stations
- unlock the factory tech annd build a factory in cities which happen to be connected to your capital by railroad... something that sometimes happens, and sometimes not, and only on your main continent
- slot in a factory ressource and wait for the points to pile up

By that time, you've dug 54 artifacts and sent 3 expeditions to outer space, haven't you ? What am I missing ?

 

[Siptah]

- unlock the factory tech annd build a factory in cities which happen to be connected to your capital by railroad... something that sometimes happens, and sometimes not, and only on your main continent

Build harbors to make sure that the city counts as connected. Then, it also works on cities on islands or in the distant lands.

- slot in a factory ressource and wait for the points to pile up

"A" factory resource? You can slot in multiple in each city with a factory, but they have to be on the same type. You can assign them as any other resource as long as you are having a free resource capacity.

This might double or triple the tempo of accumulating the points. But culture will still be faster.

 

[peter79]

It does.

Yep had to launch a satellite to find the remaining capitals. Then transported my banker to the cities using his ability and won the game.

 

[UWHabs]

Build harbors to make sure that the city counts as connected. Then, it also works on cities on islands or in the distant lands.

"A" factory resource? You can slot in multiple in each city with a factory, but they have to be on the same type. You can assign them as any other resource as long as you are having a free resource capacity.

This might double or triple the tempo of accumulating the points. But culture will still be faster.

Culture might not be faster if you're fighting with 5 other civs digging every artifact up.

Buy factories in 5 or 6 towns, each with like 4-6 slots, and the RT points come fast and furious.

 

[Datian]

Culture might not be faster if you're fighting with 5 other civs digging every artifact up.

Buy factories in 5 or 6 towns, each with like 4-6 slots, and the RT points come fast and furious.

I just did, the achievement meter doesn't move at all. Perhaps I need to put only one type of ressource in each city, and not mix and match, I'll try again.

 

[Riconatic]

I just did, the achievement meter doesn't move at all. Perhaps I need to put only one type of ressource in each city, and not mix and match, I'll try again.

Factories can handle only one resource at time. It produces the one that is slotted in the factory slot. Only copies of that speed up anything.

 

[Vincent_lacruz]

Culture might not be faster if you're fighting with 5 other civs digging every artifact up.

Buy factories in 5 or 6 towns, each with like 4-6 slots, and the RT points come fast and furious.

Several points to take into account in modern:
- You can trade for the relevant industry ressources
- The trader are at last EFFICIENT, that is to say you just have to select the target to start the route, not go there by foot (gamechanger!).

You should select cities with access to water first, since the harbour can increase the number of slots. Then spam traders (and obviously influence to increase the routes), fill your factories, and reinvest all gold into more factories. Then you need 2 turns per opponents to win.

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

My world banker had a button that just let me warp him to each capital. Unless the capital is in unexplored area I guess. Did you not explore during the age of explore?

How does this work? Nothing happens when I press that button, bug or are there some conditions to this?

 

[Riconatic]

How does this work? Nothing happens when I press that button, bug or are there some conditions to this?

Area tiles around other capitals turn green and you can jump those green tiles. You have to manually move map to supposed (or explored) capitals to see the green tiles.

Capital palace square does not even not need to be visible. Only part of the capital area suffices.

 

[ydejin]

How does this work? Nothing happens when I press that button, bug or are there some conditions to this?

IIRC you’re on console, same as I am. It’s a bit wonky on console. I remember being very confused.

I’ve reloaded my old save, and this seems to work:

1) have Great Banker selected.
2) with left-Thumbstick drag a line as if you were trying to move him, drag the line (showing hex-by-hex and turn-by-turn indication of movement) all the way to enemy capital — I think anything in the capital’s radius works. Don’t click on the A (Xbox) / X (PS) button, that’s what you normally click on to move a regular unit.
3) with that line still there, use the d-pad to move between the “Move”, “Skip-Turn”, “Travel-to-City”, and “Activate-Great-Person” buttons, in the bottom-right (same ones you use to skip turn or fortify for Military Units). D-pad over and select the Travel-to-City button and now press the A (Xbox) / X (PS) button.
4) you should instantly move to that city. It only seems to work with enemy capitals, not other cities. I just tried it out and you can move to partly uncovered capitals even if you haven’t actually seen the city center yet (just zapped to Hatshepsut’s capital which I could see the corner of the Eiffel Tower peaking out behind the fog of war).
5) Wait a turn then with the Great Banker selected, d-pad over to the Activate Great person.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

"A" factory resource? You can slot in multiple in each city with a factory, but they have to be off the same type.

Oh wow ok, now I understand - thank you!

 

[Evolena]

How does this work? Nothing happens when I press that button, bug or are there some conditions to this?

There is not a lot of feedback, but there is a tooltip somewhere that should list the remaining Capitals to visit.

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

IIRC you’re on console, same as I am. It’s a bit wonky on console. I remember being very confused.

I’ve reloaded my old save, and this seems to work:

1) have Great Banker selected.
2) with left-Thumbstick drag a line as if you were trying to move him, drag the line (showing hex-by-hex and turn-by-turn indication of movement) all the way to enemy capital — I think anything in the capital’s radius works. Don’t click on the A (Xbox) / X (PS) button, that’s what you normally click on to move a regular unit.
3) with that line still there, use the d-pad to move between the “Move”, “Skip-Turn”, “Travel-to-City”, and “Activate-Great-Person” buttons, in the bottom-right (same ones you use to skip turn or fortify for Military Units). D-pad over and select the Travel-to-City button and now press the A (Xbox) / X (PS) button.
4) you should instantly move to that city. It only seems to work with enemy capitals, not other cities. I just tried it out and you can move to partly uncovered capitals even if you haven’t actually seen the city center yet (just zapped to Hatshepsut’s capital which I could see the corner of the Eiffel Tower peaking out behind the fog of war).
5) Wait a turn then with the Great Banker selected, d-pad over to the Activate Great person.

Thank you!!

What an absurdly unintuitive system, I almost respect its madness.

 

[KMadCandy]

There is not a lot of feedback, but there is a tooltip somewhere that should list the remaining Capitals to visit.

On my pc, the list of capitals left to visit is after a bunch of other text. It’s in a different color, so it’s easy to spot if you can see it, but there are times that my tooltip isn’t big enough to see it. Now that I know it’s there, I move around the screen a bit so that I can read it, but it can definitely be frustrating!