DaviddesJ
Deity
Some city improvements are destroyed when I capture a city. Can I predict which ones? Is it always the same?
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DaviddesJ
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If I am at war with another player, and I have a unit sitting on one of his roads (inside his territory), does this prevent him from connecting resources via that road? So if I surround a city, it doesn't have access to any resources, even if I haven't pillaged the roads?
If I am having a worker join a city, does it make a difference if he is a foreign worker?
I did a test a while back and the foreign worker seemed to give better results ( I think the governer made him an entertainer because he was Unhappy and put the city over the limit) but I repeated the test again today and both seemed to give the same results.
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I did a test a while back and the foreign worker seemed to give better results ( I think the governer made him an entertainer because he was Unhappy and put the city over the limit) but I repeated the test again today and both seemed to give the same results.
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DaviddesJ
Deity
Vincenzo: I know this one. You get a citizen of the same population as whatever worker you use. So if you use a foreign worker, you get a foreign citizen. That's generally only a problem if you're at war with that civilization (because then that citizen will be less happy).
It's a strategy question which workers to join. Should you join your own workers, which are more productive, but cost money to maintain, or should you join foreign workers, which are less productive but free. I'm not sure about this one, probably depends on your situation.
It's a strategy question which workers to join. Should you join your own workers, which are more productive, but cost money to maintain, or should you join foreign workers, which are less productive but free. I'm not sure about this one, probably depends on your situation.
morkaphi
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I found it fairly difficult if you don't want yourself to be involved in any war. It may be easier if you sign some MAs or MPPs first to initiate the chain war declarations, then quickly sue for peace with your enemies. However, you may have to sacrifice your reputation somewhat.
AFAIK, nope.
Sounds to me you're pretty warmongering here.
A troop of 125 units always seem to be very overwhelming to me, and it's probably more than enough for you to take out any civ as long as your units are not obsolete. Since you will need some garrison forces when you take over cities, 125 should be about fair, depending on how many cities you plan to take.
However, 5 galleys... with the capacity of 2 units per trip, it may take you a long time to ship your 125 units. Build more ships, so that you can pile up your attacking forces when you're ready to charge.
Improvements that generate culture and small wonders always get destroyed, while aqueducts and hospitals never get destroyed. For all the others, the chance is 50% and you don't get to predict what will be destroyed.
As long as the city does not have an airport, that is correct.
@Vincenzo: To follow up on DaviddesJ's post (which is right-on), the other time joining workers makes a difference is when you are worried about a culture flip. If a city has more citizens of one nationality than your own, there is a risk that it may flip to that civ (unless that civ has been eliminated). Therefore, you probably do NOT want to join foreign workers to your newly conquered cities.
Clarification: it's only the absolute number of foreigners which affects the flip chances, not the relative numbers of foreigners and your own citizens. For example, say you're playing the Zulu and have captured a Babylonian city. All else being equal, if the city has one Babylonian citizen and zero Zulu citizens, the flip chance will be exactly the same as if the city had one Babylonian and 18 Zulu citizens.
Renata
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anarres
anarchist revolutionary
FWIW, the FAQ contains all information needed about culture flips.
Also see my sig for a culture flip calulator.
Also see my sig for a culture flip calulator.
I have read posts that say you will save science research by dropping it back just before it is discovered to the lowest % that will still bring the tech in one turn. But when I played with this I found that leaving at the higher research level gives you a jumpstart on researching the next tech.
What is the story?
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What is the story?
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anarres
anarchist revolutionary
vincenzo,
It doesn't give you a head start, all spare beakers are lost when you complete a tech.
It doesn't give you a head start, all spare beakers are lost when you complete a tech.
Grille
panel insect
vincenzo,
make sure to re-adjust the slider when you start researching the next tech...
make sure to re-adjust the slider when you start researching the next tech...
Ben E Gas
King
Why does this happen?:
Every time I adjust the slider for my science output, it is reset on the next turn and I have to readjust it. It happens every turn and is becoming annoying.
I'm trying to keep my income out of the negative by adjusting the science slider to 10% or so.
Every time I adjust the slider for my science output, it is reset on the next turn and I have to readjust it. It happens every turn and is becoming annoying.
I'm trying to keep my income out of the negative by adjusting the science slider to 10% or so.
Ben E Gas
King
Also, is there a way to tell what government type are available to me at a certain point in the game? I forget which ones I've discovered and I dispise the tech tree.
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Ben E. Gas
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Ben E. Gas
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
When you research/buy a tech, the Domestic Advisor will tell you that "people yearn for a government change". That's how you can tell.
And I wouldn't recommend shrugging off the tech tree - it's very important in planning.
And I wouldn't recommend shrugging off the tech tree - it's very important in planning.
pdescobar
Moo, baby. Moo.
Ben, are you playing the standard game or a mod like DyP? In some mods, individual government types have a "rate cap" like in civ2 where you can only set the science or lux sliders to a certain percentage. The cap also applies to the tax rate, but unfortunately, the domestic advisor does not know how to subtract, the result being that you can set both sliders to 0 which is a 100% tax rate. On your next turn, the game realizes tax is over the cap and resets the sliders to get everything under the cap. Since the automatic reset occurs *after* commerce has been allocated to science and taxes, this is actually an exploit to partially get around the rate caps and so is usually frowned upon by most players; resetting the slider every turn is the price you pay for circumventing the rules
That said, if you are playing standard unmodded rules, then something most definitely weird is happening and should be looked into
anarres
anarchist revolutionary
Could you have a governor do that?
I never use them myself, but can they set global things like science rate. or are they just city based?
I never use them myself, but can they set global things like science rate. or are they just city based?
pdescobar
Moo, baby. Moo.
I don't *think* a governor can do that, anarres, but I only use them currently for managing moods during anarchy and resistance. When I played essentially standard rules and used them more or less globally I don't recall them being able to affect anything outside their own city though as my sliders never changed on their own.
Hurricane
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During large parts of the game, many AI civs will be so far away from you (maybe on another continent, or on the other side of a large Pangea continent), that they will never reach your borders with any significant amount of troops. Now, you can sign a military alliance with that civ's neighbor and declare war on that civ. What in effect happens, is that the two neighboring civs will figth the war between them, and you don't have to do anything but watch the carnage. With no troops outside your borders, and no troops attcking you, you won't even suffer war weariness. So while you technically are at war, you can continue on like in peace.
This is a good tactic if you want to decimate a strong opponent with minimal costs, or slow down the overall tech pace (because civs at war need to focus on building units, and can't trade with enemies). The downside is, of course, that you can't trade with the civ you are at war with, and the enemy civ might bring in your neighbors into the war through new alliances.
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