Everyone talks like you can only have ONE Golden Age. Had me pretty convinced. Even though I coulda sworn I had two one game, but I thought maybe it was my imagination.
Then it happened again. I had TWO Golden Ages as the Chinese. Once when I built Sun Tzu Wonder, then AGAIN hundreds of years later when I rolled through the Russians with my tanks.
Is this an obscure bug? Are you SUPPOSED (ie, documentation) to only have ONE Golden Age? Or is that just a misconception that has really latched on the community? Has anyone else had 2 Golden Ages?
I know the Chinese Special Unit is tanks. Irrelevant. To trigger a golden age, you dont need to win battles with your UU. It just makes it "more likely."
Originally posted by cephyn I know the Chinese Special Unit is tanks. Irrelevant. To trigger a golden age, you dont need to win battles with your UU. It just makes it "more likely."
What level were you playing on? I remember thinking I had two during my first game (again, after building a wonder and during a war). I never had two in a game again on higher levels, so I figured it was a perk of being a newbie.
I think you automatically get one when your UU gets it's first victory..if you haven't had one yet.
I have never had a second golden age. I don't doubt that you can get one. It probably isn't spelled out well in the manual. No time to check..but imagine the rules for Golden Ages are rather vague. Anyone confirm?
I've had two golden ages many times - keep pumping at those civilisation specific wonders.
I think you have to get two wonders (one each for each of your civ-specific attributes) in a particular 'era', but if one of your attributes is 'military' you have to win a fight as well.
I think.
I thought you could only have one, but maybe it means that the odds are so low you are very unlikely to have more than one. Of course, with the thousands of people on this board, sometimes those odds will strech to two.
I've been hammering away at regent level, with everything random, just to get a grip on what is required for different maps. The last three games I've had two Golden Ages - but I rarely pick 'military' as an attribute - I like Religious and Industrious, or Religious and Commercial (but Commercial only really kicks in late in the game).
So I notice that this means I've been concentrating on city improvements and happiness, not fighting, and this might increase the chances of a Golden Age? Could be a factor?
golden age occurs during:
1) UU wins first battle
2) you built the great wonders relating to your CIV abilities. E.g. For greeks, you need to build colossus (commercial) and great library (scientific)
No, since i had my 2 golden ages in 2 games now...
one as chinese, after building Sun Tzu Wonder (ok, yeah military makes sense) and then after winning a battle with a Tank (not the UU)
the other was french, but i dont remember the details...but i know it wasn't with a musketeer, since i never attack with them, and in fact, rarely build them since i can't upgrade to them.
Im not sure the full criteria for triggering a Golden Age, I just know that it doesnt HAVE to be a UU victory OR by an appropriate wonder...just more likely to happen on those events.
Maybe there's a chance you can have a Golden Age every age of the game? (Ancient/Medieval/Industrial/Modern) Just the chances are low? Is TWO the limit? or has anyone had 3?
cephyn: Perhaps it was not just the tank battle that set off your second Golden Age. Maybe it was that combined with a wonder that served the "industrial" side of the Chinese. Would the Hoover Dam or something like that be considered industrious in this manner?
I've never seen a second GOlden Age at all, and I'm pretty sure that the documentation claims that a civ will only get one. Interesting to see that so many of you have had more than one - I look forward to experimenting with this phenomenon!
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