Sedwick
Parent, then Civ'er
Could pillage healing be a good thing to facilitate with workers that have nothing else to do? Or do their maintenance costs not even justify it?
Pillaging Bug Exploit?
- Thread starter BurnBabyBurn
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The maintenance cost of the worker goes up with era, but even in the industrial/modern era, it's only 3 or 4 GPT. I've found pillage yields to vary from 0-40 gold per pillage and the average seems to be somewhere around 8-10 gold (but this is not very scientific.) Also, I think some improvements have a higher pillage yield range than others (I think mines/trading posts give more gold than farms.) So, if the worker costs 6-8 gold to maintain for two turns and it enables one additional pillage, it will average paying for itself plus a very small profit, not enough to be a strategy with the intention of building an economy but it's nice that it usually pays for itself plus a little profit while it performs it's primary function, keeping your military at full strength.
It also means that it's probably prudent to retreat your units to an area where a burned-down city used to exist to heal your units instead of finding an isolated area to turn-click heal. It will be faster to heal while adding some gold.
Also, the way in which Denmark is set up makes me think that the pillage mechanic was not accidental. They have one useless unique unit (skiers) and one moderately good UU (berserkers), which would mean that their UA should be pretty good to compensate, and while the extra post-embarkation moves are nice (and feels like a mechanic flaw in itself), it seems that the free pillage ability is the primary bonus they receive and you need to use this "exploit" for the advantage to make any sense.
BurnBabyBurn
Warlord
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Real world parallels? Name a few and change our minds? Land is not unlimited what it can give. In earlier versions of Civ I recall Global Warming(I miss those) and I always love that about Civ.
~in Extreme Cases, civilians were used on the front line of combat as meatshields and or for various tasks on the battlefield like ditch digging or repairing various infrastructure. Especially when short of engineer or regular military manpower. Slave labor workers on the field of combat has no issue to me. Warriors and Civilians have been in the same box since the beginning of time.
~in Extreme Cases, civilians were used on the front line of combat as meatshields and or for various tasks on the battlefield like ditch digging or repairing various infrastructure. Especially when short of engineer or regular military manpower. Slave labor workers on the field of combat has no issue to me. Warriors and Civilians have been in the same box since the beginning of time.
