CocoIsKing28
Slightly less stupid
How far from your capitol is the maximum for a second city?
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Ghpstage
Deity
Theres no maximum per se, but unless your settling it for blocking purposes then, in general, the closer it is to your capital while getting some food for itself the better.
1889
Mayor of H-Marker Lake
What does it mean when a civ has the little espionage symbol near its score in the bottom right hand corner of the screen? Thanks
I'm pretty sure that espionage symbol there indicates that you have a greater number of 
points invested in that civ than they do to you.
Now for my own question!
Does the AI benefit from the maps I sell them? This could be complicated but I'm guessing the simple answer is "no."
points invested in that civ than they do to you.Now for my own question!
Does the AI benefit from the maps I sell them? This could be complicated but I'm guessing the simple answer is "no."
God-Emperor
Deity
The answer is "yes", but usually not a lot. If it shows them places they have not seen then they can use that information, particularly for deciding to send a settler over there. It is always bad when you find a fantastically good spot (like some spot that has 3 food resources, one or more of which you don't already have, and a couple of luxury resources you don't have) and the AI beats you to it - it is even worse if they only knew about it because you sold them your map.
The AIs also like to explore some. They calculate a number of exploration units for each area (continent or ocean) they have a city in based on the number of unrevealed plots in that area. By showing them more territory, you may be reducing the number of those units that they will spend time building, letting them build other things. They will also divert generic Attack unit AI type units into exploring if the number of explorers is low, almost always diverting at least 1 since the check it uses for that is wanting a number of explorers that is actually 1 greater than the calculated number. So by revealing more of the map for them, they will also tend to "waste" fewer Attack units on exploration.
The AIs also like to explore some. They calculate a number of exploration units for each area (continent or ocean) they have a city in based on the number of unrevealed plots in that area. By showing them more territory, you may be reducing the number of those units that they will spend time building, letting them build other things. They will also divert generic Attack unit AI type units into exploring if the number of explorers is low, almost always diverting at least 1 since the check it uses for that is wanting a number of explorers that is actually 1 greater than the calculated number. So by revealing more of the map for them, they will also tend to "waste" fewer Attack units on exploration.
TheMulattoMaker
Dictator of RF
I think AIs will also sell your maps around to the other AIs, just like if you trade them a tech.
s.bernbaum
Mostly lurking
Quite so. That is why I would only sell or trade the map, if I am willing to do so with all the AIs. If you are selling it to one, sell it on the same turn to every AI that is willing to buy, no matter how little the others will pay. If you are trading with one of them, trade it with all of the ones that you think the one you are planning to trade with will pass it on to - certainly not to that one's worst enemies though.
Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
Most of the time, the gold gained far outweighs the downsides mentioned above. Most of the time.
dalamb
Deity
Is there any way to turn off map trading, as you can do with tech trading?
Chakram Bearer
Chieftain
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You can't bribe an AI to declare war when they're already planning to go to war (they show "We have enough on our hands right now" in the trading screen). But, does this rule apply to other AIs as well? Can an AI be bribed by another AI when they are in WHEOOHRN mode?
i dont know!I've actually posted this in the official BTS mods subforum, but I figure this thread would get more traffic? Is there a way to play RFC or other BTS scenarios and disable worldbuilder? Or any of the other options in the options list that is there when you create a custom game?
UnforcedError
Settler
Option "Lock modified assets" will disable the worldbuilder.
UnforcedError
Settler
Just attack a stack with them and they will cause collateral damage. (This will very often kill your siege unit but it's still a useful tactic to weaken an enemy stack.)
UnforcedError
Settler
Most of the mods that are based on the RevDCM platform include this option. Legends of Revolution is the best of these, IMHO, but there are many to choose from.
Quick question from a new player,
I'm playing a game on a map with four big islands/continents, I've taken over my island completely so I launch a strike on the Portuguese who hold the east coast of the nearest island to my west.
Anyway, after a long fought war I managed to conquer all their lands and cities, all is well, then two turns after I'v taken control of all their cities, *boom* suddenly the dutch spawn and get all my cities on the new island and they are now my vassal state.
I know there are some sort of colony system which I'm not familiar with but for all my cities on the new continent to switch hands at the blink of an eye after I just conquered them to a new civ seems pretty strange+ I was planning to for those new cities to be my base for wiping out the Koreans who hold the western part of that island and are my only serious competition.
I'm playing a game on a map with four big islands/continents, I've taken over my island completely so I launch a strike on the Portuguese who hold the east coast of the nearest island to my west.
Anyway, after a long fought war I managed to conquer all their lands and cities, all is well, then two turns after I'v taken control of all their cities, *boom* suddenly the dutch spawn and get all my cities on the new island and they are now my vassal state.
I know there are some sort of colony system which I'm not familiar with but for all my cities on the new continent to switch hands at the blink of an eye after I just conquered them to a new civ seems pretty strange+ I was planning to for those new cities to be my base for wiping out the Koreans who hold the western part of that island and are my only serious competition.
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