Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[dalamb]

This actually makes me think of one of my ongoing questions.... Some technologies provide a "free" specialist. ...
When you get a "free engineer", for example, does one "magically" appear in each of your cities?

Some technologies give you a free great person when you're the first to discover this technology. The great person will appear in one of your cities, activated and awaiting your orders.

A great person is something very different than a specialist.

Certain wonders and civics allow for a "free specialist". I just ran into this situation with Mercantilism. What happens is that you get a specialist that doesn't require that you stop working a tile. However, you can only run such specialists as you'd already be able to run by taking someone away from working a tile. For example, my city had only a forge, so the only "free specialist" I could run was an engineer. When I built a library, I could choose the free specialist to be either a scientist or an engineer. If I'd run a free scientist, I could still only get a max of 2, the 2nd from not working a tile.

If you have more free specialists than you can use, they become "citizen specialists" -- the guys that only give +1 hammer and nothing else.

 

[Sidder]

Question on how to use the AP to get a win..

So I just cleared my continent, Musa had build the AP w/ hindiusm, while im running Taoism. But I noticed the votes keep running anyway despite not being in religion so now I got about half my continent that has hindiusm, but I have not got to the point of exploring the ocean so I havent met my other opponents yet. (skipped optics .. getting it now)

How do I now approach it further to get myself AP win voted? Just go spot the other civs, and start spreading the AP religion like mad?

edit: found what I needed to know, although ingame I found out I had done it wrongly and had to go win a domination vic after all oh well maybe next time

 

[gsfgf]

How long will an AI refuse to talk after you quit trading, and is there a way to make them talk again sooner?

 

[henrebotha]

I believe all "refuses to talk" events last ten turns, and to my knowledge there's no way to shorten that period.

 

[Sisiutil]

I believe all "refuses to talk" events last ten turns, and to my knowledge there's no way to shorten that period.

I believe the "ten turns" you're thinking of is how long before the AI will talk to you after a DoW. After the implementation of a trade embargo, I think it varies from one leader to another, and I believe there may be a random element thrown in.

 

[henrebotha]

Is there a thread or article focused on the Priest Economy somewhere?

 

[Sian]

quick question ... till what tech can i build Macemen? Rifling?

 

[Lord Parkin]

quick question ... till what tech can i build Macemen? Rifling?

Until you have both Rifling AND Military Science (or Chemistry, pre-BTS). Basically, you can build Macemen until you have the ability to build both Riflemen AND Grenadiers. (I'm not sure what happens if you get Assembly Line without getting Military Science - haven't checked that.)

 

[Sian]

thanks Lord Parkin ... having a killer game with Toku ... allready ate Lincon (axerush), Zara (sword+axe+catapult followed by a samurai+catapult) and Mansa (direct followup from Zara with trebs ticking in as i built them) on a huge 18 man Fractal

 

[r_rolo1]

Lord parkin, if the target ugprade units are obsolete, the unit itself is considered obsolete. For a example, if maceman and pikes are obsolete, quechuas ( that become obsolete with spears, axes and maces ) are obsolete also, because all the units to what you can upgrade the quechua are obsolete as well.

 

[Slevin_Kelbra]

I know this question has been answered before but if you direct me to the that form or tell me i will greatly apreceate it and yea i know i spelled that word wrong bad speller.

I bought Civ VI gold a couple days ago i know late but I have a ps3 and school puts me back but i downloaded some mods and senerios and i think i put the mod in the right spot but i keep moving the sernerios because they don't work where i put them can someone tell me where to store the files i download. Thanks!!!!

 

[henrebotha]

i bought civ vi gold a couple days ago i know late

I DEMAND ACCESS TO YOUR TIME MACHINE.



I have no idea.

 

[r_rolo1]

@Slevin_Kelbra

Public maps folder in the exe directory or Worldbuider saves into the my games directory with the name of the expansion you're using

P.S LOL @ henrebotha

 

[Slevin_Kelbra]

Thanks Well yea my time machine let me get Civ IV Colonization before Civ IV wired i know I accutely got Civ III gold i think when Civ IV was out a few years ago idk i liked it alot and when i got my ps3 i got Revolution not as good to me too cartoony.... but still a good game...

 

[Carwyn]

Can you replace the music with other files? How do you do that? I have some MP3's I'd like to listen to while I play. Thanks for any help!

 

[Arakhor]

Hey all. Long time lurker, first-time poster (and all that jazz). This is a possibly silly question but, when using an advanced start, what does the red circle indicate? The red colour would seem to suggest that you shouldn't build there, but observation over many games would suggest that it's a median spot between other suggested (blue-circle) sites. What's its actual relevance?

 

[IAM]

Hey all. Long time lurker, first-time poster (and all that jazz). This is a possibly silly question but, when using an advanced start, what does the red circle indicate? The red colour would seem to suggest that you shouldn't build there, but observation over many games would suggest that it's a median spot between other suggested (blue-circle) sites. What's its actual relevance?

The red circle is your best city site. In advanced start you can begin with multiple cities the blue circles are other OK city locations. I almost always place the capital on the red circle then buy settlers and scout location before placing other cities.

Welcome Arakhor!

 

[Arakhor]

Thanks Iam - I had a sinking feeling that was the case, seeing as I constantly avoid red circles as red is the universal warning colour!

Only two bananas? I've seen others get at least three Thanks though

 

[aday]

I thought the red circle just meant "this is where your settler would have started". It's always directly in the center of your visible region, and there are sometimes blue circles directly adjacent to it. The game never puts city recommendation circles adjacent to each other.

 

[Roland Johansen]

In a normal game of civilisation, your starting position sometimes has hidden resources that make it better than nearby positions which might look better because its resources are all visible. In the same way, the red circle in an advanced starting position game might also contain hidden resources.

The game uses an algorithm to make the starting positions the best. However, whether the starting position holds coal isn't that important early in the game. So sometimes the hidden resources don't improve the starting position while the starting position algorithm thinks it is better.