Quick Questions and Answers

[Acken]

They do try to move great works if they perceive a danger but I wouldn't be surprised the function isn't very efficient.

 

[vesp3r1987]

They do try to move great works if they perceive a danger but I wouldn't be surprised the function isn't very efficient.

i take it this will be seen on emperor and above

 

[Jaybe]

i take it this will be seen on emperor and above

AI evacuating artwork occurs even at Prince level. Of course, they have to have some place to evacuate it TO.

 

[Matty R]

There does not need to be a road connection for cities to benefit from the luxuries. They just need to be there. Either improve a luxury that is within your cultural borders, plant a city right on the luxury (and have the required tech to benefit from that luxury), or get it form a trade deal with the AI or from a city state (if you are allied with a city state you get the benefit from it's luxuries and strategic resources just as you have them yourself but you can't trade them). If you don't have any improved citrus it the territory maybe you got an alliance with a city state that has (sometimes you perform quests without even noticing).

Is that the same for all resources?

When I built a pasture on a horse tile, I instantly got access to it even though there wasn't a road on it. However, there is a stone tile with a quarry on an adjacent tile with no road, and my resource list isn't showing access to stone.

I'm currently playing my very first game on Civ V, and I think part of the learning process will be unlearning things from Civ IV. I get the impression that roads are more of a speciality thing now, rather than the necessity they were in Civ IV.

 

[beetle]

Stone is not a resource. You won't see cows and deer in your resource list either. In V, roads have nothing to do with hooking up resources and luxuries. Since roads cost maintenance, unlike IV, you want to be much more conservative with them.

 

[Matty R]

Thanks for the reply.

I've gone and removed the roads I put in to link bonuses. Now I just have my 3 cities linked. Works well for moving my Spearmen around to deal with barbarians.

Am I right in thinking that only Luxury and Strategic resources can be traded to other civs? It does appear that way, but I just wanted to confirm.

 

[vesp3r1987]

Thanks for the reply.

I've gone and removed the roads I put in to link bonuses. Now I just have my 3 cities linked. Works well for moving my Spearmen around to deal with barbarians.

Am I right in thinking that only Luxury and Strategic resources can be traded to other civs? It does appear that way, but I just wanted to confirm.

Well you cant trade food with them... you can trade luxury and strategic resources and cities. Science trading comes with the RA and thats it.

 

[counterpoint]

Thanks for the reply.

I've gone and removed the roads I put in to link bonuses. Now I just have my 3 cities linked. Works well for moving my Spearmen around to deal with barbarians.

Am I right in thinking that only Luxury and Strategic resources can be traded to other civs? It does appear that way, but I just wanted to confirm.

Right. Of course you can also 'trade' production and food yields to your own cities via caravans and cargo ships, once you've researched the right techs

Well you cant trade food with them... you can trade luxury and strategic resources and cities. Science trading comes with the RA and thats it.

 

[Matty R]

Thanks for the replies.

I'm getting there, slowly. I've just set my first Caravan up, and I should have my first Cargo Ship soon.

So are the bonus resources like stone and deer only useful for the cities that can work them? Internal resources that can't be moved throughout my territory or to any others?

I'm sorry if this is really obvious to other people. I've had Civ V installed for months but knew very little about it until I started yesterday. I only started it out of curiosity, to see how it looked compared to the previous game. More than 3 hours later I realised I couldn't go back to Civ 4.

 

[beetle]

So are the bonus resources like stone and deer only useful for the cities that can work them?

Correct. Bonus resources buff the tile, get another buff when improved, and most either unlock a building (e.g., stable, stoneworks) or buff a building (e.g., deer and wheat improve granary).

Lux are similar but also provide happiness and are available to trade.

Strategic resources are similar to bonus resources as well, but also give you something to trade or unlock units. Unlike luxes and bonus resources, strategic resources are only revealed by researching a tech.

 

[Matty R]

Thanks for clearing it up. It all makes perfect sense now.

Is there a beginners guide or something like that available? I'm just looking for tips and basic advice. Maybe tips for unlearning things from Civ IV.

 

[Browd]

Try this "Early-Game Guide for Beginners" from the War Academy: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=523892

 

[Matty R]

That's the sort of thing I'm looking for. Thank you very much.

 

[yew]

According to the game,I have the following reasons for Unhappiness;
123 total Unhappiness from all sources.
0 generated from number of Cities
111 generated by Population
12.75 generated by Specialists

I only have a happiness level of 31

a)Should I stop building hospitals to keep the population from growing?According to the Civiliopedia, the hospitals are built if you want to have a big population.So the solution is to stop building hospitals?

b)How did I end up generating "12.75 specialists"?I want to stop generating them if it causes Unhappiness.

c)How do I cut down the population and how do I stop the population from growing further?I'm playing Russia in a scenario and I'm having trouble with too many citizens.

 

[Greggy08]

According to the game,I have the following reasons for Unhappiness;
123 total Unhappiness from all sources.
0 generated from number of Cities
111 generated by Population
12.75 generated by Specialists

I only have a happiness level of 31

a)Should I stop building hospitals to keep the population from growing?According to the Civiliopedia, the hospitals are built if you want to have a big population.So the solution is to stop building hospitals?

b)How did I end up generating "12.75 specialists"?I want to stop generating them if it causes Unhappiness.

c)How do I cut down the population and how do I stop the population from growing further?I'm playing Russia in a scenario and I'm having trouble with too many citizens.

really i see a problem but that's not the population... i mean you have 31 happiness what are you worring about?

the problem is... how do you have 0 from number of cities???

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[yew]

really i see a problem but that's not the population... i mean you have 31 happiness what are you worring about?

It's keeps on getting less as the turns pass by.

 

[counterpoint]

It's keeps on getting less as the turns pass by.

Keep in mind that the yellow number at the top of the main game screen is you're overall happiness surplus, after your unhappiness has been deducted.

If this number gets low, or even turns red, then you have to be concerned. But 31 is a quite high number. You absolutely should not be limiting your population and specialists if you have that much net happiness. In fact, having good happiness is what empowers you to builds specialists and big cities in the first place. If you build a bush if cities, lose your luxury resources, or conquer too much, then you might run into happiness problems

 

[Acken]

Are you playing with a mod ? You shouldn't get 0 from cities.

 

[yew]

Are you playing with a mod ? You shouldn't get 0 from cities.

Yes.The one I'm using is one of those mod which you use to get new units.

 

[Acken]

Yes.The one I'm using is one of those mod which you use to get new units.

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