Quick Questions and Answers

The only thing you would be able to build would be a terrascape, right?
I tried to do what you explained but as far as I can tell the firaxite just dissappears when I tried to terrascape it but if I mine it, I can get it back
Or am I misunderstanding something?

 

Yes, terrascape.

Sometimes the resource just disappears and you just get it back. Other times it seems to add a whole new shot of the resource. If you build terrascape and then (in the same round) cancel and build the mine, you just lose the resource and get it back. But it seems that if you cancel the next round and build the mine, that's when you get a new infusion. At least sometimes.

I get inconsistent results depending on whether I save the game and load it back, or do other things.

Apparently a bug.

 

waitaminute. if u have to maintain control of the tile, u have to have a mine on it, they aren't continuously mined, blah blah, then how are these things even traded? what if you trade some away, then lose the mine or control of the tile?

 

ok i get fighting at 50% effectiveness. i don't get trade busted. you will have given away resources you no longer control. it seems like the person you gave the resources to should get a 50% effectiveness penalty since you no longer control the resource, therefore he no longer has it either.

maybe i just don't quite understand how this mechanic works. is there some kind of primer or documentation on it?

 

The siege worms spawn in the fog of war.

There's really nothing you can do about it. It's terribly cumbersome and tiring. The only temporary fix I've found is that there is a mod that pushes the turn limit on trade routes from 20 turns to 80. So currently, after 20 turns, the trade routes reset, which turns into a huge chore in late game where you are re-authorizing multiple trade routes every single turn.

I do believe they are looking at tinkering with this in the upcoming patch.

 

I launched a solar collector and for a few turns it was sending down that blue electric funnel. However, it kept asking me what orders to give it. I eventually put it to sleep and now I do not have a blue electric funnel anymore.

What orders do you give a solar collector when it keeps asking you for orders, and how do you get it to just sit there and send electricity down?

Thanks!

 

I still have not got the new patch for Civ BE.

I bought it on the mac app store. Anyone else got it ? Is there even a patch for mac?

 

my health is red 24. Looking for ways to fix that

 

No orders neccesary (or possible, in fact). The Solar collector will always provide it's +1 energy to tile yields for as long as it exists, regardless of whether it's awake or asleep.

So just tell it to sleep.

 

Not yet. Mac devs are always late and fixing port issues.

 

Can anybody tell me if this laptop would run Civ BE on the optimal recommendations?

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X755JA-DS71-17-3-Inch-Laptop-Drive/dp/B00S44XB78/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

 

What's the best unit to use or way to kill a kraken in high seas?

 

how i can play with mods ?

 

Is there a reason of why in my game there is no sea trade route available? I've built depots and trade vessels, I have free slots in my cities, the planet is earth-like and there are no un-explored hexs between my coastal cities and other sponsors.
It's my very first CivBe game, so I suppose I missed something, but I found nothing on the web unless: «build the vessel and establish the trade route».

 

A sea trade route only works between two coastal cities, or a coastal city and a coastal station. I assume you know this, but just making sure.

Make sure you actually have a free slot. Each city can only support ONE trade route until it reaches population 10. So one land route or one sea route, but not both. The trade screen that says "available trade routes" only shows potential trade routes. It is still limited by this hard limit.

And welcome to BE!

 

Thank you SahintheFalcon! I will do some other test.
What I have understood is that it's not possible to build sea trade routes between coastal cities/stations if both are on the same continent, even though the cities are of different factions (but it'possible to build land routes). Is this right? If this is so, what happens if two coastal cities seem on different continents because there is too much unexplored land when, actually, they are on the same continent? Will the sea trade route available or not?
And, finally, what about oceans? Can sea trade routes go through ocean without limitations from the very early game or do you have to discover some proper tech(s) to make oceanic trade routes available?

Thank you in advance! Happy to be in the club!

 

Hi guys, I'm doing something dumb but I don't know what, please help.

I got 'solid state citizen' quest, then I move an explorer over the site, and constructing an expedition is NOT one of the unit options. Its frustrating being a noob.

tinfoilhat

 

I've found that the game can be quite finicky about what it considers 'Explored' coastal hexes for trade route purposes, so my suggestion would be to send a gunboat around the coast to fogbust completely.

I've read that one of the quests that involves retrieving a satellite is bugged, and won't work properly if all available factions are in the current game. Alternatively, send a unit to the hex and see if there isn't an additional command available in his actions.


I have a question about the Bytegeist wonder (Virtue synergy bonus requirements reduced by one). If you are one Virtue away from receving any synergy bonus, and you finish this wonder, will you get that bonus immediately? I'm not quite sure how to check for this.