Quick Questions and Answers

[liv]

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?

Basically infinite firaxite out of a 2 firaxite resource by doing that over and over again, but I find it hard to believe someone else hasn't tried it yet with as many people who play this game.

 

[nccrush001]

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.

 

[nccrush001]

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?

 

[Browd]

They are continuously mined, in that sense. If you have traded a resource and that resource is lost (e.g., mine is pillaged, city is conquered by another civ, tile is lost to an enemy citadel), then that trade is busted. If, instead of trading, you used the resource to build resource-dependent units (e.g., used iron for longswordsmen or frigates), those units will suffer a strategic resource penalty and fight at 50% effectiveness.

 

[nccrush001]

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?

 

[Browd]

Not aware of any primer but think of it this way. For every resource that you have attached to your trade network, you get that number of resources every turn, but they are "use it or lose it" on every turn. When you trade, e.g., 1 iron for 2 gold per turn, you are supplying your trade partner with the use of 1 iron every turn and he is paying you 2 gpt. He can use that iron to support 1 iron-requiring unit (say, a swordsman) and you can use the 2gpt however you like.

If your iron is lost, for whatever reason, you can't do your next delivery of iron. The trade is busted, you lose the 2 gpt and he loses the iron. In that case his unit will suffer a strategic resource penalty unless he can scramble around to find more iron.

If you have a DOF and trade 1 iron for 45 gold, you've already been paid up front for the 30 turns of iron, but still need to deliver 1 iron per turn. If you lose the iron source, the trade still busts and your trading partner loses the iron, but you were paid up front, so no negative consequences to you.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So...siege worms.

I gave up on a campaign just now. After reading all 17 pages of this thread, I found only a single mention of the other question I have (I'll get to that one shortly)

I played a random everything start game. And from the west of my capital and first placed city, I keep having siege worms pop and come rollin' in.

They rip the snot out of everything, and wipe my armies to nothing before falling to city defenses.

I've mostly not even finished repairing all the damage they've caused before the next one pops into view.

I've explored the whole island I'm on (fairly small...30ish hexes wide, T shaped, about 15 long on the middle stalk as it were) and there are ZERO nests.

I gave up when not one....not two...but THREE siege worms came into my city view on the same turn and simply laid waste to everything in order.

What the hell do siege worms pop from?

(the secondary question I have, I found a single reference to back on page four: what happened to 'limit growth' from Civ5? Is that completely gone now, or am I just an idjit trying to locate it?)

Thanks

The siege worms spawn in the fog of war.

Every few turns the convoy stops and i am given the option to take a different trade route if i want, is there a way to stop this from popping every few turns ? It's kinda cumberstome when i don't really want to change the trade routes.

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.

 

[dolbonics]

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!

 

[Voltage]

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?

 

[droberts97470]

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

 

[HandyVac]

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!

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.

 

[Gritf]

Is there even a patch for mac?

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

 

[Budget]

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

 

[reddishrecue]

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

 

[panos22]

how i can play with mods ?

 

[10lire]

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».

 

[SahintheFalcon]

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!

 

[10lire]

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!

 

[TinFoilHat]

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

 

[darkpigraph]

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».

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 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 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.