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Bonyduck Campersang said:
No, I couldn't build the Trader at all. Funnily enough, I was able to build it (and another Trader) after the capacity was increased to 2
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You already had a sleeper/inactive trader in Qaraqorum. It counts to the limit, but not to active trade routes (in the status bar).
 
Snowygerry said:
What is a Themed Building ?
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Bonyduck Campersang said:
I've wondered that too, but too afraid to ask
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It’s a building in which you can insert art pieces from great artists or archeologists.

Placing these items will give you bonuses (ex: tourists) but certain buildings can be THEMED to double those bonuses.Hence, THEMED BUILDINGS.
 
Snowygerry said:
What is a Themed Building ?
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An art or archeological museum that has a matching set a items in it. For an art museum, all of the great works need to be the same genre (landscape, portrait, etc) but each has to be from a different artist. Archeological museums need to have artifacts from the same era (Classical, Modern, etc) but each has to be from a different civ. Themed buildings have increased culture and tourism output, which also effects any other types of yields if I remember correctly.
 
Browd said:
Relics are a special type of Great Work that goes in a special slot (temples have relic slots, as do a couple of wonders, and your palace slot can hold any type of great work, including a relic). You can generate relics by having an apostle with the Martyr promotion die in theological combat, or getting a relic as a tribal village reward, or, if you are Suzerain of Kandy, finding a Natural Wonder.
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Throwing it way back... Browd wrote this a long time ago. Not sure if there's an update for GS/NFP/LP...

Let's assume that Kandy is not in my game, nor am I using Heroes mode.

I need to build Temples so that I can build the belief-centered building that I chose for my religion. All of these Temples have empty Relic slots. Yes, I could retire Joan of Arc.... once. Is it still true that the only way to generate Relics to fill the rest of my slots is to build a bunch of Apostles (with the right promotion, or the MSM wonder) and have them all *LOSE* theological combat?

Seems like there must be another way to get relics, otherwise those slots will never get filled
 
vorlon_mi said:
Seems like there must be another way to get relics, otherwise those slots will never get filled
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Nope, you are incredibly lucky if you manage to even get one relic per game in a regular game. However, If you have the secret societies game mode active you can get a relic every time you use up all of the charges of a cultist unit if you are part of the Voidsingers society. Those are a late game unit though and you can only unlock in them starting in the Industrial Era.
 
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I buy relics whenever I can, otherwise I sacrifice fighting apostles (with the relic promotion) after spending their spread religion charges. I have actually ran out of relic space more than once, and I don't play with voidsingers, but I do buy their relics when possible.
 
InsidiousMage said:
Nope, you are incredibly lucky if you manage to even get one relic per game in a regular game. However, If you have the secret societies game mode active you can get a relic every time you use up all of the charges of a cultist unit if you are part of the Voidsingers society. Those are a late game unit though and you can only unlock in them starting in the Industrial Era.
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OK, this data explains some things.
  • It suggests to me that the developers expected players to have more theological combat, with theological casualties. If apostles fought as often as men-at-arms, a player with a bunch of relic slots in their temples might have relics to fill them.
  • Actual experience with unfilled relic slots led them to add the "ice cream topping" of a secret society that could fill those empty slots. One of the benefits of turning that mode on.
When a relic is generated, how would I retrieve it? Does it teleport into the nearest available relic slot? Or does it need to be picked up by one of my units?
 
vorlon_mi said:
When a relic is generated, how would I retrieve it? Does it teleport into the nearest available relic slot? Or does it need to be picked up by one of my units?
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Relics are automatically added to an open great works slot in a building that can hold a relic. The only great works that you need to get from the map are artifacts, everything is always generated and added to an open slot as long you have an open slot. So, if you have no open slots, a relic is not generated.

vorlon_mi said:
It suggests to me that the developers expected players to have more theological combat, with theological casualties. If apostles fought as often as men-at-arms, a player with a bunch of relic slots in their temples might have relics to fill them.
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Maybe, but there are a lot of mechanics in the game just never got a second look or reworked post-release and relics are just one of the those mechanics.
 
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Range for rapid deployment. What is the range for rapid deployment? Text says between any two cities with airports, but rarely works for me. Do cities have to be within X number of tiles of each other and not just anywhere on world map?
 
planetfall said:
Range for rapid deployment. What is the range for rapid deployment? Text says between any two cities with airports, but rarely works for me. Do cities have to be within X number of tiles of each other and not just anywhere on world map?
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Both cities need to have an airport and an open tile around the airport. You move the units using a button on the unit UI box (can't remember the right word right now.) I've never encountered any other limits.
 
planetfall said:
Can you airlift to an airstrip, or only to an airport?
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Airport only.
BTW, the destination can be an airport, any of the hexes adjacent to it, OR the owning city or any of ITS adjacent hexes. As many as 14 hexes (which many people these days call ‘tiles’).
 
Like I'm going to have 28 units to move. That is good to know, thank you. Earlier versions of civ used squares instead of hexes, and tiles was easier to type than squares, so the naming convention just stuck.
 
Do Film Studio turn on individually for each Civ that is in the Modern Era, or do they turn on when the World reaches Modern?
 
Cubicsquare said:
Do Film Studio turn on individually for each Civ that is in the Modern Era, or do they turn on when the World reaches Modern?
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What do you mean by "turn on"?
 
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