Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Enginseer]

When going progress, should I get the policy for getting food+culture when completing building first? Or should I rush the policies that increase my city yields? (I always so far have gone for the latter).

If you don't need the early city yields, get the food+culture. Otherwise if you need the city yields bad, the food+culture won't be good enough to outweigh its value.

 

[bigcat88]

When going progress, should I get the policy for getting food+culture when completing building first? Or should I rush the policies that increase my city yields? (I always so far have gone for the latter).

no, u go worker then science or production(depends how much production/gold u have in cities, if enough to maintain road connection to all cities then go science)
Pantheon GodOfCommerce can help u go science always first and forget about roads cost, but it is not a heavy faith pantheon at start of game.
For such nations as Carthage and other that can connect cities immediately(Iroq,Shonghai) - u will go science almost always first.

 

[Owlbebach]

When going progress, should I get the policy for getting food+culture when completing building first? Or should I rush the policies that increase my city yields? (I always so far have gone for the latter).

If you don't need the early city yields, get the food+culture. Otherwise if you need the city yields bad, the food+culture won't be good enough to outweigh its value.

No way. Always get +2/+2 first. You really do not have any other options. +/+ for buildings is useless this early cause you are building Settlers, not buildings.

 

[LukaSlovenia29]

When playing progress, I always go worker policy (the later you get it, the less valuable it is), then the +2p/+2g (early boost), then the food/culture for building, then +20% production to buildings, and lastly science from city connections (because it'll often take time to set up city connections).

 

[tu_79]

When playing progress, I always go worker policy (the later you get it, the less valuable it is), then the +2p/+2g (early boost), then the food/culture for building, then +20% production to buildings, and lastly science from city connections (because it'll often take time to set up city connections).

Same here. It may change for some reason, like not having anything to improve with my workers, but this is the usual path.

 

[PapaRockett]

Should I even bother going Progress if I don't have a culture resource?

 

[matlajs]

me personally going 20% towards buildings last. logic is that, that you need worker and worker bonus to improve whatever you have for yields. then you also need your new cities be productive and +2g helps also with poverty for short time, also helps with maintanance before markets get in place. by that time i am deciding between food/culture for buildings or science from connections. your production should be already reasonable that bonuses for buildings would make a sense already, also if you pick science that will take a milenium before you get a next policy, but if you play let's say progress china, you may value science more. but i personally think, that 20% bonus towards buildings should get last, because any city (excluding capital) will transfer it into -1 turn on buildings, which is less important than +3s +3f, even if you do not have connected all cities, it will at least inspire you hurry that job.

 

[matlajs]

btw. do anyone know, how tile gold cost increase? like each era + every ring is more expnesive? i am playing america right now, succeeded build Angor wat, and i see that while in some cities tiles of same ring costs lets say 200 g, in another city it cost 400. any idea? is that count and tile cost increase for each city exceptional?

 

[Owlbebach]

Should I even bother going Progress if I don't have a culture resource?

I'd say probably not, but that depends on circumstances a lot. Problem with progress is that in the beginning it is weak in every aspect. But if you have lots of production - might work without culture, you just need to go monument first in every city other than the Capital. However you most likely loose Religion this way

 

[tu_79]

Should I even bother going Progress if I don't have a culture resource?

If you want to go Progress for a late game strategy, just find out your own cultural resource. That's what pantheons and religions are for.

 

[Matutin]

Could you elaborate on that statement a bit? What do you mean with "your own cultural resource"?

 

[PapaRockett]

Could you elaborate on that statement a bit? What do you mean with "your own cultural resource"?

I believe he means either through UB or through a religious belief (+ 1 culture per 4 followers or something)

Now that trade routes provide culture that's a bonus too

 

[Grabbl]

btw. do anyone know, how tile gold cost increase? like each era + every ring is more expnesive? i am playing america right now, succeeded build Angor wat, and i see that while in some cities tiles of same ring costs lets say 200 g, in another city it cost 400. any idea? is that count and tile cost increase for each city exceptional?

I never saw a formula for this, but it is calculated for each tile separately (so even tiles of the same ring don't necessarily cost the same.

No guarantees, but some of the influences are:
- Distance from city increases cost
- Terrain modifies it, flat terrain costs less than hills and forests
- each tile you buy increases costs for every other tile
- possibly an era scaling

However, for America, there might be other modifiers for buying tiles owned by other civa.

By the way, the culture expansion always takes the cheapest tile (or the other way round, the tile for culture expansion has the lowest cost).

 

[matlajs]

By the way, the culture expansion always takes the cheapest tile (or the other way round, the tile for culture expansion has the lowest cost).

this often does'nt matter when city choose few ,,important'' tiles for expansion(luxury,strategic resource) from all the ring, but it also very often prioritize tiles with roads a bove resources.

 

[matlajs]

How is possible, that many turns already dead religion becomes allive from nowhere? i have also overwhelming pressure on those cities, so it's not like it revived just thanks to pressure. I am talking about indian religion, so does Gandhi has some hidden magic? Maybe frozen inquisitor somewhere, but it seems unlikely.

 

[tu_79]

How is possible, that many turns already dead religion becomes allive from nowhere? i have also overwhelming pressure on those cities, so it's not like it revived just thanks to pressure. I am talking about indian religion, so does Gandhi has some hidden magic? Maybe frozen inquisitor somewhere, but it seems unlikely.

If the founder is still alive, their great prophets will spread his original religion.

 

[matlajs]

If the founder is still alive, their great prophets will spread his original religion.

thank you, i thought that this wasn't a case in past versions, but unfortunately you are right.

 

[matlajs]

also, great wall becomes obsolete upon discovering dynamite by whom, owner or attacker? right now it seems that by owner, or it has wrong description and should be balistics(because of artillery)?

 

[CrazyG]

also, great wall becomes obsolete upon discovering dynamite by whom, owner or attacker? right now it seems that by owner, or it has wrong description and should be balistics(because of artillery)?

The owner.

 

[Matutin]

When playing England: Do you keep your first spy in one capital only at the beginning of the game, and ignore the diplomatic consequences, or do you move him around?