Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Chandler]

I don't know how they would be able to do that:

Spoiler :

 

[4CV]

I don't know how they would be able to do that...

Around your city Baghdad the coastal tiles are completely yours. Other civs city connections by lighthouse are blocked there, if they cannot cross ocean. The same way your connection may be blocked by the Inca(?).

 

[Chandler]

I've circumnavigated the map, my units can cross the ocean (and I have Astronomy investigated, already). A Pathfinder should be able to go from my capital to Najran and come back without any problem, I'd say.

 

[Noob Fanboy]

I've circumnavigated the map, my units can cross the ocean (and I have Astronomy investigated, already). A Pathfinder should be able to go from my capital to Najran and come back without any problem, I'd say.

Maybe if you're beyond the lighthouse range of trade route, you're not going to be connected, do you have a harbor in the city?

 

[Chandler]

The city was once connected to the capital, right after I built the lighthouse (as it has always happened in my games, not sure if there's any range). And I do had a harbor as well in the city. But, after dozens of turns of being connected, the connection was broken, and I don't know why. Something got in the way? That seems the most plausible option, but I dunno what it'd be. It's still as possible as it was before to go to the city and come back through the ocean.

 

[CrazyG]

The city was once connected to the capital, right after I built the lighthouse (as it has always happened in my games, not sure if there's any range). And I do had a harbor as well in the city. But, after dozens of turns of being connected, the connection was broken, and I don't know why. Something got in the way? That seems the most plausible option, but I dunno what it'd be. It's still as possible as it was before to go to the city and come back through the ocean.

Barbarian ships on the path? You need a path through revealed coast or ocean tiles, and the path cannot go through a foreign civ or city state's land.

 

[Chandler]

Alright. The "revealed" was the key word here, it seems. This seemed to be the problem:

Spoiler :

Once I revealed a path, the connection came back, so it was lost when either Cusco or Tiwanaku took that tile and "blocked" a revealed path. Thanks, everyone.

EDIT: Ok... Nevermind. I tried that in the game by putting everyone to sleep and revealing those tiles with an embarked unit. And, indeed, the city connection came back. However, when I went back to the turn I saved, and tried playing better, the city connection came back again BEFORE I revealed that path (even though I was on the way with a unit, it wasn't done yet).

Why was the city connection established again? I have no idea.

 

[Bhawb]

Having an Autocracy playthrough right now and I noticed something that doesn't seem right: Third Alternative (doubles your strategic resources) also doubles your paper. I know that paper is technically a strategic resource, but this seems like an absolutely insane buff for Diplomatic Victories, I could have 11 diplo units at any given time, which is more than enough to curb-stomp anyone's chances at having a CS ally, even before I get Tyranny to shut it down double-time. Is this intended? This seems really abusable.

 

[tu_79]

Having an Autocracy playthrough right now and I noticed something that doesn't seem right: Third Alternative (doubles your strategic resources) also doubles your paper. I know that paper is technically a strategic resource, but this seems like an absolutely insane buff for Diplomatic Victories, I could have 11 diplo units at any given time, which is more than enough to curb-stomp anyone's chances at having a CS ally, even before I get Tyranny to shut it down double-time. Is this intended? This seems really abusable.

Autocracy is also a good ideology for diplomatic victory, so even if it was an oversight, probably it fits the theme.

 

[psparky]

You need a path through revealed coast or ocean tiles, and the path cannot go through a foreign civ or city state's land.

My understanding is that a foreign civ's tiles where you have Open Borders would be fine and a city state's tiles would be fine unless you are at war - but I'm far from certain.

Why was the city connection established again? I have no idea.

Maybe there was another possible path that was also blocked for some reason, but became available before you got to reveal those tiles. Did you get an OB or make peace with a CS the turn before?

 

[CrazyG]

My understanding is that a foreign civ's tiles where you have Open Borders would be fine and a city state's tiles would be fine unless you are at war - but I'm far from certain.

Open borders will work, but CS will not unless allied (maybe friendly). I've had this issue before.

 

[psparky]

Open borders will work, but CS will not unless allied (maybe friendly). I've had this issue before.

OK, thanks for clarifying and useful to know

 

[Chandler]

Maybe there was another possible path that was also blocked for some reason, but became available before you got to reveal those tiles. Did you get an OB or make peace with a CS the turn before?

Not that I know about. Everything went the same as the last time, at least on that regard. However, some kind of path came again.

 

[4CV]

.... However, when I went back to the turn I saved, and tried playing better, the city connection came back again BEFORE I revealed that path (even though I was on the way with a unit, it wasn't done yet).

Why was the city connection established again? I have no idea.

How far did you go back? Maybe after reloading the AI also calculated different and grabbed other tiles than before.

 

[Chandler]

Just 4-5 turns. The "path" was already blocked by the clouds and the Incan borders, if that was ever the problem.

 

[Bhawb]

Autocracy is also a good ideology for diplomatic victory, so even if it was an oversight, probably it fits the theme.

Definitely fits the theme, just feels weird.

 

[saamohod]

What are these Trade Missions and their +10% influence mentioned in the Statecraft social policy? I presume it's not the one when I spend my Great Merchant inside a City State which gives me 0 influence, therefore 10% of zero is still zero.

 

[Rekk]

What are these Trade Missions and their +10% influence mentioned in the Statecraft social policy? I presume it's not the one when I spend my Great Merchant inside a City State which gives me 0 influence, therefore 10% of zero is still zero.

Diplomats and Great Diplomats.

 

[SpankmyMetroid]

There's no informational text for public works yet, right (when you mouse over it on the build queue it just brings up a file path)? Just making sure my installations have been working properly since... when PW was introduced.

 

[vyyt]

There's no informational text for public works yet, right (when you mouse over it on the build queue it just brings up a file path)? Just making sure my installations have been working properly since... when PW was introduced.

Bad news, your install IS botched, there should be a description showing up in the tooltip. I'd try manually deleting the cache folder and reinstalling VP.