Small Observations General Thread (things not worth separate threads)

[Giskler]

Buying repairs is way way more worth it than a turn to do them (12-44 gold vs 1 turn of full production).

Yeah, I love this change.

 

[Giskler]

If people are struggling with railroad connections for factories, consider using merchants to make new road connections between cities. The connections are sometimes very circuitous.

 

[AriochIV]

If people are struggling with railroad connections for factories, consider using merchants to make new road connections between cities. The connections are sometimes very circuitous.

I toyed with it only briefly, but I couldn't figure out how creating roads with a Merchant is supposed to work.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The movement animation for the Squadron Commander is a C-47 landing.
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Trench Fighter:
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Moving the Mortar is evidently hard work.
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The trench fighter looks like a Bristol F.2

 

[Revolutionist_8]

I'm pretty sure this is known already, but I've just noticed that Endeavours and Treaties are cheaper, while Sanctions are more expensive if you have good relationships:

Spoiler neutral :

Spoiler ally :

The costs are reversed for Hostile and Unfriendly. Espionage costs are the same. I like this, nice detail

 

[Giskler]

I toyed with it only briefly, but I couldn't figure out how creating roads with a Merchant is supposed to work.

Click merchant, click make road button then left click a green tile at the city/town you want to connect.

 

[AriochIV]

Click merchant, click make road button then left click a green tile at the city/town you want to connect.

I did that and nothing happened. Where is the Merchant supposed to be for this to work?

 

[Giskler]

I did that and nothing happened. Where is the Merchant supposed to be for this to work?

I had it standing at a city center.

 

[AriochIV]

I had it standing at a city center.

So does it only work between two cities? That's not obvious... and doesn't seem very useful, as any two cities within range should already have a road between them.

The trench fighter looks like a Bristol F.2

I believe you are correct.

 

[Evolena]

So does it only work between two cities? That's not obvious... and doesn't seem very useful, as any two cities within range should already have a road between them.

It seems only one road is automatically created, so you may want to connect to another settlement in range (btw, range is 10 in Antiquity, 15 in Exploration and 20 in Modern, at least for Trade Routes).
I've had 3 settlements in a triangle (capital, 2 towns), and the second town only created a road to the first one, so it was not connected to the capital.

 

[Giskler]

So does it only work between two cities? That's not obvious... and doesn't seem very useful, as any two cities within range should already have a road between them.


I believe you are correct.

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I'll have to do some more testing, but I was able to connect two settlements sucessfully doing this. I did have trouble in a different game getting it to work so maybe there are underlying factors that are too opaque to see with the current UI. Could be there's a minimum or maximum distance, could be you can only do it between cities or could be that it only works if there's no existing route already. It's safe to say the UI is not intuitive enough.

 

[AriochIV]

So... when I said before that the Soldaderas might not look that lame after all... I take it back.

 

[sonicmyst]

Some dark age legacies for you.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Buying repairs is way way more worth it than a turn to do them

It's also much better than realising you forgot to send a builder to fix it and it's been pillaged for 400 years .....

 

[HelloIAmW]

Buying repairs is way way more worth it than a turn to do them (12-44 gold vs 1 turn of full production).

Now if only we had a 'Repair all' option...

 

[Giskler]

I did that and nothing happened. Where is the Merchant supposed to be for this to work?

I just tested it again in my latest game, making a road between Capua (town) and Patavium (city).

Here's how it worked:

 

[Giskler]

Another thing, I noticed that Erdene Zuu also triggers when you upgrade units.

 

[Revolutionist_8]

It's a shame that Han and Ming great walls don't match together (at least visually, the yields seem to be ok. Hopefully will be fixed eventually )

Spoiler they don't connect :( :

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But I built a pretty decent one earlier so that's a good feeling (fortunately the same ones match visually between cities, I think the yields do too, but I'll double-check)

Spoiler I'm proud lol :

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(my last post for today about Great Walls)

So I wanted to be a naughty boi and "break" the wall on a cliff, but those clever workers built stairs on it

 

[Giskler]

Aerodromes count as fortified districts.

 

[DogeEnricoDandolo]

Some dark age legacies for you.View attachment 718893

I wish the game forces you to choose at least one Dark Age Legacy. In the current state (if you choose the Dark age legacy, you give up every other legacies), no one will pick it.