Small Observations General Thread (things not worth separate threads)

[sTAPler27]

Do you mean same leader color across all games or same leader color across a single game (3 ages)?

All games, since players can't rely on leader civ combos they should at least be able to rely on leader color combos.

 

[Acid.Crash]

All games, since players can't rely on leader civ combos they should at least be able to rely on leader color combos.

Hmm, not sure, how I feel on this one.

 

[Cyon]

More of a small question:

How does merchants works?

You build it and you travel with it like a unit to a oppnents city and you then create a trade route?

Is the merchant then consumed? Or somehow trabsfimef to the trader that goes back and fourth between your city and the opponents? How is the city it starts from choosen?

What happened if the trade route is plundered? Do you get Your merchant back or do you need to build a new one?

How does Aksums Unique unit and civilian unit work? Is their civilian Unique a merchant that is a boat, or just a description that their seagoing traderoutes can go further and not be plundered?

 

[Nikolai II]

How does merchants works?

You build it and you travel with it like a unit to a oppnents city and you then create a trade route?

This is how the youtubers have described it, yes.

Is the merchant then consumed? Or somehow trabsfimef to the trader that goes back and fourth between your city and the opponents? How is the city it starts from choosen?

I believe it's made into a traveling unit? I don't think which city it starts from matters, as resources seem to be civ wide for all intents and purposes.

What happened if the trade route is plundered? Do you get Your merchant back or do you need to build a new one?

Excellent question! I don't think we know?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

More of a small question:

How does merchants works?

You build it and you travel with it like a unit to a oppnents city and you then create a trade route?

Is the merchant then consumed? Or somehow trabsfimef to the trader that goes back and fourth between your city and the opponents? How is the city it starts from choosen?

What happened if the trade route is plundered? Do you get Your merchant back or do you need to build a new one?

How does Aksums Unique unit and civilian unit work? Is their civilian Unique a merchant that is a boat, or just a description that their seagoing traderoutes can go further and not be plundered?

I watched a video where the player struggled with Trade Routes, only to discover that they have a finite range. He moved it into a city that was close enough (within the borders is fine) and it previewed the route between that city and his closest city. It then created the trade route and road.

It appeared that the merchant disappeared afterwards, although it may have appeared that way due to editing.

The Merchant himself doesn't go back and forth on the route, there's a trader unit for that.

Aksum's unique civilian appears to be the embarked version of the trader.

 

[sTAPler27]

More of a small question:

How does merchants works?

Merchants uses its charge to create a Trader unit that moves across the map like the traders in 6

 

[Siptah]

Merchants are also consumed when building a road. You can only perform one action with these units.

And similarly, Missionaries also disappear when the use their second ability (healing).

 

[Seek]

Merchants are also consumed when building a road. You can only perform one action with these units.

And similarly, Missionaries also disappear when the use their second ability (healing).

How does the road building work? I haven’t seen it in any of the videos I’ve watched

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

How does the road building work? I haven’t seen it in any of the videos on watched

It stretches from the city that the merchant was activated in to your nearest city. Your nearest city isn't necessarily connected to you capital with a road (it could be a water connection).

 

[Siptah]

How does the road building work? I haven’t seen it in any of the videos on watched

I have no clue. Someone said in a Q&A that it also consumes the trader: it‘s either a trade route or a road. I guess it works similar to the trade route: move the unit into a foreign city, use the ability, and the road to the nearest city is established. But I haven‘t seen proof.

 

[Rac]

Ok I guess I need correct things again in my spreadsheet, Sundapura isn't a settlement of the Sunda, but the Tarumanagara actually (still a Sundanese kingdom, but a specific one)

 

[Rac]

Ok, I guess this is the frontier to get more info, BiliBili videos... No I don't pretend to get an account there, so no better quality in the photage, but there's still some things readable enough that Google Translator can pick up (not that it's accurate, but a good indication)

This here may be Bulgarians with... Tarnovo as settlement I think?

This other one is I believe the Arrernte (an Aussie IP I catched before), or at least should be since it's using Alice Springs as settlement

And a look on Constantinople

I think there might be more stuff in those video being possible to catch, but the low res doesn't help at all, anyways, can anyone who knows Chinese could confirm these above?

 

[8housesofelixir]

I think there might be more stuff in those video being possible to catch, but the low res doesn't help at all, anyways, can anyone who knows Chinese could confirm these above?

Can confirm that you get all three right.

The first one is Bulgars (保加尔人, so Bulgars instead of Bulgarians) with Tarnovo, the second one is Arrerntes with Alice Springs, and the third one is Byzantines with Constantinople.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Can confirm that you get all three right.

The first one is Bulgars (保加尔人, so Bulgars instead of Bulgarians) with Tarnovo, the second one is Arrerntes with Alice Springs, and the third one is Byzantines with Constantinople.

Weird that it would be Indigenous Australians with a South American character model

 

[Bast]

Ok, I guess this is the frontier to get more info, BiliBili videos... No I don't pretend to get an account there, so no better quality in the photage, but there's still some things readable enough that Google Translator can pick up (not that it's accurate, but a good indication)

This here may be Bulgarians with... Tarnovo as settlement I think?
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This other one is I believe the Arrernte (an Aussie IP I catched before), or at least should be since it's using Alice Springs as settlement
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And a look on Constantinople
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I think there might be more stuff in those video being possible to catch, but the low res doesn't help at all, anyways, can anyone who knows Chinese could confirm these above?

Which civilization is Ashoka playing as here?

 

[Archanist]

Which civilization is Ashoka playing as here?

Seems to be Chola

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Which civilization is Ashoka playing as here?

Chola

 

[AriochIV]

Weird that it would be Indigenous Australians with a South American character model

Those little-known Australian llamas

 

[ggmoyang]

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That 'Pure Humankind' chat though lol

 

[Bast]

Ok I just couldn't recognize the Chola symbol