Small Observations General Thread (things not worth separate threads)

[ThichN]

A couple stand-out details from my current game (Isabella, Carthage -> Spain), in Exploration Age -- regarding conquistadors.

I've played I think all the other Civs with unique people, but wow, the conquistadors are amazing. One of them reveals all coastline of the map of the Distant Lands. Playing on archipelago, it revealed almost the whole map. An Exploration Age space project. Another one instantaneously made me suzerain of an IP, while also upgrading the IP to a city-state. In this case, an economic one, I was given access to the Company Post late-age, which was a great boost to my burgeoning distant lands empire.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Rail Station + Port = Teleporter Platform. Got it!

Build next to each other?

 

[tman2000]

Build next to each other?

No I just think in the same settlement. Kind of like, teleporting between islands.

 

[DogeEnricoDandolo]

The Dur-Sharrukin is pillaged. I don't think I've seen a pillaged wonder before.

 

[DogeEnricoDandolo]

I've encountered something weird in my game.
- I met Moson Kahni, an IP. I befriend them and become their Suz.
- They got killed in a war.
- They respawned right next to me as a brand new IP ready to be befriended again, so there are 2 Moson Kahni's on the map.

And this happens twice, both in the same game in the Modern age, once with Moson Kahni and once with Bogota, there are 2 of each on the map.

 

[Siptah]

The Dur-Sharrukin is pillaged. I don't think I've seen a pillaged wonder before.
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It's pillaged because it is a fortified district, but has no walls that could be reduced to rubbles, as the normal fortified districts have. Hence, it's up in flames to show that the fortification doesn't exist any more.

 

[stealth_nsk]

I've encountered something weird in my game.
- I met Moson Kahni, an IP. I befriend them and become their Suz.
- They got killed in a war.
- They respawned right next to me as a brand new IP ready to be befriended again, so there are 2 Moson Kahni's on the map.

And this happens twice, both in the same game in the Modern age, once with Moson Kahni and once with Bogota, there are 2 of each on the map.

Do you have Siam in those games? Their unique ability seem to cause some weird things with independent powers.

 

[DogeEnricoDandolo]

Do you have Siam in those games? Their unique ability seem to cause some weird things with independent powers.

Yes I do, but Siam (Amina in the picture) doesn't conquer these city-states, and Siam isn't the suz of these CS (I am).

 

[stealth_nsk]

Yes I do, but Siam (Amina in the picture) doesn't conquer these city-states, and Siam isn't the suz of these CS (I am).

It doesn't matter. Siam has an ability to instantly become suzerain and its badly bugged, so mere existence of Siam in the game could screw situation with independent powers. At least we guess it's a problem with Siam, could be other source for those bugs.

 

[evonannoredars]

The Dur-Sharrukin is pillaged. I don't think I've seen a pillaged wonder before.

Nuking wonders also pillages them - screenshot below has a pillaged doi suthep (top centre), hermitage (top middle-right) and what I think is the terracotta army (below hermitage)

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[Taefin]

It's pillaged because it is a fortified district, but has no walls that could be reduced to rubbles, as the normal fortified districts have. Hence, it's up in flames to show that the fortification doesn't exist any more.

Took me about 10 turns to realize I had to move back onto its tile to get it to rebuild itself.

 

[Siptah]

Nuking wonders also pillages them - screenshot below has a pillaged doi suthep (top centre), hermitage (top middle-right) and what I think is the terracotta army (below hermitage)

Looks like El Escorial is the only wonder that is built with any substance.

 

[evonannoredars]

Looks like El Escorial is the only wonder that is built with any substance.

*El Escorial is the only wonder that wasn't in my target area

Occurs to me though, do wonders still provide their benefits while nuked?

 

[Ryansinbela]

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1jjgtup/new_resources_spotted

 

[evonannoredars]

Doing a little poking around in the files to try and figure out how resource spawning works and came across this. Multiple different distant lands could be fun!

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Sino-Norman naval skirmisih. did 'Chinese cog' has oars? and note that the actual Tier 1 infantry should be medieval spearmen.

^ Not only Russians got wrong cuirassiers. same goes to Prussians.
Basically 'American Cuirassiers' should be Prussians. and since all of them are elites. they should wear white uniforms with red trimmings.
The American 'own' 'Cuirassiers' did not wear cuirass... sadly. in fact they wore no armor at all. and the only known cavalry forces in North America are all dragoons. and following classic dragoon traditions rather than line cavalry.

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Cuirassiers are misnomer actually. the better name should be Line Cavalry.

^ Mexican Linear Infantry. and they're not really what they wear when facing Americans.
and no longer replaced by Soldaderas?

^ San Marino infantry column. Note that these are tintable British Army uniforms. but I'm not downloading any DLCs as of yet.

^ Prussian Line Infantry under Charlemagne's leadership. but this is not Napoleonic era Prussian Army, this uniform was originally British Redcoats, and then adopted by US Army by 1810. (Americans should instead wore these uniforms actually)

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Here. their uniforms are much simpler. and by 1815 (Waterloo) they even used looted the same shakoes as French Army (with different emblems of course!)

 

[rocksinmypath]

In the leader selection menu, Friedrich whistles to the background music.

 

[vorlon_mi]

Has anyone else noticed -- on the launch screen, after it boots up, it shows the leader you've been using in your most recent game. Just that leader.

A few patches ago, I would see different leaders on the launch screen... "oh, yes, played her. Played him. Haven't played him yet."
Now, the single leader seems to say, "Come on, let's get going again!"

 

[Ryansinbela]

Has anyone else noticed -- on the launch screen, after it boots up, it shows the leader you've been using in your most recent game. Just that leader.

A few patches ago, I would see different leaders on the launch screen... "oh, yes, played her. Played him. Haven't played him yet."
Now, the single leader seems to say, "Come on, let's get going again!"

I noticed

 

[tedhebert]

Just finished my first 1.2.5 game...

My they really cut down on the number of ruins in modern.

On large map, it used to be 2 exploration dig sites and then 4 all ages dig sites per continent after hegemony (6 continents). It now is 1 exploration and 2 all ages dig sites, so cut by half...

I Managed to grab 12 relics (digging all the natural wonders) before I won economic victory, but I really wonder if they nerfed this too much. Going to be hard to get 15 relics this way.