Techs that alter improvements won't work properly

[Melendwyr]

I first noticed this problem in a game where I had just constructed the Hanging Gardens. When I built a new city, it would gain the health bonus, but not the population increase - that only happened in existing cities. Okay, I thought it was an intended feature, as it wasn't completely impossible that was how it was intended to work.

In a later game, I researched Biology, and then decided to build a few farms. They didn't get the +1 food bonus, although existing farms had.

I can't confirm whether this problem occurs with all of the technologies that grant improvement bonuses and their respective improvements, but I suspect it might be the case.

 

[Zurai]

Biology works fine for me. New farms add two food. I don't think the Hanging Gardens is intended to start new cities at size 2.

 

[snepp]

The civlopedia is a bit confusing concerning the food bonus.

The +1 food given by Biology is only for farms that have irrigation. So all farms built before discovering Biology will be guaranteed to get the +1, because they required irrigation to built. After discovering Biology you can build farms in locations that don't have irrigation, so they won't get that additional +1.

I may have even confused myself there, hopefully you understand what I'm saying.

 

[Zurai]

Ahh. In other words, farms must have access to fresh water (either directly or through chaining) in order to get the +1 food. I'll have to watch for that and see if that's indeed how it works.

 

[snepp]

Ahh. In other words, farms must have access to fresh water (either directly or through chaining) in order to get the +1 food.

Yes, that's exactly what I intended to say, though it took me 1000 more words to do so.