Unique Luxuries - A few questions

[Louis XXIV]

Having Merc CS luxuries appear on the map would defeat the point. You don't get extra food if you conquer a Maritime CS.

However, I also would suggest that the specific unique luxury varies per game and is not assigned to a specific city-state. Otherwise, I'm not sure jewelry makes a lot of sense for Tyre.

 

[Pazyryk]

Just a guess, but I suspect the devs will implement this using buildings that provide resources. Modders have done this already via Lua. It would be pretty easy for devs to add it into the core game. Then you just make the building "free" for a particular city state, or make it buildable only by that city state (if they don't want the resource present from 4000BC).

If it does work this way, it is still an open question whether these resource buildings are conquerable or not. There is an already existing xml tag that could be used (by devs or modders) to make it work either way. Or it might be provided by a civ-specific capital building, in which case it is not conquerable.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Since they have access to the source code, wouldn't it make more sense to program it direct?

 

[Pouakai]

Depends whether they want to help modders or not

 

[Pazyryk]

Since they have access to the source code, wouldn't it make more sense to program it direct?

Sometimes they do this, sometimes not. It's generally easier and faster to "hard code" something than to make it more flexibly controlled by XML. However, it is harder to modify this later. This doesn't just affect modders. The devs also need to change/adjust things after game testing or for future expansion, and this is more work for "hard coded" items. So it is partly a trade-off between easier-now-or-easier-later. In some cases, code optimization (speed) is a factor that also pushes toward hard coding, but I don't think that applies here.

 

[Rex_Mundi]

My guess is that you do not get the unique luxury of mercantile city state when you conquor them, just like you do not get the bonusses of any other city state that way.

Regarding the Dutch Tulips, I do think you get those. Just like you can get the benefits of Moai and Terrace farms.
Could be fun for the Arabs to steal them, and double them up in the Bazar.

 

[CYZ]

My guess is that these CS will be able to transform normal luxuries into unique luxuries. so if a mercantile CS has gems, it will also have jewelry. If it has Whale, it will also have ''Whale oil'' or whatever. It has silk it will also have ''clothing'' or something like that.

So you can only get the unique luxury by allying them. There might still be CS with the same Unique Luxury, though that'd be a bit rare I suppose.

 

[Montov]

My guess is that these CS will be able to transform normal luxuries into unique luxuries. so if a mercantile CS has gems, it will also have jewelry. If it has Whale, it will also have ''Whale oil'' or whatever. It has silk it will also have ''clothing'' or something like that.

So you can only get the unique luxury by allying them. There might still be CS with the same Unique Luxury, though that'd be a bit rare I suppose.

Because of the last sentence I believe it will not work that way. There are usually a lot of City states with the same resource, and I'm not sure why they would choose such an implementation when there are better ways with the same amount of work involved for the devs.

 

[theadder]

My guess is that these CS will be able to transform normal luxuries into unique luxuries. so if a mercantile CS has gems, it will also have jewelry. If it has Whale, it will also have ''Whale oil'' or whatever. It has silk it will also have ''clothing'' or something like that.

So you can only get the unique luxury by allying them. There might still be CS with the same Unique Luxury, though that'd be a bit rare I suppose.

I'm really hoping that attacking and taking the City State destroys, or at least prevents until liberation, the production of the unique luxury.

That would be by far the best option. Otherwise it is too easy to seize and keep it.

 

[HardRocker]

I'm really hoping that attacking and taking the City State destroys, or at least prevents until liberation, the production of the unique luxury.

That would be by far the best option. Otherwise it is too easy to seize and keep it.

I sure hope so, otherwise Genghis's people would be extremely delusional with happiness, now wouldn't they?

 

[theadder]

I sure hope so, otherwise Genghis's people would be extremely delusional with happiness, now wouldn't they?

Particularly if the luxuries are restricted entirely to that city state, then yes! Very much so.

 

[dagriggstar]

Wouldn't surprise me if there's just a list of CS-resources and their assigned randomly.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

That is my guess as well.