Utterly random terrace farm bonus

[crossmr]

See attached screen shot.
The current terrace farm will give +5 food
It's a grassland, hill river
the one above it, only gives +2
it's also a grassland, hill, river

Below the mountain range the one to the left gives +3
it's a grassland, hill, river
the one to the right gives +3
it's a plains, hill, river

all have fresh water.

What's with these utterly random bonuses?

apparently that didn't work.

It didn't attach and the shot itself didn't generate properly
see the terrace farm in the corner of the mountains, it's got like 4 or 5 mountain tiles around it
that's the 5 food one

 

[moyang]

did you ever read terrace farm article on civilopedia?

 

[crossmr]

did you ever read terrace farm article on civilopedia?

Does it give +1 per mountain? I thought you just got +1 if any mountain was nearby

 

[Glassmage]

Terrace Farm is not normal Farm so freshwater is not gonna do anything. Also, post the pic again with yield turn on.

 

[crossmr]

Terrace Farm is not normal Farm so freshwater is not gonna do anything. Also, post the pic again with yield turn on.

What's that weird mountain tile near the farm?
it just says terrain mountain, but looks like something special..

 

[Glassmage]

uh... that's Machu Picchu, you built it.

 

[isthmus]

Terrace farms have a base +1 food, get +1 food per adjacent mountain, and don't get fresh water bonuses. The "wierd mountain" is the graphic for the machu picchu wonder. You've probably built/partially built it in the nearest city.

 

[crossmr]

Ah really? I'd never gotten to build it before, someone else always got to it before me/I wasn't really that close to the mountains.

So you really want to build your cities so that your far edges border a bunch of mountains so you can get huge food bonuses without losing working squares..

 

[isthmus]

Yep, that's the idea. I love the Inca because with terrace farms, cities can be squeezed into mountain areas that are otherwise inhospitable to other civs. Not to mention the other benefits the Inca have when their cities have a lot of hills (better movement, improvement maintanence). A mountain range like you've got there on that map is pure gold for an Inca city.

 

[jtb1127]

uh... that's Machu Picchu, you built it.

Funny. I also like how Machu Picchu didn't even spawn with in your borders.