There are two XP bonuses. One is an XP bonus that goes to newly trained troops and is present with the second tier of specialists. The other is a per turn +10 XP for units which idle (or end turn) on the correct barracks type.
The defensive bonus is for units standing on the tile.
edit: as far as I know the only way to improve the actual city tile defense is the wall->moat->tower line of buildings.
Jeez, how much wrapping do you require on your gifts?
Ah, right, that makes sense. But for the sake of argument, say that Iām playing with events turned off. Is everything I need to know about the likelihood of war visible in the opinion breakdown, or are there other unseen factors at work?
-Tom
To add to what @davehemke replied, when you have a unit selected, relevant improvements will be highlighted in green. So if you select a military unit, a site like a shrine, barracks, or harbor that adds xp will light up in green. Very helpful interface assist!
-Tom
There must surely be a consideration of relative military strength in the equation, and whether the AI is already in another war. Possibly how much tribute would stop being sent to them.
Perhaps also whether Iām in a defensive pact thingy (canāt remember the name) with another nation, and how strong they are. Iām not sure about that as the last time I had one I kept being declared on anyway (but that might have been event-driven).
But the original implied question was whether a sufficient positive opinion could preclude a war declaration. I donāt know the answer to this, but I do know the answer for Civ IV, which might well turn out to be the same. In that game, the AI (different for each leader) has a relation level (i.e. cautious, pleased, friendly) limit above which it will never start to prepare for war against you. If it starts preparing for war and then the relation level pushes over the limit, it will still finish the preparations and attack. It can abort a planned attack if other circumstances change though (such as relative strength).
Back in this post when explaining Play to Win, I provided a general summary of what factors into the AIās war decisions. Opinion is a major factor but not the only one.
Ah, right, I thought I remembered reading that somewhere. Is the war percentage visible in the game anywhere? And what does the game do with that war percentage? Roll it every turn?
-Tom
No, the overall result of that calculation isnāt visible anywhere, and thatās by design I believe, not a case of missing info. Thereās also a few special rules like the AI wonāt declare war too early (turn limit based on difficulty), wonāt declare if you just completed a trade deal, and a few such special cases.
Overall, the war roll is part of the AI diplomacy routine, which begins at turn 10, and runs every other turn per AI, with a 50% chance. To make that more clear, each AI nation will only run the diplomacy checks every other turn (so if playing against 4 AIs, two will run on a given on a turn), and only if a 50% roll passes first. So a specific AI nation will run its diplomacy, on average, every 4 turns.
Why do I keep getting males presented to me for adoption in my enatic utopias?!
Good to know! And note that Iām not at all looking at this as missing info! Iām totally down with some uncertainty in diplomacy, with something that makes it more than just a deterministic system, like mining ore or developing culture. I just wanted to verify that it was in there.
-Tom
Is there a way to hurry up Research? I have 9 years to research Composite Bow and another 9 years to research Manor, but my Ambition to enact Volunteer law has 14 years left.
Your best bet is probably Archive or Inquiry projects, or possibly steal research missions via your spymaster.
You could also look at placing governors who have good research bonuses and choosing new advisors who give you more research. Whatever you do, doing it immediately is the right choice to have a chance.
Turns out I canāt place Governor because I donāt have Garrison. Guess I will have to forego this Ambition.
What does Blessed/Cursed traits do exactly?
Has anyone ever taken the Autonomous Rule choice? Is it as bad as it looks?
Do explorers gain attributes scores outside of popup events? It is possible I wasnāt paying attention, but I donāt recall Duchess Alittum being this stacked when she started her adventure.
My guess on the no-info traits was that theyāre keys for the event system but donāt actually do anything. Just a guess tho.
Yeah, Iāve seen some events that reference Blessed or Cursed as a requirement, not seen them show up otherwise.
Iāve only seen the autonomous rule event once. I didnāt take it.
Q: Is there any penalty for a negative training income?
When youāre running a shortage of raw materials like wood or stone, youāre dinged for the cost of the shortage. And I believe when youāre running a negative money income, you automatically sell resources to make up the deficit. But what happens when youāre running a deficit on something that canāt be bought with money?
Iāve got a game going where Iāve got more training going out that coming in. What little Iām producing is being sent out in trade and tribute, but I donāt even have enough to meet that demand. So Iām pegged at zero training, with a negative income of -50. Itās been this way for a couple of turn, but my trade and tribute deals are still in effect, even though I canāt pay them. And Iām not able to find any negative effect from this.
Can I just run a negative value without any side effects (other than being unable to do anything that requires spending training)? It seems like the trade and tribute deals should be canceled, but as far as I can tell, theyāre going strong.
-Tom
Can you build units? (Since normally if you build a unit, that cityās training doesnāt go to the stockpile, but rather to the unit construction.)
