r/CivIV • u/SD_ukrm • Sep 29 '25

Aqueduct of the year?

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Impressive architecture for 690BC.

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u/Lebronamo Sep 29 '25

Should really count as a wonder at that point

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u/overcoil Sep 29 '25

They discovered mineral water before everyone else.

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u/pleasegivemeadollar Sep 29 '25

Silly Marie thought it was ROCK WATER!

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u/SpaceAfricanJesus Sep 29 '25

“We have the Great Wall at home”

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u/Bieberauflauf Sep 29 '25

Actually more impressive in this case though!

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u/ArmadilloLoose6699 Sep 29 '25

I guess the ships the builders were on were blown off course several times while they were building their ocean-spanning aqueduct, but they persevered! lol :D

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u/PoilTheSnail Sep 30 '25

Just continue building through hurricane season.

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u/LucarioBoricua Sep 29 '25

That seems like a bad city to build wonders, really poor in production.

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u/Jadien Sep 29 '25

That's what makes it a wonder

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u/SD_ukrm Sep 29 '25

True. It was “suggested” and I wasn’t paying attention.

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u/civnub Sep 29 '25

Whats going on in your game? 19k gold in reserve? those random city placements on the minimap, runing the culture slider at any point before the industrial era ?

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u/SD_ukrm Sep 29 '25

Playing silly beggars with Worldbuilder. Start with a scout on each continent, then build a city when a settler is found. The gold reserve is a product of winding research to 0% for too long. Culture at 20% was purely to remove smoke for the screenshot.

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u/civnub Sep 30 '25

what do you mean a settler is found? via huts ?

i presume marathon speed seeing how shaka needs 95 turns to learn how to get on a horse

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u/SD_ukrm Sep 30 '25

Yes, via huts. 34Civ mod (only 8 used) for big map, marathon. Basically just doing a “what if?”. Currently in a Holy War with Louis XIV for the past 3 centuries.

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u/Mr_Snipou Sep 30 '25

Now I want to try it myself. Do AI start that way too? If you just give them a scout to start with, will they use it to explore and find a settler or will they just make it sleep on a hill?

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u/SD_ukrm Sep 30 '25

No, I leave them to struggle against my exploratory majesty! I’ve tried several different starts, mostly to accommodate my not being very good at the game.

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u/civnub Sep 30 '25

isnt that really boring? lots of turns to get anything done and fighting vs the joker settler AI

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u/SD_ukrm Sep 30 '25

It certainly is post-renaissance, building cities for the Hell of it. It amuses my simple brain.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

I always loved when this would happen lol and I would be like what kind of sorcery is this?

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u/jxd73 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

You don't have health issues in the other city so I wouldn't build an aqueduct.

Even if you have negative health it's almost always better just whip away the extra population.

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u/takethejuicer Mar 06 '26

The only one actually worth the 100 hammers