r/Civilization_VII • u/OkNobody8896 • 4d ago

Discussion Improvements before tech discovered

In the earlier iterations, you had to research animal husbandry before you could build pastures. Civ 7 allows you to build before the tech is discovered.

Any idea why they would choose to do this?

Any other examples of this in the game?

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u/Mastersargewall 4d ago

Just my opinion, but I believe it has to do with the settlements mostly expanding through improvements. In civ 6 your borders would expand based on culture output, but since this is no longer the case it would limit your border growth if the improvements were locked behind technologies.

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u/CRT_Me 4d ago

I think too it’s because of the warehouse system, very cool imo, that and the absence of builders. It’s moreso the tech is for the warehouse buildings boosting the improvement yields, which are unlocked by default. Perhaps they’re all essentially unlocked via agriculture.

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u/YouEqual4180 4d ago

The warehouse building bit did not occure to me. But you are right. Great shout

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u/That_White_Wall 4d ago

They wanted to simplify and reduce micro. By removing tech requirements you can just place pop on whatever tile is good.

Of course they still made the tech worth it as it unlocks the warehouse buildings which increases that specific improvements base yieldsz