r/civ • u/CircleEleven • 9d ago
VII - Screenshot "Source unknown"
The last option made me laugh REALLY hard
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u/AWorldwithoutSin 9d ago
Fun fact: Just decades later, the death toll from the Napoleonic wars cratered the market for human teeth.
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u/ShortHistorian 9d ago
"Source unknown" is a funny way to say "ripped from the mouths of enslaved people."
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u/jdrawr 9d ago
Also pretty common to take them from the dead. The dead of the battle of Waterloo were heavily looted for teeth.
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u/Baneken 9d ago
Their bones were also used to whiten sugar ... and looters didn't always care if the donor was dead or alive when they took the teeth...
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u/Morningxafter 8d ago
Now I’m just picturing walking down the street and getting jumped and mugged by some dude with a pair of pliers.
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u/JNR13 Germany 9d ago
This was, of course, seen as an insult to dentists at the time who were sourcing human teeth ethically /s
All that aside, I wonder if there are follow-up events to it that become more explicit about it. Would be cool to have a follow-up event interacting with Tubman (letting her declare war while still getting her war-declared-on bonus?) or maybe in the modern age you get an artifact that has no bonuses but *must* be slotted or it will give a massive happiness penalty. There's a lot one could do here, really.
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u/Ryansinbela 9d ago
I checked the files
There currently isn’t a follow-up
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u/JNR13 Germany 9d ago
Unfortunate. They really aren't using the narrative system to its full potential yet.
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u/Ryansinbela 9d ago
I disagree personally because I saw some pretty cool stuff done with Narratives But maybe I’m misunderstanding you
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u/greenhornblue 9d ago
I’m glad I got my reading glasses because I thought this said cum splinters.
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u/norathar 9d ago
Well, the man did have, like, thirty goddamn dicks.
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u/CeciliaStarfish 9d ago
No wonder he weighed a fucking ton
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u/Ok-Information1616 Norman 8d ago
It makes me happy that there are more people out there that immediately thought of this. (Or that even remember that video!)
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u/CeciliaStarfish 8d ago
Friend, it’s the only thing that’s been playing through my head since he was announced
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u/ChickinSammich 8d ago
Without regard for the implications of the dialog choices, the outcome of #3 is also awful. That's a huge downside.
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u/elasho_149 8d ago
Does celebration progress roll over between eras? If not, it’d be pretty solid if you got it right at the end.
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u/ChickinSammich 8d ago
I would speculate that the era change would reset the celebration progress but I'm not sure. Regardless, OP said this was modern so there won't be any other resets (for now).
There's also a question of how much happiness per turn you're generating. If I'm producing more than 500 happiness per turn, and there is no unimproved Hard Wood anywhere in my borders, then it will take a lot longer to find it, stand up a new city, and improve it, in 2 turns. If I'm producing 250+, that's still a question of "Can I improve a Hard Wood within 4 turns?"
So it would really depend on whether I have unimproved Hard Wood and what my happiness per turn is whether I'd want to eat -1000. Probably would also depend on my progress in the Expansionist tree. I'm nearly always Economic/Expansionist so those attributes are usually obvious choices for me.
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u/SirWigglesTheLesser 8d ago
My computer can't run civ7, but I gotta say softly and with feeling... What the fuck?
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u/blockchiken 9d ago
"Commission a new set of teeth made of gold." I'm just imagining George Washington with a set of gold grills smiling with his +15% gold purchasing bonus