Holy Mountain Qyp, I mean quest

[mkorin]

An interesting aside to my original post. I just played another game and got the holy mountain quest. Built my buildings and it showed me where the mountain was. Of course, it was across the world, but I had open borders all the way their, sent a settler and created a city got the +1 and all was well. I guess my god did not appreciate how easy I got it. Later the holy mountain became an active volcano destroying my fat cross. You ignore the gods and they get you, you satisfy their demands and they get you anyway.

Mike

[nbarclay]

I had an interesting adventure with the Holy Mountain quest. After a long delay waiting until I had enough religious buildings, I learned that the mountain was on another continent, mostly surrounded by Native American territory. By the time I was ready to build my city, the mountain had so much Native American culture around that the city couldn't have provided me with enough benefit to be worth the upkeep costs. (I wasn't even close to the stage of the game where I would have valued it as a beachhead for an invasion.) So what I ended up doing was building my city and then giving it to the Native Americans after I got credit for succeeding in my quest. From what I can tell, I still had a bonus from the quest in all my other cities - a bonus that proved useful to deal with unhappiness in later fighting.

[Indalecio]

Originally posted by mkorin
Later the holy mountain became an active volcano destroying my fat cross. You ignore the gods and they get you, you satisfy their demands and they get you anyway.

You don't understand. He was a volcano god. He was showering his blessing upon you. Sheesh, how ungrateful can you get?

[Indalecio]

Now that I think of it, it would be cool to get some benefit from the volcano. Like a +1 Food in a few random tiles around the volcano from the volcanic ash enriching the soil.

[Asmodeous]

That would be pretty cool, if when it erupted there was a chance (something small, say, 10%?) that any individual tile that was nuked by the volcano got +1 food in it. Make it a secondary option (Send workers to work the ash into the soil to try to better enrich the land!) that you pay some cash (nothing huge, just a little, like 30-50 bucks) and it runs the RNG on all the tiles and you might end up with a food bonus on one or two of them if you're lucky.

Me.

[joncnunn]

Actually, Ithat first is a request from your leaders of industry to go conquer that neighbor with the seashore access.

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith

I agree with your point.
I had silly request as building lot of harbour when my cities are inland and most of seashore access is blocked by others civ.
Some quests are not very well explained, too: