Any return on Investment when disbanding a unit in a city?

[Grandpa Troll]

In Call To Power you could "disband" a unit in a city and get a small portion of that units production added to whatever your building.

I would often build say maybe Calvary in a lot of cities and send them to a city that was building a Wonder then disband and get the Wonder pretty quickly...

Is this possible in CIVIII Conquests? I know you cant "Rush Buy" a Wonder, was wondering if it was possible this way?

I mean, it doesnt have to be a wonder, it could be any things that your building.

Thanks
for any input/advice

Grandpa Troll

[Dis]

It works for me. This works best in outlying cities with high corruption.

I had to do this in my last game. I just did not have enough gold to upgrade units. But I had cities with plenty of production. So I just made the better units. Moved them into garrison position. Then moved the old units to a city to disband them. You don't get a whole lot, but it's better than nothing.

[Solomwi]

Disbanding gives 1/4th of the shields used to produce the unit to whatever the city's building, with the exception of small and great wonders. In fact, if you've disbanded a unit, or chopped forest, to get shields into your build box, you won't be able to switch to a wonder in that city until the build is finished.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Solomwi
Disbanding gives 1/4th of the shields used to produce the unit to whatever the city's building, with the exception of small and great wonders. In fact, if you've disbanded a unit, or chopped forest, to get shields into your build box, you won't be able to switch to a wonder in that city until the build is finished.

So this works with all building "Except" small or great wonders?

Ok..I was thinkingmaybe for building granaries or barracks or factories in newer cities far away from my main settlement areas.

Ok..appreciate it!

Gramps

[Kloreep]

The palace is also treated like the wonders: you can't rush it and if you have rushed shields in a citiy's box, you can't switch to it.

IIRC, disbanding gives you 1/5th of the shields put in to the unit; so if you disband a warrior in a city, you'll get 2 shields. You get a greater fraction with the Recycling tech, but I can't remember what it is; doesn't really matter since it's so late in the game.

[punkbass2000]

Originally posted by Kloreep

IIRC, disbanding gives you 1/5th of the shields put in to the unit; so if you disband a warrior in a city, you'll get 2 shields. You get a greater fraction with the Recycling tech, but I can't remember what it is; doesn't really matter since it's so late in the game.

No, I'm pretty sure it's 1/4, just rounded down. So a warrior is 10/4=2.5, rounded down to 2.

[Jaybe]

1/4 shields. You can also apply it to building units (not limited to non-wonder improvements).

With the Recycling tech, selling an improvement will not only get you a few gold, but also some shields towards what is currently being constructed. I do not know the ratio.

[Dauphin]

You'd get a better return on investment if you had workers plant forest and then chop them down. If you are below your unit supply limit it can be worthwhile to have a few workers do that.

[Aramis]

Can you chop down a forest, replant it, and chop it down again, and continue to gain shields? On the same tile, I mean.

[OzzyKP]

I heard that was taken out of the game in the new editions.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Yes, that exploit has been removed.

[vmxa1]

You can plant and chop as much as you like, but since PTW you only get shields from the first chop. This is why you see players in PBEM games keep track of tiles that have been chopped.

[bongo]

Soo, do you get shields only when the forest had been there from the start, or would you get them if you planted a forest on a tile which had flatland from the start?

Only shields from 'natural' forests, or only shield once per tile?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by bongo
Soo, do you get shields only when the forest had been there from the start, or would you get them if you planted a forest on a tile which had flatland from the start?

Only shields from 'natural' forests, or only shield once per tile?

Good point, as I understood from another post that you couldnt plant and chop and plant and chop..

BUT..what you say has an interesting point, can you plant a forst on a non forest tile and get a ONE TIME Shiled return?

I am learning much from these posts!!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[Dauphin]

I didn't know you didn't get the chop bonus more than once. Thanx for letting me know.