So what are the benefits of seafaring and agriculture?

[Pembleton]

I've looked and can't find the answer. I don't have Conquests yet.

[vmxa1]

Ag gets Pottery (or Masonry). The base city squares produce 1 additional food. Irrigated deserts produce extra food. Cheaper Aqueducts/Recycle/Solar.

[vmxa1]

Seafaring start with Alphabet (or Pottery). Will tend to have coastal starts. Cities on coast get abonus commerce in the base city square.
They have a reduce chance of sinking at sea before Astronomy.
Cheaper Coastal Forts/Harbor/Offshore and Comm Docks. Ships move faster.

[Pembleton]

Thank you. I won't have to time to play until after finals but I'm looking forward to it.

[gunkulator]

Question: Is the agriculture +1 food city square bonus subject to the despotism penalty? If so, it's really not much of a benefit in the early game, although the desert bonus would be nice. I would have guessed cheaper granaries would be part of Ag too.

[DrSpike]

You get 3 for the capital and cities on rivers. With good land your expansion is like **** off a shovel.

Seafaring will get patched from the way it is now.......suicide runs across the ocean to make contacts are too easy to carry out.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by gunkulator
Question: Is the agriculture +1 food city square bonus subject to the despotism penalty? If so, it's really not much of a benefit in the early game, although the desert bonus would be nice. I would have guessed cheaper granaries would be part of Ag too.

Yes it is subject to the Government penalty. The desert bonus IS great - just been using it.

The cheaper Granaries does sound intuitive, but then it also sounds a bit unbalancing -perhaps they decided against it during testing?

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt

Yes it is subject to the Government penalty.

The capital and cities on rivers get 3 though.