Automatic theming for archaeological museums - no!

[cerberusiv]

Base game only but after GS release patch.

Before the last patch archaeological museums did not theme automatically when full. Now they do. Am I alone in wishing the devs had not done this?

Before you had to build/capture several arch. museums and manually swap artefacts around to theme them. I rather liked the challenge and, as I generally play domination games and capture stuff from other civs, could usually theme 7 out of 8 museums (or around that sort of ratio).

Now you just have to fill the museum. Doesn't matter what civ or CS or what eras, just have 3 artefacts (or 6 if England) and the museum shows as themed. How can it honestly be described as themed when it does not meet the criteria. I much preferred the challenge of theming my museums myself properly as one of those little things that kept me interested to continue playing games I was certain to win. This sucks.

I assume this is what now happens in GS, not just the patched base game? Or does it actually work properly in GS and they messed up implementing it in the patch?

Is there any way to turn this off? A mod perhaps?

[Gentlest Giant]

Hmhm, can't tell what's happening on your end but my art and archeological museums had to be themed like usual.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

What you are describing is not intended behavior. Only certain situations (such as playing Sweden, which requires GS, or playing England without GS and filling all 6 slots in an archaeological museum) will result in museums that automatically theme.

I can confirm that what you are describing does not happen with GS. So it may be a bug with the base game, or something else might be causing the problem (such as a broken mod or a damaged game file).

If you use any mods, make sure they all are intended to work with the version of the game you are playing. Remove any that are not. If that does not solve the problem, remove them all and check the game unmodded. If that still doesn't solve it then consider doing a clean reinstall, just in case a mod did not uninstall properly. Also consider a clean reinstall if you have used mods in the past, but are not now, in case one of those old mods has lingered.

If you are able to eliminate a mod as the cause then I'd report the problem to Firaxis.

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by Gentle Giant:

Hmhm, can't tell what's happening on your end but my art and archeological museums had to be themed like usual.

Ditto. All manual on my side.

[󰀈 McSpicy 󰀈]

Maybe you are playing as England

[cerberusiv]

Thanks. From what you are all saying it is because I am playing as England. What I don't understand is that I have played England before and my archaeological museums definitely did not theme themselves once full. Not sure why it appears to have changed.

Not mods - currently don't have any installed until they get updated to work with the latest patch.

It is not only English archaeological museums that take 6 artefacts that are theming, I have also captured two cities containing ordinary archaeological museums with three slots and they are automatically theming too.

I will leave it for now as I would like to be sure it is not happening with other civs so I will start a new game soon. But I have definitely not had this in previous games playing England. Even if it is intended to happen for England I still don't like it and would prefer it not to happen or be able to stop it.

Thanks again.

[Tijger]

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

Thanks. From what you are all saying it is because I am playing as England. What I don't understand is that I have played England before and my archaeological museums definitely did not theme themselves once full. Not sure why it appears to have changed.

Not mods - currently don't have any installed until they get updated to work with the latest patch.

It is not only English archaeological museums that take 6 artefacts that are theming, I have also captured two cities containing ordinary archaeological museums with three slots and they are automatically theming too.

I will leave it for now as I would like to be sure it is not happening with other civs so I will start a new game soon. But I have definitely not had this in previous games playing England. Even if it is intended to happen for England I still don't like it and would prefer it not to happen or be able to stop it.

Thanks again.

England in the original game always had automatic theming.

[󰀈 McSpicy 󰀈]

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

Thanks. From what you are all saying it is because I am playing as England. What I don't understand is that I have played England before and my archaeological museums definitely did not theme themselves once full. Not sure why it appears to have changed.

Not mods - currently don't have any installed until they get updated to work with the latest patch.

It is not only English archaeological museums that take 6 artefacts that are theming, I have also captured two cities containing ordinary archaeological museums with three slots and they are automatically theming too.

I will leave it for now as I would like to be sure it is not happening with other civs so I will start a new game soon. But I have definitely not had this in previous games playing England. Even if it is intended to happen for England I still don't like it and would prefer it not to happen or be able to stop it.

Thanks again.

Playing as England, any and all archaeological museums will be themed automatically when full, that includes cities you have captured, occupied or ceded after the war. Even if a non-English civilization that has built the 3-slotted museums in the cities you've taken over, it will still be automatically themed. Not sure why it didn't work for you pre-GS, but this has always been England's unique trait and museums not being themed may be a bug on the game's part.

[Despiser]

I thought it was always automatic.

[󰀈 McSpicy 󰀈]

@Despiser
It should