Broken Cultists?

[Ahuitzotl]

Cultists can enter foreign territory without triggering a war. In that territory they block the tile they occupy. Neither military units nor great persons can enter it while at peace with the cultist owning civ. Is this a bug or intentional?

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Presumably intentional. Many other units have a similar effect if they enter the territory of someone while at peace through an open borders agreement. The cultists are more annoying since even closed borders won't stop them, but then in order for them to function as designed they need to be able to enter territory without open borders.

What Civ VI really needs is a way for military units in your own territory to eject non-hostile units from a tile peacefully, as a sort of right-of-way yielding of the tile by the foreign unit. This would stop intentional and unintentional griefing by tile denial with units during peace.

Since such a mechanic does not exist, the only ways to access a blocked tile is to wait until the unit's owner decides to move or to declare war.

[Crim]

Everything in Secret Societies is completely broken, so its hard to tell if this is intended mechanic or not.

At least responding to this topic bumps it.

[Ahuitzotl]

Indeed, I only use the secrets socities to grab the achievements and hopefully never to be bothered again with these.

[Harris]

Originally posted by Talamare:

Everything in Secret Societies is completely broken

^^

Vampires can solo wall-protected enemy cities on Deity, you can get over 1000 culture as well as thousands of gold if you exploit culture and x2 trade routes from Gilded Vaults.

20% faith to gold, culture and science is also broken as it eliminates the only weakness godly Russia otherwise has.


Haven't toyed with Hermetic yet, but it probably also has something OP to it :)

[gdshore]

With Hermetic, I can not find "Ley lines"... nothing else seems to be there either.

[Vixxynn]

Originally posted by Harris:

Originally posted by Talamare:

Everything in Secret Societies is completely broken

^^

Vampires can solo wall-protected enemy cities on Deity, you can get over 1000 culture as well as thousands of gold if you exploit culture and x2 trade routes from Gilded Vaults.

20% faith to gold, culture and science is also broken as it eliminates the only weakness godly Russia otherwise has.


Haven't toyed with Hermetic yet, but it probably also has something OP to it :)

Hermetic Order is broken in a bad way. Ley-lines are basically non-existent (so far has never seen any of them),so their "initiation" bonus is useless. Not sure why they didn't fix this in the latest update.

[dcain3456]

Ley lines are around, but they tend to turn up in useless locations like desert or tundra. Hermetics are easily the weakest of the four.