How does Great Engineer work?

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Hi everyone, could anybody explain how does Mimar Sinan work? Because when I activate him nothing changes...

Приветы, как работает Мимар Синан, кто знает? А то использую, но ничего не происходит..

[johnarhoades]

Great persons require a certain district, wonders or terrain. What does Mimar do?

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Publicado originalmente por johnarhoades:

Great persons require a certain district, wonders or terrain. What does Mimar do?

In wiki it's written abount hime that "in "rise and fall" culture bomb adjacent tiles when completing an industrial zone in any city". I put him in my hometown with this industtrial zone, activate him and nothing happens. That's why i'm askin what he does (:

[Aeekto]

because you didnt build it after you activated him.
once activated every industrial district culture bombs once build

[65]

Publicado originalmente por Aeekto:

because you didnt build it after you activated him.
once activated every industrial district culture bombs once build

i didnt get it really
when i activate the engineer, what happens with the industrial zones in the country?

[Aeekto]

NOTHING!!!
only if you build NEW ones afterwards!

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Publicado originalmente por Aeekto:

NOTHING!!!
only if you build NEW ones afterwards!

ah, ok, i got it) like when i build the new zones they will get bonuses?

[Exemplar]

When you build new industrial zones, your cultural border will extend 1 tile in each direction from the industrial district, if you do not already have those tiles.

[gimmethegepgun]

Publicado originalmente por Exemplar:

When you build new industrial zones, your cultural border will extend 1 tile in each direction from the industrial district, if you do not already have those tiles.

But only if those tiles are within the workable radius of 3 around the city center (unfortunately).

Also, to be clear, if someone else owns those tiles, you steal them.

[65]

thanks everyone for the help and advice!

[Skeev]

You can use it to steal land from an opponent but it does not work on districts nor does it work on wonders. BUT it will propably destroy an unfinished wonder I guess. So the opponent have to rebuild it.

[gimmethegepgun]

Publicado originalmente por Skeev:

BUT it will propably destroy an unfinished wonder I guess. So the opponent have to rebuild it.

There's an achievement for doing that as Poland (who has culture bombs as part of their civ thing) called You Are A Terrible Person.

[Complaintdesk]

Why does Mimar Sinan have 2 charges? If activating him applies a culture bomb to tiles surrounding an Industrial Zone district after it is completed, what is the reason for a second charge? If the charge only applies to the continent on which one activates him, or the charge only lasts for one era, then I can see the need for multiple charges. I assumed after activating him, it applied to all Industrial Zone districts built thereafter in the game.

[Complaintdesk]

D'oh. I forgot I had the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which gives all engineers an additional charge. I am assuming that is why Mimar Sinan has the second charge. I thought that bonus only applied to the Engineer units one builds through the city production menu ...

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Publicado originalmente por Complaintdesk:

D'oh. I forgot I had the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which gives all engineers an additional charge. I am assuming that is why Mimar Sinan has the second charge. I thought that bonus only applied to the Engineer units one builds through the city production menu ...

It only applies to "Great Engineers."

Also you should note that effects like this particular great engineer do nothing by activating them a second time. The best use for a unit like this in this case is to use it as a non-destroyable scout. Meaning you use them for either scouting or for getting vision on a city you want to bombard. And because great people can't be killed, the most that will happen is they will be sent back to your nearest city.

[Complaintdesk]

Good advice BlackSmokeDMax, that is exactly what I started using him for. I managed to sneak him into some previously unexplored tiles deep within an opponents territory. I had tried to get to them previously with an Apostle, but it was killed. This obsolete Engineer does not generate any agro it seems as I use him to explore.