Ley Lines- How do you use them?

[Lemurian1972]

This isn't a 'what do they do?' question, more of a strategy/planning one. I've been settling cities on them because it's a handy way to boost adjacency at the same time I occupy an otherwise unmoddable tile.

I'm wondering of folks have come up with other neat ideas.

[Exemplar]

try not to settle on them. your city center is a .5 adjacency bonus (2 adjacent districts) most of the time, anyway.

edit: well, i've never tried to see if you still get the indoctrination level tile yields if your city center is on the ley line. do you? that might change my mind.

[Lemurian1972]

Yes you do, it all works fine for yields. (I'll grab a screen from my current game later.

My point with the Adjacency is, the LL stacks, so a Harbor or Commerce district that would be +3 next to the city would instead be +4 at the same time that frees up a middle ring tile you'd have to expend on the LL if you settled 1 away from it.

[Exemplar]

Originally posted by Lemurian1972:

Yes you do, it all works fine for yields. (I'll grab a screen from my current game later.

yup, this would be a difference. i presumed you do not get it. maybe it's better, even.

[dcain3456]

FWIU, you can't build a district on a ley line, but you can build a city on one. Seems a silly distinction to me, but here we are.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by dcain3456:

FWIU, you can't build a district on a ley line, but you can build a city on one. Seems a silly distinction to me, but here we are.

yeah I have a feeling it's a bug/oversight, but since balance isn't really an issue in SS mode, I don't think they'll care that much.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by Exemplar:

Originally posted by Lemurian1972:

Yes you do, it all works fine for yields. (I'll grab a screen from my current game later.

yup, this would be a difference. i presumed you do not get it. maybe it's better, even.

Here's a screenshot of the Ley Line settled city. As you can see on the tooltip the science from worked tiles shows the benefit of the LL. (LL gives 22, other tiles 7)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2198366033

[Exemplar]

cooool. thanks for showing me that.

[tulle040657]

My strategy is to not select the governor that lets you see them, as they take up valuable building space

[fsupple1]

I hate to ask this because I have played over 2000 hours, but what is a Ley Line? Please go easy on me with your answer, but I sure would like to know the answer. Signed,,,Dummy!

[Oaks]

Originally posted by fsupple1:

I hate to ask this because I have played over 2000 hours, but what is a Ley Line? Please go easy on me with your answer, but I sure would like to know the answer. Signed,,,Dummy!

New addition to the game in the lastest Dlc. There is a new mode called secret societies, each has their own bonuses.

[leandrombraz]

Originally posted by fsupple1:

I hate to ask this because I have played over 2000 hours, but what is a Ley Line? Please go easy on me with your answer, but I sure would like to know the answer. Signed,,,Dummy!

It's a new tile feature that exists only if you enable the Secret Societies game mode, which was added in the Ethiopia DLC, that is part of the New Frontier Pass. Only Civs that joined the Hermetic Order secret society can see it.

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Hermetic_Order_(Civ6)

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

My strategy is to not select the governor that lets you see them, as they take up valuable building space

That bugged me to until I started doing what I do now. Not to mention the yields are great. I have no issues picking the Hermetic Order now.

[yuzhonglu]

Ley lines suck. All of the other SS are better.

[fsupple1]

Thanks for the answer Oaks and Leandrombraz. I have the New Frontier pass but have not played the Secret Societies game mode. Thanks again.

[Schaffner]

If you go with the hermetic order you should always try to have a lot of districts and gather many great persons as they further boost the output from ley lines.
It can be annoying that they block a whole tile, but sometimes they are also useful for adjacency and can boost otherwise "dead" tiles like desert or snow.
And if you push a lot for great persons ley lines can reach up to +20 and more of every bonus. And that counts for every single ley line. So if you can play it right and have 4-5 ley lines in a city that is already +100 of everything except food. So I really wouldnt say that they are weak or worse than the other socities.