Iteru and floods

[Charlemagne]

Egypt's Iteru protects from floods, but it also seems to prevent yields improvement? I've had two floods and both have been 0-0-0.

[Lemurian1972]

Are they natural floods, or are you playing in Apocalypse mode and spawning them with a Soothsayer?

[Exemplar]

i typed out a different answer but i want to amend it. honestly, i don't know. i have had improved flood tiles in egypt before but now looking back i can't say whether those improved tiles were in my culture border when they happened, or if i got the tiles subsequently.

i looked around for discussions about it, and the best i found was this
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/egypts-iteru-prevent-flood-damage-bonus.651496/
and that's still not a good answer. so all i have for an answer is, "maybe". sorry.

[Charlemagne]

Well if Iteru outright nullifies floods it sucks. Eventually you will want to dam rivers when the flooding gets annoying but early on the yields fertilization is welcome.

[Gentlest Giant]

I played Egypt yesterday, and had several floods inside my borders.
Most of them provided nothing, a few provided +1 food or production on a tile or two.
It wasn't entirely stopped, but I got the feeling it was somewhat impeded. Naturally I dismissed it as a disappointed, biased perception.
That said, I don't know.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Effectively, Egypt treats all floodplains as already having a dam. This means that there is no flood damage, but it also means that the bonus yields from a flood are reduced. I rarely play Egypt because their bonus to me feels all wrong. Instead of getting added benefit from floods and floodplains they are encouraged to ignore them and eventually pave them over. I think I would have designed them very differently had I done it myself.

[Lemurian1972]

Publicado originalmente por tempest.of.emptiness:

Effectively, Egypt treats all floodplains as already having a dam. This means that there is no flood damage, but it also means that the bonus yields from a flood are reduced. I rarely play Egypt because their bonus to me feels all wrong. Instead of getting added benefit from floods and floodplains they are encouraged to ignore them and eventually pave them over. I think I would have designed them very differently had I done it myself.

It's a side effect of game iteration more than anything. When they reworked floodplains with GS, Egypt suffered. Hopefully they can look at them again at some point. (Gandhi suffers a similar problem with all the changes to Religion)

[Charlemagne]

Yeah first time I play Egypt and I'm not too impressed. I also remember that they should be more related to deserts, but in my current game there isn't a desert in sight. Instead of so many silly agendas and weird attributes, I think they should have concentrated more on giving each country its "flavor", like it was in previous titles.