Do salt tiles stack?

[RoomTempiQ]

I've got my capitol city surrounded by three salt tiles, I think each tile says something like +4 happiness or something so does that mean im generating 12 happiness for my civilization?
Also does the quantity of salt as a commodity stack as well? I ask this because I dont have a lot of decent places to expand to and make more citys.....
but one spot that stands out has salt tiles around it as well; so would that also add to my quantity of salt/happiness to my empire?

[di eshor ribly]

It's like any other luxury resource, you get +4 happiness (+6 with the last Commerce policy). It's the same amount if you had one salt or a hundred.

What you can do though is trade extra salt to other civs for a luxury you don't have, like Pearls or Citrus or something, and get an extra +4 (+6) happiness for the duration of the trade.

[RoomTempiQ]

so saying I control three salt tiles,

and I trade to lets say greece my salt for his silk

am I able to still trade my salt to another civ at the same time... or do I have to wait the 30 turns or whatever it is to trade my salt again? From reading your answer I'm guessing I have to wait correct?

[RoomTempiQ]

I may have mis read you're response, I'll wait till u reply again.

[Yapping Dollar]

If you control three salt tiles(with a mine on them of course) then you are able to trade up to two of them away and still retain the 4 happiness from your last salt tile

[RoomTempiQ]

ah ok, I understand thanks guys.

[Twelvefield]

The first lux of any type goes to your civ. All the rest are just put in storage as trade fodder. However, if you trade salt for silk, and silk makes your people happy, then you get that bonus, too. So in theory, if you trade wisely, you could get +12 happiness. If no-one wants your salt, you're stuck with it, though.

[just.nuke.em]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

If no-one wants your salt, you're stuck with it, though.

Save it for later and pour it in their wounds!

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

There is that top left corner button in Civ V, with invaluable infos in it, including your actual luxury resources. And I'd recommend to check on that from time to time, as the dialogs aren't always very sharp around the resources exchange, and you could easily end up exporting all of your salt for instance, without keeping the last one needed for happiness for you.
That happens a lot when a previous exchange is renewed.
And consider yourself lucky having 3 salts around, as it's probably the OP resource in Civ V.
Congrats are in order...

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

If you trade away all your spare salt, leaving yourself with 1, if someone or a barbarian comes and pillages it from you, the benefits will be lost. You will still have 3 salt, 1 that you are using minimum but the others are borrowed to other leaders in trade.

So its a case of how far you want to go to ensure you remain a happy or happy-as-can-be civ. Of particular importance to civs like Persia indeed.

[RoomTempiQ]

Thanks everybody :)

[Chaoslink]

Also keep in mind that if your happiness is doing really well as is, and you need a bit of extra income or something, most AI civs who like you will give you 7 gold per turn, 5-6 gold per turn for average civs and less if they hate you. You CAN trade that last copy away. You'll lose your happiness (half if you're... Netherlands I think) but you can get the gold or other resources for it. Say you have one salt and another civ has 2 citrus (AI rarely trade their last copy without asking for like 4 in return) and you have a city asking for citrus. You can get the we love the king day bonus for that city by giving your last salt for the citrus. You lose no happiness and get the growth bonus.

I've had a few times where I ended up with some 12 wine and literally couldn't trade it all away, but I had some 63 gold per turn by selling the excess away. Its good to have excess if you can get rid of it all.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by just.nuke.em:

If no-one wants your salt, you're stuck with it, though.

But know that you have a bunch of the best resource tile in the game. Saaaaaalt

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

I've seen civs trading their last copy of a resource against only one of mine more often than I could expect. Probably to get that "love the king" city boost.

[Chaoslink]

I actually use surplus luxuries in counts of 4-5 to buy cities another civ founded, the turn they founded it. Often time thats all it takes for them to sell it to you. You lose 4-5 (usually spare) luxuries for a handful of turns for a city, often that has other luxuries you need anyways. If you go fishing around, you can establish footholds near every civ and keep really close eyes on them.

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

I actually use surplus luxuries in counts of 4-5 to buy cities another civ founded, the turn they founded it. Often time thats all it takes for them to sell it to you. You lose 4-5 (usually spare) luxuries for a handful of turns for a city, often that has other luxuries you need anyways. If you go fishing around, you can establish footholds near every civ and keep really close eyes on them.

Dang!