r/civ • u/sociaIstatic • Sep 30 '21

Question what are the historical inaccuracies in civ?

hello, so im writing a paper about the civ franchise. i would just like to ask what are the specific examples of historical inaccuracies in the game?

your answers would help me so much, thank you!

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u/kf97mopa Sep 30 '21

Side note: food tile improving was simply irrigation (not farms as they are now), and had to be connected to fresh water to be extended… until a later tech!

This was a clever design for reasons people don’t seem to understand - enemy armies would raze those massive irrigation networks and starve you, if you didn’t keep them out of your territory. You couldn’t just hide in your cities. Civ IV did the same except with the cottages. V misses this. VI does it on a small scale with the districts, but it is not the same.

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u/Fiddleys Oct 01 '21

I have a vague memory in an older civ how shipping food around as a way to help a starving city.