u/mahaju

I am talking about a scenario where you are actually winning and aren't at risk of being wiped out by another civilization. Obviously to keep on playing you must have won somehow, either due to some victory condition or being the biggest civ at the mandatory retirement year. The game let's you play on for a few turns after that stage. What happens if you keep playing? In a recent game I was able to wipe out the two remaining civs after I had already won the game. Since there were no other civs every turn was just new pollution appearing, cleaning pollution, cleaning up the remains of an ICBM blast, building pointless city improvements on cities that didn't actually need them, building roads and railroads on former ai civ's tiles, etc

One thing I noticed was that every turn a couple of tiles would start getting degraded, like tundra to grassland and grassland to desert. Is that the future of the planet if you keep playing? Will global warming turn the entire world into desert at some point? Or does something else happen if you wait long enough? Has anybody ever tried this out?

I was able to complete the tech tree and it turns out when every thing has been researched the next thing to come on the list is called "Future tech 1", then future tech 2 and it seems to keep going on and on

What is Future tech? Does it do anything or is it only there to justify the science advisor's budget?

I use the free and web version of gemini

When I upload files to gemini to analyze do they take up space on my google drive, or do gemini files count under a different memory space? What is the maximum amount of file space available in google gemini? I am not talking about upload limit for a single file but the total limit on memory for all files across all gemini chats. Is there such a limit? What can I do if I reach this limit?

I never figured this out

At some point the advisor tells me that the people want to build an iron works and may be we should. Fair enough. But a lot of times the option to build it is just not available. The civilopedia just says it needs coal and iron in the city's radius. I think I remember building it in a previous game so I know it is possible. Every other small wonder like heroic epic, battle field medicine, apollo program, etc appear when their conditions are met

What makes this option appear? Does "coal and iron in the city's radius" literally mean both resources should be in the BFC of a city? Or is having access to these resources through road networks enough? I play the base game (not conquests or any other expansions)

Edit: Answers here say that both iron and coal should be in a city's BFC for this to work. But what are the odds of this happening? I would assume for most games this wouldn't be true. But is the advisor saying we should build iron works itself an indication that I have such a city in my empire? How do I find out which one it is, if I have a bunch of cities?

Edit edit: Found the city. Went to the trade advisor screen and turns out there were only 3 cities with iron in them, it was pretty easy finding the city that also had coal, in fact got it on my first guess. Thanks to every one who chimed in