Happiness buildings now produce Local Happiness, which cannot be used outside of the city that produces it.

Maritime City-State allies only give +1 food per city, not +2.

(Per-city bonuses include Martitime City-States and a wide variety of social policies.) Clever players found ways to do ICS despite the Global Happiness mechanic (mostly via the happiness-producing buildings).Ĭiv V has had several patches and expansions since its initial release, in an attempt to reduce the efficiency of ICS: Unfortunately, Civ V also has a goodly collection of per-city bonuses, making ICS workable again it's telling that the answer to 'How do I beat Civ5 on deity?' is Infinite City Spam.

The idea was to make it harder to build extra cities by adding a per-city penalty to Global Happiness. Civ IV introduced a per-city 'tax', which increased with the number of cities in your empire this stopped ICS, because a low-value city would damage your empire.Ĭiv V tried to prevent ICS via the Global Happiness mechanic. In Civ I, II, and III, there wasn't any reason not to build a hundred cities as quickly as possible. In short, the idea is to build as many cities as humanly possible even if some of those cities aren't much good, they're still better than not having the city.

Infinite City Spam (ICS) has been the go-to Win Button in the Civilization series for some time.

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