Upgrades?

[canuck64]

This with the .17 patch-been playing Hotseat for over 2 years now, upgrading infra like crazy. There's a bit of a mil/culture race ongoing, but to date, only Austria gets offered upgrades. They are at level 12 in upgrades, everyone else toiling along at about 6-ish....
Is Hotseat now subject to this problem as well?

Is it addressed as part of the patch, I continued this game from .14 version, after applying the patch....should I restart?

Curious-but this is a rather big bug, there's no keeping up with the Austrians now...(odd).
Anyone concur from PBEM or TCPIP that this is happening?

[canuck64]

ignore last post, I no sooner wrote it but all nations began receiving upgrades....LOL

[1LTRambo]

I have not seen this. As a matter of fact, I have not seen any upgrades offered at all. Have I just not played long enough in the game or do I have to look in a special area to find upgrades?

[Grand_Armee]

1LtRambo,
To get upgrades you need to raise both your barracks level and your culture level....this costs mostly linens, but will also cost wood, and money. Then once you have raised a level, a popup will come up at the end of the seasonal turns. On the pop-up will be a list of upgrades and what they do....drag the mouse over the words to get a white popup describing the upgrades affects.

Not all of the possible upgrades come at once. So, you have to pick the best one from the list according to your aims.

[1LTRambo]

That explains it! I have been upgrading barracks, roads, factories, and farms, but I have not been raising culture. Well, time to hire some court painters.[;)]

[ericbabe]

If you open the Economic Advisor and click on the Upgrades button then you'll get a list of your current upgrades as well as your upgrade-level. If your upgrade level is higher than your total number of upgrades, then you'll be offered a new upgrade at the start of the next season.

Upgrade level is proportional to the sums of the squares of your barracks developments plus a proportion of the sums of the squares of your cultural developments. Culture is worth half as much as barracks toward this total -- but small increases in the upgrade level are cheaper to obtain by developing some levels of culture.