Building academy on oil tile - Auto acquire oil?
In civ 5 brave new world, if I build an academy, and then several turns later, I research oil, does the academy automatically grant me that oil if the oil is underneath it?
In one game I was playing, it appeared to be the case, because when I removed the academy to put in my oil rig, I kept the same amount of oil. But I might have been getting oil from the city-states, they were so in flux that I couldnt keep track of what I was getting from them all the time.
Best Answer
Great People tiles will always give you strategic resources as long as you meet the prerequisites for accessing that strategic resource.
The reason for this is that strategic resources don't show up on the map until certain technologies have been unlocked. If you pop a Great Person to make a tile improvement, and then later you realize you have to build something else there, that'd be a huge bummer.
Thus, the game counts it as having built the special tile improvement on top.
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