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1) Anyway to increase food production in towns that aren't next to fertile land?
2) Anyway to get around mountains (or go through them)? I seem to be starting out with water to the North/South and mountains to the East/West and thus can't expand any further or meet other factions
I think there should be a tech to develop Mountain Paths ... most likely a tech in the Civilization era, near exploration, that has a greater likelyhood of arriving if you are near mountains. In it, you can build mountain passes, in certain areas, that only you can build. I think a Mountain pass would have to have pure mountain on either side (no parallel mountain passes), and have a movement penalty rather than a movement bonus (or simply 50% slower than the basic road). Only armies of nations that have researched mountain paths would be able to travel on such roads, and lowering the mountain into a plain would turn the Mountain Path into a "basic road".
Same goes for Thick Forests, imho (Forest paths).
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