Merry Life and a Short One (Civ7)

Merry Life and a Short One
Tradition of the Exploration Age
Introduced in Republic of Pirates Pack
Unique to	Pirate
Unlocked by	Ports of Call
Effects
Receive Gold when defeating a Support Unit equal to the Unit's Production cost. Receive Gold when defeating a Naval Unit equal to 25% of the Unit's Production cost.

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Merry Life and a Short One is a Pirate Tradition in Civilization VII.

• Effects:
  • Receive Gold when defeating a Support Unit equal to the Unit's Production cost.
  • Receive Gold when defeating a Naval Unit equal to 25% of the Unit's Production cost.

Strategy

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Civilization VII Social Policies [edit]
Antiquity	Social Policies	Castes Charismatic Leader City Guard Clan Networks Coinage Commodities Conscription Drama and Poetry Drills Ethics Honor Hospitality Literature Medicine Oratory Priesthood Rites and Rituals Scholars Survey Tool Making
	Traditions	Achaemenid Persian Kara Angarium Shahanshah Aksumite Port of Nations Throne Of My Fathers May This Please The People Assyrian1 Dūrāni1 Miḫiṣtu1 Girru1 Carthaginian1 Gaulos1 Quinquereme1 Suffetes1 Egyptian Akhet Riches of the Duat Kemet Greek Xenia Strategoi Delian League Peloponnesian League Han Guanxi Jiu Qing Tianxia Khmer Pithi Chrat Varna Kambu-Mera Mauryan Charvaka Kshatriya Shreni Arthashastra Maya Pet Kot Miracles of the Twins Tzolk'in Haab' Mississippian Shell-Tempered Pottery Gift Economy Atassa Roman Auxilia Cursus Honorum Latinitas Princeps Civitatis Silla1 Beopseong1 Strategic Allies1 The Golden Road1 Seorabeol1 Tongan1 Ngatu1 Tongiaki1 Takuaka1
	Crisis Policies	Ambitious Governors Banditry Barbarian Mercenaries Decadence Decentralization Healing Cults Incompetent Ministers Independent Nobility Inferior Tactics Miasma Poleis Prognosis Prosecute Apostates Provincial Scorn Rebellious Commanders Recruitment Shortfalls Stagnation Suppress Local Traditions Tribute Zhuhou
Exploration	Social Policies	Bourgeoisie Charters Chivalry Colonial Surplus Commissioned Officers Commune Constitution De Facto De Jure Divine Right Enlightenment Evangelism Heqin Indenture Levies Maritime Law Metropole Patronage Rationalism Regulars Religious Orders Renaissance Tariffs Trade Winds Uposatha Vassalage Yeomanry
	Traditions	Abbasid City of Peace Compendious Book Sales and Trade Bulgarian1 False Retreat1 Iconolatry1 Stratagems1 Chola Devakoshta Marakkalam Angadi Hawaiian Kapa Ahupua'a Ho'okupu Icelandic1 Drekahöfuð1 Reiði Guðanna1 Dróttkvætt1 Lyfsteinn1 Incan Qullqa Quipu Tirakuna Majapahit Panji Negarakertagama Subak Ming Baojia Divine Engine Division Grand Secretariat Mongolian Baghatur Gerege Jarlig Norman Bayeux Tapestry Familia Regis Juré Palisading Servitium Debitum Pirate1 Press Gangs1 Merry Life and a Short One1 Black Flag1 Shawnee1 Bread Dance1 Helikhilenawewipe1 Kakawfe Pafkotaweta1 Takesiyake Yepepoki1 Songhai Isa Timbuktu Mud Brick Wakia Spanish Conquista Cerro Rico Great and Most Fortunate Navy Vietnamese1 Cấm Binh1 Con Kênh1 Ruộng Làng Xã1
	Crisis Policies	Bhanaka Conscription Riots Cordon Sanitaire Divine Mercy Divine Punishment Gendarmerie Humoralism Impoverished Nobility Ius Reformandi Jizya Lazarettos Liturgical Disputes Nouveau Riche Oppressive Tariffs Plague Cults Purged Officer Corp Religious Tax Exemptions Religious Tolerance Religious Zeal Revolutionary Tribunal Schism Strict Censorship Tax Farming Weak Bureaucracy
Modern	Social Policies	Ambassadors Civil Engineering Cultural Imperialism Demagogy Draft Free Speech Humanism Laissez-Faire Land Heritage Living Standards Materiel Monopolies People's Army Preservation Societies Projection of Force Social Science Sphere of Influence Trenchworks
	Ideology Policies	Assembly Line Avant Garde Collectivization Defense of the Motherland Dirigisme Fireside Chats Free Press Martial Law Military-Industrial Complex Naukograd New Deal Police State Productive Forces Determinism Proletariat Propaganda Public Works Scorched Earth Strategic Railways Suffrage Their Finest Hour Welfare State
	Traditions	American Gold Rush Robber Baron Lend-Lease British1 Proceedings1 East India Company1 No Eternal Allies1 Bugandan Clan Society Ng'oma Interlacustrine French Imperial Style Empire Cocorico Bataillon-Carré Reign of Terror Meiji Japanese Fukoku Kyōhei O-yatoi Gaikokujin Shusei Kokubō Kōkūtai Mexican Corridos Cry of Dolores La Reforma Order and Progress Mughal Jins-i Kamil Qilachas Gunpowder Empire Mayūrāsana Nepalese1 Himāl1 Maitri Sanadhi1 Tundikhel1 Ottoman1 Siege Train1 Erkân-ı Harbiye Mektebi1 Sedef Kakma1 Osmanlı Barok1 Prussian Coking Mediatization Realpolitik Iron Cross Qajar1 Qullarāqāsi1 Soleymaniyeh Palace1 Waqāye'-e Ettefāqiya1 Qing Chuang Guandong Cohong Farmland Assessment Banner Army Russian Emancipation Reform Westernization General Moroz Siamese Sakdina Mueang Prathetsarat State Railway
	1 Requires DLC