resources in the sea

How can you make it so you can use resources in the sea/ocean/coast and then make it used for a unit???

You can simply allow strategic resources do appear in the sea.

One problem

You have to connect it by road to use it. So if you make it to where you can "road" the water squares, take a worker out on a boat and road each square, then it may be possible.

In otherwords, you really cant

GIDustin

But you could also allow a new settler unit to build cities in water tiles and a new worker unit that can build roads in the water. It would look pretty ugly, but I think it would work. I don't know how the AI would handle it, and I suggest not allowing roads in coastal tiles otherwise you will see bridges across the Pacific, and that might be a bit odd.

I guess I would recommend that the water cities only be buildable in the Sea, not the ocean or the coast. I also recommend that you only allow roads in the Sea and not the ocean or the coast. This will prevent transocean bridges and will also prevent ground forces from attacking your Sea Cities without transports.

Again, I have no idea how the AI will react to this. I think you definitely do not want to allow settlements in the ocean as that will give the AI just way too much room to plant useless cities.

The Ocean Liner (troop transport) available in the Units forum might make a good Sea Settler unit.

I can't think of any good sea worker units, but I guess for now the Civ3 transport would work.

Harbors allow You to use resource that are within the City radius.

really? So if I put strategic resource oil in the sea and I have a harbor I can access the oil? Interesting! I guess all that stuff about the sea settler and worker is unnecessary.

Seriously a harbor allows this??????????

confirm this please =)

Originally posted by Level
Harbors allow You to use resource that are within the City radius.

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I think your mistaken on this. I have pearls modded in as a coastal luxury resource (made them luxury to control apearance rate), and even in city's with harbors they've never shown up in the luxury list.

[I have salt as a normal, land based, luxury, and it does show up when connected by a road.]

This is what we are trying to resolve:

Nad the result of the Harbor vs Strategic Resource theory