Photo guide to terrain, improvements, and city placement.
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Stuporstar
Warlord
Very great guide Brokguitar! I've added some of your info that I had missed to my own guide (with due credit to you). I hope you don't mind. 
I think you could possibly put this together in a pdf format for people to download, which might cut down on some of the bandwidth issues.
I think you could possibly put this together in a pdf format for people to download, which might cut down on some of the bandwidth issues.
Prince David
David di Xeno
Muze,
You're right, sorry. I didn't quite get the gist of your question at first read. Still, I thik the basic concepts hold true. First city - settle where you can get the production bonus (I beleive any center city tile will produce at least two food and a commerce, so go for the production).
Beyond the first city you want to settle next to the bonus tile (NOT on) as it will give you more production if you can develop/work it.
You're right, sorry. I didn't quite get the gist of your question at first read. Still, I thik the basic concepts hold true. First city - settle where you can get the production bonus (I beleive any center city tile will produce at least two food and a commerce, so go for the production).
Beyond the first city you want to settle next to the bonus tile (NOT on) as it will give you more production if you can develop/work it.
brokguitar
Chieftain
Sorry everyone for the bandwidth problem, I have had A lot of hits and exceeded the bandwidth for the month. I will put it as pdf but unsure how to do it. If someone can do it fairly easy, you are welcome to use the pics and the guide and will be given credit for the help.
Stuporstar
Warlord
Brokguitar is talking about base terrain in his guide, not features. The hill would be the feature, with a base terrain of grassland. I have seen pigs on grassland/hill and grassland/jungle, and most often grassland/hill/jungle. The one thing in common is always the base terrain of grassland.
brokguitar
Chieftain
Thanks stuporstar, thats exactly right. The pigs may be on hills, but that hill has a base terrain such as grassland/hill, grassland/jungle. grassland forest. Sorry if i was unclear on that.
zagnut
Monarch
This is great information. I was wondering if it was practical to build on a resource. From your research I conclude that it is. The benefit of the extra production early on seems to be more valuable than waiting to "properly" develop the tile later.
brokguitar
Chieftain
clut said:
The only files i have are on this forum. If you can copy/paste them to a file, you are welcome to download the pics and use that to make a pdf file. Let me know what you need. Thanks
Stuporstar
Warlord
I'm currently making a pdf version of my own terrain guide, with nice clean charts to replace the huge clunky lists in the text version. I was wondering if I could use your screenshots and the info from this guide as well to make a fully comprehensive terrain guide. Do you mind, Brokguitar?
KevinTMC
Utopian
I just noticed something that eluded my attention the first time I scanned through this photo guide.
One of the screenshots shows a city founded on Ice, and another on Desert, neither of which normally has any production at all. Yet with a city on it, these tiles still produce the same 2-1-1 as most other terrain types?
If that is so, then it seems to me it would be a sensible strategy to place some cities on the least valuable tiles in the area. Over the long run, the city site would thus have one more useful tile, which would otherwise be unused Desert or Ice.
This also strikes me as exploit-ish...the sort of thing that ought to be addressed in a future patch or mod.
One of the screenshots shows a city founded on Ice, and another on Desert, neither of which normally has any production at all. Yet with a city on it, these tiles still produce the same 2-1-1 as most other terrain types?
If that is so, then it seems to me it would be a sensible strategy to place some cities on the least valuable tiles in the area. Over the long run, the city site would thus have one more useful tile, which would otherwise be unused Desert or Ice.
This also strikes me as exploit-ish...the sort of thing that ought to be addressed in a future patch or mod.
-- Kevin
Stuporstar
Warlord
This is 100% correct KevinTMC, you do get normal city production when founding a city on an unproductive tile. I wouldn't really call this an exploit, just another aspect of game strategy. Any way to turn a useless tile into a productive one is a good thing in my opinion.
KrikkitTwo
Immortal
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Well it merely means when judging city spots you look ONLY at the tiles around the city.KevinTMC said:
brokguitar
Chieftain
Stuporstar said:
Been working and havent had much time to update the guide with some new stuff Ive found. Suporstar feel free to use the pics and info for a pdf guide. Ive got more pics coming and new info unposted, should be up shortly.
P.S. kinda want to wait and see how this patch effects everything.
This thread is great... but how often do you need all this info? I mean, the computer shows you the best place to settle with the blue circles right? I did read in the walkthrough that the computer will blue circle spaces 1 away from a shore and that is a no-no (place the city on the shore). If that is the case than why doesn't the computer place the blue circle on the shore. Why have the blue circle at all if it's not an accurate suggestion? Confused. 
