[NFP] Aquaducts in Cities That Already Have Fresh Water

[Alaindor]

I don't usually bother, except for cities without fresh water and one to get the eureka. I find them too expensive by the time I want to consider building them and always find something better to build instead.

 

[jehtro777]

It just depends on so many things really. If I have a sweet setup for an industrial zone I will build one. There are quite a few things available to the player for housing with the new game updates. Also, now with the preserve they can be less needed. I love industrial zones. Great Engineers are strong.

 

[Socrates99]

Any time I can figure out a way to get two or more green districts next to an IZ I'll do it. The easiest is often an Aquaduct and a dam on a floodplains river but sometimes it might be two canals or an aquaduct and a canal, whatever. Running the double adj on those with a coal plant is so much production for any city in range. It's best to use an engineer from a high production city to build them though since floodplains river cities or coastal canal cities are often weak on production without the suped up IZ. It can take forever to finish it if you're hard building it. It does pay off and you do often get some side benefits of housing and trade route yields. Magnus with Vertical Integration is pretty awesome if you have just a few of these powerful IZs overlapping.

The other time I might do it is if I'm real amenity starved and there's a geothermal fissure I can pop it down next to but that's really situational.

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

I wish aqueducts had buildings so they wouldn't be degraded to this simple one-time decision. I wish they were more interesting, than anything...

But as for what I chose, when I do build them, it's for that IZ adjacency. I'm usually not someone who obsesses over optimization though- I don't like chopping and I hate to see the yields of floodplains be crushed by dams. The only time I really obsess over it is when I'm playing someone like Germany or Japan where you're actively encouraged to go nuts about every single point of adjacency.

 

[PiR]

I wish aqueducts had buildings so they wouldn't be degraded to this simple one-time decision.

Totally agree. I build them early-game for the IZ bonus, but the later the game, the less it's worth it. A middle or late-game (or both) building(s) could help that. The sewers could be a building in the Aqueduct, making it almost necessary.