Aqueducts on coasts

[DrGt]

In the civilpedia, it says city's with a fresh supply of water dont need an aqeduct to grow beyond 6, but the adviser keeps poppin up telling me to stop building what im building and build an aqueduct??? city's on a coast need an aqueduct?? or is it a bug

 

[P32zz]

Sea water isn't fresh, it's salty. You can't drink sea water in real life either.

Fresh water = a river or a lake.

 

[Turner]

21 tiles or less of water is considered 'fresh'. Bigger than that, and it's salt water, and allows you to build all 'sea' improvements. I once had a civ (not mine, AI) on a 23 tile 'sea' that built the Great Lighthouse.... I posted a pic of it somewhere.

 

[Pounder]

It's either an aqueduct or a water distillation plant.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Freshwater lakes always produce 2 food per tile. River tiles that won't need an aqueduct already produce 1 gold. Checking the terrain properties is easier sometimes.

 

[DrGt]

alright thanx

 

[Himalia]

21 tiles or less of water is considered 'fresh'. Bigger than that, and it's salt water, and allows you to build all 'sea' improvements. I once had a civ (not mine, AI) on a 23 tile 'sea' that built the Great Lighthouse.... I posted a pic of it somewhere.

So when you say 21 tiles or less of water counts as fresh that applies to those inland seas you see on odd occasions that just consist of a couple of sea tiles and a few coast tiles ?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

So when you say 21 tiles or less of water counts as fresh that applies to those inland seas you see on odd occasions that just consist of a couple of sea tiles and a few coast tiles ?

That is correct. If it is over 21 then it is an inland salt sea.

 

[Globetrotter]

Good to know, though i hardly saw Great Inner Lakes