Barrier Reef with Fish

[JimboThrasher]

I'm currently playing a game and had the great barrier reef with a few fish tiles nearby. I promptly put a city nearby and as I was pushing out my workboats I noticed that one of the reefs actually had fish in it. I had no idea that fish could spawn in the reef and it actually increased the food output for the tile to 4 instead of 2. I was disappointed though that I was unable to use a fishing boat on the tile :-/

Anyway, not much of a discussion here just thought I would put it out there. Maybe I have never looked at the wonder that much because its never been near me, but i had never seen fish under it before.

 

[Crafty Bison]

Really?! How wierd. Could you post a screenshot plz, I wanna see how wierd it looks .

 

[JimboThrasher]

Really?! How wierd. Could you post a screenshot plz, I wanna see how wierd it looks .

I thought it looked pretty cool, I was conflicted to place a boat to fish it or not. I'm at work now but i'll put a screen up tonight

 

[bcaiko]

I have a game where this happened, too. I believe I founded a city to work the tiles. Seems to be happening to other people, too. Someone reported that a poor City State had its Pearls inside the GBR.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

That's pretty neat, but I'd hate to see Pearls, Crabs, or Whales on the GBR. YOur units can't enter Nat. Wonder tiles, so you can't exploit the bonus resources.

 

[Civking5]

This is really cool, although I never saw it happenings. What type of map u were playing?

 

[SammyKhalifa]

That's pretty neat, but I'd hate to see Pearls, Crabs, or Whales on the GBR. YOur units can't enter Nat. Wonder tiles, so you can't exploit the bonus resources.

Still, I bet it gets lighthoused/harbored.

 

[Crafty Bison]

I have a game where this happened, too. I believe I founded a city to work the tiles. Seems to be happening to other people, too. Someone reported that a poor City State had its Pearls inside the GBR.

You can pay the CS to auto improve it. I imagine this would work under the GBR too.

 

[JimboThrasher]

This is really cool, although I never saw it happenings. What type of map u were playing?

regular pangea.

regarding the bonuses, I dont believe it did receive the bonuses. I'll check again when i put up a screenshot tonight but i know i had a lighthouse,harbor, and seaport and it had 4 food. not sure what production it was running at.

 

[Peng Qi]

I have a game where this happened, too. I believe I founded a city to work the tiles. Seems to be happening to other people, too. Someone reported that a poor City State had its Pearls inside the GBR.

I imagine you could pay the CS money to improve that tile. It would be pretty sweet improved.

 

[Chomes99]

That's pretty neat, but I'd hate to see Pearls, Crabs, or Whales on the GBR. YOur units can't enter Nat. Wonder tiles, so you can't exploit the bonus resources.

I wonder if you pay the CS to improve the resource. You can do that in the CS diplomacy screen. But I dont know if that just makes them improve the resource noramlly or if it automatically creates the improvement. It might be a work around worth trying!

EDIT: Peng Qi beat me to it!

 

[JimboThrasher]

I didnt even know you could pay the city states to do that! Can i tell them to work a resource that they "cant see" like coal if i'm super advanced technologically?

 

[Optional]

The Barrier Reef with fish sounds a bit like the Fiji with wheat that I posted in funny screenshots: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=12055221&postcount=667.
One of the properties of wonders is that no improvements are possible on the tile, so it would surprise me to see an improvement there.

 

[JimboThrasher]

Here is a picture of the yield and what it looks like. you can see the fish swirling around and birds overhead so it looks really cool. i guess the fish gave it +2 food?

 

[Halcyan2]

Here is a picture of the yield and what it looks like. you can see the fish swirling around and birds overhead so it looks really cool. i guess the fish gave it +2 food?

4 food? Mmmmm, with Spain that is 8 food. And then you choose One with Nature too for your Pantheon. Be One with the Fish. Be One with the Fish. Be One with the Fish....

 

[JimboThrasher]

4 food? Mmmmm, with Spain that is 8 food. And then you choose One with Nature too for your Pantheon. Be One with the Fish. Be One with the Fish. Be One with the Fish....

with spain, i believe it would be 4 food. cause it was a separate "fish" tile that added the 2 food, and double the wonder would be 4 not 8. be interesting to see though.

 

[Clause]

with spain, i believe it would be 4 food. cause it was a separate "fish" tile that added the 2 food, and double the wonder would be 4 not 8. be interesting to see though.

It'll be 8 with lighthouse yum...

 

[kaspergm]

I did have GBR with Fish on as Spain once. The Fish bonus did not double. I'm pretty sure the yield of the tile was 5 Food compared to 4 Food for the other tile. Doesn't Fish only provide +1 Food when unimproved?

Edit > Oh that town in the screenshot above had Lighthouse also, then it matches.

 

[dashwinner]

speaking of, why don't some of the harbor/docks/lighthouse bonuses extend to regular coral reefs?

 

[Jigokuro]

I haven't seen a bonus resource appear on a wonder before, but I have had Uluru count as being desert once at a city were I built the Petra. That was some niceness.
Come to think of it I've had regular mountains near a Petra glitch into usability too, though those are far less helpful.

@dashwinner: You mean Atolls? They are just different (good) tiles, not a 'resource' so it can't be improved as one.