Breaking the Three-Hex Boundary

[steveg700]

All right, I've decided my hated thing of the week is Poland and how the alliance system allow gross demonstrations of passive aggression to be directed at allies. Poland has that eminently-abusable culture-bomb ability. No wonder every other civ winds up wanting to destroy them. I mean, Russia is a bad neighbor, but Poland just deserves its own special hell.

Okay, to the point: Why is it this space-disrespecting punk able to settle within three tiles of my city here? They're both on the same continent. Does water make all the difference?

I'm...just...gonna have to...destroy.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Does water make all the difference?

Yes, cities can be two tiles apart if separated by water.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Yes, cities can be two tiles apart if separated by water.

I think your statement isn't clear about what the rule actually is:

Cities can be two tiles apart if they do NOT share the same landmass.

Continents in Civ 6 have a different meaning to what Continents used to have meant (a single landmass).

It's hard tro tell because of the minimap but the Russian city is defeniately on a different landmass even if both landmasses are assigned to the same continent.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Cities can be two tiles apart if they do NOT share the same landmass.

I assumed, perhaps erroneously, that that stipulation went without saying. And, yes, that's correct that "named" continents are irrelevant to placement, it's the visible landmasses that are meaningful in this context.