Brief question on Dutch Dikes

[onomastikon]

When exactly can I build a dike?
Building a levee seems to be restricted to cities whose city center (founding settler) is directly on a river.
1. Is this the case with Dikes?
2. Or can you build a dike in any city who merely has a river in its area?
3. Or in a city on a coast?
4. Or in any city who has any water within its fat cross?

thank you!

 

[oranges]

A city on a river or on the coast.

 

[tycoonist]

if the city can build a boat, it can build a dike.
if the city can build a hydro plant, it can build a dike.

 

[xexoy2]

What about a light house?

 

[CCRunner]

If you can build a boat, you can build a lighthouse

 

[omnimutant]

If you can build a boat, you can build a lighthouse

True, but if you can Build a Light House you can't necessarily build a Boat!

 

[say1988]

If you can build a boat, you can build a lighthouse

Not entirely true, you could always be Vikings
Or have fishing, but not sailing

 

[slaze]

A city on a river or on the coast.

This is not true afaik. The city does not need to be on a river

 

[CCRunner]

This is not true afaik. The city does not need to be on a river

But it can be.

 

[kaos429]

Since I normally play as the Dutch. It can be built in a coastal city, or in a landlocked city that is on a river or next to a fresh water lake tile.

 

[oranges]

I would never have thought this could give rise to much discussion. Here is another possible definition -- A city can build a dike if it has direct access to any kind of water, be it a river, ocean or lake. Just having a water source in the BFC will not do (so all the more reason for hating the AI for its city placement when going a-conquering).

 

[kaos429]

I would never have thought this could give rise to much discussion. Here is another possible definition -- A city can build a dike if it has direct access to any kind of water, be it a river, ocean or lake. Just having a water source in the BFC will not do (so all the more reason for hating the AI for its city placement when going a-conquering).

That's not another definition, that's mine, and others re-worded, and smushed together.

 

[oranges]

That's not another definition, that's mine, and others re-worded, and smushed together.

Hey, that's mine from the first post, expanded to avoid all foreseeable confusion Saying smushed just invites new mix-ups. I bet someone will go back to lighthouses and boats now

 

[onomastikon]

Thank you everyone.
I found "if you can build a boat or a hydroplant" to be the least ambiguous, if it is true, and I guess it is, since no one has complained. Part of why I think this is that "city" itself is, at least for newbies such as myself, partly ambiguous, since I have read many posts in which "city" means not exclusively the center of a settlement (that is: where the settler plops down) but the squares worked or its border.

By the way, I know many people who would claim that "landlocked" implies that a city has no access to a river (or in some cases a lake). Berlin, for example, is currenlty not landlocked, since you can travel via canals to the Baltic Sea and so forth, even though Berlin is miles away from any ocean.

 

[tycoonist]

lakes don't count

 

[Ricci]

Since I normally play as the Dutch. It can be built in a coastal city, or in a landlocked city that is on a river or next to a fresh water lake tile.

This is the complete answer as far as i understand. Orange's one just omited the city next to a fresh water lake posibility, that allows to build the so awesome dike.