Hypothetical situation: I have to irigate thru town A to get water to town B. If I later mine the connecting tile that brought water to town B, will town B lose it's irigation? I have a feeling that although town B's tiles would 'look' irigated, the citizen would only be getting 1 food.
Broken irigation
- Thread starter Delphi456
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Verarde
Pondering Wearing A Hat
Do you mean something like:
A = Town A
B = Town B
- = Irrigation
+ = Mine
First:
A - - B
Then:
A + - B
the irrigation on the second tile would remain.
If you mean:
A - B
then:
A + B
I'm pretty sure you would lose the water. If you ever change what is built on the tile, the tile loses the bonuses. So if you change a bonus grassland tile with no road from a mine to irrigation it will give you 3 food and 1 shield instead of 2 food and 2 shields.
Does this answer your question?
A = Town A
B = Town B
- = Irrigation
+ = Mine
First:
A - - B
Then:
A + - B
the irrigation on the second tile would remain.
If you mean:
A - B
then:
A + B
I'm pretty sure you would lose the water. If you ever change what is built on the tile, the tile loses the bonuses. So if you change a bonus grassland tile with no road from a mine to irrigation it will give you 3 food and 1 shield instead of 2 food and 2 shields.
Does this answer your question?
Fiddlin Nero
Prince
No, you do not lose the irrigation.
I'll add the following.
Say you have this pattern:
-A-+B with - as irrigation, and + as a mine, and A and B as cities. So, you then mine and have:
+A-+B. Well, you can still irrigate the other plus and produce:
+A--B. In fact, you can also have this once you have the ability to irrigated at the third square:
+A+-B. To go even further... I feel pretty confident you can do the following. Say you have
+A-+B. You can irrigate with a single worker the mine between A and B. Then mine/forest the irrigation with a stack of workers such that the mine gets completed in a single turn. The other worker will complete the irrigation later, even though it doesn't have water available anymore (provided that you haven't changed that workers job).
Verarde
Pondering Wearing A Hat
Good points Spoonwood. I'm honored that you used my system to show them. 
