BUG: Great Admiral spawned in a lake and cannot leave.
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LeeS
Imperator
I encountered the same thing. But I ragequit and didn't save. Oops.
And it was in fact the same scenario. The city was in the process of constructing the Huey Teocalli wonder, and the Great Admiral spawned on the Huey Teocali plot.
Possibly the issue has to do with
causing the gamecore to consider the Huey Teocalli plot as being a coastal sea instead of lake tile. All the other wonders that have the same TerrainType="TERRAIN_COAST" requirement also forbid placement in lakes in the definition of the Wonder under table <Buildings>. But I cannot remember whether I've seen a Great Admiral spawn on one of Colossus, Great Lighthouse, Venetian Arsenal, or Sydney Opera House.
And it was in fact the same scenario. The city was in the process of constructing the Huey Teocalli wonder, and the Great Admiral spawned on the Huey Teocali plot.
Possibly the issue has to do with
Code:
<Building_ValidTerrains>
<Row BuildingType="BUILDING_HUEY_TEOCALLI" TerrainType="TERRAIN_COAST"/>
</Building_ValidTerrains>
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It could be that that's your only harbour. But regardless, I wouldn't ragequit, I'd kill him for the money. (Not a bug, but a design error. Obviously Great Admirals in lakes are utterly useless - unless, of course, it's a very big lake.).
LeeS
Imperator
Well, there's also the problem that the game wants to let you build harbors in lakes. But that's a separate issue (perhaps; and probably related to the fact that there's no equivalent to Civ5's "MinAreaSize" for units, districts, or buildings/wonders). And at the time I encountered the issue with the Great Admiral I had three other cities that were either on actual coastlines or had completed a Harbor District.
I see. Well, the thing is, there isn't a check to see how big the lake actually is. But apart from that:
No, the game allows you to. You're perfectly free to not do that.
No, the game allows you to. You're perfectly free to not do that.
LeeS
Imperator
The problem is that great admirals can spawn on the Huey Teocalli wonder tile. If this happens you cannot rebase the Great Admiral. And since he is in the middle of a lake, you cannot move him the hard way to a more useful position. If his retire ability is to give you a quinquireme, for example, you now have a pretty useless quinquireme.
You can only move Great Admirals FROM cities to other cities or harbors. A harbor can only be a destination for this, not the origin. Flawed design/bug, if you could use the Harbor to warp the GAdm somewhere else there would be really no issue.
The Swede
Viking
Happened twice for me today..... 
I had the same issue. All my great admirals were spawned in the city with Huey Teocalli and a harbour. I have the Summer 2017 Update.
There is a solution though:
1. Open the file "Units.xml" (it is located in ..\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data\Units.xml)
2. Make a copy of Units.xml if you like to play it safe
3. Go to line 671 (or the line with "UnitType="UNIT_GREAT_ADMIRAL" " in the section "<Units>")
4. Change "DOMAIN_SEA" to "DOMAIN_LAND"
5. Start or restart CIV 6 and load your save game
6. Be aware that you won't see the change until the next turn
You can now move your great admiral as if it was a land unit. Including transferring it to another city.
There is a solution though:
1. Open the file "Units.xml" (it is located in ..\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Base\Assets\Gameplay\Data\Units.xml)
2. Make a copy of Units.xml if you like to play it safe
3. Go to line 671 (or the line with "UnitType="UNIT_GREAT_ADMIRAL" " in the section "<Units>")
4. Change "DOMAIN_SEA" to "DOMAIN_LAND"
5. Start or restart CIV 6 and load your save game
6. Be aware that you won't see the change until the next turn
You can now move your great admiral as if it was a land unit. Including transferring it to another city.
blackbutterfly
Emperor
IMO that's ok. Suppose said city is on the coast, the harbour is protected. Let's see anyone try to pillage it. You can build your ships in safety and move them out to sea through your city.
(I'm currently playing a game with a city like this. I'll post a pic once I've constructed my harbour).
LeeS
Imperator
The problem is that Firaxis both allowed Harbors / Royal Dockyards on lake tiles (while encouraging such placements via adjacency bonuses) while at the same time not dealing with the fact that the game will RNG dump a great admiral into such a District that might not be placed adjacent to a city.
Counting on a canal-placement set-up with a lake on one side and a coast on the other of a City Center seems like relying far too much on a purely RNG-luck map situation.
Counting on a canal-placement set-up with a lake on one side and a coast on the other of a City Center seems like relying far too much on a purely RNG-luck map situation.
blackbutterfly
Emperor
I promised to post a pic of the city with a lake harbour. You can bring your navy in to heal. It's so good
vonopf
Chieftain
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My ship is stuck in a lake as the harbor is there and the city doesn't bridge lake and sea. Highly frustrating
blackbutterfly
Emperor
Rarely ever is it worth building a harbour in a lake IMO. The screenshot above is one example where it can be very strategic.
because there is no other district left to build, I thought the GA will spawn in the first harbor but it turns out to be in the highest population city (which is extremely annoying because I have to maintain population of lake-adjacent cities or I will end up with useless GAs).
