Building Cities in Mountain Squares

[sirrysirrysrut]

I love the game thus far. Really, the only peeve I have with it at all is that I cannot for the love of Sid figure out how to build a city in a mountain square. The Settler unit will not build one there, and the Workers don't seem to have an order to reduce the Mountains to Hills (ala CivII).
Does anyone else have a solution for this??

 

[bakant]

I beleive that there is no way to build on mountains or make mountains into hills.

Stands to reason really, in real life you would not build a city on top of mount everest would you?

 

[sirrysirrysrut]

It may stand to reason that I don't want to build on top of Mt. Everest, but I do want to build a nice city like Denver, which is basically on the side of a mountain.
All kidding aside, this thread stems from the way I have carried over my cookie cutter city placement from every rev of Civ, so as to maximize the amount of terrain a city can put into production. Unfortunately, in Civ III, about 25% of the time one of those darn mountains is taking up the square where I want to build my city!!! I'm sure I'm not the only one that places every city three diagonal squares and one square over from the last city that was built.
If someone from Firaxis reads this.... please *please* !!PLEASE!! allow terraforming of mountains, or placing of cities in mountains in future patches!
As far as terraforming mountains, it could easily be a build option granted to workers by a technological advance, perhaps Ecology.
As far as mountain cities, we have plenty of them in real history. Besides Denver, look at the ancient cities on the Tibetan Plateau or in the Andes Mountains, like Macchu Picchu.

 

[Maeldun]

Hehe yes, I want my cities nicely in order too. I was able to build my cities on hills though. I havent tried a mountain but I wouldnt want that I think. They can't grow anyway when you build on a mountain, unless you drop some settlers on it later. Anyway, to answer, hills can be done and I'm pretty sure it can't be done on mountains.

 

[treadwin]

A squarethinker eh ! I rather like not being able to cookie-cut cities, but each to their own.

Denver - a mere hill - Bogota or Quito - now we are talking mountain !

 

[Maeldun]

It's more about getting all the territory around a city, so you don't have the annoying AI take it.