Building Ships on Inland Waters

[Torvald]

Thal,

This is a question concerning v108.6.

I noticed today that on a large inland body of water, I was able to build workboats and sea related buildings such as lighthouses, but I was not able to build any combat ships. (My other cities on the outer sea coast were able to build combat ships.)

Is this restriction on building inland combat ships a planned new feature?

 

[Thalassicus]

If I remember correctly I think this was also the case in Civilization 4. It's part of vanilla. Building military vessels requires a body of water of at least a certain size, but I don't know what that size is exactly. I believe the size is identified by "lakes" vs "coasts."

 

[tlaurila]

I'm seeing an Arabian frigate on the inland sea SW of the start location in GotM1. So looks like that sea is large enough. Or does it require that at least 2 civs are on the shores of the sea? That would be the most sensible requirement to me.

 

[Dunkah]

Was fighting Nebachaneezer (sp). He decided to give me his last coastal city as a consolation prize when he bowed out of the war. Apparently he had a workboat somewhere in that location that transferred to his last city. Which was completely inland.

Assuming this would be a vanilla bug. Very special circumstances. One would think that any navy would simply be lost or transferred to nuetral waters somewhere.

 

[EsoEs]

Unfortunately I do not have the save, but I played a game (i think 104) and the AI was able to build military vessels into a 3 tile "lake". Quirky vanilla bug, but arent they all?

 

[Ahriman]

I *think* they can build it as long as they are adjacent to a coast tile? So what really matters is whether the water is freshwater lake or is coast?
Not sure.

 

[Torvald]

Ahriman,

I think you've found the key ingredient - coastal waters.

The very large inland body of water I had that wouldn't let me build warships didn't have any of its hexes identified as coastal. I think that may have been the problem.

Thanks!

 

[tlaurila]

Yeah, certainly you can't build ocean stuff on a "lake". Note that a lake already has the food bonus like it would with lighthouse, and as I recall, isn't affected by lighthouse. A lake is also freshwater, providing fresh water to tiles around it. But then if your city is by a lake, you can't build any coastal stuffs, not even lighthouse, harbor etc.