City location question

[MBC]

Have only just registered with this site, but have been reading articles/forums/threads for some time and am much impressed with the amount of good info.

Quick question. Just reading the Civ IV ideas section and agree with the option to build canals (and yes they should be limited to 3 or 4 tiles). In Civ III (don't have access to my home PC so can't check over the next few days) if there is a strip of land 2 tiles thick between 2 bodies of water can you build 2 cities next to each other and transfer ships across the land that way? ie both cities have access to coastline so can a ship go from the sea in one body of water through both cities and then out into the next body of water?

 

[Crimso]

I'm not sure if you can even build two cities that close to eachother... but don't count me on that!

 

[punkbass2000]

Cities must be a minimum of two tiles away from each other.

 

[Oddible]

There was a fantastic GOTM a while back which was played on a funky world map which had a lot of opportunities for building canals - but as you say, you can't build cities adjacent to eachother so you need a bit of water in between them. Cities as X and water as O the map offered several channels like so:

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Very fun.

 

[MBC]

Cheers for the answers.

 

[Aemilius XXIII]

Just reading the Civ IV ideas section and agree with the option to build canals (and yes they should be limited to 3 or 4 tiles). In Civ III (don't have access to my home PC so can't check over the next few days) if there is a strip of land 2 tiles thick between 2 bodies of water can you build 2 cities next to each other and transfer ships across the land that way? ie both cities have access to coastline so can a ship go from the sea in one body of water through both cities and then out into the next body of water?

It would be great if such idea is implanted in a new great wonder of the world, by example the "Suezcanal" wonder. Such wonder come available during the industrialization timeperiod. By example, the nation that build the Suezcanal wonder receive the possibility to build once only such a 3 tiles long canal. Other nations who aren't in war with the Suezcanal owner can buy the right to use the Suezcanal too for paying a tolltariff to the owner (by example 5 or 10 goldcoins) each turn they use the canal.

 

[Paradigne]

It would have to be a small wonder... we have quite a few canal's like this...