City Placement

[eric_]

So if you had the choice between a 5th flood plain or a hill with gold, which would you choose?

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[eric_]

I'll do it this way:

 

[oyzar]

I would chose 1 cause of freshwater bonus and the grassland is allready taken by the other city.

 

[DaveMcW]

Floodplain
+4 commerce from rivers
+1 health (freshwater - floodplain penalty)

vs.

Gold hill.


Floodplain wins.

 

[eric_]

Yeah, that's what I went with. Thanks y'all.

 

[tycoonist]

1 cause of health and you can get more commerce from towning the floodplain and more food at the same time

 

[Phrederick]

I would have considered dropping a city on the plains south of the iron, and another on the grassland nw of site 1. You'll have overlap, but it won't matter for quite a while.

 

[eric_]

Interesting. For some reason that much overlap bothers me. Probably something I need to get over.

Anyway, this game has become VERY interesting. Just as I took Wash and Toku's last cities on the east coast (Toku snuck one in over there), Mansa invaded. I was struggling hard to keep York (town just off the screenshot to the south) and Cambridge (settled at city option 1 in the screenshot) for awhile. We kept trading Cambridge back and forth. He wouldn't give in, demanding one of the two cities when I'd seek peace. I finally beelined to rifling, pushed him back, and now I've taken his two largest cities.

So I think I'm finally getting a handle on Noble, post patch.

I may post a save later to see what people think about how I handled Mansa's invasion, tactically and strategically speaking.

 

[MickeyD]

Out of curiosity, what is the effect on the tile underneath when you place a city? I know that overlays like forests & flood plains are lost, but what would the food/production/commerce be of the actual tile if the city was placed on something other than the plain? In my own games, I often wonder if it is any better to place a city on a plains over a grassland or a grasslands hill, etc. Thanks for any info!

 

[DaveMcW]

City tiles always have 2F/1H/1C at a minimum. If you place them on tiles with better stats, they keep the better stats.

A plains hill would have 2F/2H/1C.
A river silk would have 2F/1H/2C.
A grassland cow would have 3F/1H/1C.