Do you overlap your cities?

[wonx2150]

I didn't used to overlap, but these days i do a bit. It depends on what the terrains like and where i am in the world. By overlapping you can fit more city's in and there for produce more, but you do have the catch that they cant grow as big as they are limited for space.

I guess it depends on the map mostly for me.

 

[OnionYang]

I usually overlap, though there are many things to consider.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

my cities never overlap in any civ game.

 

[Renner]

I always try to avoid overlap. 1-2 tiles at most when I feel I have to do so, to get resources, fresh water, coast, etc.

 

[civiijkw]

My overlaps are generally either:
A) A map constraint (such as to get a port)
B) Captured cities (and I'll often use poorly placed ones as a farm making settlers/engineers, drawing down the population until it no longer exists and thus no longer causes overlap)
C) Cities gained early from a hut/goody box (depending on the size I may draw them down too, but sometimes they are needed early on and are prohibitively large or developed by the time they can become candidates for being settler/engineer farms)

In my current game I have 253 of the 255 cities and the total overlap is probably about 30 squares/tiles.

If you are willing to take the time to do so, food caravans can overcome the size restrictions from overlapping. Do them enough and it can even overcome the point restriction from having fewer working citizens that can be counted at two points each (if happy).