Flood plains

[Sweetchuck]

When I see them, I cringe. They say to me "civil disorder".



If I can settle with flood plains and adjoining desert, that's OK or if I can settle a city with one corner tile of flood plains and the rest mountains, hills and/or forest, I'm OK with that also - but man, I hate those cities that have tons of flood plain tiles in them. I have to micromanage the citizens to keep them off of too many of those tiles otherwise I'm getting a soaring population growth and plunging production and everyone gets angry.

 

[Spoonwood]

If/once you learn Sanitation that no longer becomes a problem.

 

[Sweetchuck]

If/once you learn Sanitation that no longer becomes a problem.

Huh?

That's like thousands of years later - after 8 riots and more entertainers than Comedy Central has on it's payroll.

 

[puwen]

If/once you learn Sanitation that no longer becomes a problem.

Um don't know how Sanitaton would help with the happines problem of a big population.

Sure it helps with disease, but that wasn't what this was about.

 

[texico11]

Oh man, you're telling me this now? I've gone and placed all my central cities around tons of flood plane squares for the harvest boost

 

[NickyH]

Oh man, you're telling me this now? I've gone and placed all my central cities around tons of flood plane squares for the harvest boost

Well, as long as you keep the population from rioting, (turn some people into scientists/tax men) flood plains are a good thing.

Although I do agree with Sweetchuck that micromanaging them sometimes requires very much attention. Especially in the early game, and if you have wheat as well, but few shields.

 

[Higher Game]

They're annoying to me because of disease, and the lack of shields. I don't like flood plains at all, even though they make a desert (and its possible saltpeter) livable.

 

[Spoonwood]

I've never seen saltpeter in floodplains, only regular desert.

 

[texico11]

I've never seen saltpeter in floodplains, only regular desert.

A river running through a desert creates floodplains, AmIRight? so if Saltpeter is on a desert square, settling in the desert near a river with the Saltpeter in your borders creates a livable city with access to Saltpeter.

Otherwise you've got a dummy-town stuck in the middle of a desert just for the resource. I think that's what he was reffering too.

 

[Spoonwood]

You're right about where you get flood plains texico. But, I think you can't get both on the same square.

 

[Sweetchuck]

You're right about where you get flood plains texico. But, I think you can't get both on the same square.

I've never seen saltpeter on a flood plain.

 

[Jokeslayer]

You're right about where you get flood plains texico. But, I think you can't get both on the same square.

I've never seen saltpeter on a flood plain.

Miss the point much, guys? Saltpeter also appears on hills and mountains (I think), but I don't know if there's a difference in how often. I'd rather get it from one of those and leave the deserts altogether (at least initially, or if I'm struggling)

 

[Decebalus]

I personally like floodplains. Cities with a ton of floodplains are one of those cashcow cities. Mind you, under a decent government like Republic though.

Because of the tons of extra food available you can support entertainers when there are unhappiness problems. So I don't see how that could be a big problem. And if you have luxuries connected you can put off using entertainers for a bit.

I usually road as many of the good tiles as I can in those cities, irrigate all possible terrain for extra food, put it on wealth and let it grow, adding an entertainer every now and then as needed to keep it from rioting.

 

[AutomatedTeller]

Floodplains are great! Having big cities isn't the problem, it's figuring out how to deal with having big cities.

And you do that with A) Specialists B) mining other tiles or C) pop-rushing,

 

[Sweetchuck]

Miss the point much, guys? Saltpeter also appears on hills and mountains (I think), but I don't know if there's a difference in how often. I'd rather get it from one of those and leave the deserts altogether (at least initially, or if I'm struggling)

Yes, saltpeter appears on hills and mountains.

No, saltpeter doesn't appear on floodplains.

Hope that helps.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I like the food they give, despite the disease issue. If you have just one wheat on a floodplain, you have a settler/worker factory in the making. I usually mine the desert tiles to get the shields necessary, since floodplains have no shields. Shed that excess population by building settlers or workers. You can almost never have too many of those.

 

[texico11]

I like the food they give, despite the disease issue. If you have just one wheat on a floodplain, you have a settlerworker factory in the making. I usually mine the desert tiles to get the shields necessary, since floodplains have no shields. Shed that excess population by building settler or workers. You can almost never have too many of those.

I was lucky enough to be able to park my capitol on a Floodplain with 4 wheat within it's radius, aswell as next to a patch of hills that contained gold. That factor is probably the main reason I'm still alive having made a jump from Monarchy to Deity.

 

[ecuwins]

If I start on a sea of floodplains then I may re-roll the start. Otherwise they don't bother me too much. Irrigate the floodplain and then work a forrest, mined hill, or mined mountain.