How do I connect up this resource?

[Manfred Belheim]

A bit embarrassing that I don't know the answer to this by now, but I have a source of gems which is in a hard to reach tile. I have a mine on it, and I have a road built on the tile. It's within my cultural borders too. I can't connect to it by road, but it's on the coast so should be able to connect through coastal waters.

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• Manfred Belheim
• Nov 29, 2018

However, when you look at the trade groups view, you can see it's not in the same trade group as the rest of my empire and I don't have access to the resource.

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• Manfred Belheim
• Nov 29, 2018

I'm sure I've got resources like this in the past. Other than building a city on top of it, how do I get at it?

 

[lymond]

I think a fort + road would give access but would remove the tile improvement which IMO is more valuable

A fort/road basically functions like a port ( in cultural borders). Nice for odd nearby islands

 

[s.bernbaum]

Since it is not in the city BFC, a fort and road is definitely the way to go.

 

[Fish Man]

A bit embarrassing that I don't know the answer to this by now, but I have a source of gems which is in a hard to reach tile. I have a mine on it, and I have a road built on the tile. It's within my cultural borders too. I can't connect to it by road, but it's on the coast so should be able to connect through coastal waters.

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• Manfred Belheim
• Nov 29, 2018

However, when you look at the trade groups view, you can see it's not in the same trade group as the rest of my empire and I don't have access to the resource.

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• Manfred Belheim
• Nov 29, 2018

I'm sure I've got resources like this in the past. Other than building a city on top of it, how do I get at it?

OK off-topic but your screenshot is REALLY misleading, thought the gems was in BFC because it was only 2 north (the 2 mountains NE were super clumped together). But yes, as everyone else said: fort-road.

 

[lymond]

It looks like the gems are in the BFC to me. Maybe I need glasses

 

[krikav]

Hand me a pair of them glasses too, because however I squit my eyes those gems are 1E 2N of the city "Firsthold".

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Yes the tile is in the BFC of the city. 1E and 2N.

 

[Colon]

Whenever I come across something like that I just use the worldbuilder to make it accessible. I also do it for the AI so I don't feel it's cheating. Just correcting a flaw in the game.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Okay thanks everyone. So, without WorldBuilder, it looks like it's a choice between having the improvement for the city to work, or having the fort for resource access. When this has worked for me in the past it must have been outside the BFC and I just put a fort there and just assumed a mine would work as well.

 

[s.bernbaum]

It looked to me like it was 2 E and 2 N, which puts it in the notch in the BFC, but if everyone else disagrees, I guess I misread the map. However, with that mountain in the way, unless there is another source of gems, I'd still go for the fort and road.