How would you settle a good sized chunk of Tundra relatively near your palace?

[Scrubber]

Lets say you have a large chunk of Tundra near your Palace. Not close enough that you want to move your palace, but close enough that cities placed in this Tundra would only have moderate corruption. You are not playing ICS on the rest of the map, just placing cities 2-3 spaces apart.

What would you do with the Tundra, once you have settled all the good lands?

Put cities in optimal spacing so that they cover all the land tiles once their culture has expanded ? This way you will get all the resources in your borders, but many tiles will go unworked, because the Tundra cities can't get a lot of food. These are Tundra tiles going un worked though.

ICS in the Tundra? You would work every tile, but these are Tundra tiles or later forested Tundra so it may not be worth it. All these extra cities might increase your corruption. Plus, it would take a lot of worker turns to forest the Tundra.

Some other idea?

Please help, I have no idea what I should do with this large chunk of Tundra.

 

[sabo]

I usually would leave inland tundra alone unless there is some oil or something there, on the coast line you can build cities with harbors for the food and forest the rest for sheilds.

 

[kulade]

I heard somewhere if you tell one worker to mine on tundra and another to plant a forest, the forest gets a mine on it. Never tried it in game, just a little cheat for you.

Usually i build around tundra on coastal areas and resourses. The AI can maintain citys on tundra. As sado said rely on the ocean for food and land for production

 

[nullspace]

Yeah, settle it sparsely just so you can claim the land in case any resources pop up later. An all-tundra city is never going to produce anything useful, and if you make a lot of them, it will increase the rank corruption of any useful cities that are farther from your capital than the area of tundra. If you want the tundra cities to be moderately productive, settle near the edges so you can use non-tundra tiles, or settle near any food bonuses, like game or fish.

 

[Yaype]

I tend to do ICS in large tundra or hill areas. It does increase rank corruption, but you can never have too many cities.

 

[WackenOpenAir]

I would absolutely NEVER ics it if i have good cities at a bigger distance than the ICS cities would be.

If it is further away than your usefull cities, it would be an option. but pretty useless anyway.

just claim the land and leave it be.

 

[Turner]

Do OCP on the coast where you can get harbors, and hopefully fish and whales. Do ICS on the inside, if you really need the cities to cover up the gaps. Otherwise, I'd do as Sabo says and just let it be unless the AI tries to claim it, or a resource pops up.

 

[Roland Johansen]

I build cities on the edge of the tundra and the grasland so that the grasland tiles can support enough food to use the tundra tiles in the city radius (these cities can become powerfull). Then I'll build cities on the coast so that I can use as much coast and sea squares as possible. I'll spread these cities with not much overlap. These cities will be good for commerce and bad for production.

If not all tundra-tiles are used by these cities (which is probable if the tundra patch is large) and if I have a small area, then I'll settle the inland with "villages". These villages aren't very usefull and should only build units (like workers or so). When my empire has grown and I'm suffering from the optimal city number, then I'll remove these "villages" so that other cities further from my capital will suffer less from corruption.