Improving the terrain?

[fertilepress]

I've been playing a few weeks now and think I pretty much understand most of the game. There's one thing that I haven't figured out, though. Is there any reason to improve the terrain outside the 21 city radius squares since citizens can only work those squares? I've noticed that whenever I automate the workers they run off and improve every terrain square within my cultural borders.

Thanks in advance for helping with this.

Renee

 

[Colonel]

alot of people do this just because they like too and it gives them something to do while waiting for war and other things, the AI does mainly because it is dumb, Also all roads inside you borders and commerce add money, not sure if outside cities do though cant remember

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[general_kill]

alot of people do this just because they like too and it gives them something to do while waiting for war and other things, the AI does mainly because it is dumb, Also all roads inside you borders and commerce add money, not sure if outside cities do though cant remember

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well all roads that has a citizen working on it give extra commerce, otherwise its useless.

 

[fertilepress]

Okay, it's pretty much what I thought. No sense wasting my workers on useless improvements. Then again, I guess if there's nothing else for them to do...

Thanks for the quick replies. You guys rock!

Renee

 

[Longasc]

There is one reason with irrigation before electronics:

You will have to bring "water" by irrigation to another city. If there is no river or sweet water lake, you cannot irrigate e.g. plains around your city, a real problem for desert cities. So just irrigate all the way to the city in question.

 

[Tomoyo]

Actually, it's a bigger problem for plains cities.

Another reason is to build a road for the sake of using that road in trade or military.