Is this a bug??

[Koshling]

In many ways forts act like cities (explicitly so in the code in fact), but I have foudn a case that I think goes too far and that I personall regard as a bug. However, before I 'fix' it I want a read on what everyone else things:

Turns out ships can enter land plots with forts on them (that's the effect of teh acts-like-a-city code being hyperactive IMO). Net result is you can bridge landmasses using forts!

I think this should not be allowed but I wanted to sound out other peoples' opinions before I chnage it...

As an aside it made me think it might be nice to have a woker build (modern era probably) that allows them to build shipping-canals (think Panama canal or Suez) which WOULD have this effect (should be an expensive build). Just a future possibility though...

 

[Hydromancerx]

That has always been. It also allows you to use them as canals. I personally always have liked that feature since there was no specific canal improvement. In short, no its not a bug. And I personally like that.

 

[Koshling]

That has always been. It also allows you to use them as canals. I personally always have liked that feature since there was no specific canal improvement. In short, no its not a bug. And I personally like that.

Doesn't seem realistic to me. Also the AI doesn't know about placing forts in this way, so I need to either teach the AI the value of it, or stop it happening. I can do either (stopping it is easier, but having the AI bridge wth forts shouldnt be too hard really either).

I'll go with the consensus. Taking Hydro as a vote for the status quo.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

It is a BtS feature but only works for two fort canals. It is very useful if you use them with lakes. Please don't remove it.

 

[climat]

It's the only way to have canal-like thing currently. Please teach AI.
I want to see "real" canals in the game, though.

 

[strategyonly]

As long as the change of the AI does NOT interfere with the current system that is employed, and CAN understand the change then change the AI, but if the performance or turn times or culture changes that much, then thats a different story, i dont want anything messing with the performance, because you have worked to hard to get it to where its at

 

[BlueGenie]

It does come with a good limitation though. Not sure if this is valid for cities placed on peaks but a fort on a peak does NOT allow naval units to traverse it.
A change I'd think would be good would be to also disallow Forts on hills naval traversing. That way it'd only be on flatland you could dig out those "canals" for your naval units.

Cheers

 

[AIAndy]

Only forts directly next to water have that behavior. I think that means it was meant as a way for your ships as a safe harbor which later got used for 2 field canals by the players.
The 2 field distance limits it in quite a nice way.
Better would be a separate canal improvement though which is expensive to build but can be built further than 2 fields. Cheap to build on rivers, expensive on plains and grassland, extremely expensive on hills. Might also give a small amount of commerce to the plot.