No harvesting of iron?

[qadams]

So frustrating.

I had this tile in mind since shortly after I founded my city as the perfect spot for a Campus — surrounded by five mountains. But then, when I researched Bronze Working, it turns out there's iron on that spot. Now I can't put a Campus there. As you can see, I just built a mine. The iron is nice, except I had more iron elsewhere.

Does anyone know why iron, and I think horses too (strategic resources), can't be harvested? That doesn't make much sense to me.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Game reasons. They don't want you to capture enemy cities, harvest the strategic resources, then give the cities back, devoid of resources. Same with luxuries.

 

[Leyrann]

You could always load a save and then put the campus there before researching Bronze Working.

 

[qadams]

Game reasons. They don't want you to capture enemy cities, harvest the strategic resources, then give the cities back, devoid of resources. Same with luxuries.

I suppose that makes sense. Except couldn't they just make the rule that you can't harvest resources on captured territory? That would seem more logical.

 

[UWHabs]

Still find it weird how you can't put districts on lux or strategic resources. Feels like just allowing that would solve a lot of issues. Heck, in some cases almost feels like there should be an extra bonus for it - why not build a market basically on top of where I'm harvesting cocoa?

 

[Magma_Dragoon]

this is a better layout anyway
colossus optional

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

this is a better layout anyway
colossus optional
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Fun labels. It's like lunch tables in a high school cafeteria... and that's my new favorite analogy for the district puzzle.

 

[Magma_Dragoon]

Fun labels. It's like lunch tables in a high school cafeteria... and that's my new favorite analogy for the district puzxle.

city center is the teacher's table :^)

 

[Victoria]

@qadams if you had put the harbour where the stick figure is and the commercialmdistrict at the river mouth you would get 3 gold from the harbour and 5 gold from the commercial district. And with the eggheads where said you only loose one science so not a biggie

 

[UWHabs]

Another key point to remember is that losing 1 science adjacency only costs you 1-2 science per turn. That matters a lot when you're only getting 20 science in your empire, but once you're up to 75 or 100, the extra adjacency basically is just a rounding error. I know getting the +4 campus is really sexy, but after a point, it really doesn't matter as much anymore, and it's much more important to worry about other things. I have one case where I was debating putting a holy site in one spot to get an extra adjacency bonus, but doing that would steal a future farm from a big connected zone. So essentially that +1 faith is probably stealing away potentially 6-8 food from me later in the game, when you think about the 3-4 neighbouring farms that are all affected by that as well.

 

[king of nowhere]

Another point is that even if you have more iron, a strategic resource is never useless. You can look at the other civs you have contacted and see if some of them miss iron, then you can sell that iron at a steep price. Strategic resources sell good. I like to play peacefully, and I always sell my resources to the AI; i use the extra money for stuff like buying a monument in every new city i found. I also sell luxury resources if I dont need them too badly and they fetch a good price.

 

[qadams]

Another key point to remember is that losing 1 science adjacency only costs you 1-2 science per turn. That matters a lot when you're only getting 20 science in your empire, but once you're up to 75 or 100, the extra adjacency basically is just a rounding error. I know getting the +4 campus is really sexy, but after a point, it really doesn't matter as much anymore, and it's much more important to worry about other things. I have one case where I was debating putting a holy site in one spot to get an extra adjacency bonus, but doing that would steal a future farm from a big connected zone. So essentially that +1 faith is probably stealing away potentially 6-8 food from me later in the game, when you think about the 3-4 neighbouring farms that are all affected by that as well.

Yeah, I'll admit that sometimes I fall in love with the adjacency bonuses from terrain — it's so hard to resist those five mountain tiles! — and forget about the bonuses from district adjacencies. Thanks for the reminder.