If a tile is under my sphere of influence, but not in any of my workable tiles in my cities' fat crosses, do i still reap any of it's benefits aside from chopping. Example: I've got a tile with cows, none of my cities can use it at present. If i build a pasture on it, will i still get the +1 health bonus for my civ even though i can't use it for food or commerce? I thought the answer was no, but thought i'd check in with the experts. I don't want to be wasting turns improving for no reason or missing out on any extra civ benefits.
Question about non-city tiles
- Thread starter SamSiam
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You get access to any resources that you harvest on tiles inside your cultural borders. However, since a citizen cannot actually work that tile the bonus yield (food/hammer/commerce) is wasted. Additionally, building a fort on a resource ALSO gives you access to the appropriate resource (but without the additional yield). Thus, building a fort on resources outside the BFC of any city, while more costly in worker turns, gives the same effective benefit of building the proper improvement, plus you can install a garrison in the fort to more effectively protect that resource. This is quite useful for strategic resources but marginally useful for other kinds since you are less likely to expend the units to defend a spice or sugar resource.
A common technique for mid/late game enabled resources is to pre-build a fort on those resources when they become visible and then when the enabling technology is researched that resource is immediately available.
A common technique for mid/late game enabled resources is to pre-build a fort on those resources when they become visible and then when the enabling technology is researched that resource is immediately available.
