question about roads

[bob the builder]

to connect a city with a resource or city you need to have road on the city and resource tile and all tiles between them right?

does biulding roads diagonal on the tiles work?

and if you connect with road but without culture you only transport resource but not trade and if culture but no road only trade?

 

[Morred]

to connect a city with a resource or city you need to have road on the city and resource tile and all tiles between them right?

does biulding roads diagonal on the tiles work?

and if you connect with road but without culture you only transport resource but not trade and if culture but no road only trade?

1. Yes, except for the city tile, you don't need a road on that tile.

2. Yep

3. If your cultural borders don't reach the resource then you cannot use it, at all. Even if you build a road.

 

[bob the builder]

1. Yes, except for the city tile, you don't need a road on that tile.

2. Yep

3. If your cultural borders don't reach the resource then you cannot use it, at all. Even if you build a road.

ok thnx. sry for not describing question 3 clearly, what i meant was if 2 cities are connected with borders but no roads they only get trade bonus, and if only road connects em they only transport resource?

 

[Slimbo]

@3 If understand your question right, it doesn't matter wether you have a "cultural connection" neither for trade nor for ressources (except that each ressource has to be in some of your cultural borders in order to deploy it just like written above).

But keep in mind, that roads are not the only means for connecting ressources or city's, rivers act like roads and depending on techs (sailing for coastal squares and astronomy for ocean squares) even sea tiles connect citiy. So to get trade, with another city for example, you only have to connect the city with the next river in case this river is next to the other city, you don't have to build a road the whole way along this river.

 

[ghen]

The resource has to be in your cultural borders for you to improve anything but roads on the tile. You can't mine/farm/pasture etc when its outside your culture.

To connect resources OR trade you can use rivers. The resource doesn't even need a road built on the tile if its next to a river. My current game was in the niche of a river. Sheep, gold, and ivory were all upstream on the same river as the city.. I didn't have to road anything until iron popped up and it wasn't on the river. What a great start that was

start as kublai khan on monarch/pangea. Civ choices were random.. but what a selection! You'll see what I mean

 

[bob the builder]

Sheep, gold, and ivory were all upstream on the same river as the city)

cool, but does it have to be streamed the right way? and how do you see that?

 

[Gemini1706]

No. Stream direction is irrelevant.

Check out my previous question/thread. It explaned this plus other stuff:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148493

have fun

 

[ghen]

hehe, maybe I shouldn't have said upstream There is no stream direction in the game unless you just guess at it (starts on hills, stops in the ocean, etc) and even if it did exist I was totally lying as ivory was the opposite direction on the river as the other two

 

[bob the builder]

but if i have a pig thats river/road/coast/sea connected to yakutsk and yakutsk is connected to suntar, will suntar get pig resource?

do cities share resources?

 

[cyron]

As long as you can trace a link along roads/rivers/water tiles, then yes, cities share resources. Get a pig to one city, and any city of yours connected to it also gets the health benefits of the pig

You can view a really good breakdown of how it works (with images) in this thread http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148493

 

[rflook]

Hi there,

I have a question regarding this as well. Ive just got the game and gone through the tutorial. When you create your 2nd city in the tutorial there is a quarry right next to the 2nd city. At this stage though both cities cultural borders connect into one large area.

Now I am assuming that as the quarry is right next to your 2nd city it immediately gains the benefit of the quarry. However being as the quarry is now within the borders of the 1st city as well, why is there a need to build a road?

Any help apprectiated.

Rob

 

[Lahdoz]

The Quarry tile that is right next to the second city still needs to be roaded in order to connect the quarry to the city.

Now that city takes advantage of the quarry, but not the first city.

You can look at it like; you need a road to transport the marble or stone to the first city. No roads or rivers connecting the cities = no way to transport the goods.