Can someone explain what happens to the tile that you settle a city on? If it has a resource, do you lose that resource? If not, how do you access it?
Once you have the required technology, you gain access to the resource. So if you settle on Stone or Marble, once you discover Masonry (and could build quarries), you gain Stone/Marble from the city's tile and everything connected with it (in this case the construction bonus to some wonders).
What you get immediatly when you found the city, even if you don't have the technology, is a bonus to the tile. Normally the city's center tile generates 2
1
(+1 if it's a plains hill) 1
, settling on a resource will provide +1 to either of those
food: for food resources like corn or wheat,
for production resources like iron, etc.). So it's usually a bad idea to settle on resources that would give a huge benefit to their tile if improved normally. Mining a tile with copper will give you a lot more hammers than the +1 you get from settling on it. However, for some resources the improvement bonus is rather small, and of course settling on it gives you a more immediate boost.
Edit: Too slow, Lord Parkin is a ninja.
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