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Can't you connect the city via road to the coast? I think the game sees coast tiles, ocean tiles, river tiles and road/railroad tiles as those that can be connected by any means (for trade purposes). Of course coast tiles and ocean tiles require techs to enable that. Not positive though, but I thought I had a good example of this in a previous game.DaviddesJ said:If there's a river on the island (running into the ocean), then you can put the city anywhere adjacent to the river. Otherwise, it does have to be on the coast, I believe. (The only other possibility would be to build 2 cities, one inland and the other on the coast, and connect them with a road---then the iron from city 1 would connect through city 2 to the rest of your civilization.)
You don't need a harbor.
Sounds like a good world builder experiment (too bad I'm at work).