Radius of Benefit?

[Bearcat44]

Where, with both land and sea cities, do you get benefit from improvements, such as a mine or a kelp farm? How far away is useless?

The tiny interface map is a pain in the neck. How do you get the BIG map, the playing area map, to show little icons to tell you where there are, for example, spaces worthwhile to mine for minerals or harvest energy? I don't want to have to go between two maps. The main map should have an overlay that clicks on and off for this, like Civ does!

How close is too close to build cities? At what exact point are they not competing for resources?

 

[Petek]

Go to MENU, GAME, Map display preferences. Make sure that Show Base Grid is selected. Any resource within the base grid can be worked by that base. If more than one base shares a common tile in the base grid, any such base can work that tile. The computer normally selects which base works the tile, but you can change it.

Base spacing is a matter of personal preference. Bases placed closer together are easier to defend. Bases placed farther apart can work more tiles.

If you move the cursor to a tile and then click on the display that shows elevation, tile type and coordinates, the display will show you information about how much the tile will produce if terraformed.