Selecting New City Sites

[SPARTAN-117]

Whenever you build a city, does it matter if the location where the city is built is improved? For example, does it make a difference to build a city on top of an irrigated or mined square? Also, if you build a city on top of a resource, do you still get that resource throughout your empire?

 

[Bamspeedy]

Improving a tile before placing a city there has no effect. If you place a city directly on a strategic or luxury resource that resource is automatically connected to that particular city. Then just have roads connecting that city to the rest (including the capital), and all cities connected to the capital will have that resource.

 

[Go Banana!]

I like to drop my city on top of a luxury if possible. Or a bonus square depending on what's available. You immediately start reaping the benefits without having to scrounge up a worker and wait for him to make a road.

This also works for strategic resources as well. i developed gunpowder an noticed that there was only one source of saltpeter on the continent close to my border but controlled by Japan. Rather than capture the city, I razed it and brought in a settler and plunked a city right on top of the salpeter and the resource was mine all mine. (Although I will say that saltpeter becomes useless fast so it really was not worth starting a war over in this case.)

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

I try to plunk down cities in bad squares - deser, tundra, jungle and so on since that square then gives 2 food 1 prod.

I also try to place them on hills if I expect attacks. Same goes for placing them on "my" side of rivers.

If I have few workers early on I place them on lux or res - makes for faster connection of iron or lux if that is in rugged terrain (which iron always is)

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

If you play as an Industrious civ, try to build cities on hills in the middle of jungles (there are normaily a tonne of luxuries and later resources throughout them). The jungles get cleared away quickly enough, and you have a huge city with high production and population. This tactic is good if the jungle is between yours and someone elses civ because the citiy will be very difficult to conquer.

 

[sail lbi]

I try at place at least a couple of cities on rivers, that way you you don't need aquaduct to grow past 6