Settler's Blue Circle

[jjk3]

I looked for info on this in the forums and manual, but couldn't find anything.

When I select a settler I see several tiles that have blue circles. I assume that these are suggested area's to build a city, but there are not often very good places to build.

Are these blue circles suggestions or am I missing something.

Thanks in advance

Joe

 

[diet_punk_rock]

they are suggestions but i wouldnt and dont go by them.

 

[Steve2000]

They are the suggested spots to build. You will also see the blue circles when you are using a worker - these are suggest tiles to improve.

 

[jjk3]

Thanks for the info

 

[BeefontheBone]

You can turn them off - uncheck "Show Unit Help" or "recommendations" or whatever it is in the options.

 

[MrCynical]

The blue circles are usually reasonable sites, but for some reason it never considers squares directly adjacent to where your settler currently is. It also hasn't grasped that it's a very bad move to build a city one square from the coast, so I generally don't follow it's advice.

 

[Runriot]

The blue circles are usually reasonable sites, but for some reason it never considers squares directly adjacent to where your settler currently is. It also hasn't grasped that it's a very bad move to build a city one square from the coast, so I generally don't follow it's advice.

It also seems to love to overlap existing city radii. God, but that irks me to no end

 

[Mercade]

It also seems to love to overlap existing city radii. God, but that irks me to no end

That's a personal preference, I'd say. In or you wouldn't expect all your late game cities to grow into 15-21 population powerhouses, so I had no problem with overlapping them. For I haven't played enough games yet to be sure.

 

[Jedoc]

My favorite so far is the suggestion that I build my city on a desert hill, one tile from the coast, with at least half my future city radius taken up by desert, without a resource in sight. Rock on, little blue circles.

 

[Dikaioma]

I have found that late game only my first three cities (if any) use all squares, so I don't mind small overlaps so I don't pay so much for distance from palace.

 

[Colonel Kraken]

I've found that the blue circles can be reasonable places to build a city and, once in a great while, it'll suggest exactly where I was thinking to build a city.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I leave 'em on. Every once in a while they alert me to a good spot I hadn't considered.

 

[Undertaker798]

I use the blue circles, always make sure that its a good place before pressing b though.

 

[Randle]

The blue circles are usually reasonable sites, but for some reason it never considers squares directly adjacent to where your settler currently is. It also hasn't grasped that it's a very bad move to build a city one square from the coast, so I generally don't follow it's advice.

Building one square from the coast isn't always a bad thing. A city doesn't need to be on a coast to take advantage of coastal resources, so long as you can get a workboat there from somewhere else. Also, if there are no good resources in the water, or very few, you'll get more useful space building inland than coastal.

Also, sometimes you have to look closely; it might look like it is suggesting you build your city inland, but the city will have ocean access via a diagonal. I'm not sure that was possible in Civ III.

 

[Colonel Kraken]

I leave 'em on. Every once in a while they alert me to a good spot I hadn't considered.

Excellent point. I've found this to be true also.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Also, sometimes you have to look closely; it might look like it is suggesting you build your city inland, but the city will have ocean access via a diagonal. I'm not sure that was possible in Civ III.

It was.