Tight or Wide Spacing Around The Capital?

[megistatos]

This is not quite true. Take a piece of paper and draw the cultural boundaries of three rings of towns with 0 culture. Count the number of tiles, a square with the sides 21 tiles. This comes to 441 tiles. Subtract the 49 tiles occupied by towns and divide by the number of towns. The number of tiles available per town comes to no more than eight (8).

I was referring to Chamnix's idea of giving each city 12 tiles. Although this doesn't work with strict CxxC placement, I was thinking more along the lines of a tightish placement.

 

[TheOverseer714]

CxxxC spacing in the first ring gives your top producing cities 12 tiles at least. With good micromanagement, you can shuffle tiles so the next ring at CxxC also has 12 tiles per city. Any further out, you'll rarely need 12 tiles.