water workers?

[Sir John]

I was just wondering... isnt it possible to put some boats in the game with worker actions that can make roads and colonies and stuff? That would enable oil in the water...

 

[Krayzeenbk]

You can build cities, colonies, outposts, airfields, fortresses, and radar towers if you set the appropriate flags for the ship and the terrain (and you can produce ground units in cities on water), but the game will not allow you to build the other terrain improvements, including roads, for whatever reason.
So you can't connect your luxuries or strategic resources to the coast by road.

Here is a screenshot that might shed some light on the issue

 

[Sir John]

But do you mean that the settlers can build cities? becasue the u could just build a city on the oil and build a harbour in that city... that would work right? A settling ship

 

[Warlord 101]

Yeah, but you'd have to maybe make the Ship quite expensive though to limit cities on the ocean.

 

[Sir John]

cool. I see a mod for this coming up my sleave

 

[Tacit_Exit]

Originally posted by Krayzeenbk
You can build cities, colonies, outposts, airfields, fortresses, and radar towers if you set the appropriate flags for the ship and the terrain (and you can produce ground units in cities on water), but the game will not allow you to build the other terrain improvements, including roads, for whatever reason.
So you can't connect your luxuries or strategic resources to the coast by road.

Not according to SWL Crazy Ivan in this thread.

 

[Sir John]

i know u can build roads in water in the editor but can u get the workers to do the same??

 

[Sir John]

I read the link.. U actually can neat.. to bad we have a dumb AI..

 

[Krayzeenbk]

Oops forgot about that, even though I used it a lot for the other terrains (disabling different improvements).

Sir John: The idea with the harbor in a water city is a really good one.

 

[SoCalian]

Horray this means I get me underwater cites.

 

[Kal-el]

this topic was discussed in length a few months back. unfortunately, without the search function there is really no way to find the threads (at least none that I am willing to invest the time in). The gist of the matter is that you can set any unit in the game to perform worker actions and the human player will be able to utilize these new units, but the AI will not.

 

[Crist2000]

Generally, it possible to put resources and build roads on water tiles but there are two mis-advantages>

1. AI not use it.
2. Map genrator prefers water tiles to land ones(because of persentages is higher). And if to take into account p.1. you may guess that game loose it's sence.

A have already tested.