when does a lake become a Sea with salt water

[NKVD]

in my current game my continent and my land is filled with what i was thinking was big lakes. but no i couldnt make irrigation. 1000 years later i found that a big one had fresh water. so my question. at how big does a lake stop being fresh water and start being a Sea?

 

[Junuxx]

I thought it was 20 tiles.

 

[Grey Fox]

10 tiles or larger.

 

[Dragonxander PR]

In my regular BtS XML, I modded the game to allo fresh water lakes to be up to 12 tiles, as opposed to the regular 9 tiles.

 

[CHEESE!]

in my current game my continent and my land is filled with what i was thinking was big lakes. but no i couldnt make irrigation. 1000 years later i found that a big one had fresh water. so my question. at how big does a lake stop being fresh water and start being a Sea?

For a moment I thought we weren't talking in Civ terms....

Can you have a Huge Lakes map were the lakes get so big the become oceans?

 

[Ramesses]

I think a fresh water lake turns into a sea if just one of the tiles is an ocean tile, that is, further than one tile away from any land tile. Theoretically, you could have a lake that takes up more than 50% of the map as long as it never gets any wider than 2 tiles at any point.

 

[killmeplease]

aquatory which size is less than 10 tiles is a lake

 

[Mallin]

Can you have a Huge Lakes map were the lakes get so big the become oceans?

Yes. The size of a lake is determined in the GlobalDefines XML file. It set rather low, less than ten I think, so to create a lake ocean you would have to set that number to several hundred or so. The rest would be up to the Map Generator or you if you used Worldbuilder.

 

[pesgores]

I think a fresh water lake turns into a sea if just one of the tiles is an ocean tile, that is, further than one tile away from any land tile. Theoretically, you could have a lake that takes up more than 50% of the map as long as it never gets any wider than 2 tiles at any point.

This makes more sense. Definitely.

 

[Junuxx]

It might make more sense but it isn't true.

 

[pesgores]

Well it should be. Who's right, after all?

 

[Junuxx]

Check globalDefines.xml, like Mallin said. The people who said 10 tiles were right.