Isolated resource

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can't believe I've never had this happen in a game before, but I don't think it has and I'm stumped. Here's the deal: I have a city on a coast, separated by a channel from a 2-square island that falls within its BFC. Because the game like to be cruel and taunt me, that island turns out to hold my one-and-only source of horses. So I research Sailing and send over a worker to pasture and road the horses, but I still have no access to horses. Since I can't build a city on the island, because it's too close to the extant city, how do I get my horses?

[Thoth]

You'll need

a) a pasture on the horses
b) a road on both tiles
c) A fort on the second tile

Or

a road and fort on the horses.


Note that the "can't build a city in another city's fat cross" rule only applies to cities on the same land mass. You could build a city on Horse Island and hook them up that way as well.

Hmmm.... I guess that's three options.

[wodan11]

Also, I believe a road + river on the little island would work, once you have sailing. (The river connects to the trade network same as a fort or city.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

@Thoth - makes sense, thanks

@wodan - nope; I needed sailing to get to the island in the first place, after all. What Thoth says actually makes a bit of real-world sense (not that that has anything to do with Civ) because, in real life if you had an resource-rich island you'd not only need a way to exploit it (pasture, mine, plantation) but also a place for ships to dock and carry it away; hence the need for a city or fort, I guess.

[wodan11]

@wodan - nope

Are you saying you put a river on the island in worldbuilder and it didn't work?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Are you saying you put a river on the island in worldbuilder and it didn't work?

No, I'm saying I misread your post because I'm an idiot.

[wodan11]

No, I'm saying I misread your post because I'm an idiot.

Oh, okay. no worries.

[Krill]

If those 2 tiles are on a separate landmass you can still settle a city on the other land mass even though it is "too close".

[Thoth]

Note that the "can't build a city in another city's fat cross" rule only applies to cities on the same land mass. You could build a city on Horse Island and hook them up that way as well.