Colonies from Civ3

[ghen]

I kinda miss being able to get a head start on resources outside your boundries by building colonies and roads to them. Desert and Jungle resources specifically aren't first on my priority to plop a city near.

Expanding on the idea along with civ4's ability to share tiles.. Any civ that has a unit placed on the tile with the resource (and colony?) would get that resource.. this will lead to more wars or expanding cities into the undesirable land. Both pluses

Or did I just miss something?

[Slartibartfast]

I fully agree! I've found lots of critical resources in hopeless arctic places, where it seems a waste to build a city just to get that resource.

The simplest might be to just adopt the Civ3 idea, and be able to sacrifice a worker to build a colony.