Is this normal?

[Enigma_Nova]

Aye, I was just playing a game where I had a high-food continent (Thanks to Clearcutting every forest that wasn't Tundra), and I was keeping my cities at their Healthycap and Happycap. I'd have to manually do the Emphasise food / Stall growth thing whenver I hooked up a new resource or built a health/happy building

[AoA]

Interesting. I hadn't realized that such a great boost in pop could be gotten from the fishes. I had been making sure I get the land resources when I place cities and only considered the fish as a bonus.
I'll have to reconsider my city placement.

[asleepathewheel]

I've seen that before. terra map?

[Tiberius]

no, absolutely random.

Here is the minimap (sorry, I took no screenshots later on):

[Enigma_Nova]

Are you the guy in white?

[djpsychonaut]

Originally posted by Xerxes712
The culture defense is 60%. That means it must have went through three culture border expansions. I see the city has only gone through two expansions. What is up with that?

Cultural borders don't expand more than two tiles into open ocean.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Are you the guy in white?

Yes, why? Who else could I be, when the orange is Catherine and I don't have Ceasar's map (at least I believe that's Ceasar with purple or whatever colour that is).

Ah yes, there are also some left-over cities on my north and south (light-blue, probably Cyrus)

I am not a big fun of the new civ colours. Maybe it's just my computer, but for me the colors on the map don't mach those listed on the right side of the screen (the clickable, color score links)

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Xerxes712
EDIT: Found the answer. it would seem the culture border can only expand two squares into the ocean. So I guess the city border extends further south to three squares. This is nice to know about.

You can actually see that to West and East from the city the borders expend three tiles. It is only North where the borders expend only two tiles because of the ocean (or because of the ice, maybe)

[Enigma_Nova]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Are you the guy in white?

... Good god, I can be retarded sometimes. Never mind.

[Tiberius]

This game was fun as I ran almost broke from conquering too many cities too early What could I do?Cirrus was getting on my nerves, always settling one or two turns before me on my designated city spots!

Have you noticed that the AI sometimes will go quite far from its original location to settle some beautiful spot near your cities, and this one turn before your settler would arrive? Arghhh... I blame Murphy!

[djpsychonaut]

Originally posted by Tiberius


You can actually see that to West and East from the city the borders expend three tiles. It is only North where the borders expend only two tiles because of the ocean (or because of the ice, maybe)

It's because two tiles out to the North is not on the continental shelf. Borders don't expand past the continental shelf.

[notyoueither]

I've seen something like it more than a couple of times.

[Urban Ranger]

In the current game I am playing, I have 5 resources around Beijing (2 gems, 1 iron, 1 rice, 1pig). So 5 seafood isn't that big a deal.

[Bluefusion]

You have a crapload of cities... How does your maintenance fare?

[Tiberius]

I'm almost broke

Research was probably 40 - 50% or something like that at that time. That gave me big research problems later on. I was falling behind. It was some time ago, so I don't remember all the details though.

UR: the idea was not that you have 5 resources, but so much food.