Roads

[rflook]

Hi there,

Just got Civ 4 for xmas and while im enjoying it im a little confused about some aspects of the game. Went through the tutorial and understood most of it but one question remains.

In the tutorial when you create your 2nd city you not long after create a Quarry. By this stage your first city has expanded its borders so that it encompases the 2nd city.

The game says that you need to build a road from your quarry (which is near to your 2nd city) to your 1st city. Why is this. If the two cities were far apart and their borders did not join into one area i could understand the reason for building a road. But being as your two cities borders connect into one large area does this not mean that the first city will gain the benefits of the quarry anyway?

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Rob

[gmsh1964]

Hello Rob. I will try to help. First off, I can tell there is so much you need to know - but sticking to the exact question you submitted, let me give this a shot.

If you place the mouse over the Quarry tile, you will see that it says you need a Route (road) in that hex. A Quarry is a unique tile that needs a Road to be accessable to any city (unlike Farms, Cottages, and Mines which work just by being within your city's 2 hex range).

So build a road IN the Quarry hex and connect it to a city (with a road if not on a River) and you will see that at least one city has access to the Quarry.

You have a long way to go my friend - good luck and read the posts on this site. This site is EXCELLENT, just prepare for an occasional rude comment from a few people who consider new people 'a problem.' You always have a few problem people in a group, but I feel the vast majority will always help you.

Good luck

[Arrian]

I've never played the tutorial, but in general:

In order to get the benifit from a given resource, you must connect it to your cities by road or river (if a resource is directly adjacent to a river, and so is your city, it's automatically connected). Just being inside your borders doesn't count.

-Arrian

[Enigma_Nova]

On the lower difficulty, your cities have trade routes if they share a border - and roading from the quarry to the 2nd city will automatically connect it to your first.
At higher levels, you need to road your cities together and/or use Coast + Sailing.

[rflook]

So basically what you guys are saying is that no matter where the resource is, you have to build a road from your resource to your city.

[Enigma_Nova]

Well, for any resource that isn't on a river.

[Axxaer]

For resources/trading, rivers count as roads (but not for movement like in some other civs!)