Great Lighthouse

[Silver14]

I just built the Great Lighthouse in Boston and noticed that New York, which is landlocked but built next to a lake, is getting 3 trade routes now. Is that a bug or working as designed? I wouldn't consider NY a costal city in my game. I guess its in my favor at any rate...

[Strategist83]

The game does have problems with discerning lakes from seas, yes. It should not require much programming to fix at all.

[player1]

Since like game interpreted that lake as coast.

[Enigma_Nova]

Perhaps you'd need 2 Cities bordering a Lake to get the affect of the GLH.

[Addled Platypus]

could this be turned into an exploit ?

[Enigma_Nova]

Yeah, if you put commerce cities inland next to fresh water and use a Great Lighthouse strategy.
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No, not really. You'd have to base a decent portion of your game's plan around it, as opposed to anything abusable that you could either shake out of your sleeve or base an entire strategy around it.

[Silver14]

If anything it is incentive to build inland cities next to lakes when possible if you have or are going for the GL. They'll probably fix this eventually I don't think they intended for cities next to a 1 square lake to get the GL trade bonus.

I don't think there are enough fresh water lakes to make much abuse of it though...

[Diadem]

This is very weird though. You can not not build coastal improvements such as harbors or lighthouses in such a city. The game knows it is not a coastal city. It knows.

Why does it add 2 traderoutes anyway?

[Provost Harrison]

Erm...that's what it is supposed to do...

[player1]

...in coastal cities, not cities around the lakes.

[GeoModder]

Then the wonder could rarely be built in the Lakes map.

[Enigma_Nova]

You're not able to build Lighthouses and Harbors in cities bordering lakes, even if they're really big lakes. >=(

[bonscott]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
You're not able to build Lighthouses and Harbors in cities bordering lakes, even if they're really big lakes. >=(

Actually you can. I had a game where the Russians and myself both had cities on a fairly large inland lake, perhaps 30 tiles big. I noticed she had a harbor in her city. I looked and sure enough I could build both a harbor and lighthouse (I hadn't even noticed before). I will note that this was back before any patches.

[Kuciwalker]

If a contiguous body of water has a deep-water tile in it anywhere it's not a lake, it's an ocean.

[samspock]

I am on a game that has a large inland sea on a big continent. I own the only city that connects the sea with the ocean. I can build any water resource on cities on that sea including naval units. The ai cities can as well. I think it is the size of the body of water that matters most.