Finding a city on resources

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JimG
In my current game the only coal I could get to is on a scratty little island that would never produce enough food to work any mine, so I just dumped the city on top. That did mean I could start building railroads elsewhere immediatly rather than waiting for the mine & road to be built...

You still need to build a harbour first IIRC.

[Nacht]

Finding a resource under a city is much more difficult than the other way around

[spammurabi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


You still need to build a harbour first IIRC.

Not true in Civ IV- your empire is connected over with any cities that can trade. Coastal cities I believe are always connected (or maybe by sailing) and cities across the ocean are connected by Astronomy. Harbors only give bonus health for seafood and increased trade route gains,