The value of canals

[Virdrago]

Maybe it's an event. I can let you know next week.

[Harrier UK]

Originally posted by Kekkonen
If you build a fort-city-fort canal, does the city count as coastal?

I would have thought that:

city-fort-fort. would be a better placement.

[Lord Avalon]

A fort has to be next to the water to be a canal.

[joncnunn]

never mind

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Kekkonen
If you build a fort-city-fort canal, does the city count as coastal?

I tried this with the help of WorldBuilder (as all my Archipelago map cities were coastal but one, which was too far away from water).

Turns out a noncoastal city cannot be entered by ships, even if "linked" to water by a fort.

So you're limited to a canal of two tiles. Well, going across land. You could build a series of forts/cities along the shore - as long as everything is next to a water tile, it works as a canal (within your borders).

[Kekkonen]

Interestingly enough, a city by a lake (saltwater lake -- didn't enable farms or give the irrigation bonus) that is connected to the ocean by a fort-city canal only counts as 'somewhat coastal'. I had a city by a lake large enough to have a crab tile, and the city could build all the regular coastal-city economic buildings, but no ships apart from a work boat.