Colonisation question

[player1]

Originally posted by chronocrator
Exactly a bigger colony radius was a feature which was dropped very late in the development of Colonization. It was so late that there are still screenshots of a bigger colony radius on the original box. On the Colony screen there is still enough room for the additional tiles and some fish-resources are two tiles away from the coast (making them useless).

That's the reason why some Fish resources are 2 tiles away from the coast.

They would be only accesable if colonies would have radius of 2.

[chronocrator]

Originally posted by player1


That's the reason why some Fish resources are 2 tiles away from the coast.

They would be only accesable if colonies would have radius of 2.

Exactly, that's what I wrote.

[Galvatron]

Another explanation I read somewhere:

They tried out the 2 square radius on the America map but realized it was too small for it and therefore there would be not enough space in the end to build more colonies so before they redo the whole map they took the easy way and reduced the expansion of the city-square.

[Heresson]

Too small? There was a dumb limit of colonies and units anyway...