Civ3 city overlapping

[DonJoel]

From what i have heard the city radious will grow through the
entire game on a cultural basis, meaning a single late city will be able to take reasources, food and luxuries from an entire small continent in the late game.
Doesnt this mean that there will be tremendous overlapping in the late game if the city radious grow in all your cities? Or have i misunderstood they way cities work?

Just wondering since city overlapping has always bugged me

[PGM]

Re: Civ3 city overlapping

Originally posted by DonJoel
From what i have heard the city radious will grow through the
entire game on a cultural basis, meaning a single late city will be able to take reasources, food and luxuries from an entire small continent in the late game.
Doesnt this mean that there will be tremendous overlapping in the late game if the city radious grow in all your cities? Or have i misunderstood they way cities work?

The city radius will continue to be 21 tiles, tops. Culture won't make your city radius grow over 21, what it'll do is make your empire borders grow. Empire borders and city borders are 2 different concepts.

[cort]

city borders will expand, not city radius;

radius is the original 2-squares around city, effecting which tiles you can work on
border is the new concept effecting which resources you can harvest

[DonJoel]

Thanks guys, thats just what I wanted to hear.