Are Coastal Cities Underpowered??

[Worthingtons]

I feel that Coastal Cities are unpowered on Civ III, lets face it, a lot of the great cities in the world are on da coast.
How would we go about Solving this though? I mean currently when a city has a harbour all squares give 2 food... which is like grassland... but grassland without a shield isnt all taht good anyway. Perhaps Whales should be better?? Fish give even more food after a harbour???

[Optimizer]

You could edit the Harbor and split it into several improvements, each one being rather cheap.

Dock (Map making) - Food bonus
Trade Port (Map making) - Water trade
Naval Regiment (Navigation) - Veteran ships
Fishing Industry (Steam Power) - Additional food bonus

You could also add another Fish resource.

[Whoha]

cities right next to, but not able to build harbors and platforms are underpowered, unless like me you have changed their costal building requirement.

[FNBrown]

These polls are always so much better when there's a "Banannas" option.

[Thrawn05]

All my costal cities eat Banannas.

[Dis]

increase the trade bonus of ocean/sea squares

this should "fix" things

another minor fix might be to have an oil platform improvement at an earlier time.

[Pius Popprasch]

I was first tempted to vote for the bananas but finally chosed the 3 rd option. They are just OK as they are. I have many coastal cities in my small landmass games.

[sachmo71]

Did they do away with Whales? They used to give a shield...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by sachmo71
Did they do away with Whales? They used to give a shield...

They still do. And if you have the off-shore platform, they give two shields.

[DrSpike]

Whales aren't as prevalent in civ3 though, and they seem to be further out. Even so I wouldn't say coastal cities are underpowered; they have their place. Its just that their place is rarely being a production powerhouse.

[Zouave]

One of the benefits of a coastal city is that it can build the Colossus.