Canals?

[Urban Ranger]

Does anybody know if we can build canals in Civ 3 for naval units to move from one ocean to another?

[Theben]

I thought someone said he saw canals in one image.

[Hasdrubal]

There will be a 'Great Canal' wonder. But I think that it can only be build once, at one place on the map.

[Grumbold]

Its a shame that the great canal is not a repeatable mini-wonder that transforms one tile each time it is built. That way many canal wonders could be made in key locations or even connected together to form a huge one if the map made it worth the effort.

[Vrank Prins]

I hope they're going to be in.
To be dug by settlers or engineers.
With developping possibilities over the years.

And I hope the distance between resp. the atlantic and pacific; and the mediterrenean and the red sea is going to be two tiles. That means you can't "bridge" the distance by building a city in between. Let either the Suez- or the Panama-canal be a wonder, or maybe even the both of them. Unique wonders because they have to be build outside a city. That would mean that you only can build these wonders if you got hold of the respective territory

[Quartz Dragon]

Of course the wonder could be used like the Manhaten Project and enables the construction of canals

[raingoon]

Interesting. I'll vote the other way, and say for the sake of gameplay I hope they go with just the one opportunity to build it. If only to emphasize competition and the strategic value of the one canal once it's built.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

The Great Canal is a major wonder. It lets you choose where u want to place a canal which connects two oceans. Im not sure if theyre are any other parameters (in or out of your borders/ length etc.)

[tniem]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
The Great Canal is a major wonder. It lets you choose where u want to place a canal which connects two oceans. Im not sure if theyre are any other parameters (in or out of your borders/ length etc.)

So I build the great canal at the site of the Suez Canal. Now can anyone use it?

Now I have discovered the New World and I look and see that if I built a canal through Panama that I could cut shipping time by like 75%. But you know what I can't build it because I already built my great canal in Egypt. Is this going to be the case in Civ III? Because if it is I vote against this wonder - great canal and instead ask for allowing egineers to be able to build canals over a certain distance.

[Sava]

Canals should be TI's but should be extremely difficult to build and time consuming. I'd also like to see dams and hydro plants outside of cities.

[Kc7mxo]

dams, hmmm

i agree about canals. a hundred years ago they were easily as important as railroads, and barge traffic is VERY important where i live, though we use man made lakes (The Columbia River) and dams.

i think dams would be extremly interesting, but the only problem is deciding how much land would get flooded. and talk about a weapon! a strategically placed dam could flood an oponents homeland. darn good idea if you ask me.

[manofthehour]

If you were going to have canals built than there should also be a way to destory them

[java4me]

Originally posted by manofthehour
If you were going to have canals built than there should also be a way to destory them

There would probably always a way to destroy them, just like you could destroy the Great Wall!!!

That is why you would want to build defense around the canal, and close to the Great Wall.

[manofthehour]

Canals could also put the civs who thought they were a world away more easily accesable.

[Darkknight]

I would like to see it as a mini wonder were before you start building you tell it were you want it and that determines the amount of shields needed.