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Building towns with one space between them is certainly not ICS. When you found your capital, terrain permitting, there will be four building sites only two spaces away that do not overlap your capital's 21 tile radius. So that is not ICS.
Building all of your towns with one space between is however ICS, ultimate ICS.
ICS is more than placement, its an attempt to skirt the mechanics of the game by exploiting the free center square, happiness problems due to city size, aqueduct requirements, and includes building of wonders that provide free city improvements.
The mechanics of Civ3 are much more difficult to defeat with ICS than games like Civ2 and SMAC. In fact, I would say that true ICS as we knew it in those games does not exist in Civ3 as a powerful exploit.
Building all of your towns with one space between is however ICS, ultimate ICS.
ICS is more than placement, its an attempt to skirt the mechanics of the game by exploiting the free center square, happiness problems due to city size, aqueduct requirements, and includes building of wonders that provide free city improvements.
The mechanics of Civ3 are much more difficult to defeat with ICS than games like Civ2 and SMAC. In fact, I would say that true ICS as we knew it in those games does not exist in Civ3 as a powerful exploit.
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