28-02-2002 06:39									#1
	Are Coastal Cities Underpowered?? Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

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???

	28-02-2002 07:40									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

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.

	28-02-2002 07:43									#3
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cities right next to, but not able to build harbors and platforms are underpowered, unless like me you have changed their costal building requirement.

	28-02-2002 07:46									#4
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These polls are always so much better when there's a "Banannas" option.

	28-02-2002 08:04									#5
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All my costal cities eat Banannas.

	28-02-2002 14:23									#6
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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.

	28-02-2002 15:29									#7
	Support Apolyton

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.

	28-02-2002 22:15									#8
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Did they do away with Whales? They used to give a shield...

	28-02-2002 22:27									#9
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quote: 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.

	28-02-2002 22:32									#10
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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.

	28-02-2002 22:38									#11
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One of the benefits of a coastal city is that it can build the Colossus.