Canals

Olangotang · August 21, 2001, 13:34

Does anyone how if you will be able to confort land in to sea & sea in to land. in civ 3 like the panama canal and holland

Footie Mad · August 21, 2001, 13:39

It is in as a minor wonder. The details of how it will work are unknown.

Olangotang · August 21, 2001, 13:40

Nice one Cheers

El hidalgo · August 21, 2001, 17:18

I wonder how many you will be able to build? One per civ? One per city? It would be nice to be able to build more than one canal, but then it becomes more like a city improvement than a wonder -- which in this case is fine with me.

General Ludd · August 21, 2001, 17:20

I'm skeptical of the whole idea... very ctp-esque, if you ask me.

star mouse · August 21, 2001, 20:08

Canals are better than what I did in CIV once. I built 2 cities next to each other on a narrow neck of land on a huge continent so I could ferry ships from one sea to another.

Urban Ranger · August 23, 2001, 00:43

Canals are what I have been campaigning for since alpha.owo days

They should be something that the workers can build, perhaps after the discovery of construction.

A canal should act like a road with the added bonus of irrigation. Once you have a canal in a square you can of course irrigate it by using the water from the canal.

Some naval units should be able to move through canals, but not big mothers such as batterships or carriers.

star mouse · August 23, 2001, 03:26

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Some naval units should be able to move through canals, but not big mothers such as batterships or carriers.

batterships

Yes, I sure do a fair bit of battering with these

Perhaps canals could be two different sizes, small ones and large ones.

Vrank Prins · August 23, 2001, 04:18

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Originally posted by Olangotang
Does anyone how if you will be able to confort land in to sea & sea in to land. in civ 3 like ........... ........ . ....... holland

The secret of Rotterdam, the biggest port in the world, is that we first brought the sea into the land through the canal "de nieuwe waterweg", and second we brought the land into the sea, that's "Europoort" (Eurogate in anglo). Yes it's all there.

Vrank Prins · August 23, 2001, 04:33

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Originally posted by star mouse
Canals are better than what I did in CIV once. I built 2 cities next to each other on a narrow neck of land on a huge continent so I could ferry ships from one sea to another.

In colonization you could put a settler ashore from a ship on the panama-isthmus (two tiles wide),

let it build a city,
sail the ship in,
disband the city (the ship then laid dry on land),
move the settler to the adjacent tile on the other side of the isthmus,
build a city,
move the ship in (from dry land !!!!),
disband the city and put the settler to "sleep",
and then finally move the ship (again from dry land !!) out on to the sea taking the settler with it

that's one way of cheating your enemies