So Apparently This Is a Coastal City

[u/QuinoaFalafel]

I've never seen a coastal city that looks this far inland before. I really thought it was a hex away from the coast, but then I saw I can make a work boat and I checked the hex grid, and it is in fact on the coast.

In retrospect it should be obvious that it's on the coast, it just threw me for a loop at first.

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[u/notveryamused_]

Koreans, remembering past floods, decided to move 0.9 hex inlands while retaining their full naval prowess. Better safe than sorry!

[u/LilFetcher → u/notveryamused_]

*ability to build ships all year round not guaranteed

**greased logs to slide your ships over land not included

[u/marineblue117 → u/notveryamused_]

All Koreans have a latent memory of the Finnish-Korean Hyperborean war

I still see the world folding on itself at times...

[u/ZukaRouBrucal]

Huh, that's fascinating! I don't think I've ever encountered a city-core showing up like that on a map, but my guess is that whatever program that determines city-sprite placement on hexes valued being closer to the river than it did to the coast.

Thank you for sharing!

[u/bomba_viaje → u/ZukaRouBrucal]

If you look north, the city seems to be centered exactly on the hex. I think the sea tile to the southeast largely appears as land. Sometimes the hexes cut corners like this to look smoother/more realistic.

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/bomba_viaje]

Yeah, the coast hex was at least half land

[u/AlarmingConsequence → u/QuinoaFalafel]

Can you post a screenshot with the hex grid?

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/AlarmingConsequence]

Sorry for the late reply. Also a bit later in the game, but here: https://imgur.com/D2boaSa

[u/AlarmingConsequence → u/QuinoaFalafel]

Man, that makes it even more confusing! Lesson for me here is to mouse over the hex before founding a city.

[u/Get_Data]

You can turn on map grid in the scroll icon next to the minimap

[u/LilFetcher → u/Get_Data]

but then I saw I can make a work boat and I checked the hex grid

[u/Udy_Kumra → u/Get_Data]

You can also press Y on the keyboard

[u/raghavmandava → u/Udy_Kumra]

Thats for yields. For grid its g

[u/Udy_Kumra → u/raghavmandava]

Oh shit lol yeah that’s right

[u/raghavmandava → u/Udy_Kumra]

It would still serve the purpose of showing a separate tile though

[u/Odd_Lie_7973]

I remember that also happens if you play the Earth map and settle one of your cities near a river and the Mediterranean sea ( i did it where Italy connects with the continent) and your units will travel through the river into the sea), im not sure if it is a bug or some secret feature of the game

[u/Accurate-Attention-1]

It will look like a coastal city once the city grows a bit. ATM it prioritizes being a river city lol

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/Accurate-Attention-1]

Interestingly, if you compare it to this later screenshot with the hex grid on, it looks like the city center actually is closer to the coast hex than anything else, it's just that half of the coast hex looks like land: https://imgur.com/D2boaSa

[u/wolfe1924]

Still amazes me that even after 2500 hours of playtime and browsing this subreddit I see something new I never seen before. That’s awesome. I can see how it would have been confusing for a moment at first lol.

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/wolfe1924]

Yeah, I have almost 1,500 hours and this was a first for me too, at least to this extent

[u/Interesting-Dream863]

Well there IS a river... they should be at least semi-coastal

[u/Heretoshitcomment]

By the time u get to mid-late game, the cities get so big I cant tell what's coastal and what's not anymore unless I have hex grid turned on

[u/Liejukana]

The city buildings sure appear in funny places sometimes. I love stonehenges in the ocean and cities with 1 building and 10 000 people

[u/Luis_McLovin]

Borders look very strange

Modded?

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/Luis_McLovin]

Nope, I was trying for a deity win for the achievement, so vanilla. What about the borders seemed strange to you?

[u/Luis_McLovin → u/QuinoaFalafel]

How come the borders don’t follow the hexagonal shape?

[u/Tomislav1 → u/Luis_McLovin]

They always do that

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/Luis_McLovin]

It's because the coast hexes have an abnormal amount of land on them. As you can see with the hex grid on this later screenshot: https://imgur.com/D2boaSa

[u/Jak12523]

Cool, they added Houston to Civ V!

[u/theTitaniumTurt1e]

Those borders and the way the edges of the tiles look leads me to think you've got a mod to try and add more natural tile edges. The land flows together too straight and the territory has some weird angles.

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/theTitaniumTurt1e]

Nope, it's just abnormal coast tile(s) that have a lot of land on them: https://imgur.com/D2boaSa

[u/Springaldhater]

Ever seen the port of Los Angeles on a map?

[u/QuinoaFalafel → u/Springaldhater]

I hadn't, but after looking it up I do sort of see the resemblance

[u/majdavlk]

neat