Zone of Influence vs Zone of Utilization

discovery techs produce useless discoveries?

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The discovery techs reveal new resources of various kinds.  They always reveal those resources within your area of influence.  That's great.

But, it turns out that there is some other number somewhere in teh code that defines how far a settlement / city / ... can work.  I keep getting locations that are too far away to be worked.

 

1) What is the definition of this range?

2) Can I build a secondary little settlement take work those items?

Somehow the current mechanism seems quite odd.

 

Thanks,

Joel

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

1 it is possible to build improvements on resources with in your influence zone, but if they are more than 5 tiles from a town they are not linked to the town,

2 you can build new towns at 5 OR more tiles apart, so for the greatest effectiveness I suggest building towns withing the 5 tile range of the desired resources.

harpo