Boats building in lake, not ocean?

[Pod]

My fleet commander decided to pop up in the lake, not the ocean. Do you HAVE to be directly on the coast with a city to build ships in the ocean? lol.

[Martin]

Yeh I had that, my Cog appeared in a land locked city..

[Mountain Man]

Logically, yes, your city has to be next to the ocean if you want to build ships there. It has been like this in every Civilization game to date.

[Pommfriedel]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

Logically, yes, your city has to be next to the ocean if you want to build ships there. It has been like this in every Civilization game to date.

Nope. You must have ocean in range of your city, no need to be directly attached to the ocen.

[bongsan2010]

Originally posted by Pommfriedel:

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

Logically, yes, your city has to be next to the ocean if you want to build ships there. It has been like this in every Civilization game to date.

Nope. You must have ocean in range of your city, no need to be directly attached to the ocen.

I have a city one title from the ocean, I have tiles in the ocean and I'm next to a naviguable river that jumps into it and I have zero idea why I can't build a ship in there.

I consulted the in game civpedia but it's absolutely useless

[martinolund]

lake is also fine as long as you have a navigable river to the ocean so the boats can reach the sea.

[Pod]

In previous games your ships would appear where you built your docks.

[Morgawr]

My capital is next to a lake that flows to navigable river which flows to ocean but I am NOT allowed to build ships.. in ancient era at least. Bug or intended?

[gdshore]

My capital is inland on a navigable river 2 tiles to ocean, built a galley on the river. Have built a fish dock and wharf and then a Cog no problem.

[Morgawr]

Is that ancient or exploration era?

[Dray Prescot]

I had built a Fishing Boat in my Lake, that was not directly adjacent to Rome (my Capital City) while Rome WAS on the coast of the Ocean, So in the 2nd Age, when I built a new Cog it appeared on the Lake and had NO way to get to the Ocean.

So I have gone back about 60 turns to a saved game that predated building that Fishing Boat, and then when I got the next chance I built a Fishing Boat on an Ocean Tile.

I have not yet gotten to the end of 1st Age again, But I expect that to solve the problem.

Alternately when after starting the Age Of Exploration, try building a Fishing Boat on an Ocean Tile. This "Might" work, and allow you to build on an Ocean tile after that.

But looking at the Game Map of my Continent at the start of the Exploration Age, several (2 or 3) of the 5 (known) Empires have NO way to build a Cog at their new Capital City, and then get that Cog to the Ocean (Deep Water).

When that happens to you, you might have to upgrade one of your Towns that have access to the Ocean, to a City, in order to build deep water Ships in the Age of Exploration.

[Morgawr]

problem solved: Built fishing quay and can buy naval units now. It's just missing from the info text - should say "enables building ships"

[Pommfriedel]

Originally posted by Morgawr:

problem solved: Built fishing quay and can buy naval units now. It's just missing from the info text - should say "enables building ships"

The whole game is missing information, description and statistics.

[Pod]

It eventually fixed itself for me as well. I just had to leave a boat in the lake tile.